This past week's commentaries
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Good morning!
Yesterday, Mabel, my wife and I went to Death Valley National Park to see the “superbloom,” which hasn’t appeared since 2016. It was worth it! I’m sharing some photos — though they don’t do it justice.
If you need to catch up on what happened this past week in US politics, here are just a few of my commentaries…
The written word…
The spoken word…
I also introduced a new video feature — Week In Review — that captures what I view as the top three stories of the week. Here is the one from this past Friday. I thought this would be helpful to make sense of the 24/7 onslaught of news. Let me know what you think of this approach.
Trump’s a malignant narcissist and convicted sexual abuser operating textbook authoritarian confusion—Stalin and Mussolini playbook. He’s a disease that cancer wouldn’t even get its hands dirty with. Flood the zone with contradictory narratives so no single story can be challenged, no accountability can stick.
The constant lying isn’t incompetence, it’s operational doctrine. When the stated reason for war changes daily (unconditional surrender → regime change → nuclear sites → actually we won → need to keep fighting), you can’t pin down which claim failed. Creates chaos that prevents coherent opposition while demonstrating unconstrained power: “I can say anything, change it tomorrow, and you can’t stop me.”
The inconsistency IS the point. Authority that doesn’t need to justify itself, just perform dominance.
Definitely like the three top stories of the week. Definitely love The Warning and Save America Movement. Definitely am in the fight. Thank you for being the wind in our sails.