The Trump administration and its appendages continue to carpet-bomb America with lies. Indeed, the lies are coming so thick and fast that there could never be time enough to refute them. So I propose the following as a solution to this problem: the American people and media must agree to regard any and all statements that come from a Trumpian source as ipso facto false.
1 V 2025: God bless and uphold workers
Today is Mayday, Labor Day, Feast of St. Joseph the Workman. Whatever it is called, it celebrates the abiding dignity of labor and laborers. In an era in which honest work is disdained and white collar crime is admired, the honest must renew their determination to protect and honor laboring people.
12 IV 2025: Trumperlaine
The Iran Talks have not gone well, and Mr. Vance and Kushner and the real estate agent whose name I forget have returned. Now Trump is mumbling about blockading the Straits of Hormuz. It had been my impression that he was frantic to see to it that Iran does not blockade the Straits, but as with almost everything in Trump’s crusade, one plan is readily replaced by its opposite.
7 IV 2026: “whole civilization will die tonight”
This is Trump’s threat to Iran if Iran does not do what he wants, whatever that is. Our ignorant and crazed President is talking like Genghiz Khan or Tamurlaine. Or, maybe he’s re-enacting the God of the Old Testament threatening Sodom and Gomorrah, for Trump likes to think he is God.
If Trump levels Iran, Iranian civilization will not die. No, but the United States will die. Trump and other kill-crazies in his administration want to bomb Iran into the stone age, the very thing Gen. Curtis Lemay threatened to do to Japan, and Lemay followed up with the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. has long pretended that we are the “good guys,” and that our boys do not commit war crimes, and that our hands are not dripping with blood. Trump will, if he gets his way, tear off the mask of decency.
4 IV 2026: Yeah, Donald
Trump has warned Iran that they have only: “— 48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them.” The same news reported that Trump has ordered the release of government-held U.F.O. files. I guess he figures that aliens will reign down all Hell in two days.
2 – IV- 2026: Disappearing without a trace
AP has published an article entitled “Universities pressured to strip names of those who appear in the Epstein files from campus buildings.” Most attention is paid there to the case of Les Wexner, a pathologically wealthy pal of Epstein who has donated buckets of money to several universities that have used that cash to erect buildings that are named for him. Now a few have already removed the Wexner name from their buildings, and more are being called upon to do the same.
This shows how easy it will be to remove the name of another close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump, from the many buildings etc. to which he has affixed his name.
16 III 2025: Maga anti-Catholics
I encountered the following headline on MS NOW: “Hegseth mentor’s anti-Catholic remarks expose divide in MAGA world … Far-right pastor Doug Wilson set off a firestorm by saying that Catholic parades ought to be banned in a Christian-controlled nation.” This is not as shocking as it may seem, for the self-styled Christian Nationalists claim the right to determine who is Christian and routinely exclude Catholics from that category.
The article in MS NOW begins: “Faith-based fissures continue to grow among conservatives, as prominent right-wing Catholic and Protestants grapple for control of the MAGA movement’s future.”
The same MS NOW also reports: “Trump’s FCC chair threatens news networks over Iran war coverage.” This Trump’d FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who in a submission for his congressional hearing declared his religion: “I have been a member of this Catholic church [Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle] in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to the present.” So, is Rev. Doug Wilson going to maintain that Mr. Carr is not a Christian, and, therefore, can be only a second-class citizen in the “Christian-controlled nation” ruled by MAGA saints?
10 III 2026: Donald Trumperlane
Trump seems to crawl from delusion to illusion in his make-believe-becomes too true war. For a while he was going to bomb the Iranians into the Stone Age (an expression of Curtis Lemay) and the war would be over in jig time. But now he seems to think that the war is almost-not-finished, depending on who was the last person with whom he spoke.
He has tasted blood. After Iran, Cuba and Greenland will feel his wrath and maybe Mexico, and he’ll block Chinese efforts to destroy Hockey. Small craft anywhere in North or South America had better head for port, for after his victories in Iran he will blow them all out of the water.
Is he mentally ill? Yes he is, but so are the Republicans who enable him.
6 III 2025: Professional wrestling on a world state
I cannot decide whether Trump and Hegseth are acting John Wayne re-runs in their statements about the War or if they’ve taken their style and lines from professional wrestlers. I think it is the latter. I’ve seen ads on youtube promoting professional wrestlers’ slapdowns that involve “interviews” with one or both of the big-name contenders. In these interviews the wrestler complains bitterly about the past behavior and attitude of his opponent and promises that opponent’s utter destruction and embarrassment.
Trump and Hegseth who know nothing of war except what they’ve seen in movies, on television, and at slapdowns are left with only intemperate cliches to predict the pseudo-successes of their real war.
3 III 2026: Snaps of Trump
I encountered a headline on youtube that said that Trump is getting his orders from Netanyahu. Why would Trump have to obey Netanyahu? Well, why does Trump have to keep playing footsies with Putin?Could it be that they both have the same compromising photographs of Trump??? This question is, I realize, quite far-fetched, but one has to wonder why Trump is so subservient to his fellow dictators. He doesn’t love all dictators, I suppose. But he does seem to prefer domineering men.