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K “We are in it.”
J “Full tilt boogie.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“I Have A Bad Feeling About This” Obi-wan Kenobi
MAGA is dead. RI . . . P?
Archive for the Trump Category
World War III. Oh, And Happy “I Have A Bad Feeling About This” Day! Oh, And Happy Late Solstice! (June 23, 2025)
Posted in Trump, World War III on June 23, 2025 by e-commentary.orgThe Donny And Elon Show. Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (June 9, 2025)
Posted in Politics, Trump on June 9, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “Think it is staged.”
J “Somewhat. But neither of them are capable of staying on script.”
. . .
K “Trump dons a red Make America Great Again hat while Musk sports a black Occupy Mars t-shirt.”
J “King Trump’s crown is an ordinary baseball hat and Minstrel Muskrat’s regal attire is a t-shirt. They call it ‘cosplay’ because they are play acting their roles in their costumes.”
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J “All the world is a stage that is now dominated by two stooges. One is the world’s most powerful man. The other is the world’s richest man. America is all about power and money.”
K “Keep in mind the fundamental truth. The Problem for decades was overlooked or disregarded. There is no democracy. Trump is not an assault on something that does not exist. Trump is the Symptom of the staggering Problem who has metastasized into another competing Problem. The last election was between Systemic Problem versus Trump Problem. Both candidates were stooges in his and her own way.”
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K “The show must go on.”
J “It must not necessarily go on, but it is going to go on.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” Robert A. Heinlein
“For what else is the life of man but a kind of play in which men in various costumes perform until the director motions them off the stage.” Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (1511).
No Kings
Trump: MBA Not MPP: Meat Cleaver Versus Surgeon’s Scalpel (March 3, 2025)
Posted in Bureaucracy, DOGE, Schooling, Trump on March 3, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “He is fundamentally a businessman not a politician. He has never participated in the PTA or presided as a precinct chair. He is MBA not MPP. That is a burden and a benefit.”
J “He is fundamentally a showman not a statesman. A government is not a show or a business. There are no profit and loss statements. There are people and lives.”
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K “You could get a Ph.D. in public policy by chanting that change must be undertaken with a scalpel not a meat cleaver. However, there are some times when a meat cleaver may be needed.”
J “Meat cleavers beget messes. You need surgery not butchery.”
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K “Their manner of canning employees lacks good manners and is both brutal and brutish.”
J “So it should end?”
. . .
K “Trump is crass and coarse and often impolite and impolitic, yet he promised to be a disrupter and he is fulfilling his promise to disrupt.”
J “You do not need a Ph.D. in economics to recognize that the lost consumption of all the fired employees and the additional reluctance of others to consume in a time of uncertainty will wallop the economy. Just wait until his cherished barometer of success – the stock market – plunges precipitously.”
K “For many compounding reasons, the stock market will drop precipitously. The economic and social disruption is wrenching and painful, yet some disruption is necessary to disrupt the abnormal norm and reset the system.”
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J “Wielding a chain saw is puerile and petty.”
K “How about a paring knife? A stout paring knife?”
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[See “The Turnaround” by Robert Gore in “Straight Line Logic” dated March 1, 2025.]
[See the e-commentary at “Titters” v. “Self-Unemployed” (September 1, 2014) and Government Bureaucracy 101 (September 26, 2016).]
Bumper sticker of the week:
“It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.” H. L. Mencken
Le Big Day. Oh, And Happy MLK Day! (January 20, 2025)
Posted in Presidency, Trump on January 20, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “The use of Executive Orders seems akin to a dog marking its territory. With great consequence.”
K “Trump marked his territory and remarked what Biden had unmarked. Biden had marked his territory and unmarked what Trump had marked. You can mark their words.”
J “It is a dog-mark-dog world.”
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K “We may each hear what we want to hear. I did hear him celebrating freedom of speech and the rule of law and the possibility of peace sprinkled among some of the other dross and red meat he announced.”
J “He has not left the campaign trail. His screed was a full contact frontal ‘shock and awe’ assault on the status quo.”
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J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
K “You can say that again.”
J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
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J “The DEI movement was problematic and often unfairly discriminatory in practice. However, the wholesale attack and dismantling of the programs is too wrenching. Public and private programs must provide for everyone’s participation in society.”
K “His broad attacks on LGBTQ+ concerns are too sweeping. Someone needs to find the reasonable common ground.”
J “Americans of all stripes believe they can repudiate both physics and biology when reality is inconvenient or intrusive. Trump and I – imagine that – and you – imagine that – accept biology and recognize that biological men and women are different when they walk out on the playing field, the pitch and the court. However, some courts demand to repudiate this reality.”
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K “I am pleased he kept his word and commuted and pardoned the January 6 defendants. I have trouble with the release of those who had committed violent acts and/or destroyed property. However, with time it is clear that the entire undertaking was a grand cynical entrapment by the Democrats. Convictions are tossed out when the prosecution is tainted. The pardons are in effect a repudiation and an indictment of the entire Democratic political and legal machine. Biden’s pardon of the J6 Committee is a clear acknowledgment that the members and its henchman were involved in a dishonest and fraudulent enterprise.”
J “Trump’s pardons are disgusting. There is no law. Biden’s pardons were necessary and appropriate.”
K “Is there even one person in America who has the knowledge and the wisdom and the perspective and the maturity and the independence to chronicle the events of J6 honestly and objectively? Future historians will write whatever is necessary to obtain tenure.”
J “If there is tenure.”
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K “What about Biden’s pardon of the other members of the Biden crime family? If they accept the pardon, they are admitting culpability. Back to the books for a read of Burdick v. United States, 235 U.S. 79 (1915).”
J “Trump has made it clear that the Biden family would have been unfairly pursued and prosecuted.”
K “On the basis of the available public information, there is no doubt that the government could have secured criminal indictments against each one of the Bidens.”
J “Just a political vendetta.”
K “Someone has argued for some time that the Lawfare would circle around.”
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J “It is and will always be Denali.”
K “Yup.”
J “Denali, Alaska has a nice ring and subtle cadence. As I recall, ‘Denali’ is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means ‘big’ or ‘tall’ and ‘Alaska’ means ‘Mainland’ or ‘Greatland’ in some dialects. Big, Great. They pair well.”
K “Denali, Alaska is also a pleasing six-word memoir.”
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J “Here be dragons.”
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[See the e-commentary at Cheney/Bush v. Trumpi: Crime Families Battling On The Big Stage (August 22, 2022) and Let Lawfare Continue! And Let War With Russian Escalate! (June 3, 2024).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.” Donald Trump, Inaugural Address.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Alexander Pope
Here be dragons
Trump: Now What? (January 13, 2025)
Posted in Debt/Deficits, FISA, Inflation, Tariffs, Trump on January 13, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “I do not think that even Trump knows exactly what he thinks. Is he a nationalist or a globalist? He has slipped Panama, Canada and Greenland into the public discourse. Yet the Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan quagmires are expanding and exploding and may consume him and his administration.”
J “Vegas, the French Quarter and the LA Fires raise issues that are hard to put in perspective.”
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K “I have been wrong about what is called the ‘economy’ year after year after year after year. However, I maintain that the Debt Black Hole is now too far out of control and will haunt and hobble his administration.”
J “Extending the tax cuts will cost the public fisc something like 500 million dollars in each of the next ten years. That will add up.”
K “Inflation will continue for the foreseeable future.”
J “Enacting tariffs will turbo charge inflation without necessarily spurring American manufacturing and production. Any new plants will be automated. Stay tuned. Inflation may be the major election issue in 2026.”
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J “I keep reminding and reassuring myself and others that he will break every one of his major promises. He will not even propose making Social Security payments non-taxable. No way. His billionaire boys may reduce the actual payments. He will not make overtime payments and tips non-taxable. No way. He will abandon the voters who will be even angrier at and more frustrated with the system.”
K “I don’t disagree. I told someone that his election postpones the revolution. From another perspective, we are better off if he does break some of his promises. Judging by his Cabinet nominees, he is breaking his promise to end the many wars of choice.”
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K “During the election, I saw some hope and change in the Kennedy Gabbard wing of the Trump Machine. However, Tulsi Gabbard’s recent volte-face is the clearest reveal that reform is impossible. You surely saw that she changed her stance regarding the unconstitutional government program that she once sought to repeal as she now fights for survival and confirmation. So much for ending the section 702 authority that allows the government to track conversations involving foreigners without a warrant.”
J “You should have known. The real Trump 2.0 is emerging. Don’t forget that many of the foreigners are engaged in illegal and dangerous activity.”
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K “Let’s circle back at Thanksgiving and see if three phenomenon emerge this year. Expanding wars. Galloping inflation. Deepening recession.”
J “And metastasizing restiveness. Let’s revisit the topic on November 24 or so.”
K “World War III is now accelerating and this week in Romania.”
J “Stay tuned.”
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K “Looking and listening to others, I sense that many are disquieted and enervated by the uncertainty.”
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[See the e-commentary at Time To MAAA: Make America America Again? (September 30, 2024).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Make America ??????? Again
Expanding wars? Galloping inflation? Deepening recession?
“We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somali, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” Wesley Clark
Stay tuned.
Supreme Court: K: “Right!” J: “Wrong!” (March 4, 2024)
Posted in Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Trump on March 4, 2024 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “Wrong. Period.”
K “Right. Full Stop.”
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K “The Constitution says ‘We the People of the United States’ not ‘I a sniveling petty night traffic court judge in a backwater jurisdiction of the United States who despises Trumpi and will do anything and everything to defeat him’. Every person is entitled to due process and a fair and objective hearing in the proper jurisdiction applying applicable law.”
J “We live in a federalist system that allows and requires the states to act at the right time and in the right circumstance. The state of Colorado acting through its judicial branch acted properly and commendably.”
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K “If there were three more of what I refer to as ‘individualist’ judges – although that term is now incomplete and inadequate – the decision likely would have been 12 – 0.”
J “Time to appoint non-lawyers to the Court.”
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K “Was it really a 5 – 4 decision? When I awake at 0400 hours, I will parse the decision a few more times. Did Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito and Kavanaugh affirmatively rule that Congress has the sole power to enforce the ‘Insurrection’ provision?”
J “Another thing to worry about at four a.m. That may be the ‘take home message’ and consequence.”
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K “The country is coming apart. The world is ready to explode. We may not see opening day of grayling season. The decision has the added virtue of being profoundly restrained and responsible.”
J “The person dividing the country is now free to continue dividing the country. He is unrestrained and irresponsible.”
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K “I will never again be able to condemn the Supreme Court unconditionally.”
J “I dissent. I am currently and will remain disgusted by their abdication.”
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J “You’re not getting weak on me?”
K “Still despise him. When he emerged, Trumpi was really the ‘symptom’ not the ‘Big Problem’ in the country. However, now he has metastasized into another ‘Problem’ that plagues the country.”
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[See the e-commentary at Weaponizing The Judiciary: Democratic Prosecutors + Democratic Judges; Republican Prosecutors + Republican Judges: Bad Math, Very Bad Math (December 4, 2023). See the two discussions on J6 at January 6: The Country Needs An Impartial And Objective Inquiry (January 8, 2024) and three years earlier at On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Law” and “War” are almost anagrams and read together (Lawwar) are almost palindromes.
Lawfare = Law + (war)fare. Very bad idea
Cheney/Bush v. Trumpi: Crime Families Battling On The Big Stage (August 22, 2022)
Posted in Bush, Trump on August 22, 2022 by e-commentary.org[DuckDuckGo is completely blocking www.e-commentary.org.]
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K “The Cheney/Bush crime families are at war with the Trumpi crime family. With the recent primary election in Wyoming, one warrior on the battle field is now throttled, at least temporarily.”
J “Whatever her motives, Liz tried to clean up the public sphere. And now finally after a disturbing hiatus, the authorities are going after Trumpi. That is promising.”
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K “She will land in a thoughtless think tank or an sketchy hedge fund and look for an opportunity.”
J “Nothing ever changes.”
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K “Dick Cheney is not really bright and not really astute and not really witty and not really honest and not really charming and not really real, really. That is what the system seeks and rewards.”
J “Give credit where credit is due. Dick is amoral and ruthless and psychopathic and sociopathic.”
K And he is the patriarch of a crime family that now may not have a player on the public stage.”
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[See the e-commentary on the major crime families in America at Impeachment Imbroglio. Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 2, 2019).]
Bumper sticker of the week:
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” Mark Twain
The “D” Division Invades The Swamp. The War On America Is On In America (January 25, 2021)
Posted in Biden, First Amendment, O'Bama, Presidency, Trump, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on January 25, 2021 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “The ‘D’ Division rolled into Fort Swamp last Wednesday without much genuine fanfare or even many fans. Attendance at the Emperor’s coronation looked like a Bideni campaign rally last fall.”
J “To the accompaniment of more centurions than the Empire acknowledges in its many overseas wars of choice. A bleak and barren tableau against a desolate and deserted landscape with a rank and file of American flags made in China. No citizens were on the National Mall and no shoppers were in the nation’s shopping malls.”
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K “One crime family leaves and another crime family arrives. I provoke all manner of perplexed responses when I observe that we are giving up an Ivy League President and getting someone who graduated something like 97th in a law school class of 58 at a regional law school.”
J “Trumpi only got into an Ivy League school because he is from a second generation crime family. The Bidenis are now an established second generation crime family and thus Hunter had a spot held for him in the Ivy League.”
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K “Bideni is a foot soldier for the neoliberals in domestic policy.”
J “And an errand boy for the neoconservatives in foreign policy.”
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K “Nothing ever changes.”
J “Everything stays the same.”
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K “He was true to himself until the end and simply could not muster the courage and integrity to pardon Assange and Snowden and instead pardoned some stray punks and thugs. He is a waste of protoplasm in a great wasteland.”
J “He pardoned people who reminded him of who he is not who he wants to be. He will always be the saurian beast until he slithers off this Planet.”
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K “Bideni promised that nothing will change; he will keep that one promise. Day 6 is a modest improvement, but under the most optimistic scenario the country will only marginally improve under him/her/them.”
J “Marginal is the best we can do in this country. He will broadcast a few flashy but hollow and symbolic policies. Few legitimate grievances will be addressed. This is the third term of the O’Bama administration. O’Bama spawned Trumpi. He/she/they are the transitional Presidency to a new more slick and subtle Trumpi Version 2.0 in four years.”
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K “The war on America and Americans now begins in earnest.”
J “The only way to grow and expand the war industry is to invade and colonize new territory. America is just sitting there between the two vast sloughs waiting to be plucked and plundered. America is the last frontier and the last battleground.”
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[See ““Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us”: Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden” in “MintPress News” by Alan Macleod dated January 22, 2021.]
[See the e-commentary at “The “War And Wall Street Party” Concludes Its Confabulations (August 31, 2020)”, “The Choice: Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate v. Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate (April 13, 2015)”, “The ‘War and Wall [Street] Party’ On The War Path (February 1, 2016)”, “The First Look At The ‘Second Political Party’ (January 3, 2011)” and “DNC: ‘We’re Losers. Vote for Us.’ (February 27, 2017)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Give war a chance
No hope and no change
Dissent is patriotic
Hank Aaron
There is something to and something about ivermectin that compels a closer look-see
?The Dow at 20,000 or less by Halloween?
On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021)
Posted in Collapse, Elections, On [Traits/Characteristics], Trump on January 11, 2021 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “Talk about your good old fashioned red, white and blue American White Privilege. Anyone other than white males would have been mowed down at the gates. The insurrection should have been stopped at the outset by force.”
K “I recall delivering one of what were then two local newspapers that featured a picture above the fold of members of the 82nd Airborne drilling holes on the west buttress of the Capitol to mount 50 cal tripods to dissuade rioters after the King assassination. A dozen years later, I was able to finagle an excuse to slip out on the west buttress and see a few dozen trios of holes now occupied with epoxy. Both events are memorable.”
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K “I have walked those grounds on a few occasions and been to at least two anti-war demonstrations there over fifty years. The Capitol grounds have transitioned from a college campus with stately oaks into a battlefield with rising bollards and retractable tank barriers. The Capitol is a fortress on a hill. The fort is not breached unless those inside allow it to be breached.”
J “Do not forget Occam’s Razor. Always look for the simplest explanation. Everything today operates at the most grossly negligent and obscenely incompetent manner and level as humanely possible. No one knows what he, she or they are doing.”
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K “Calling it a ‘coup’ is misinformed and unavailing. Think of the coup against Sukarno as the paradigm. These rioters were a disorganized band who did not enlist the military or commandeer communications or trigger mass public support. ‘Riot’ is accurate and perhaps ‘local insurrection’ but not a ‘coup’ attempt or ‘terrorist’ activities. The rioters did not want to overthrow a politician, they wanted the current occupant to stay.”
J “I take back some of my argument that they should have used force. The Capitol Police may have done the best they could under the circumstances and should be commended for their calm and restraint.”
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J “There is no doubt that Trumpi incited the riot.”
K “No doubt.”
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[See the e-commentary discussing the coming nightmare commencing back in November of 2016 at “The E-pocalypse: My Fellow Americans, Our Long National Nightmare Is Beginning (November 14, 2016)” that continues today and some perspective on “White Privilege At Play: Born On First Base (July 13, 2020)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Keep it simple
It is not what you know or even who you know. It is what you know about who you know.
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