Trump: Another Red Scare

No, I’m not talking about Trump’s lame rants about the Democrats being communists, which is understandable in Trump’s case because his mentor, disbarred mob attorney Roy Cohn, later worked for similarly disgraced Senator Joe McCarthy as a communist witch-hunter; rather, I’m talking about Trump’s corrosive interference in the upcoming FIFA World Cup match between the United Snakes and Belgium. In the United State’s last game, a high-scoring US team player, Folarin Balogun, was issued a “Red Card” suspension for a deliberate foul, a violation that implies extremely unsportsmanlike conduct. For non-soccer fans, a Red Card violation comes with a one year suspension from the sport. Not surprisingly, Mr. Trump’s supernatural ability to immediately sense bad behavior anywhere in the world triggered his knee-jerk impulse to reward said behavior: He immediately picked up a phone to call one of the few men on the planet as corrupt as himself, FIFA president Gianni Infantino.     Continue reading →

Celebrating the 250th? Not so fast there, pilgrim!

Does our current authoritarian plutocracy really qualify as the democratic republic our founders envisioned? Is an alien lizard in a skin suit a reasonable substitute for a George Washington?

When a cabal of billionaire Bond villains co-opted all three branches of our government and bent them to their will, destroyed our institutions, and are now attempting to force their proprietary technologies on society to control us, should we really be celebrating our “achievement” …or hastily packing a “go” bag? The America most people will be celebrating this Fourth of July isn’t the same country as it was on the last Fourth of July, before the coup.

It was a slow-moving coup …until it wasn’t. Is it already over? We don’t know yet: Do you honestly believe we will have a free and fair election at the midterms? If you believe that one, then celebrate away, pal. The rest of us should think about getting the ball over the goal line before throwing the high-fives.