By Glynn Wilson – Thirteen rioters have been charged so far with crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after a rally and march led by outgoing President Donald J. Trump turned into an insurrection that led to violence and death like nothing ever seen on American soil. In addition to those who have…
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Donald Trump, the Criminal President, Does it Again in Phone Call to Georgia
By Glynn Wilson – So much for the “law and order” president and his law and order friends, fans and followers and Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud by Democrats. The lawlessness from the Republican White House that dominated the presidential campaign of the hellscape year of 2020 continued into 2021 on Sunday when Trump…
It’s All Over But the Shoutin’ – The Trump Reality Show is Canceled With 74 Million Votes
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly four long years, America has endured Donald Trump’s deceit. On a daily basis, he has lied in OUR White House, on Twitter and television, at times surrounded by MAGA cap wearing white fans in football stadiums. From the day he first came…
How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism
Robert Reich: America Is Sliding Toward Dictatorship
By Robert Reich – The only redeeming aspect to Trump’s presidency is he brings us back to basics. And what could be more basic than the difference between democracy and dictatorship? Democracy is about means, not ends. If we all agreed on the ends (such as whether to build a wall along the Mexican border)…
Trump Shutdown Poses Real National Security Threat
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s Wrong With This Picture
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOUNT MITCHELL, N.C. — Literary history is filled with stories about motivated people climbing up mountains for inspiration. Moses supposedly hiked up Mount Sinai and came back with the Ten Commandments. George Mallory told the New York Times in 1923 that he climbed Mount Everest “because it’s…
The Machine is On Fire: Let’s Put Out the Fire
Could Trump’s Treatment for Hair Loss be Causing His Anxiety, Depression and Lying on Twitter?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I don’t want to disparage any people with diagnosed mental illness here, especially those who actually take their meds and work hard to overcome. But I just cannot resist commenting on the latest zany episodes in the crazy Trump reality show presidency. Every news outlet in the…
What Democrats Need to Do to Combat Trump: Face the Economic Problems of the Middle Class
By Robert Reich – Why did working class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign. One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working…
Is Donald Trump the Worst U.S. President Ever?
By Robert Reich – America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities. America’s great good fortune was to begin with the opposite –…
I Don’t Mean to Toot My Own Horn, but…
Execution Comix: Trump Stars in Own Drug Death Drama
By David Underhill – When Roman emperors knew they were finished, the courageous ones would fall on their own swords. Infirm and unable to defend themselves against their rivals. Or about to lose in a palace coup or civil war. Or having done something so disgraceful their reputation could never recover. Rather than submit to…
Strategic Grifter Gift: Protect Precious Places by Giving Them to Donald Trump
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – It must have been the baffling foreign language that prevented many reporters and editors from noting the obvious. Mar means sea or ocean in Spanish. If they had known this they surely would have realized that the name of Donald Trump’s Florida resort – Mar-a-Lago – means it’s…
A Modest Proposal: #ProtectTheTruth
By George Lakoff – America’s tweeter-in-chief plans to attack the free press next week. He desperately needs your help to succeed. You can help him by repeating his words and lies. You can help him by focusing outraged attention on his antics. Or we can work together to redirect the energy, counteract rather than react,…
Trump Drives the World to the Brink of Crazy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The world has truly gone crazy now. Thank you Donald Trump. Or “Fuck You Trump,” as Alabama running back Bo Scarborough yelled as the Crimson Tide made its way through the tunnel onto the field to play the Georgia Bulldogs in college football’s National Championship game on…
The State of Objective Journalism and Democracy in Trump’s America
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â Since the early days of science and later objective journalism, we have known that reaching breakthroughs in knowledge is gained over time in fits and starts. A scientist, or a journalist for that matter, practicing the American invention of objective journalism, becomes immersed in the literature of a…
Is it Time to Invoke the 25th Amendment and Remove Trump from Office?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It started as a trial balloon not long after the election. There were whispers and a few half-baked news stories citing the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted to fix presidential succession weaknesses in 1967, as a way to get rid of…
The Trump Presidency: How to Further Enrich ‘The Masters of the Universe’
By Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian – David Barsamian: You have spoken about the difference between Trump’s buffoonery, which gets endlessly covered by the media, and the actual policies he is striving to enact, which receive less attention. Do you think he has any coherent economic, political, or international policy goals? What has Trump actually…