I have experienced autocracy. I didn’t have to live it: thank God! But I have known and been in the confidence of those who did have to live in it for most – or all – of their lives. As a result, I can tell you this with utter conviction and the authority of lived … Read more
This election will be determined by the success or failure of a massive disinformation campaign. Trump hasn’t any real issues to run on, so he tells outrageous and obvious lies, ad nau·se·am. His entire persona and the raison d’etre for his candidacy are based wholly on a series of lies about himself and what America … Read more
Readers will know that I have long been realistic about the national security threat posed by right wing extremism. It has not only claimed thousands of lives across our nations history, the threat posed has been steadily and sharply rising since Donald Trump’s ride down his golden escalator in 2015 and through his Presidency. Now, … Read more
Now that Elon Musk has pretty much officially aligned the company formerly known as Twitter with Russia by cutting the Ukrainian armed forces off from Starlink and instead giving access to Russia, cancelling Alexi Navalny’s widow’s account, and acting as a mouthpiece for Russian disinformation and propaganda, I can no longer participate. Former Twitter has … Read more
I was going to tear the MAGA Caucus apart today, but woke up to Jay Kuo having already done so quite effectively on in partnership with the Substack the Big Picture, so I am just going to quote him here and encourage readers to subscribe to his own SubStack the Status Kuo, as I do. … Read more