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The Losiest Loser: Part 574

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  As I am sure everyone has heard, Donald Trump, the losiest loser of all time, has lost yet again: A Supreme Court decision on Friday striking down President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs dealt a major blow to his economic agenda and brought new uncertainty to global markets struggling to adapt to his whipsawing trade policies. The court, in a 6-to-3 decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that Mr. Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner last year.  Trump, a man who is cognitively unable to stop digging when he digs himself into a deep hole, couldn't wait to rush to the cameras and give one of his now-famously incoherent addresses where, amongst other things, he assured the nation he could read: "I read the paragraphs...I read very well.  Great comprehension. I read everything there is to read." Of course, this is a lie. As now disgraced journalist and Epstein associate Michael Wolff recounted :...
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The Resistance is Winning

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  The last few posts of mine have been pretty bleak, I admit.  It is hard not to descend into despondency when you learn that your nation is no longer one of the good guys; that 49.8% of the population knowingly voted for the worst people possible because they thought it would line their pockets (what I have come to refer to as the Bondi Defense ).   But I have also come to realize something else: that an old Catholic admonition is correct when it warns that to despair is to sin because there is  always hope,  and hope does not disappoint.  The Trump regime, along with its allies of the moment, has proven to be a glass cannon.  Sure, they can lash out with the awesome power of the state, but such firepower is short-lived.  When met with sustained resistance, the cannon begins to crack and, ultimately, shatter. 😊😊😊😊😊 There have been many such cracks as of late, but perhaps the most noticeable has been the administration's abject defeat in...
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We are Pam Bondi: How America Traded its Moral Compass for the Dow

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In a congressional hearing yesterday, the putative Attorney General of the United States, Pam "Swampy" Blondi...er, Bondi, made a, well, jackass out of herself by carrying on in a most undignified fashion. You know, the standard MO for just about every figure in this administration.  During a dramatic moment when Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler D-N.Y. criticized the DoJ for failing to bring any indictments against Epstein co-conspirators, Pam Bondi went on a bizarre rant about the DOW Jones Industrial Average: “The Dow is over 50,000 right now,” Bondi said in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee after Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., slammed her and the Department of Justice for the lack of indictments of possible co-conspirators of the convicted sex predator Epstein. The S&P 500 is also up and the Nasdaq is “smashing records,” while Americans’ retirement accounts are “booming,” Bondi said after celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s gains. “That’s what...
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Ruinous Powers: Trump, the Epstein Tranche, and Laugier’s Martyrs

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Mary Boykin Chesnut's Diary from Dixie  ends on a haunting note.  She recounts how one of her friends, with whom she often corresponded, complained that she was receiving fewer and fewer missives from her. Mary's rationale was grim: "I do not write often now, not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear, why dwell upon those things?" When I read those words, a fitting conclusion to a chronicle that began with wild patriotism but ended in ashes and blood, I sympathized with her. Inspired by her diary, I started this, well, certainly not a diary from Dixie, but rather a Blog of Breakdown, and, like her, I find it increasingly difficult to chronicle the day-by-day descent of my country into ruination.   👹👹👹👹👹 Case in point, the murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of CBP goons.  As with the murder of Renee Good, Alex, a Veterans Administration nurse, was executed in broad daylight, this time by being shot in the back roughly ten ti...
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We Are All Lionel Mandrake Now

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If you are familiar with Stanley Kubrick's Cold War black comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove , you might recall the character of Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, expertly played by comedy legend Peter Sellers. Mandrake had the unfortunate responsibility of being the executive officer to Sterling Hayden's quite insane Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (😁), the delusional commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, a home for nuclear-armed B-52 bombers.  Convinced that the communists were engaged in a conspiracy to corrupt Americans' "precious bodily fluids" via such perfidious means as putting fluoride in the drinking water ( does that ring a bell ?), he locks down his airbase and sends his contingent of B-52s to bomb the Soviet Union.   I used to take delight in watching Sellers (who, ironically, was as mentally ill as Ripper in real life) portray the befuddled Mandrake. Now, though, I don't because I see myself in his performance. It was easy to laugh when the stake...
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2026: In the Shadow of Mary Chesnut

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  This is an entry I've been avoiding for some time because it will be an emotionally charged exercise for me. After all, it is not an easy thing to anticipate the end of your country. Ever since the re-election of Donald Trump - after the self-profession of sexual predation to Billy Bush (who laughed like a hyena), after the botched COVID response that killed tens of thousands, after the felony convictions, and after the insurrection that put 130 capitol police in the hospital and almost ended the Republic - I knew America was headed for the precipice because, as the ancients tell us, no society has survived long when its people have lost their political virtue.  The question was only one of time. How long would it take?  💀💀💀💀💀 Now that 2025 has concluded, I can look back and say, yeah, that went as poorly as I expected. Actually, no. It was worse  than I expected. I anticipated a repeat of Trump's shambolic first year of his first term: chaotic staff assignmen...
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Ed Lindsay's Radio and the Great Regression

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  One of my favorite science fiction shows is The Twilight Zone . Despite being some sixty-five years of age, it remains one of the most fascinating exercises in televised speculative storytelling. With its iconic scripts - many penned by the giants of the pulp science fiction scene - and brought to life by a 'who’s who' of A-list talent, the series remains a landmark of television history, perpetually rediscovered by subsequent generations of viewers. The Twilight Zone also possesses a curious tendency to intrude into the real world, much as it did for its cast of characters. Consider the myriad times you have heard someone proclaim, 'I felt as though I were in an episode of The Twilight Zone !' Today, for me, was one of those days. This morning, I tuned in to Pluto TV to seek sanctuary from the stale, post-holiday news lineup being endlessly regurgitated by the increasingly irrelevant cable networks. It so happened that the episode airing was 'Static.' Writt...
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