I don’t know that there’s ever been a president in history who’s been more of a solved equation than Donald Trump. Historically, most presidents have understood the sanctity and decorum of the office (and, concurrently, the importance of keeping the federal government a mysterious and opaque arm’s length from the public realm), and thus … Continue reading Five-Pump Trump
Congressional Democrats and Republicans: the mother and father of a random shitty childhood. They fight each other for dominance in their toxic marriage, constantly ignoring their kids in the process. Tell them things like, “Go to your room!” and “Please, the adults are talking!” Sure, they know a lot about lawmaking, which isn’t easy. But … Continue reading You Remember These Dicks from High School?
If Donald Trump will walk away from the White House one day with nothing else to show for his half-assed efforts but a ridiculous East Wing ballroom, a trade war no opponent will have strictly adhered to, his face on Mt. Rushmore or, God forbid, a potential third term, he can at least take pride, … Continue reading Move Over, Communism, Terrorism, Wokeism, Hitler. Now It’s Political!
And, though I hate to say it, Donald Trump isn’t a complicated man. I could argue no president in history has so publicly displayed his emotional triggers to an audience of supporters and reporters, so posted temper tantrums on social media to the point of making a ten-year-old question the concept of adulthood and so admittedly based policy decisions on nothing more than “gut feelings” more than he has. The man really is an open book. Even his political MO follows a pattern. Which you can actually read about by opening a book.
Donald Trump is, first and foremost, a businessman. A successful one, even, by some metrics. That he is fundamentally little else has been evident, time and time again, in the by-now thousands of public displays of his political ineptitude and stupidity. But within those laughably insufficient acts of inarticulate buffoonery sit something else, something more … Continue reading America’s Rebranding under the Trump Organization (April 4, 2025)
When reporting something in the news, there exists, to the journalist doing the reporting, both the benefit of hindsight and the ability, based on their research, to surmise where and to what end the topic may lead. Journalistic research not only yields context to both an audience and author, but a greater understanding of a … Continue reading The Single-Blindedness of Political Reporting
I really don’t know if I’m going to be saying anything new here. But I’ll give it a shot. Because you may already have access to a television or the internet, and may already have heard that Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency again, despite the collective rationale of many millions all over the world … Continue reading You Want to Know Why? I’ll Tell You Why
“The world is so polar today. Culture Wars are everywhere! People are screaming at one another online, and I just want things to go back to the way they used to be.” Oh, do you? No no, I’m asking: Do you? You want things to go back to the way they were, say. Say you … Continue reading This Is America. Like It or Not
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the BRIMBORION in April of 2021. Because its astuteness and relevance will likely be recognized and appreciated each and every election season in the foreseeable future, we have decided to print it again for 2024, and likely will for the next 200 years or so as long … Continue reading The Coming Electoral Contest in the Roman Empire, 395 A.D.
According to voters on both sides of the political spectrum, the 2024 presidential election is gearing up to be the most important presidential election of our lifetime. Yours, mine—everyone’s. Yeah, it’s not true. I’ve been hearing it a lot, though. People say it every election season, with maybe a few exceptions. When you’ve got a … Continue reading The Ultimate 4-Step Guide to Voting for Trump in 2024
I read an analysis in The Washington Post recently which recounted quite well, over the last ten years or so, out-and-out Republican efforts to obstruct the operation of the very government to which they were elected—discussing/passing legislation, approving judges—if it was deemed, in the end, to somehow benefit the Democratic Party. This, of course, included … Continue reading The Toxic Solution of Trumpism
There’s a throwaway scene in the 2019 Romanian documentary Collective, where the country's new Minister of Health is watching a news show on television, and, at a podium, the mayor of Bucharest is denouncing the decision made by the administration to send patients to Vienna for transplant surgeries, and not maintain the patients in Romania … Continue reading Welcome to The Way of The World
In case you were looking for a microcosm of the history of half the entire world dating back, say, the last few hundred years, there’s one example playing out right now in the news over in Africa, in the Republic of Niger. And by the way, it’s pronounced Nee-ZHAYR, not the other way you were … Continue reading The Niger Coup: A Hollywood Film Treatment
You have to understand something about politics: Every single person involved in a political discussion or an effort to draft a bill, at any one given point in time, believes the points or issues they’re arguing are “right,” and everything else is wrong—infallibly, into perpetuity and written on the wall inside one of God’s own, private bathroom stalls ...
The problem with politically aligning with either term, ‘right’ (conservative) or ‘left’ (liberal), is that, once aligned, no one has to actually come out and say what it is they really believe. All they do is check a box, push a button, and the organization takes care of the rest...