markhaase.bsky.social
Therapist; husband; father; incipient cartoonist and flash-fiction writer; observer of autocratic governments (I.e., the US); and a few other things I might write but my Vyvanse has given up the ghost.
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Trump and his minions make Richard Nixon and his cabinet look like Boy Scouts.
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President Trump's response: Fake News. If there's any truth to it, it was no doubt caused by Hunter Biden's laptop. Next question?
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When asked about Signal and the Houthis, I expected the president to say something like, "The Houthis, yes, I have them on Spotify--I love their music."
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Attorney General Bondi needed only to refer Rep. Crockett to the example of the president. Surely no other public figure has set the bar higher in reference to being circumspect in their use of words.
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I think the psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee predicted accurately what would become of Trump the longer we had him in office--as his mental condition further unraveled he would become more and more erratic and essentially try to take down the whole societal structure with him.
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Al Qaeda has hit a new low. Dressing up like middle-class suburbanites from Peoria in puffer jackets and Skechers and looking like teenyboppers on American Bandstand. And outside a Tesla dealership. What will they think of next?
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It’s ironic, but the billionaires and plutocrats, by now siding with the president, may have set in motion a process where “tax the rich” becomes a bigger and better New Deal.
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Hopefully, Trump and his minions will get their comeuppance. It seems people in Trump's coterie are beholden to his requests and are able to know how far to push an adversary.
But sometimes the mighty are brought down serendipitously, like Al Capone through tax evasion.
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I do remember listening to a broadcast that argued right-wing talk radio got a major boost from President Reagan's FCC abolishing the fairness doctrine. That may explain, in part, how AM radio (and its current iterations), have become a hydra-headed entity.
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Seeing scenarios like this, where a politician gets on a talk show, makes me think we are trying to find answers in the wrong places. That is, the politician knows from many similar experiences what the main questions will be and will answer accordingly. Nothing of all value is garnered.
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I read your article, Mr. Luce. It was excellent. The people you spoke of reminded me of the quote by the great existential psychologist, Rollo May:
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice,
it is conformity.