Far East Cynic

And so it begins

The rampant plunge into teabagger inspired stupidity. Not 48 hours after founding member of the Liars Club and all around shitbag, John Hinderaker, published a hit piece of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer attacking her and other governors for actually trying to, you know, save lives – the Astroturfing began in Kentucky,

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Supervisory error

Ok, it has been a few days between the events surrounding USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). There has been a lot posted about the decision made to fire the CO, CAPT Crozier. To be blunt, a lot of those thoughts are utter bullshit. Posted below are some reasons why. Generally, the

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The end of the world as we know it.

If you are, as I am a travel addict- these last two weeks have been a nightmare. The area I live in just put a shelter in place order so it will be at least three months before I can go anywhere. I was lucky I got to Japan when

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A medieval solution

If God is indeed just, there is a special place in hell reserved for Grover Norquist and his philosophy of “drowning government in a bathtub”. Unfortunately, we know the divine entity plays favorites, so Norquist probably got rich selling stocks weeks ago as some of his Congressional friends did. For

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No longer relevant

Meaning it really does not matter that the COVID-19 virus started in China. Sure it makes MAGA hacks feel better thinking that blaming China will change the net effects of Nero’s Trump’s fiddling while the rest of the world burned. Blame China all you want. Post memes saying China Lied,

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It is not about politics anymore and you should not pretend it is.

Here at Far East Cynic HQ, we have made no secret of the fact that we loathe Donald Trump with the heat of supernova and wish him nothing but ill will. I’ve been writing about how dangerous he is since the day he and the mail order bride wife came

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Not a design flaw, but blatant misuse.

The other day, I had to the misfortune to read on another corner of the interwebs, the following bit of incredible stupidity. Referring to this article, describing Trump’s blatant abuse of executive power by claiming Executive Privilege on the entire Mueller report, the asshole in question had this to say:

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Descent into Darkness, part 1

I have not been posting much this week because I have been watching episodes of The Man in the High Castle. Without giving away too much of the plot, Season 3 is finding the story going more to the science fiction roots that Phillip K. Dick laid for it. That’s

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Still crazy, after a couple of years.

That would be Scott Adams. Aging artist of the Dilbert comic strip who has turned into a brain-dead slug and all around reprehensible person. At least we can take solace in the fact that more and more people are coming to understand how loathsome he is, as both a political prognosticator and as

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273rd verse same as the first.

I had planned to write some more about my trip. But as has so often been the case this year and last-I woke up to yet another incident of domestic terrorism. The worst mass shooting yet in America. Yet another disgusting commentary on America’s inability to better itself as a

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