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The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
Kavanaugh is not the quality of human being, intellectually or temperamentally, to serve on the highest court in the land. Of the tens of thousands of brilliant legal minds in America, we are reduced to settling for him? Really? Who’ll be next? Ted Nugent? Sarah Palin?
“Mr. Kavanaugh, we are questioning your suitability for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Typical of what’s running the country these days, spoiled arrogant prep school boys. Oh, that’s who’s been running things since forever. What startled me as I listened to his ranting testimony on the radio were his incessant references to “had a few beers with my friends” in his ridiculous diary. Casual, daily social drinking for high school students? On weekdays after pumping iron in the gym? Not for anybody in the public high schools I’ve been familiar with. Yes, maybe at a weekend party behind parents’ backs; but these spoiled brats were walking around with beers in hand like it… Read more »