These days, everything seems so fake that it’s impossible to discern what may or may not be real in order to determine whether you should care.
Nearly every day brings another example of Trump or one of his lieutenants making a brazenly outlandish and illogical argument to justify doing what they want to do despite the law and Constitution.
The president nearly met his Maker again. With the possibility of death comes consideration of what might await one in the hereafter. With little doubt that Christian tradition would have Donald Trump downward-bound, the question remains: what exactly will his eternity look like?
Why is the stock market hitting record highs? Why are oil futures not even higher? Even if the Strait of Hormuz were reopened immediately—which it will not be—it will take six months or more to restore oil supplies to an Asia that is already running short. The IMF says the odds of a recession are way up. Why aren’t traders paying attention to the slow-motion disaster heading our way due to the Iran War?
Trump is spending at least $2 billion a day to attack Iran, which doesn’t include the economic cost of the disruption to oil supplies. Now he’s offering $500 million to the oil-rich UAE for no discernible reason. Everyone is getting in on the grift of taxpayer money except the American taxpayers who are suffering in a crappy job market and rising prices.
When an American pilot was shot down behind enemy lines during the US War against Iran, the military and conservative politicians crowed that we have a culture of “no man left behind” in such situations. If and when the same man suffers from PTSD and winds up homeless on the streets of America’s cities, as have so many veterans, however, there will be little to no help on offer.
What does it say about the American political system and the American people that we can’t do anything about the fact that the president of the United States is obviously insane?
Once again, the US government is issuing a highly dubious sales pitch to American voters about why they should risk life and treasure overseas.
Conservatives are decrying New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to impose a pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes, calling it the beginning of a slippery slope that could eventually affect us all.
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