Trump / Imperialism and Autocracy
This week, Mr. Trump, by personal executive decree withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). He also suspended, indefinitely, all scientific health agency meetings, training sessions, travel and grant panels. This applies to the Centers for Disease...
And so, the Wildfire has begun. Here is a short list of the executive actions in the first hours after inauguration: Freeing criminals convicted by Juries, and validated by all available appeals, who beat Police and sent them to the hospital, defecated in the...
What is meant by “MAGA”. It is time, I believe to stop fighting the weeds in this American garden and step back and look at what the gardener is attempting to create.Stop reacting to each and every racist tweet and statement that Mr. Trump makes. We already know that...
Once again, simply looking at the data, rather than the rhetoric paints a distinctly different picture than what you may expect. Here is some real data. It comes from these sources: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/pr/statistics...
Shuffle and Shake. The Trump administration is now pushing a story that his comments about “fine people” in Charlottesville were about those protesting the removal of a stature of R.E. Lee. Let’s look at this a little deeper: Point 1. The comments that were made at...
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 1 The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response...
Part I: The destruction of international confidence in the American Constitutional Process We all learned in Civics Class that the American Constitution provides for 3 separate branches of the government, the Judicial, the Legislative and the Executive. Of these, the...
Job creation under the Trump administration has lagged behind the Obama years. Here is a chart (data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth)) This plots the number of jobs created in the first 5 months...
Mark Twain: “That's the wonderful thing about science. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture from a trivial investment of fact”. Here are some facts (things that are demonstrably true, supported by evidence): The US military has built up its presence in the...
It seems to me that one way to understand Mr. Trump is through the following quotation: When Mr. Trump spoke at CIA headquarters this year, he said: “The old expression, ‘to the victor belong the spoils.’ I always used to say, keep the oil. I wasn’t a fan of Iraq. ...
We love horror movies in the same way we love roller coasters. We love the sense of fear, knowing that in the end everything will work out and the hero will triumph; we will leave the movie or the carny ride safely. I wish that this was truth in the real world, but...
I have been thinking a lot lately about why Trump is so popular in this country, for understanding his appeal is critical to understanding how to react to his actions. I don’t want to list a litany of his personal and political faults; they are well known and well...