Far East Cynic

25 Things I Would Fix About This Country If I Had the Power to Do So

And that would just be the start Without a doubt, one of the most frustrating things about living in this demented timeline is the knowledge that there are many straightforward solutions to our American “problems” that we refuse to implement. We do not do so not because they will not

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Refusing to play the tape to the end.

Supporting Elon Musk’s illegal and treasonous efforts will not help you in the end. Without a doubt, the most amazing thing I have witnessed in the last month is the abject stupidity of a heck of a lot of American citizens. These are people who claim to love America but

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The process matters.

Those Americans who think the ends justify the means are just as guilty of crimes against the Constitution as Elon Musk is. Warning notice! Profanity and an angry tone follows…… I have had it with my fellow Americans, who display a fundamental ignorance of how their government and, more importantly,

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Jared Kushner is an idiot.

For someone who graduated from Harvard, he needs to relearn his history. I lived and worked in Germany and Israel for a good deal of time from 2011 to 2020. I’m very familiar with the history of Palestine from biblical times through our current era. So, like many others, I

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The indifference index

How Americans claim to be a caring society, but they do not really care at all. If there is one thing this election proved, it is that Americans don’t really mean what they say. They have proven beyond a doubt that they: The motto of America is now the same

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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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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 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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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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A year later and the danger still lurks close by

It has been a year since the unwarranted and thoroughly evil insurrection against the Capitol occurred. “A mob breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol. American flags on poles being used as weapons, as spears. Fire extinguishers being thrown at the heads of police officers. A crowd that professes

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