Category: False Patriotism
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Storming The Bastille — Or Something Like It…
As the screws turn ever tighter on Donald Trump and his Criminal Enterprise — and as they behave in ways that shock more and more Americans to the point of doing something — an ‘Old World’ Battle Cry will be heard: “Storming the Bastille”. It’s come to mean ‘The People Seizing Power’. But that’s not…
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Evil’s Too Smart To ‘Billboard Itself’; That’s Why It Births Itself In Banality…
Maybe it’s ‘my’ fault… ‘Our‘ fault if I include the rest of my screenwriting ‘tribe’. I could widen the tribe out to include anyone and everyone who ever helped make a movie that gave an audience the notion that Evil is BILLBOARD OBVIOUS the moment it ‘walks on stage’. Alas, if only more of my…
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Maybe Our Takeaway From Trumpism SHOULD Be: We Didn’t Punish Richard Nixon Nearly Hard Enough
There is a direct link between Richard Nixon and Donald J Trump. Or should I say links… There’s the ‘thematic’ one of course — the ‘Country Club Authoritarianism’ personified by Roger Stone… …that views American political norms and anyone not in their club with disdain and disgust. This is the ‘Silent Majority’ part of the link…
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Hey, America — Next Time, Let’s Take Better Care of Our Democracy, Okay?
There’s a Joni Mitchell song — pretty well known — with a lyric that goes something like this — They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone…
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It’s Harder Than It Looks Being A Civilized Country
This happened in a country the world thinks of as among its most civilized. Clearly, the World is a terrible judge of character. ICE has taken — AND LOST TRACK OF — nearly 1500 immigrant children from their parents at the border. According to PBS, some have even been sold to known HUMAN TRAFFICKERS. For…
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In The Pantheon of Bullshit, ‘Flag-Waving’ Sits Atop Its Flagpole
There are Americans – lots of em – who genuinely believe that Patriotism means you wave a flag at every opportunity and scream at people who don’t wave flags cause they’re being ‘unpatriotic’. They think the bigger the flag on their front lawn, the more patriotic they are. These are the same mooks who think…
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KARMA’S a Bitch: ‘MITCH MCCONNELL Edition’
Of all the scumbags this story has given us, the scummiest & the baggiest is Mitch McConnell. If I believed in hell, I’d bet the ranch on Mitch landing there when his time here is done. Unfortunately, I don’t believe in hell — not imaginary hell anyway. But I sure do believe in Hell On…