inauguration day

That’s All Folks!

CJ Hopkins As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that’s all folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest Greatest Threat to Western Democracy, the Monster of Mar-a-Lago, Trumpzilla, Trumpenstein, the Ayatollah of Orange Shinola, has finally been humiliated and given the bum-rush out of …

The Will to Believe: Americans and their Divine Masters

Edward Curtin “Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.  Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.” Albert Camus, The Fall Propagandists are smart people. They begin their devious machinations with the premise that people need to believe in something rather …

TRUMP, 2017: Decoding the Bizarre, Bleak Inauguration of ‘God’s Chosen Leader’…

So Inauguration Day in Washington came across as a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, affair: which is perhaps the only fitting end-point for what has been a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, presidential race. It also seemed to affirm my fears that we’re falling deeper into a bad place. What was most striking about the […]