K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Trump is Empire First I
As we near the end of Donald Trump’s first year of his second term, we can say with certainty that, at least so far, he is a bitter disappointment and likely never had any interest in an America First platform. It is also obvious from his cabinet picks and policy decisions that he never intended…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: “I think we’re just gonna kill people.”-Trump, Murder Inc.’s Fitting CEO
“Trump is engaged in murder, plain and simple.”[i]- Chip Gibbons In an interview with FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, when asked why he wanted to work with Vladimir Putin to eradicate ISIS, said in response to O’Reilly’s remark that he’s a killer, “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?”[ii]…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: A Death in Monsters Inc.
“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”[i]- Mary Shelley “I would do it again in a minute.”[ii] This was how Dick Cheney responded to the torture report released in 2014, which outlines the various methods the CIA used to torture, or in their words,…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Crimes Against Language
The US government, like all governments, speaks in tired, clunky euphemisms that evade the grotesquerie of their depravity, from drone strikes or assassinations of alleged terrorists are targeted killings of insurgents or militants. The killing of civilians is collateral damage, during the War on Terror, suspected terrorists, or terrorist cells, were not kidnapped and brutalized…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: The Room Where Crimes Were Committed
In The Room Where It Happened, John Bolton, who briefly served as National Security Adviser to Donald Trump in his first term, goes on a pompous tirade about the childishness and grotesqueness of the Trump regime and its leader.[i] He recounts explosive arguments over tariffs, the Middle East, and NATO, and many other US foreign…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: The War on the Anti-Trump Sect
For much of Joe Biden’s presidency, I wrote about the war on Donald Trump, who, because of the lawfare campaign against him, went from a fading star after J6 to an invulnerable force that channeled the rabble’s rage straight to the White House for a second time. The various indictments against Trump crumbled one by…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: The Illiberal Class Outs Themselves
On the first day of his administration, Trump signed the executive order entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” The order criticizes the Biden regime for its censorship of online speech and its war on dis, mis, and malinformation, and it states that “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”[i]…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Who Exactly Is They? On the Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk and The Spectral Left
I started writing this essay as soon as I heard about Charlie Kirk’s killing. By the time it is published there will have been many updates to the rapidly unfolding story. I want to preface this essay by stating upfront that I am not a conservative, nor am I on the political right, but I…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: To Think is to Incite
Neo: What truth? Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind. [i] In defense of a preacher’s free speech rights in a 1999 court ruling, Lord Justice Sedley argued that free speech…
Constitutional Disorder II: Living in the Ruling Class’s Delusion
The debate over the direction of the Republican party is laden with contradictions and absurdities. There are former Republicans like Liz and Dick Cheney, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, and Michael Hayden who were either part of or supported the administrations of former Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. For…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
The Illiberal Liberal Illusionists In a recent speech at Hamilton College in New York, Barrack Obama lambasted the Trump administration for strangling universities, threatening free speech on campuses, and mass deportations, including the deportations of green card holders and students for “antisemitism”.[i] Obama declared “Now we’re at one of those moments where, you know what?…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Constitutional Disorder I: The Wrong People to Violate the Constitution Those who were largely silent during the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama, and Joe Biden, and who came to miss and adore the George Bush administration, are screaming and wailing about Trump’s brazen and flagrant violations of the constitution, from his executive order that…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Sowing the Seeds of Hate In April 2017, after Donald Trump authorized airstrikes on a Syrian airfield in response to then president of Syria Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria said emphatically that “Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,”, and that “For the first time really…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Lost Literature: The Ever-Elusive Mystery of Authoritarian Playbooks “It’s like the Riot Act. The Riot Act. They always tell you they’re gonna read that to you. Have you heard this thing at all?”[i]- George Carlin We are constantly told about the authoritarian playbook and how it is being used by leaders across the world to…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Chaos Wing: The Trump Show’s Second Season Begins I During the year 193, following the assassination of the reviled and venal emperor Commodus, the Roman empire underwent a rapid succession of five emperors in that year.[i] This period that is marked as the moment the Roman empire began to decay and eventually collapse. Rome and…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Biden’s Legacy: A Fitting End to Decades of Service to the Permanent Regime II In his preposterous and fumbled farewell address, Joe Biden pompously warned of a growing oligarchy, a “tech industrial complex” where social media companies are saturating the information space with lies for profit.[i] He also considered the potential risks and opportunities of…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
Biden’s Legacy: A Fitting End to Decades of Service to the Permanent Regime I With Donald Trump taking office this week, there has been a flurry of articles declaring and debating Joe Biden’s legacy and his foreign policy record, and he has said that he is leaving Trump “a strong hand”.[i] There are some, like…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
An Atrophied Body Politic: The Reign of Insect Politicians “I’m saying… I’m saying I – I’m an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake.”[i] Seth Brundle says this to Veronica Quaife amid his grotesque transformation into what he calls the ‘Brundlefly’.…
The Trump Show: Season Two
I: Swamp Creature Casting Call Many are panicking and horrified at the prospect of a second Trump presidency. Now that it will happen, corporate and independent media outlets are in terror mode. I’ve received tons of emails from outlets like Common Dreams, In These Times, Jacobin, and The Guardian (I am a subscriber to all…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes: The Garbage Strikes Back
The Garbage Strikes Back Trump’s supporters are not to blame for this. It is up to the US and Western ruling class to reflect and understand why so many people want to see the institutions they regard as precious bulldozed. They will not do this, so our best option is to grab some popcorn and…
Reign of the Illiberal Liberals V: The Ruling Class Triumphs No Matter What
In this election, the illiberal liberal class wins no matter what. With Trump, they get to throw a hissy fit and declare the election stolen, the result of Russian meddling or MAGA tampering, and they have four years to dramatize the minutiae of Trump’s time in the White House, from his phone calls with world…
The War on Trump IX: Atrocity
“Without doubt Oswald badly misfired. But one question still remains unanswered: who loaded the starting gun?”[i]- J. G. Ballard “Fight! Fight! Fight!”[ii]- Donald Trump In J.G Ballard’s book Atrocity Exhibition, which is not a typical novel and a collection of fragments, mostly from stories already published in prior years, are stories about Elizabeth Taylor’s tracheotomy,…
The War on Trump VIII: Frailty
“The president is a very sick man,”[i]- Cary T. Grayson “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either,”[ii]- Donald Trump In 1919, then President Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed and bedridden, and there was a veil…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes:
A Pyrrhic Victory for Assange “Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. Do we need to be reminded that justice for one is justice for all?”[i]- John Pilger (This essay…
The War on Trump VII: The Law of the Ruling Class Prevails
“Anything going on today?”[i]- Hillary Clinton “The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here,”[ii]- Donald Trump The war on Trump has now escalated to a history shattering precedent, as for the first time in America, a former US president…
K.H Macfarlane’s Takes
Can You Hear the Sounds of Hysteria? The 2024 election is looming, and with it, constant prattle in the halls of corporate media and the US government that Russia, as well as China, are already preparing to interfere to try and boost Trump’s chances against Biden.[i] In an article for Mother Jones, serial fabulist David…
The Judicial Farce Continues: Crickets from the Frauds of the Press
“We know that journalists around the world are increasingly under siege,”[i]- Antony Blinken “Mr. Assange was charged with very serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country,”[ii]- Antony Blinken “I’d like to ask a simple…
Take on the Week Ending March 24th
I have been delayed in posting the past month because I moved to Thailand to work as an English Teacher. There was a brief period of a few weeks where I did not have time to write. This past week, however, I have started writing a lot more and am back to my usual schedule…
Take on the Week Ending February 18th
Humanitarian Frauds On Friday, February 16th, Russia’s prison agency of the Yamalo-Nenets region reported that Russian political activist and investigative journalist Alexei Navalny died.[i] Russian authorities claim that Navalny suffered a ‘sudden death, though this is disputed by his family and by Western officials and pundits.[ii] Although Western leaders and commentators have rushed to condemn…
Take on the Week Ending February 9th
Tucker Carlson is a Traitor? Tucker Carlson was spotted attending the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow on Saturday, February 3rd.[i] This sparked speculation on his reasons for being there. Many figured he was there to interview Russian president Vladimir Putin, an interview he has been trying to get for a few years now. In 2021, Carlson,…
Take on the Week Ending February 5th
The Magical Thinking of the Conservative Elite Many in the conservative elite are lamenting the downfall of the DeSantis campaign and are pointing out his failures, and they are also blaming Republican voters for refusing to ‘see sense’ and to opt for a candidate other than Trump.[i] They were also desperate to see Nikki Haley…
Take on the Week Ending January 28th
Canada’s Friendly Fascists A Canadian Federal Court ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the trucker’s convoy protest in 2022.[i] Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says that the Trudeau regime will appeal the decision, and she remarked that they were justified…
Take on the Week Ending January 21st
Since I was busy finishing my TEFL course the week before last, I did not manage to publish a take on the week, nor did I publish one last week. I have decided to publish first my take on the week ending January 21st, which focuses on Taiwan’s recent election On Friday I will return…
The War on Trump VI: The American Arsonist Must Win
“You sent me to Hell. I’m here to return the favor.”[i]- Spawn “…some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”[ii]- Alfred The 2020 US presidential election was claimed to be of existential importance. Joe Biden was…
Take on the Week Ending January 7th
The Party Reigns As Biden and the rest of his party apparatchiks are declaring themselves the sole protectors of democracy, they are sneakily pulling strings in various states to ensure that Biden does not have to face a primary challenge for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee have all bypassed the…
Take on the Week Ending December 31st
And the Party Told You: End Democracy to Save It In George Orwell’s 1984, the ruling regime, ‘The Party’, controls history and whatever is currently known to be true, and truth can be altered at any time. To abide by The Party’s imposed truth, “All that was needed was an unending series of victories over…
Take on the Week Ending December 24th
X-Rated Films: Senate Edition In a video obtained by the conservative news site The Daily Caller, a congressional staffer was having gay anal sex with an unknown man Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.[i] The Daily Caller’s exclusive breaking the story has clips of the video laced throughout the article. The staffer turned out to…
My Journey So Far II: Reflections on Writing, and Upcoming 2024 Coverage
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”[i]- Franz Kafka “I wish that I could have this moment for life”[ii]- Nicki Minaj “The light of poetry is not only a direct but also a reflected light, that, while it shows us the object, throws a sparkling radiance on all around it: the flame of the…
Take on the Week Ending December 17th
The National Defense Authorization Scam Nearing the 1 trillion-dollar mark, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024 is a bloated, wasteful bill that will bring the US empire closer to its demise, not to a glorious battle with the new ‘axis of evil’. Included in the new NDAA, just approved by Congress…
Take on the Week Ending December 10th
The Info Warrior Returns Elon Musk has reinstated the X/Twitter account of political commentator Alex Jones, despite his statement that he would not when asked last year about it, where he said, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”[i] The issue with this argument…
The Trump Show’s Second Season: Trump’s an Authoritarian? Takes One to Know One
For too long, the ideology of Western exceptionalism and illiberal liberal globalism has reigned. Trump’s success proves that there is a vast number of Americans who agree and harbor disgust and anger for the system that took their jobs and left their communities devastated. These Americans are invisible to foreign policy elites. Until they are…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending December 2nd
This week is my first post in a while because I have been working to finish my TEFL course. Since I am way ahead of schedule, I was able to a write a post for this week, as well as two posts next week and a post that will sum up the year, as well…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending November 12th
The war in the Middle East rages on, Trump is on trial in New York and Colorado, and a recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows Trump ahead of Biden in key swing states. This poll has sparked shock and alarm in the illiberal liberal class. Firstly, I will briefly analyze the trial last week…
My Journey So Far: Reflecting on My Trials and Tribulations from Aimless Cynic to Dishwasher Extraordinaire
The writer discusses his transition from dishwashing to becoming a writer, sharing his personal and professional experiences. Examining the essence of work, quoting Orwell and Marco Pierre White, he reflects on his struggles and how they led to his current success. Simultaneously, the author questions conventional politics and challenges systems of thought through threads of…
Take on the Week Ending September 24th
This week Zelensky visited Washington with his usual list of demands and petulant behavior, and the US government has promised that in the event of a shutdown, Ukraine will still receive funding. So much has occurred over the past few weeks related to the Ukraine war that I will likely be publishing a longer post…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending September 17th
This week was hectic and filled with outrageous moments and events, from the beginnings of an absurd impeachment process by the Republicans in Congress to Russia and North Korea strengthening ties, much to the chagrin of the illiberal liberal globalist class. First up is an event from my archives, this is from the week ending…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending September 10th
I have not published a take on the week or a post for another series as I have been incredibly busy doing my TEFL course, as well as preparing to leave Australia to go back to Canada in between adventures. I have been trying to figure out a way to publish a regular post that…
War on Trump V: Grab Your Popcorn, The Trump Show’s Second Season Could be Upon Us
A revolution or overthrow of the current order is imminent, in the US and across the West. Whether it comes from white collar or far right populists, it will be violent and chaotic. For now, we will be stuck in the seemingly endless Trump show. Unlike the Truman show, there’s no escape. “It’s hard to…
Take on the Week Ending July 23rd
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 23rd This week I will focus on two news stories related to Trump. First that he is apparently planning to make himself a dictator if he is elected for a second term in office, as there are fears that he will invoke the unitary executive theory. This is…
Take on the Week Ending July 16th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 16th This week I will first apologize for not publishing a long form post as I promised I would in my last take on the week, however, I will work to publish my next post in the War on Trump series this weekend. It will focus on the…
Take on the Week Ending July 9th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 9th This week I received the feedback on my thesis, a 19,500-word writing project that I wrote as the final step in completing my master’s in international relations, and the next step in pursuing my PhD. I have been busy going over this feedback and thinking about how…
Take on the Week Ending July 2nd
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 2nd This week was chaotic, and the main event this week was the attempted coup by the Wagner group in Russia. In response to it we were subjected to the orgasmic glee of neocons and the rest of the illiberal liberal class who were drooling at the thought…
The War on Trump IV: The Illiberal Liberal Class’s Con Job
The illiberal liberal class foments divide and hostility over issues like racism and transphobia, and the far-right exploits this and posits itself as a contrast to this. This is an inevitable result of the illiberal liberal’s con job. The invisible either need to be made visible through understanding and compassion. Otherwise, they will make themselves…
Take on the Week Ending June 25th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending June 25th Firstly, I want to apologize for the delay on getting this take on last week out. I had about 6 or 7 different news items that I wanted to cover and had extensive notes on, and even after I narrowed it down, I had to condense notes…
Take on the Week of June 18th
I have been behind on my initial goal this year with my blog and podcast. Part of my work this year included the introduction of a series of shorter essays, the Keiran Express series. I have now decided to add a new series, Keiran’s Take on the Week. This will be much shorter, more of…
The War on Trump III: Inverted Totalitarianism, No Longer A Specter
Thus, with the constitutional imaginary eroded, what Wolin warned would result in a complete shift to inverted totalitarianism has occurred. It is no longer a specter looming over the US, it has consumed it, and it looms over us in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and across the Western world, and we are marching straight into…
Frontrow at the Freakshow Episode Five
Trump has been arrested, and as I discussed in my latest War on Trump post, the targeting of Trump is motivated by the permanent regime’s desperation to erase him from American politics, as his antics and inability to follow Washington decorum make him a threat to US empire. If Trump is convicted over the weak…
Announcement: New Ideas and a Brief Note on my Political Journey so Far
I initially planned on writing a third part of my War on Trump series, going into detail about the weak case outlined in the now released indictment and the immorality of former and currently serving government officials, and the immorality of the permanent regime in Washington, however, I have a couple of other commitments that…
The War on Trump II: Bring me the Head of Donald Trump
The prosecution, or in more fitting terms, the persecution, of Trump is obvious and he has already started using it as fodder for his 2024 campaign. One of his most powerful messages is once again resonant, that the establishment and the permanent regime are not after him, they are after those who would dare vote…
Keiran Express: Why I’m Unsubscribing from The Daily Wire
While I still have a certain level of respect for Shapiro and even Candace Owens, who herself is an extremist, that respect has waned dramatically over the past year and I cannot continue to support a company that refuses to engage intellectually with the issues we face as a society, and instead decides to channel…
Anti-Trump Literature Review VI:
Carlos Lozada On Russian Lit “Well, that’s because he would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.”[1]- Hillary Clinton “This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States…
Announcement
I apologize for the lack of content this week. I am still working 24/7, so I haven’t had as much time to write. In two weeks I will have much more time to write. This week I will also not be publishing a podcast episode, however, this is not just due to lack of time,…
Anti-Trump Literature Review V:
Carlos Lozada On True Enough Part Three The less we can trust the government and their lackeys in the media, the more appealing insane conspiracy theories will be, and Lozada, like many, is still fixated on the lying and conspiracism of Trump. “Totalitarian rulers rely on the compulsion with which we can compel ourselves, for…
Stumbling Into Nuclear Apocalypse: War over Taiwan is Suicidal II, Strategic Inanity
What is certain is that we are at the cusp of a new age. In the coming new order Pax Americana will be at an end, and in the worst-case scenario, the entire human race will be a heap of ashes, a sadistic species punctuated by an immense mushroom cloud. “After two centuries on imperialism’s…
2023 Announcement
This year, I will be expanding this platform into a more frequent blog accompanied by a weekly podcast episode, where I will discuss what I wrote about that week. The first episode is already up on Spotify, and I have provided a link in the bottom of this post. I will be publishing a longer…
The War on Trump I: Civil War Porn and Show Trials- Revenge of a Totalitarian Ruling Class
Whether or not you hate Trump is irrelevant. If America is to have a functioning and fair justice system, like the Devil to More, Trump and his supporters who entered the Capitol on January 6th must be given the benefit of the law. We know from Trump’s own speech calling for the suspension of the…
Keiran Express: You’re Supposed to Censor the Plebs!
The globalist elite is not upset at Musk for his vision of censorship and free/unfree speech, it is that his regime of censorship does not favor the illiberal liberal class. Until people recognize that organizations like AI and the UN do not care about principles like universal human rights or free speech, the internet will…
Stumbling Into Nuclear Apocalypse: War over Taiwan is Suicidal I
Although White is potentially incorrect that China will supplant US hegemony in Asia, he is right to note that no matter what the US does, its options are limited and there are negative consequences whichever path it decides to take. As history almost always repeats itself, Washington will likely fight to retain its primacy. Beijing…
The Persecution of Julian Assange I: The Most Important Journalist of our Generation
This point, that if Socrates were to mind his own business and keep his philosophical wonderings to himself, then life would be unexamined and thus not worth living, is applicable to the cases of Assange, Snowden, Hale, Daniel Ellsberg, and the countless others who have risked their safety and security to expose state crimes, as…
Reign of the Illiberal Liberals III: The Free Speech Apocalypse
History repeats itself, and whether Musk’s Twitter implodes or not, the real conflict, the Western illiberal liberal classes fighting to retain control of information from us unwashed plebs will continue. Still, too many are distracted by other superficial fights, and in the words of Granger, “It can’t last”. “So this is how liberty dies, with…
Reign of the Illiberal Liberals II: The Eternal Question- How Can Anyone Vote Republican?
On a primary match between Trump and DeSantis for the 2024 presidential nomination, Biden said at a recent press conference “It’ll be fun watching them take on each other.”, and he’s right, but you know what will be even more fun? Watching a raving and darkly comedic Trump take on a fumbling and barely alive…
Reign of the Illiberal Liberals I: Eliminating Democracy, The Only Way to Save It
The Washington Post is not wrong that ‘democracy dies in darkness’, however, the darkness is not, as they believe, the Trump presidency, the darkness is the shadow of America Incorporated and similar corporate coups in the rest of the West. Instead of pitching for a team this election, I will be watching the ensuing freakshow…
The Uncertain Destiny of Demography: The Insidious Racism Behind the Democratic Party’s Assumed Hold on Hispanic American Voters
“It is way past time to build a massive wall to secure our southern border – and nobody can build a bigger and better wall than Donald Trump.”[i]- Donald Trump “We’re going to teach them a strong lesson in November, that (Democrats) do not own our vote.”[ii]- Mayra Flores The recent victory of Mayra Flores…
Announcement
Dear readers, I apologize for the delay in publishing my post this week, but as I’ve started a new semester recently I am much busier than I expected to be. I will be releasing my next post later this week or early next week. I will be writing a couple of posts on the recent…
Brace Yourselves for the Trump Show’s Second Season: The DNC- Trump’s Shadow Base II
“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”[i]- Donald Trump “Now I think it’s kind of fun. People get a real-time, behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.”[ii]- Hillary Clinton The…
Brace Yourselves for the Trump Show’s Second Season: The DNC- Trump’s Shadow Base
“And my response is, being asked this question is being asked: Do I prefer cholera, or do I prefer gonorrhea?”[i]- Julian Assange “I conclude, then, returning to being feared and loved, that since men love at their convenience and fear at the convenience of the prince, a wise prince should found himself on what is…
Delusional Predecessor: Trump is Part of Obama’s Legacy
“I won’t stop. In fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my remaining days. But for now, whether you are young or whether you’re young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President — the same thing I asked when you took a chance…
Anti-Trump Literature Review IV:
Carlos Lozada True Enough Part Two “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”[i]- Aldous Huxley “And that is what one does, and has always done, within every prevailing morality and religion: the reasons and intents behind habits are invented only when some people start attacking the habits and asking for reasons and…
Anti-Trump Literature Review III:
Carlos Lozada True Enough? Part One “Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.”[i]- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor “Truth is a matter of the imagination.”[ii]- Ursala K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Truth is more elusive than ever before. The reality we all shared until yesterday has been upended…
Brace Yourselves for the Trump Show’s Second Season: Depths of Despair and The Nihilistic Turn I- Lost, Not Forgotten
“I’ve been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.”[i]- Toby Howard, Hell of High Water “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”[ii]- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”[iii]- Aristotle, Politics In his 2017…
Brace Yourselves for the Trump Show’s Second Season II- Ultra-Maga Versus a Desperate Establishment: The War on Trump and Impending Totalitarianism
“If only all of Rome had just one neck.”[i]- Caligula, Caligula “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”[ii]- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night In his platitudinous and forgettable inaugural address, Joe Biden declared that ‘democracy had prevailed’, and that to overcome the many challenges that he faced immediately…
Brace Yourselves for the Trump Show’s Second Season
I-Media Malfeasance and The Refusal to Reflect “The gravest threat to American democracy right now is President Donald Trump,” – Chuck Schumer There is constant chatter among blue checkmarks on Twitter and commentators across the spectrum on whether Trump will make another bid for the White House. Noone except his most ardent supporters want him to,…
Anti-Trump Literature Review III:
Carlos Lozada The Chaos Chronicles “The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call ‘injustice.’”- Plato “I blame Michael Wolff”, writes Lozada introducing his chapter on what he deems the “chaos chronicles” (2021) He blames Wolff for establishing the framework in which all…
Anti-Trump Literature Review II: The Resistance Canon, Carlos Lozada
“Anti-normalization is the first key step to long-term eroding of Trump’s support.”- Jerry Nadler In his chapter on the resistance literature, Lozada focuses on a specific resistance, that is to Trump. The Resistance is led by the politicians, commentators, and writers who from Trump’s inauguration made it their mission to resist Trump and his agenda.…
Anti-Trump Literature Review: Carlos Lozada’s How Did We Get Here? An Intellectual History of the Trump Era
“Many books have been written about me, some good, some bad. Both happily and sadly, there will be more to come!”- Donald Trump My project begins with Carlos Lozada’s How Did We Get Here? An Intellectual History of the Trump Era because it is a literature review, and a useful launching pad for my own project. Lozada…
“Just take them to McDonald’s and go back to the negotiating table.”: The Trump Administration’s Rhetorical and Operational Approaches to Foreign Policy in Asia and Continuity/Discontinuity with The Approaches of Previous Administrations
“For a Tragedy and a Comedy are both composed of the same alphabet.” -Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, Book I, Part II “I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says ‘Oh, Donald Trump didn’t talk about foreign policy’.”- Donald Trump This project is more than a single assignment or thesis. It will be…
Not Without Incident: Questioning Big Brother's Platitudes 