Military Times survey: US soldiers want a new President

Waiting for Trump’s reaction … Four years, three months, and 26 days ago, three pieces of interesting news arrived with a Military Times survey of active American military personnel. First, the soldiers preferred — by a 2-to-1 margin — Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton to be the next US President. Second, 20 percent of the […]

Why did President Trump tell Americans to vote by mail, and in person?

If your chances of winning are slim, cause chaos to even the odds — my guess. I can only see two reasons for President Donald Trump suggesting that people mail in their votes and then vote in person. I’ll get to those later. While I’m not fully confident in polls, they show that Trump will […]

To avoid a ‘small group’ writing the GOP platform, a small group decided no platform is needed

Fake-Christian death cults tend to do this sort of thing — for the good of the people, of course. Remember when I rapped about the Republican Party’s transformation to a fake-Christian death cult? Meet the party’s triple-down commitment on that bet: There will be no GOP platform this year. Instead, and with no hint of […]

On Obama’s convention speech last night: what the hell is up with the New York Times?

Too much Hollywood on their minds — and at the worst time. The New York Times’ editorial judgement sometimes confuses me. And then I remind myself that the newspaper loves to publish Upper-West-Side-White-Liberal-feel-good stories on current events as if each are overhyped movie-of-the-year candidates that focus on people’s personal triumphs, and can be screened only […]

This moment, Kamala Harris, and women all over

It’s not lost on us that a woman has been summoned to face the biggest MAN-MADE, modern-day threat to PUBLIC HEALTH AND democracy. I’m thinking about a very smart woman I know who works in the restaurant industry, and is so intelligent that she has to appear dumb among her bosses and colleagues to keep […]

The Republican Party has become a fake-Christian death cult

and Donald Trump is its current leader. Government policies enable citizens to either live better, or die sooner — a reality that is hidden by the mist of feverish political debates on television and social media. Your response to this reality shows the world what your moral wiring looks like. Poverty in America means people […]

The financial markets will tell Trump what it thinks about so-called coronavirus stimulus talks and Trump’s weekend executive orders

We’re a few minutes away from the financial markets opening this morning, so I want to quickly document my thoughts about this weekend’s shitshow about the coronavirus fake-stimulus talks implosion and Trump’s so-called executive orders (here, here, here, and here) to break the logjam. Consider my remarks additions to this and this. Trump Economic Advisor […]

Turning from bad to worse: Trump wants US hospitals to send coronavirus cases and testing data directly to the White House, bypassing the CDC

Placing data in the hands of an erratic administration means more than politicizing science — it’s downright dangerous. Pardon the fucked-up language I’m using, but Team Trump’s demand for hospitals to send coronavirus data directly to the White House — while bypassing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a data collection point — […]

Irrational rationality: why Trump wants schools open during an out-of-control pandemic

The President will get more people killed before the coronavirus crisis is over In a first-world country that slept its way into an angry pandemic that has shut the doors to more than 60 percent of summer camps, found medical and other essential workers scrambling for a persistent shortage of personal protective equipment, and is […]

Physics, elections, and the President’s brain

File under “Smoke from the dome” Trump is experiencing an unprecedented perfect storm of conflicting vectors. Vector 1. Trump’s need to be reelected. Vector 2. Trump’s need to have the economy help him ride Vector 1. Vector 3. The increasingly compelling fact that wearing face masks while being present among large groups will reduce transmission […]