“Peace for our time”
Neville Chamberlain (1939)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and other autocratic rulers have learned how to easily manipulate Donald Trump by playing to his narcissistic ego, craving for adoration, promises for future development deals, and desire to become the fifth president awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Never distracted by facts, …
Posted on February 24, 2025 by Dick .
Posted on February 11, 2025 by Dick .
“‘I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president”
Donald Trump
President Trump’s photo-op trip to the Super Bowl is estimated to have cost American taxpayers between $15 and $20 million, but raised no concerns from his DOGE Czar Elon Musk.
The long-term interests …
Posted on October 24, 2024 by Dick .
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana
Retired General John Kelly and other senior Trump’s Administration officials confirm Donald Trump’s admiration of world leaders is limited to ruthless authoritarians including Putin, Xi, Orbán and Erdoğan, MBS, Kim Jong Un and even Hitler, whom he claims “did …
Posted on October 22, 2024 by Dick .
“A second Trump presidency is the most existential national security threat to our democracy in our lifetime. The global world order that the Greatest Generation fought and died for, then handed to us to sustain, will be severely damaged. Their sacrifices will be squandered if we aren’t there to defend …
Posted on March 7, 2024 by Dick .
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy – Inauguration Speech
Eighty-eight years ago today, Hitler ordered German …
Posted on December 17, 2023 by Dick .
“Compromise is an agreement between two people where each person gives up a coveted desire to bring a close to the disagreement”
Anon
George Santayana famously noted, “Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.”
Tragically, very few Americans remember or are even familiar with the consequences of America’s isolationist policies …
Posted on October 4, 2023 by Dick .
“I love the poorly educated”
Donald Trump (February 23, 2016)
It is not surprising the leading Republican presidential candidate limits his campaign stops to adoring crowds who, without any evidence, believe his lies about a stolen election, Democrats being socialists, the Justice Department has been weaponized, and his victimhood.
Discarding his vengeance-filled litany …