Thursday, February 26, 2026

Why he still smirks and sneers

Given President Trump’s strikingly low current approval rating - 38% - people may wonder why in his recent State of the Union address he continued his signature smirking and sneering, seemingly oblivious to most of the electorate’s dislike of his overt nastiness. The explanation, in my view, is that the president is aware that violence, of a sort highly threatening to the American population, will soon distract attention from his policies of social dislocation and environmental ruin, disarming all opposition as people struggle to deal with anything beyond personal survival.

The goal of Trump and his cohorts of this undermining of our existence is to replace the current human world with a new one. My expectation that the redrawn world will be an AI-bioengineered one, dominated by an immensely wealthy class, is yet to be proven, but proof is near that Trump and his international clique have advance knowledge that worldwide chaos will arise just in time to make us forget any smirking and sneering.

What to do about our situation? For a while I’ve advocated some new form of political movement that will voice alternative views on the direction of our evolution. Will this happen, or will we just silently go down the tubes? Time will tell.

Sunday, February 08, 2026

Only in the New Yorker

I'm going to write a book of quotes called, "Only in the New Yorker." Here's the first entry:

"Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t a writer, obviously: his voluminous e-mails and other files...are littered with misspellings and grammatical errors."

"Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites," by John Cassidy, New Yorker Magazine, 2/9/26

Why he still smirks and sneers

Given President Trump’s strikingly low current approval rating - 38% - people may wonder why in his recent State of the Union address he c...