When the only tool you have is a saw …
you are cut off from reality – since childhood
“Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded.” – The Economist
All you need to know is in this recent article (4 min) in The Economist (founded in 1843 to support the cause of free trade, The Economist produces independent, highly respected journalism with a long-established worldview and reverence for facts).
Thelma, Louise and Trump – Dumb, Dumb and Dumber
The quotes from the article (see below) confirm that the world would be a better place if only Thelma and Louise, way back in the 1990s, had enticed Trump, the economically illiterate, growth-stunted, delusional psychotic, to hitch a ride with them for a swim in the Colorado River – just off Dead Horse Point, Utah (he could’ve taken his friend Jeffery Epstein along).
From The Economist:
His “Liberation Day” heralds America’s total abandonment of the world trading order and embrace of protectionism.
Almost everything Mr Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded.
On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense.
Mr Trump’s grasp of the technicalities was pathetic.
This catalogue of foolishness will bring needless harm to America. Consumers will pay more and have less choice.
The rest of the world will share in the disaster—and must decide what to do.
Any GOP candidates?
Surely, there are enough crazy, sycophantic, stupid, GOP lemmings that we could get a couple of ’em to join two wacky women (Marjorie Green/Lauren Boebert clones) for a joy ride in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible. Just tell them its a drive into the desert to prove the conspiracy theory that tariffs can kill rattlesnakes and provide enough food to offset the high cost of lizard eggs … oh, and Thunderbirds can fly. Mike Johnson will be the first to jump aboard.
There is no avoiding the havoc Mr Trump has wrought, but that does not mean his foolishness is destined to triumph.
This is not a movie and doesn’t have to end like Thelma and Louise. Stand up America!
This is us …
Are Will Smith, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Derek Chauvin, Ginni Thomas, Irma Grese, Marjorie Taylor Greene, angry truckers and KKK members just high profile primates in the lab of the failing human experiment?
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The contrasts are black and white and stark …
in everything from hope and anger to failure, character, leadership and friendship
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Two men. Two Presidents. Two stories. Two books. Two Americas. Two visions (well, at least one). One rooted Read more…
“People are the worst”
Coming 2027
My personal history is the stuff they write books about. And that's what I am doing. The working title, "Chains of My Father: Marry White."
"The ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds." - Barack Obama
This perspicacious line from the Prologue of Barack Obama's "Dream from My Father" wrenched my aspiration into action. I started writing, furiously. Unlike Obama's perspective, my pain had been for the opposite reason: I was not seen by whites as a "tragic mulatto," rather I lived every day of my childhood hoping whites were not "searching my eyes for some telltale sign" that I WAS mulatto. This is my story.
It's historical fiction because I cannot find enough records to substantiate all facets of the story. I've combed the genealogy, traveled to my father and grandparents' birthplace, walked the graveyards, searched the churches and ... well, all the facts aren't there. I've written three books based on the genealogy of other families but my ancestors emerged from a journey of too much slavery and too few records.
In Grenada, West Indies, my paternal, 3x great grandmother was a "freed slave" and my grandmother, Amelia, was born to a mixed race slave named Mary (we do not know her last name) and a white, French plantation owner, Fredric de Poullain. Amelia was raised in the "Big House" and in adulthood attempted to escape her black heritage by disowning her mother, telling her, "Get out and never come back." Amelia, the mother of twelve children, enshrined the family in her ancestors' commandment, "Marry white." Many did, including my father marrying mother a lovely, white, Anglo-Saxon protestant born in England. They met in Canada where my dad studied and became a doctor.
It has taken seven generations to be free of the stigma of black heritage but today my children embrace it. Unfortunately, the past 250 years have been a wasteland of bigotry and racism, but, on closer look, we see not only the brutality, fear and violence but the self-respect, dignity, love, perseverance and indomitable spirit.
The depth of historic perspective and the human inspiration has created a trilogy and as of this writing I have only arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. 1900 is the year my father was born and the beginning of Book III, and he's pushing me to make sure our story is published by the summer of 2027.
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