Far East Cynic

A good life……stolen

Donald Trump murdered Herman Cain yesterday. “No, he didn’t!!” you say. “He died of COVID-19. He was not murdered.“ Really? Who browbeat people into supporting the extraordinary level of ignorance regarding this disease that Trump has fostered for over six months? Who decided to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

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I would have preferred not to be right. The painful flash of memory

From time to time, I love to use this quote from the movie, I Robot: In my Facebook memories, today came a post from 2016, which I posted during the Republican National Convention. In it I shared, some words from my favorite political writer Charles Pierce, who recognized what so

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The Third Boer War

People, myself included, love to use historical analogies to describe the current hellscape we are living through. The most popular comparison of the rise of Trumplandia is to that of Nazi Germany in the ’30s. I confess to having fallen into the habit myself, and you can find plenty of

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Could not have said it better myself.

As I mentioned yesterday, I have found the current set of depradations of the Orange threat to the Constitution to be exceedingly depressing. Even more depressing from my standpoint and an issue I will have to face personally next month are those individuals who have abandoned all claims to being

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Through the looking glass….

“Keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times. The ride is going to get rocky from here on out.” – Robert Mueller, bus driver. Robert Mueller still has faith in the Constitutional process in America. He may be the last man in America to do so. Certainly Mitch McConnell

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We must persevere.

Wow. It certainly was some week. Not a great week mind you, as far as the history of the United States goes, but it was a unique week. That is, if you are hell-bent on destroying the government of a Constitutional Republic by subverting the democratic rule of law. If

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Brief summaries of the age we live in.

It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing that most Americans failed to realize was, just how easy it could have been not

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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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While I was out…….

Here it is, May 4th, and I have not made a post since New Years Eve 2018. It was an unplanned hiatus, I assure you. During the past 5 months I have: Been on the hunt for a new and better job. A job hunt brought about by a worthless

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The last great President

I made a point of getting home early today so I could watch the state funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and probably the last President ever that will be able to be spoken of with the words, “great President”. It was with

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