Querida
I am so happy to hear you’re on board for the last leg of your flight!
Yoo-hoo!!!
I look forward to getting the full scoop.
I just woke up — 1 pm, Oaxaca time.
Looking ahead…
I’ve bitten off a big internet project, i.e., putting my best Trump posts in a single file so they are all available in one place for interested people to scroll.
I am so happy to hear you’re on board for the last leg of your flight!
Yoo-hoo!!!
I look forward to getting the full scoop.
I just woke up — 1 pm, Oaxaca time.
Looking ahead…
I’ve bitten off a big internet project, i.e., putting my best Trump posts in a single file so they are all available in one place for interested people to scroll.
I was motivated to do this by Baptist minister friend Randy Carter, two of whose blood children grew up with my Maria and Danny.
Randy and Becca have six (?) other adopted children, mostly from Russia, and both Randy and Becca are self-evidently generous, kind, giving, loving, service-oriented people in whom the holy wholesome spirit is deeply embedded - and shines through.
I will mention that Trump’s ascendancy among the conservative members of Randy's prior congregations, has caused him lots of psycho-spiritual turmoil.
It is perfectly clear to any open-handed virtuous person (who believes in the cornerstone of Truth) that Trump is, at bottom, a consumingly cruel, solipsististic, compulsive liar who is full of shit.
In any event, yesterday when Randy came to the defense of the innocent fellow who was mistakenly seized by ICE and sent off to El Salvador‘s infamous Mega Prison — never to be seen again — one of his congregants went bonkle-donk, enumerating in her snitty, snarky, presumptuous way a litany half-baked reasons why Randy was making the nation's situation worse by offering his divisive view.
I must say that for twenty years I have appreciated Randy’s calm reasonability as he (methodically, reasonably - and informed by deep scholarship - tries to put these “lost souls” back on The Way.
For targeted purposes, I can pretty much undertake Randy's approach, but only at wide intervals. If I had to eat Randy's daily bread, I'd go nuts. (I remember your recent comment to me, which I reflect upon like a medal of honor: "If you were born black, you'd be in prison now.")
In general, I cannot contain myself.
Plus, I have spent too many years in the labor-intensive undertaking of gathering solid, corrobsble information about Trump, and then collating it reasonably so that anyone interested in Truth will have a dependable tool for finding lots of it in my body of work.
And well-hyperlinked to pave the way forward.
Te quiero muchísimo mi amor !
Ale’
Cynthia replied to my email above, saying she liked the idea of a guaranteed minimum income, and I replied to her as follows:
Querida
Thanks for your message.
I’m happy to hear you made it through the night - and with Misha “riding sidekick!”
I hope to complete my Trump blog post compilation, the one motivated by Baptist Minister friend, Randy Carter’s Facebook exchange with a conservative Christian, who reminds me - as they often do - that, "in the mouths of most conservative Christians, the ‘word of God’ is indistinguishable from personal opinion."
As Obama observed in his 2020 book, we are living in a deep epistemological crisis.
Thanks for your message.
I’m happy to hear you made it through the night - and with Misha “riding sidekick!”
I hope to complete my Trump blog post compilation, the one motivated by Baptist Minister friend, Randy Carter’s Facebook exchange with a conservative Christian, who reminds me - as they often do - that, "in the mouths of most conservative Christians, the ‘word of God’ is indistinguishable from personal opinion."
As Obama observed in his 2020 book, we are living in a deep epistemological crisis.
Right up there with the Tower of Babel.
Yet, there are (effectively) NO conservative Christians who even know what an "epistemological crisis" is, or give a shite.
Jesus is their Lord and Savior, and even if they have to consider Donald Trump as “part of the package” that makes salvation possible, they are TOtALLY ON BOARD!
Make no mistake…
These are the same people who single-handedly put Donald Trump into The Oval Office... not just once, but —flabbergastingly! — twice.
“Giving Trump a Mulligan” is like giving imprisoned Olympic doctor Larry Nasser a weekend pass to an all-girls’ gymnastics camp.
As an aside, I will mention that the scores of girls molested by Nasser were molested even though they kept telling their parents that Nasser was molesting them.
But Mom and Dad — respectable middle class, Americans -- didn’t believe their girls.
Jesus is their Lord and Savior, and even if they have to consider Donald Trump as “part of the package” that makes salvation possible, they are TOtALLY ON BOARD!
Make no mistake…
These are the same people who single-handedly put Donald Trump into The Oval Office... not just once, but —flabbergastingly! — twice.
“Giving Trump a Mulligan” is like giving imprisoned Olympic doctor Larry Nasser a weekend pass to an all-girls’ gymnastics camp.
As an aside, I will mention that the scores of girls molested by Nasser were molested even though they kept telling their parents that Nasser was molesting them.
But Mom and Dad — respectable middle class, Americans -- didn’t believe their girls.
Almost always we believe the putative authorities.
Mom and Dad refused to believe their own kids with the same blind intensity that "conservative" "Christians" (who are neither) insist on believing that Trump is Jesus’ right-hand man!
But on a lighter note…
Did you hear the one about the remote island (where Trump is trying to impose tariffs) where all 217 inhabitants believe there are only two kinds of people — those who believe there are only two kinds of people… and those who don’t.
“The saved.”
And “the damned.”
*****
You are fabulous, my Dear.
They are fabulists.
*****
Te quiero muchísimo.
Ale’
PS I have a meme, which shows a finger-waving Pharisee, with acaption that reads: “If you spend any time, trying to determine who is ‘saved,’ you’re not.”
Mom and Dad refused to believe their own kids with the same blind intensity that "conservative" "Christians" (who are neither) insist on believing that Trump is Jesus’ right-hand man!
But on a lighter note…
Did you hear the one about the remote island (where Trump is trying to impose tariffs) where all 217 inhabitants believe there are only two kinds of people — those who believe there are only two kinds of people… and those who don’t.
“The saved.”
And “the damned.”
*****
You are fabulous, my Dear.
They are fabulists.
*****
Te quiero muchísimo.
Ale’
PS I have a meme, which shows a finger-waving Pharisee, with acaption that reads: “If you spend any time, trying to determine who is ‘saved,’ you’re not.”
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Dear reader,
Among the Trump links below, are interspersed blog posts that contain information (and principles) that I have found useful in my pursuit of truth. This latter kind of link, I am distinguishing from my Trump links by using purple typeface.
I did not devote much energe to linking my memes with the themes of the blog posts on either side of them.
So please don't try to create linkage where there is likely to be none.
The Characteristic That Unifies The Five Archibald Siblings: Enter Mario Cuomo, Martin Scorsese And Pope Francis, Stage Left
Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Theory Of Stupidity", Developed During Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
"I Am Fully Bilingual And Spend Four Months A Year In Mexico. Neither I, Nor You, Nor Anyone YOU (Or I) Know, Has Ever Seen, Or Interacted With, A Member Of MS-13"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Christians Were The Only Americans To Ever Wage War On Christmas (NPR)
Christians Ignore Jesus' Direct "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/christians-ignore-jesus-direct.html
I am continually surprised to find that "conservative" "Christians" are such manifestly fearful people. It's as if their engagement with God-Universe-Divine-Milieu is a neverending attempt to justify the fear they constantly live with, as if fear (frequently morphing into abject terror) is a God-given inevitability, and that they are authorized to fight their fears by any means necessary. And they do this mostly by being ever "at the ready" to champion their Second Amendment rights, and, whenever they deem it necessary, to shoot their ungodly surfeit of firearms at other human beings.
They prefer to use pistols which are specifically designed to kill human beings.
Makes you want to be a Christian, no?
The New Testament Parable Of "The Widow's Mite," Relativity, Perfection And Contextualization: "The Chances Of A Refugee-Terrorist Killing An American Are 3.6 Billion To 1"
"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is Not Only Real, But Foundational
Donald Trump: "Now You Can Be Hateful, And Feel Good About It"
A Letter (Inspired By Thomas Merton) To My Lost Soul Conservative Christian, Trumpista
Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/fr-thomas-merton-explains-in-16-words.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.
If you don't "get it," the following meme may help.
Alan: Conservatives would love to be more charitable
-- you know, like Jesus when he fed the multitude --
but, lamentably, the lazy, ne'r-do-well, parasitic slackers just don't deserve it.
-- you know, like Jesus when he fed the multitude --
but, lamentably, the lazy, ne'r-do-well, parasitic slackers just don't deserve it.
"The Best, Imposed As A Norm, Becomes Evil," Trappist Monk, Fr. Thomas Merton
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil."
(Let this sink in...)
Thomas Merton And Anne McCaffrey Describe The Fatal Flaw Of "Conservative" "Christians" (... Who Are Neither)
The 20th Century Writers Who Have Been Most Influential in the Development of My "Outlook" and Worldview are Ivan Illich, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Neil Postman and G.K. Chesterton
"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings As A Path To Truth And As An Antidote To Presumption, Self-Righteousness And Hubris
The 20th Century Writers Who Have Been Most Influential in the Development of My "Outlook" and Worldview are Ivan Illich, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Neil Postman and G.K. Chesterton
Who Woulda Thunk It?!? Shakespeare, Einstein, J. B. S. Haldane And Wendell Berry Converge On Truth
Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts
Neil Postman, Author Of "Amusing Ourselves To Death," A Great 20th Century Book
"How Do You Tell 40% Of Americans They Should Care About Other People?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html
"How Do You Tell 40% Of Americans They Should Care About Other People?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html
A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken
The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium
"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base
Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Trump-Cult Cruelty
Trump's Rallies Define His Vision Of Liberty: The Right Not To Care About Other People
A Surpassingly Good Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical, Dishonest, And Stupid, You Will!"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"The Daily ShowAnother surpassingly good video
"A Must-See Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
The Daily Show
Another surpassingly good video
"The Daily Show" Lets Trump Cultists Reveal Their Own Stupidity And Obsequious Boot-Licking
Jaw-Dropping Stupidity: 3 Short Videos That Will Change Your View Of American Politics Forever
Compendium Of Pax-Barbaria Posts Concerning Absolutism, Authoritarianism, Fascism And Trumpism
"The Exquisite Ignorance Of Trump Supporters"
Trump, along with his suck-ups, achichincles and cultists, are deranged.
They have taken leave of their senses.
They live lives that automatically morph reality into an enveloping delusion in which their fundamentally fact-free world is not only portrayed (to others and to themselves) as true, but as "God's Truth."
The patients are in charge of the asylum, and presume their asylum is The Promised Land.
They make their proclamations of faith with the same decerebrate certainty that "good Germans" manifested in The Third Reich.
My working hypothesis is that Trump cultists want liberals dead, whereas liberals only want Trump cultists to leave them alone - just as an earlier generation of conservative Christians left them alone when they were backwoods snake-handlers instead of snakes.
It never occurs to Trump cultists -- particularly self-righteous "Christian" "conservatives" (who are neither) -- to “live and let live.”
These folks are dominance-submission hierarchs, and nothing but total domination is even open for consideration.
These "true believers" are absolutely certain God is on their side, and that the rest of us infidels are damned to The Lake of Unquenchable Fire.
And so, since “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it,” they take it upon themselves to be dictatorial-and-cruel because that’s what their God is, and that’s what their God ordains.
It is hard to see a way out of this muddle.
The Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington And Seneca Indian Genocide...
(I grew up in Seneca country.)
Trump Cult: A Study In "Folie à Plusieurs"
Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Racism -- Specifically Trump's Racism -- And Two Tests To Determine If YOU Are A Racist... Or Even A Christian
The Perfect Photo To Epitomize The Horror Of Trump: Not Only Does He Inflame The Worst Angels Of Our Nature, HeTeaches His Followers That It's Okay -- Indeed, Virtuous - To Laugh At Murderous Cruelty
Trump Is The Most Gifted Criminal Genius In The History Of The World - A Houdini Who Can Make Personal Responsibility Disappear. "Malignant Messiah" Can Shoot Someone On 5th Avenue -- In Broad Daylight -- And Not Lose Any Voters. But "Getting Away With Murder" Is The Least Of It. "Lingering Orange Fart" Attempted A Coup D' Etat And Then Persuaded Half The People That He Deserves A Mulligan
What Is Most Remarkable Is That Trump - And His Crime Family - Are Open About Their Criminality
How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings
"50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He's 50" /// "My Favorite Books"
Best "Pax" Posts About The Criminality Of Donald Trump, His Family And "The Best People"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/best-pax-posts-about-criminality-of.html
Americans Think Foreign Aid Consumes 1/3rd Of GNP. This Percentage Is Totally Hallucinated. Nevertheless, This Preposterous % Is What The Dimwits Believe. They Believe It Because They Don't Read And Don't Know How To Read With A Discerning Eye. Indeed, Many Of "The Benighted" Don't Read At All. And When They Do, Their "Reading List" Is All "Confirmation Bubble" Bullshit. They Live In The Dark Because They Don't Want Any Light That Will Oblige Them To Think. Bertrand Russell Observed That "People Would Rather Die Than Think. And Many Do." In Their Cave-Dark World, The Trolls Want Visceral Inflammation Immeasurably More Than They Want Knowledge Or Truth.
"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
"How Do You Tell 40% Of Americans They Should Care About Other People?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html
"The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalleled At Catastrophe"
Trump, Trump Cult And Reasonability
Trump, Trump Cult And Reasonability
"If Trump Voters Listened To Reason, They Wouldn't Be Trump Voters"
Brilliant talk by David Brooks given to a British Audience:
Verbatim Quote
"The GOP Deliberately Crafted An Ignorant, Prejudicial, Hateful Constituency"
(And Conservative Christians Proclaimed Themselves The Embodiment of Love)
I Applaud Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Candidates' Debate
(Giving credit where credit is due.)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/02/i-applaud-donald-trump.html
the best thing said
Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails:
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont
Master Compendium Of Trump's Mendacity: Malignant Messiah Lies More Easily Than He Metabolizes. (Or... You Know He's Lying Because His Lips Are Moving.)
Trump's Sister, A Retired Federal Judge, Says Malignant Messiah Is "An Untrustworthy, Cruel Phony" Who "Lies", "Cheats"
Trump's Mobster Model Of Government In Which Brazen Lies Are Routinely Represented As Truth
Donald Trump, Felon: Starting With His Trump University Scam And Itemizing His Criminality On Through His First Wife Ivana's Accusation Of Violent, Hair-Tearing, Penis-Penetrating Rape
If Malignant Messiah's Quest For Power Meant That Trump Would Defecate In God's Mouth, He Would Do It In A Heartbeat
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
Married Couple Say Trump Defrauded Them Of $35,000.00 But Will Vote For Him Anyway
New Meme Featuring Mafia Don, And A Compendium Of His Lifelong Criminality
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/02/new-meme-featuring-mafia-don-and.html
Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty
Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies
Why these tapes didn't become a HUGE story is anyone's guess.
Satanic intervention?
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Trump, Toxic Christianity And Cruelty As A Moral Obligation"
The United States Of America: "We're #1" (Ah! The Shame...)
Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies
"Conservative" "Christians" Only Believe In "God" And Themselves... And The Two Are Pretty Much Interchangeable
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christians-only-believe-in.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"The Only Card In Trump's Deck Has The Picture Of A Victim On It"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-only-card-in-trumps-deck-has.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.
In his first administration, His Malignancy already hired "the best people."
And then, he either fired them, or they quit.
This time around, he's starting with the dregs.
Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
Denis de Rougemont
The following post is A BIG DEAL
The Elimination Of "The Fairness Doctrine," And Commencement Of Degenerate, Chaotic Governance
For a really deep dive...
Is Ortega Y Gasset The Most Important Modern Philosopher? The Most Discerning Prophet?
The Incipient Unraveling Of The Western World As Seen By Visionary Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1929)
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
(I am flabbergasted that Americans don't perceive the bedrock treachery.)
"Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany"
"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are A Lie"
"Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge"
"The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil" - An Open Invitation To Christian Conservatives
"Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies"
"How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies"
Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness, Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Comprehensive Review Of Trump's Racism (Featuring "Must-See Mash-Up Of Trump's Racist Preaching")
"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base
The Monstrous Cruelty Of Family Separation, A Heinous "Crime Against Humanity"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Conversation With A White, Conservative Christian Concerning Trump's Family Separation Policy
Family Separation And The Satanic Cruelty Of Most Republicans
(Trump flat out lied when he said no one died.)
The Sermon on The Mount
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/best-pax-posts-about-criminality-of.html
Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/roger-stone-members-of-trumps-inner.html
Trump's Evil Twin, Roger Stone: To Grasp The Vility Of Both Men, See This Netflix Documentary
"Must See" GIPHY Of Trump Partying With Jeffrey Epstein At Mar-A-Lago
Listen to the Epstein Tapes
Trump was Epstein's best friend.
Trump first slept with Melania on "The Lolita Express"
Biblical "Literalism" And The Cultivation Of Hatred
"You've Been Trumped" (made in 2011, 4 years before Trump's presidential campaign) is the most revealing Trump documentary.
It was produced, directed, filmed and financed in Scotland where Malignant Messiah presumed he could push around an entire native community whose ancestors lived in that place for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This film reveals "The A-hole" at his most loathesome.
The Bible's Two Versions Of The Decalogue Are Different. Read The 1st Commandment
Wherever you reside on the political spectrum, the following article will prove to YOUR satisfaction that the Republican Party's allegations of widespread voter fraud are themselves fraudulent, and that proof of GOP fraud was generated by Trump's own Voting Fraud Commission.
We Americans have short memories, but do not forget this. Mention it in all your political conversations.
We Americans have short memories, but do not forget this. Mention it in all your political conversations.
Trump's Handpicked Kansas Secretary Of State - Attorney General, Kris Kobach, Is Emblematic Of The Bullsh*t Nonsense That Has Become The Bogus Essence Of The Republican Party
(The factual information in this post is ALL you need to know to realize that Trump's allegations of voter fraud, are - by his own admission - unadulterated bilge.)
During The 2016 Presidential Election, Trump Paid A $130,000.00 Bribe To Prostitute-Porn-Star Stormy Daniels To Keep Her Mouth Shut
Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/conservatives-assume-theyre-supposed-to.html
Whatever we're embedded in, we know it's a mystery.
so let's spend far less time (and energy) pretending we "know" what it is, and what it's all about.
Have faith in whatever you want.
But please don't pretend to be a know-it-all.
We know very little.
We can know very little.
"Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression In The 2020 Election"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/voter-fraud-and-suppression-in-2020.html
Liar. Cheat. Traitor. Thief.
The Corrosion Of American Democracy And The Ascendancy Of A Police State
By my lights, Wendell Berry is front-runner for America's greatest living prophet.
The End Of Democracy: Trump's Love For "The Poorly Educated," And Opinion Trumping Truth
"Donald Trump's Identity Revealed"
What America's Coprophage Sludge-Suckers Need To Know
The Corrosive Effects Of Conspiracism: The Quickest Way To Twist Truth, Manufacture Falsehood, And Fertilize Dimwitted Delusions So That The Right-Wing Always Benefits... While Fascists Are Ever Eager To Feed On The Feces Of Their Train-Wreck-Dumpster-Fire-F*ckup
Trump makes his minions believe absurdities.
Hannah Arendt
Intellectual Titan
Alan: From lack of intelligence, lack of learning, lack of insight, or plain ol' malice-malevolence, Trump and his cultists do not understand that the erosion of trust in constitutionally-mandated political institutions contributes mightily to the degradation -- if not the collapse -- of Democracy itself.
20th century intellectual titan, Hannah Arendt -- who attended the Nuremberg Trials and coined the phrase "the banality of evil" -- has a lock-tight grip on this corrosive political process.
Here's how it unfolds...
Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details
How Trump Trashes The Underpinnings Of Truth-And-Faith-In-Shared-Values So That The Resulting Chaos Creates Cultists Conditioned To Believe Falsehood Over Truth: 20th Century Intellectual Titan, Hannah Arendt, Analyzes This Corrosive Mechanism
Bill Maher Describes Addlepated Trumpism As It Is. Hannah Arendt Explains "How" Trumpism Came Into Being
Trump Trashes Troops: Dialogue With "Christian" "Conservative" Friend About Truth, Faith, And "Absolute Faith Corrupting As Absolutely As Absolute Power"
Brigham Young: A Case Study Of The Corruption Caused By The Absolute Faith Of "True Believers"
Religion, Perfectionism, Savonarola and The Pending Apocalypse of The Republican Party (This Post Was Written In 2012)
Nicholas Kristof Explores The Atlantic Magazine Article Detailing Trump's Disparagement Of American Troops
Nicholas Kristof Follows Up On Trump's 280 Campaign Promises To See How He's Did
Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts On Cheating (Among American Conservatives And Inside The Republican Party) - As Prelude To The Destruction Of Democracy
Tom Tomorrow: "The World's Greatest Democracy" (With Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts)
Trump's Long History Of Inciting Violence And The Deadly Outcome Of His Inflammatory Rhetoric
Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
Capitalism: A 2023 Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts
This is where the Republican Party was 150 years ago:
Yes, the above Lincoln quote fact checks.
"The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" And The "Mobocratic Spirit" That Will Destroy Them: Abraham Lincoln's Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum AddressWikipedia
"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Wikipedia
Lincoln's Observation On America's Suicide
Lincoln: Truth Is Everything
Two Things You Would Swear -- With God As Your Witness! -- That Abraham Lincoln Never Said. (And Neither Of These Observations By Honest Abe Are EVER "Shared" By Trump Cultists.)
Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts About Abraham Lincoln (... And The J-6 Insurrection That Lincoln Prophesied)
If ANY Democrat - even a mentally ill one who'd stopped taking his meds - had attacked the Capitol Building (much less called for the hanging of vice-president Pence), every "conservative" in America (bleeding at the eyes, their carotid arteries pulsing purple) -- would demand that the seditionist-traitor be drawn and quartered on the National Mall, his dismembered body parts then stuffed in a gibbet to be hung over Pennsylvania Avenue until every bit of flesh had rotted away and the bones had bleached titanium white.
But when actual seditionists are Trump supporters -- not to mention Trump himself -- they are lauded as True Patriots.
Trumpistas make the original Pharisees look like Mother Theresa on steroids.
Inflammatory rhetoric and ubiquitous self-victimization are ALL the Republican Party's got left - a party comprised of liars, miscreants and malevolent lickspittles who would eagerly sell their souls to Satan for pragmatic political advantage. For all I know, they may have done so already.It's not like Republican malice is anything new:Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
This is not about Democrats and Republicans. This is about sentient beings and The Lizard People.
If ANY Democrat - even a mentally ill one who'd stopped taking his meds - had attacked the Capitol Building (much less called for the hanging of vice-president Pence), every "conservative" in America (bleeding at the eyes, their carotid arteries pulsing purple) -- would demand that the seditionist-traitor be drawn and quartered on the National Mall, his dismembered body parts then stuffed in a gibbet to be hung over Pennsylvania Avenue until every bit of flesh had rotted away and the bones had bleached titanium white.
Trumpistas make the original Pharisees look like Mother Theresa on steroids.
Inflammatory rhetoric and ubiquitous self-victimization are ALL the Republican Party's got left - a party comprised of liars, miscreants and malevolent lickspittles who would eagerly sell their souls to Satan for pragmatic political advantage. For all I know, they may have done so already.
It's not like Republican malice is anything new:
Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
This is not about Democrats and Republicans. This is about sentient beings and The Lizard People.
George Orwell And Aldous Huxley Describe "The Perfect Dictatorship" (But Don't Worry... It Couldn't Happen Here.)
"It Can't Happen Here," A Novel By Sinclair Lewis (What Will Happen When America Has A Dictator?)
Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
Capitalism: A 2023 Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts
Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American" Probes The Motivation Behind Republican President Teddy Roosevelt's Full-Throttle Commitment To Progressivism
Is it just me?
Or, do more and more Americans look like they fell out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting?
Asking for a friend...
Lindsey Graham: "If We Nominate Trump, We Will Get Destroyed... And We Will Deserve It"
http://paxonbothhouses.
"General James Mattis Describes Trump As A Near-Nazi Turncoat-Enemy Of The American People"
"Follow-Up To Jim Mattis' Reference To Trump As An Ignorant Dolt Who Doesn't Read"
(And when Italians started migrating to America, "The Know Nothings" of the late 19th century - who were the forebears of today's Trump devotees - said they were black people.)
I sh*t you not.
A great many Christian conservatives - especially those who consider Trump as the next best thing to The Second Coming, don't love enough to recognize Truth.
Why Trump Is Demonstrably Unfit For Office (Not Even Trump Cultists Can Counter This Description Of Fact)
If You Do Nothing Else Today, Read The Following Opinions By Four U.S. Generals Hand-Picked By Trump To Be Part Of His Inner Circle
Retired Generals Say Prospect of Trump Immunity Is Nation’s ‘Greatest Threat’: Would They Be Obliged By Their Solemn Oath To "Support, Preserve And Protect The Constitution" To Perpetrate A Coup?
"Make Your Bed": Admiral McRaven Leaves His TED Audience Speechless: What American Generals Think About "The National Security" Threat Who Lives In The White House
"The Conspiracy Chart": An Inverted Pyramid From "Detachment From Reality" To "Reality Groundedness"
"The Deadly Oppression Of Black People: Best Pax Posts"
"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." 1960, remark to Bill Moyers, "What a Real President Was Like," Washington Post, 13 November 1988
"I love the poorly educated." - Trump, 2016
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." 1960, remark to Bill Moyers, "What a Real President Was Like," Washington Post, 13 November 1988
"I love the poorly educated." - Trump, 2016
Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics
You will be hard-pressed to find a Trump supporter who did not support The Iraq War.
But then there's this...
Spot-On Truth-Teller Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Debate
(Give credit where credit is due)
How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers." Trump Cultists Confuse Noisy Echo Chamber Opinionization With Thinking. They Are, In Fact, Too Stupid (Or At Least Too Stupefacted) To Know They're Stupid
Compendium Of Best "Barbaria" Posts About Politically-Motivated Violence
"Trump And His Cultists Are Arsonists Pretending To Be Firefighters"
Thomas Merton: "Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"
There were LOTS of Republicans who would have voted to impeach Trump
if they didn't put political expediency over conscience.
Every one of them is an oath-breaker.
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: American Political Violence Is Almost "Exclusively" Right-Wing
Trump's Long History Of Inciting Violence And The Deadly Outcome Of His Inflammatory Rhetoric
If Barack Obama Had Said Any Of These Things, Every "Conservative" In America Would Have Called For His Head - But Only After Drawing And Quartering
Trump autographs bible.
He hasn't even read it.
If you think His Malignancy has read it, just how gullible are you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE
Trump has never even asked for forgiveness, and is quite happy with that fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zvtl5emEEI
The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium
A Compendium Of Pope Francis' Links With An Inter-Related Critique Of "Conservative" "Christianity" (Which Is Neither)
For theological insight, the following shtick by Emo Philips is worth St. Thomas Aquinas' entire "Summa Theologica."
"Emo Philips Tells A Story About Heretic Scum. Trump Picks Up Where Emo Leaves Off"
Like many other self-professed Christians, Laura Ingraham Occupies The Borderland Between Fascism And Crazed Christianity
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor
Dr. Laura and Leviticus
(I did not see this coming.)
The "President" Questiona A Prig
Martin Sheen In The West Wing
The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)
The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)
This is the one
Biblical Violence: Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran? Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years
"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"
Compendium Of "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Abortion, And The Indispensable Distinction Between "Pro-Life" And "Pro-Birth"
John Pavlovitz: "The Miserable People" And "The Kind Of Christian I Refuse To Be"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/john-pavlovitz-miserable-people-and.html
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"Make Your Bed": Admiral McRaven Leaves His TED Audience Speechless: What American Generals Think About "The National Security" Threat Who Lives In The White House
Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode
Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy
"On The Media"
Of The 20 Most Crime Ridden States, All But 6 Are Blood Red (And 2 Of Those Have Been Red Until Recently); Of The 9 Least Violent States, 7 Are Blue
