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A sinking ship
There are 199 days left until the American people obliterate the MAGA Congress on November 3, 2026. Kaboom. There are 259 days until a Democratic majority is sworn in. There are 1,008 days left in the Trump presidency, and every single day until then presents existential danger to the peace of the world. Pennsylvania’s mentally-addled Senator John Fetterman, who is as unfit for high office as Dianne Feinstein was at the end of her service, appeared with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. He tangled himself in delusions wrapped in nonsense about this moment in time he doesn’t see, understand or comprehend: A force for good in the world does not cut off the food and medical aid to the world’s poorest and most desperate people. A moral nation does not threaten the erasure of a 6,000-year-old civilization and the murder of 93 million human beings. A moral nation does not wage illegal wars of aggression. A moral nation does not do this: Graves for the victims of an airstrike on a school in southern Iran, March 2, 2026. Photo credit: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters It breaks my heart and hurts my soul to write these words. Trump’s America is a malevolent nation, and it is led by a moral degenerate. Our soil does not sanctify us as a people. We are not a great nation because of our genetics, but rather our values, ideals and inexorable progress towards a more just society over 250 years time. What makes the United States of America an exceptional nation is that we are the only nation in world history comprised from all the nations of the world, where every known language is spoken somewhere by someone every day. Our great nation has fed, cured, liberated, clothed more people and done more collective good in the world than every other nation combined since the beginning of time. When independence was achieved at Yorktown in 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette exclaimed: Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. He predicted that the new world would save the old, and it came to pass. This history belongs to us, but it is not our destiny — nor an entitlement — to proclaim our greatness by the forces which have desecrated what made us exceptional and have repudiated by word and deeds our ancestors, our values and our national honor. America can survive MAGA and this horrid era, but not if MAGA survives. It is the reformed Confederacy, and it is a disease. Today, Saturday, April 18, 2026, is the 7th and final day of the 16th week of the year, and the most abjectly insane of the 13,000 weeks of our long story piled up over 250 years. This is not hyperbole, nor is it particularly contestable. The American people elected Trump — twice — and the bill is coming due for all of us. What lies ahead for next week is a spectacle of corruption and indecency from America’s corporate media industrial complex, where a mad man will be celebrated by his partners. Next week, the White House Correspondents Association will host a black-tie dinner honoring the First Amendment by saluting its foremost enemy in American history. When the Washington press corps stands in unison and raises its collective champagne flutes to toast Trump one week from today it will be much more than a confession of corruption. It will be a validation of brutality, and a stab in the back of the First Amendment. It will be a statement — specifically a statement of contempt against the American people, whom they have so thoroughly let down and betrayed. David Ellison’s invitation for cocktails and dinner “honoring” the Trump White House. Courtesy: Status It is disgusting. CBS “News” is hosting a Secretary Samuel L. Jackson imitator at its table where no doubt he will be seated next to Bari Weiss. Perhaps he can lead the table in prayer. The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil man. Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen. I wonder who will lead the Kash Patel toast. Will it be Tony Dokoupil? He has a talent for “salutes.” Will it be Bari Weiss? It’s hard to know, but there is a lot of tribute material to work with. He is a truly historic figure for the FBI in that he is the first of the eight Senate-confirmed directors in its history who required special agents to get their hands on breaching equipment because he was so intoxicated and unresponsive that they thought they would have to break down the door. The profile of Kash Patel, written by Sarah Fitzpatrick in The Atlantic, is an astonishment. Consider the opening paragraphs: On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.” Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI. It turned out that the answer was still Patel. He had not been fired. The access problem, two people familiar with the matter said, appears to have been a technical error, and it was quickly resolved. “It was all ultimately bullshit,” one FBI official told me. But Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. Donald Trump, a thoroughly evil man, has assembled a regime of drunks, extremists, broken children, untreated psychiatric patients, religious crackpots, sexual predators, grifters and criminals, and though they think he is a God, he is most certainly not. He’s a scumbag. He’s the scumbag president of a broken and rotting country, where greatness has been replaced by a supreme filth. CNN recently reported the existence of an online rape academy, which has accumulated more than 62 million impressions from 20,000 videos of women being raped all over the world. The majority of the impressions are from the United States. We are a sick country, not a great one. We are a rotten and collapsing republic, not a great one. The American people — by slim majorities — took our national greatness and vandalized it. Lastly, great nations don’t have senators like Lindsey Graham and John Fetterman. Collapsing empires do. We live in a season of supreme filth, a time of testing, a consequential era that will never be forgotten or forgiven. We should stop lying to ourselves. All the “USA!” chants in the world won’t make us great again. Too many Americans have forgotten who we are. Their indifference has caused a catastrophe that is beginning to arrive. Because of Trump America is disdained around the world. We are laughed at and mocked by adversaries and allies. Together, they know something with which the American propaganda machine has blinded too many Americans. The world doesn’t look at America with admiration and respect anymore. It looks at America with disdain and contempt, horror and confusion. It’s well past time for a collective look in the American mirror. John Lewis once said: We may have come here on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now. Indeed. We are all in the same boat, and it is a sinking ship. That’s more than a tragedy. It’s a sin, and even the Book of Samuel L. 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A sinking ship
There are 199 days left until the American people obliterate the MAGA Congress on November 3, 2026. Kaboom. There are 259 days until a Democratic majority is sworn in. There are 1,008 days left in the Trump presidency, and every single day until then presents existential danger to the peace of the world. Pennsylvania’s mentally-addled Senator John Fetterman, who is as unfit for high office as Dianne Feinstein was at the end of her service, appeared with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. He tangled himself in delusions wrapped in nonsense about this moment in time he doesn’t see, understand or comprehend: A force for good in the world does not cut off the food and medical aid to the world’s poorest and most desperate people. A moral nation does not threaten the erasure of a 6,000-year-old civilization and the murder of 93 million human beings. A moral nation does not wage illegal wars of aggression. A moral nation does not do this: Graves for the victims of an airstrike on a school in southern Iran, March 2, 2026. Photo credit: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters It breaks my heart and hurts my soul to write these words. Trump’s America is a malevolent nation, and it is led by a moral degenerate. Our soil does not sanctify us as a people. We are not a great nation because of our genetics, but rather our values, ideals and inexorable progress towards a more just society over 250 years time. What makes the United States of America an exceptional nation is that we are the only nation in world history comprised from all the nations of the world, where every known language is spoken somewhere by someone every day. Our great nation has fed, cured, liberated, clothed more people and done more collective good in the world than every other nation combined since the beginning of time. When independence was achieved at Yorktown in 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette exclaimed: Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. He predicted that the new world would save the old, and it came to pass. This history belongs to us, but it is not our destiny — nor an entitlement — to proclaim our greatness by the forces which have desecrated what made us exceptional and have repudiated by word and deeds our ancestors, our values and our national honor. America can survive MAGA and this horrid era, but not if MAGA survives. It is the reformed Confederacy, and it is a disease. Today, Saturday, April 18, 2026, is the 7th and final day of the 16th week of the year, and the most abjectly insane of the 13,000 weeks of our long story piled up over 250 years. This is not hyperbole, nor is it particularly contestable. The American people elected Trump — twice — and the bill is coming due for all of us. What lies ahead for next week is a spectacle of corruption and indecency from America’s corporate media industrial complex, where a mad man will be celebrated by his partners. Next week, the White House Correspondents Association will host a black-tie dinner honoring the First Amendment by saluting its foremost enemy in American history. When the Washington press corps stands in unison and raises its collective champagne flutes to toast Trump one week from today it will be much more than a confession of corruption. It will be a validation of brutality, and a stab in the back of the First Amendment. It will be a statement — specifically a statement of contempt against the American people, whom they have so thoroughly let down and betrayed. David Ellison’s invitation for cocktails and dinner “honoring” the Trump White House. Courtesy: Status It is disgusting. CBS “News” is hosting a Secretary Samuel L. Jackson imitator at its table where no doubt he will be seated next to Bari Weiss. Perhaps he can lead the table in prayer. The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil man. Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen. I wonder who will lead the Kash Patel toast. Will it be Tony Dokoupil? He has a talent for “salutes.” Will it be Bari Weiss? It’s hard to know, but there is a lot of tribute material to work with. He is a truly historic figure for the FBI in that he is the first of the eight Senate-confirmed directors in its history who required special agents to get their hands on breaching equipment because he was so intoxicated and unresponsive that they thought they would have to break down the door. The profile of Kash Patel, written by Sarah Fitzpatrick in The Atlantic, is an astonishment. Consider the opening paragraphs: On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.” Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI. It turned out that the answer was still Patel. He had not been fired. The access problem, two people familiar with the matter said, appears to have been a technical error, and it was quickly resolved. “It was all ultimately bullshit,” one FBI official told me. But Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. Donald Trump, a thoroughly evil man, has assembled a regime of drunks, extremists, broken children, untreated psychiatric patients, religious crackpots, sexual predators, grifters and criminals, and though they think he is a God, he is most certainly not. He’s a scumbag. He’s the scumbag president of a broken and rotting country, where greatness has been replaced by a supreme filth. CNN recently reported the existence of an online rape academy, which has accumulated more than 62 million impressions from 20,000 videos of women being raped all over the world. The majority of the impressions are from the United States. We are a sick country, not a great one. We are a rotten and collapsing republic, not a great one. The American people — by slim majorities — took our national greatness and vandalized it. Lastly, great nations don’t have senators like Lindsey Graham and John Fetterman. Collapsing empires do. We live in a season of supreme filth, a time of testing, a consequential era that will never be forgotten or forgiven. We should stop lying to ourselves. All the “USA!” chants in the world won’t make us great again. Too many Americans have forgotten who we are. Their indifference has caused a catastrophe that is beginning to arrive. Because of Trump America is disdained around the world. We are laughed at and mocked by adversaries and allies. Together, they know something with which the American propaganda machine has blinded too many Americans. The world doesn’t look at America with admiration and respect anymore. It looks at America with disdain and contempt, horror and confusion. It’s well past time for a collective look in the American mirror. John Lewis once said: We may have come here on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now. Indeed. We are all in the same boat, and it is a sinking ship. That’s more than a tragedy. It’s a sin, and even the Book of Samuel L. Jackson can’t offer absolution for that. Subscribe now Share Leave a comment