Tea and Vitriol

The liberal news media in the United States had a field day this weekend. Apparently, there was no other news that they chose to devote much copy to. The fringe element in US society chose to protest the Trump Administration. There were protests across America, planned in advance and not exactly spontaneous. The slogan the protesters used, among others, was "Hands off our rights." My hometown, the dying city of Rochester, New York, had its protests, too. The local news media reported that thousands of people had congregated in Cobbs Hill Park for the protest. Looking at the photos and videos of the event, that number was more likely in the hundreds. The upper hundreds, to be sure, but not as massive as they liked to claim. They also claimed that there were thousands of people protesting in the Town and Village of Livonia, a suburb of Rochester. The total population of that town and village is slightly over 7,000 souls. Hmmm... Was anyone staying at home in Livonia? And, of co...

For a few brief shiny moments, it looked as if the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, would be the solution for ending the war in Ukraine. Erdogan offered to provide the setting for negotiating the end of the war. He also stated that he had the manpower and the war materiel to act as a peacekeeper in Ukraine to act as a guarantor. In fact, Turkey's military is larger than that of anything the European Union can quickly muster (second only to NATO's dubious forces) and has been manufacturing and exporting weapons in huge quantities for years, some of which he sold to Ukraine. He has also been actively involved in Syria's civil war, which has provided his military with experience in war settings. At the same time, Erdogan has maintained relatively civil relations with Putin, refusing to enforce the European Union's sanctions against Russia while purchasing gas and oil from them. Meanwhile, Erdogan has stated that Ukraine's territorial integrity must be restore...

Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, was a central theme in Norse mythology. It was preordained and all of the actions of the Norse gods centered around preparing for the final battle between good and evil. The universe would be destroyed, including Midgard, the home of we mere mortals. From the ashes would then arise a superior race of beings, greater than the gods and above the concepts of good and evil. Let's fast forward to the present time. The Trump regime in the United States has been promoting an agenda of isolationism while at the same time reserving for itself the right to interfere in global affairs where it suits them. Most Americans support most of these actions. And most Americans know that, despite his rabid patriotism (which we need after four years of Bidenism), The Donald is an abrasive, megalomaniacal loudmouth who demands his own way. Woe betide anyone who refuses to capitulate before his bullying, because he IS the most powerful man in the world, and he knows...