The Divide That Trump and His Ilk Have Caused Will Not Disappear Just Because He Does A little over two months ago, I wrote my last piece that directly discussed Trump’s presidency. In that article, I said I was done writing about the bilious ham-sack known as Donald Jodorowsky Trump, barring “a significant public scandal …
Reporting on the Goings-On of Trump Went From Exciting, To Repetitive, To Exhausting and, Eventually, Very Boring The number one rule of getting a lot of traffic on your blog is to use a clickbaity title and then make a shameless attempt to clarify the parameters of it in your opening paragraph. It’s the …
America Has Traded Political Stability for the Chaos of Reality Television. That’s… Just Soooo Stupid Oprah Winfrey might seriously be considering running for President of the United States. If Kanye sticks to his guns about doing the same, then that means the 2020 election could be a race – initially, at least – between …
Each Faction of Government Can Only Withstand So Much Opposition Before the Levee Finally Breaks Over the past few weeks, Republican Senators and Congressmen (as well as some moderate Democrats) have been swamped by their constituents at town hall gatherings. They are being taken to task for supporting – tacitly or otherwise – President …
The Real World Has Given Us a President that You Could Not Write a Credible Story About Under Any Circumstances Let’s imagine I created a TV show called, oh, I don’t know… America is Broken; y’know, something subtle like that. Then I created some direct marketing platform akin to Netflix through which subscribers could watch …
Donald Trump Could Actually Wreck the Planet No matter who you are, writing about Donald Trump can be a head-trip. Walking the line between hyperbole (“He’s gonna kill us all!”) and foolhardy optimism (“Meh, I’m sure it’s gonna be fine.”) is tricky, at best, and pretty fucking impossible at worst. Casting aside unhelpful comparisons, …
The Circus and the True Horror of the Unexpected At the beginning of this year, political analysts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, joined by former Republican strategist Mark McKinnon, set out to document the 2016 American Presidential Election Campaign. They had no idea what the fuck they were getting themselves into.