Trump Derangement Syndrome

Seriously, Trump was born without a soul.

Seriously, Trump was born without a soul.

Of course:
1) That’s today. Yesterday, affordability was a “Democratic hoax,” just like the Epstein file hoax, the climate hoax, the inflation hoax, the E. Jean Caroll hoax, and the national debt hoax.
Tomorrow, the next hoax will be whatever challenges Trump’s authority, and whatever its supporters are stupid enough to believe. Could be the “Pete Hegseth is a war criminal hoax.” Who knows?
2) He knows essentially zero about economics and has less than zero interest in listening to those who have made this subject their life’s work.
His decisions to punish other countries with tariffs has already begun to raise prices in the United States, not to mention destroy the lives of our farmers and factory workers.
Can’t we get him the hell out of here?

The U.S. annual military budget is just under $1 trillion, larger than the next 14 countries on Earth combined. What do you think is the level of threat to your children that some African kids will paddle a boat across the Atlantic, buy a few assault rifles, unnoticed by our armed forces, and kill your son or daughter?
Your kid is thousands of times more likely to die from one of our shootings by a deranged American who bought an assault rifle at Walmart without a background check and opened fire at some school, music concert, shopping mall, or movie theater. Mass killings like this happen so frequently here that they’re like car crashes; many of them don’t even make the news.

They need you to agree with Trump’s anti-scientific claims that climate change is a hoax, and that American energy independence can only be achieved with a “drill baby drill” strategy.
If Exxon is right, and it actually is the future of energy, we will not have an organized human society here by the end of the 21st Century. Are they rich, powerful, and evil enough to pull this off? Let’s all hope not.

Helen Hicks Baker writes, “For several years, it was my honor to serve on a rural health committee with Dr. Doyle. He’s an impressive guy, and absolutely right on health care policy.”
We can keep raising our defense budget, currently just under $1 trillion annually, spent by the Pentagon that has failed seven consecutive audits.
We can provide enormous tax breaks to our nation’s billionaires.
All the while, we’re sentencing the poorest of the poor to short lives and painful deaths.


A senior FBI officer struggled to answer basic questions about antifa, despite characterizing the organization as “the most immediate violent threat” the US faces.
At a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Michael Glasheen, operations director of the national security branch of the FBI, said he agreed with President Donald Trump that antifa is one of the greatest national security threats to the country.
The answer, of course, is that “Antifa” is a concept, not an organization. It refers to anyone who is against fascism. It has no headquarters, no leaders, and no members.
Now, it is true that people with these views can be violent. When my father led a crew of his fellow anti-fascists, flying a B-17 bomber in World War II, they completed 29 successful missions, destroying Nazi oil refineries. Were Nazi soldiers killed in the process? I never asked him that, and he probably didn’t know, as they were flying at 29,000 feet, but it seems extremely unlikely that no one died.
In peacetime, we antifa people are non-violent. We may be marching for BLM, or encouraging the use of science in policymaking, or expressing our view that the United States should not have a king.
The FBI must understand this; they must be saying this purely to placate Trump. No one can be that stupid.
