Far East Cynic

What if? An excursion into Alternate History

It has been two years since I posted here – primarily because I have been writing on other platforms, allowing me to monetize my content. ( El Greedo strikes again!). However, I have kept this website alive and will continue to do so, albeit with some rules and editorial provisions.

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Again, and again, and again…..the cycle never ends.

I had to wait a couple of days to write about the Uvalde slaughter of children and teachers. I had to wait because I was so angry. Angry that, again, we are going through the same set of senseless deaths. Angry that this happened while they were still burying victims

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Great advice.

I heard this mentioned several years ago from a different source. I still think it has merit. @trinkets_hawaii Yup!🤣 #trinketshawaii #trinketshawaiiessentials #keribells🌺 #wafakels✈️ #wafakelssquad ♬ Trying to hurt me by bringing up my past – Tonya De’laine

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Correcting the record

It’s been fascinating to watch the repeated criticisms of the various economic disasters of late. The plunge in the stock market, the shortage of baby formula, and the ever-increasing rise of gas prices. None of these things had to happen, and in fact, most reputable economists had warned us that

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An excellent summation.

Of the damage to the American Republic that the Roberts Court has accomplished in the last 20 years. As one who is old enough to remember Thurgood Marshall on the Court as well as many others, the current crop of conservative Justices, brought to you by the slime at The

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The nameless servants of evil ( Part 2)

One of the trite amorphisms used by conservatives and others repeatedly is, ” We are not a democracy; we are a Republic.” As if the two terms are mutually exclusive when they are meant to be used together. The United States is a Constitutional Democratic Republic with its governing officials

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The nameless servants of evil (Part One)

I have not been able to post for the last two months for many reasons. It’s been a hard couple of months. Between making a pilgrimage back to the sacred soil of my Alma Mater and then on to Shopping Mall – which, thanks to both of them being unmasked

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A rage worth having and expressing.

It certainly has been an unexpected first three months of the year so far. A senseless war in Ukraine with conservatives cheering on the wrong side for a great while, rising gas prices – while refusing to blame the robber barons of the oil companies, and the stock market getting

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Just a reminder

Of why Trump had to be defeated in 2020 and has to be financially, judicially, and physically destroyed in the years after. It is still disturbing beyond measure that 74 million idiots wanted this moron back in the White House and to give him the codes to the nuclear arsenal.

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The great surrender

When the story of this third decade of the 21st century is told ( if it ever will be), the level of the United States’ response to a worldwide pandemic will stand out as one of its worst failures. The laggard and selfish response of a significant industrialized power, who

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