O Columbia! the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each patriot’s devotion,
A world offers homage to thee;
Thy mandates make heroes assemble,
When Liberty’s form stands in view;
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white, and blue.
05 VI 2025: Militant fascists in the Trump regime
The more vicious initiatives of the Trump administration come from two sources.
Russel Vought, a Christian nationalist, who is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He’s the one behind the demolition of our government so that a void can be created for a military takeover by the Christian nationalists.
Stephen Miller is a xenophobic ideologue who is pushing the removal of migrants. He is the brains behind the illegal steps taken by the Trump government and a raving critic of the courts that keep getting in his way. He is said to be quite upset at the slow pace of deportations. Miller could have been a charter member of the many dictatorial regimes of the past (Hitler, Stalin, et al) that have been characterized by the mass deportations of people.
03 VI 2025: Attempt to silence critics
If I criticize the state of Israel for relentlessly slaughtering the civilians of Gaza, does that make me anti-Semitic? I don’t think so.
If some who are criticizing Israel because of its bestial behavior are anti-Semitic, would that make me anti-Semitic? No.
The label “anti-Semitic” is routinely applied to any critics of the State of Israel, whatever their motivation. Why? To silence any and all criticism.
29 V 2025: Dropping bombs or dumping “settlers”
Two juxtaposed headlines today on CNN:
Israel accepts new US proposal for ceasefire with Hamas, says Israeli official
Right, Israel is just buying time while it kills or exiles more Palestinians from Gaza. Any similar Russian agreement to ceasefire in Ukraine will go the same way.
This is followed by
Israel approves biggest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades.
This means that the Israeli invasion of the West Bank is not only continuing, but is being ramped up. (some 60,000 of the “settlers” are American citizens; the Americans provide the leadership for state-sponsored terror on the West Bank).
21 V 2025: J.D. Vance, Fascistino
Does Mr. Vance have any thoughts of his own, or is he simply the mouthpiece for MAGA’s extreme and embarrassing ideas? From CNN:
Vice President JD Vance called Chief Justice John Roberts’ comments earlier this month that the judiciary’s role is to check the executive branch a “profoundly wrong sentiment” and said the courts should be “deferential” to the president, particularly when it comes to immigration.
So spoke this junior-facist sycophant whose ambitions so far exceed his abilities. Vance makes me frightened at the prospect of Trump’s being removed from the scene by impeachment, exile, disability, or death. Vance is perpetually and helplessly furious, is the second most arrogant and stupid of Trump’s retinue (the most arrogant being Pam Bondage), and is a thoroughgoing little fascist. Happily, when Trump goes, the host of Republican toadies will turn against one another in a pitched battle to assume Trump’s political legacy and infamy, and they will put Vance in his place. But in the meantime, it is annoying to have to listen to his pronouncements.
2 V 2025: Megyn Kelly
I’ve just read a report that describes Megyn Kelly’s latest attack on Meghan Markle. Apparently Megyn Kelly things she can regain her former lustre by badmouthing people. I wish the media would bury Kelly’s nastiness where it belongs.
27 IV 2025: What is “Anti-Christian Bias”??
Government employees are now being ordered to report on the sly any “Anti-Christian Bias” they detect in their fellow workers. “Bias” needs some definition, but that’s best left to the lawyers.
“Anti-Christian” is no less problematic.
Does “Christian” include all Christians living and dead. If someone criticizes the Inquisition, or complains about corruption in the Renaissance papacy, does that qualify as anti-Christian?
As to living Christians, who are they? Some protestants deny that Catholics and Orthodox are really Christians, and, of course, others say the same about Evangelicals.
I suppose Trump & Co. are using “Christian” as a rubber-bag word that can be stretched to include anyone who is not a Jew or a Muslem. Or, as is probably the case, do they mean by “Christian” only MAGA Christians??? But any serious attempt to define “Christian” would compound confusion and intensify the kind of bias that the current Trump pretends to be rooting out.
5 IV 2025: The new Rasputin
The bad situation of the last Romanovs was made considerably worse by their association with the part-time spiritualist, part-time sexual predator, Rasputin. The widespread fear and sometimes fact in Russia was that Rasputin had a hand in running the government.
Now we read that Laura Loomer, a publicity starved weirdo, visited our Tsar with a list of “disloyal” people in the National Security Agency. Donald, a great admirer of Loomer set about firing people on the List.
In addition, we read of Elon Musk, a mega-creep, moving in and out of the woodwork at the White House as he leads Donald’s quest for vengeance against the American government.
The blind lead the blind and they all get irregular government jobs.
Elon and Laura are not real experts fit to advise the President. They are experts because Trump says so, and Trump says so because they are bogus experts and because they fawn on him.
28 III 2025: Slap-stick security. On purpose?
The carelessness, frivolity, and mendacity of the Houthi attack and the attempts to conceal them raise lots of questions. Is this an isolated incident, or, as is likely, is not this amateurish behavior routine in the Trump regime? To use an old Nixon formulation, is not this incident a strong indication that America is a helpless giant? What does this incident tell us about America’s ability to defend itself in an all-out war or to wage a successful war against its enemies?
This suggests also that maybe we should not be so very concerned about America’s traditional enemies and worry and act about our new and most dangerous enemy, the Trump Regime which has been attacking America’s dignity, welfare and effectiveness since Trump last took office. That Trump was re-elected and is so successfully dismantling the American government with the connivance of the Republican Party makes me ask this question: Does America have a deathwish? Are we committing suicide?
28 III 2025: Kidnapping of Rumeysa Osturk
Little Marco Rubio offered some background for the snatching of Ms Osturkk. His remarks display the kiind of sophistication we’ve come to expect from Trump stooges. Marco explained:
“Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa.”
“If you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don’t want it. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you’re not gonna do it in our country,” Rubio said.
Obviously the nationwide kidnappings by ICE are the result of a lot of thinking and soul-searching.
And I have watched the video tape of Ms Osturk being grabbed by Tom Homan’s goons. The goons did not manage Homan’s snatch at all well. The Gestapo and K.G.B. were a lot better at this kind of thing, but masked secret police are a novelty in the U.S.A., and these boys must be given a chance to refine their technique.
Unmarked car, clumsy masked men, without badges, without uniform. What if instead of Ms. Osturk they tried to grab a gun rights nut who would open up on them no questions asked!