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k if the party said that 2 2 5 then that is what citizens were to believe if they had difficulty accepting this they just needed to exercise the double think abilities more if they denied that the sum was five the would be taken to the ministry of love for some corrective education these days trumpy is attempting to create his own dystopian american society and disregarding the rules of arithmetic is one part of it what is real is what he says is real truth is what he says it is period a simple example that keeps coming up is his constant self praise regarding the reduction in drug prices he has achieved with his trumprx accounts except that the prices charged for drugs on those accounts are actually several times what you would pay if you went to costco no matter a minor detail trumpy claims he has lowered prices by 600 800 1000 nobody has ever seen anything like it quite true the technique used to calculate discounts with percentages or to assess percentage discounts using a discounted price is taught in fifth and sixth grade generally as we all know if an item is originally priced at 100 and it is reduced to 10 that is a 90 reduction if it is reduced to 5 the reduction is 95 if the item is priced at 0 just given away the discount is 100 ya ll can t go any lower than that some might say that if you pay people to take your stuff you can say the reduction is more than 100 but that s not what trumpy is claiming it s not surprising that trumpy who routinely describes himself as a very brilliant person cannot do basic arithmetic he is profoundly ill educated ignorant incurious and lacks all mental discipline whatever stellar transcripts he has from wharton etc are either faked actually non existent or the result of him having paid others to do his assignments the man is an ignoramus surrounding him he has a circle of sycophants who understand that the price of admission to the ring of power is to adopt double think and the party line 2 2 5 in a similar vein the nominee to be the next head of the federal reserve bank refused to answer a simple question did joe biden win the 2020 presidential election oh that s a political question the man knows biden won but he knows he must pretend that he doesn t or his nomination will be swiftly revoked by trumpy i don t know if rfk jr is capable of doing simple math but mehemet oz certainly is he got through medical school after all 1 comment uncategorized tagged 1984 donald trump doublethink drug prices gop news orwell percentages politics trump writing permalink posted by lichanos there s no business but show business april 18 2026 a few days ago secretary of defense war pete hegseth led a prayer service to support trump s iran war at the pentagon that alone is disturbing how about offering up some sensible policy analysis instead the specific text that hegseth quoted turns out to be a bit of faux scripture presented as old testament fire and fury against the enemies of righteousness in fact the text is a barely modified excerpt from the movie pulp fiction in which samuel l jackson a hit man spouts an over the top harangue to a man he is about to murder now this is an example of the profound asininity and stupidity of hegseth echoed by j d vance s lecturing the pope on catholic theology but not all that surprising would we expect a man who claims to be a devout christian but who seems only to love the torah aka old testament because it is filled with episodes of violence and warfare who is tattooed with medieval crusader slogans and who distributes videos of destruction wrought by our air force to his boss who then exults over them as if they were victories in a video game shoot up to be careful of the sources he quotes no i don t think so one thing that is striking to me about this is how it reveals the total capture of our culture by entertainment values something discussed and predicted in the 1985 book by neil postman shown at the top of this post he focused mostly on the effect of tv on news reporting but his arguments apply with super amplification to the internet as well even religion among the most durable and ancient of traditions in our culture and a system of values which is supposedly in conflict with or at least stands as an alternative to the rampant materialism and cultural drift of our times is itself captured by the surge to power of entertainment values religious values and the textural culture of the bible are swept away by the tsunami force of mass pop culture a snippet of dialog by tarantino achieves the status of sacred text because well it sounds cool leave a comment uncategorized tagged bible christianity faith jesus maga pete hegseth politics trump permalink posted by lichanos worst president redux february 11 2026 worst president ever you do the updates leave a comment uncategorized permalink posted by lichanos and who watches the watchmen january 20 2026 https substack com aaronrupar note c 202540621 utm_source notes share action r 522r44 video of the chief of police of brooklyn park mn complaining about the illegal and unconstitutional behavior of ice agents in his community you won t hear him calling for the abolition of ice because he thinks immigration enforcement is essential and must be done correctly but he is a rather miffed that his own police officers are being harassed and asked for papers when they are off duty all are people of color surprise this behavior was given the stamp of approval or was it by the kavanaugh stops ruling in a recent supreme court case challenging racial profiling one comment pointed out that the chief s union endorsed trumpy leave a comment uncategorized tagged civil rights ice permalink posted by lichanos why am i surprised january 16 2026 https www nytimes com 2026 01 16 us politics trump fraudster pardon html nytimes leave a comment uncategorized permalink posted by lichanos he won by a landslide not january 15 2026 a day ago in one of his standard addresses from his alternative bizarro universe delivered at a ford plant in detroit a plant worker shouted that trump is a pedophile protector the image above shoes trumpy s response it is not widely available because american news outlets still try to pretend that trump is a normal politician and they feel that showing how grotesque he is would be biased or they are just afraid of him or they like him the worker was supsended but presumably will keep his job as there is a strong union there trumpy always says he won by a huge landslide but he got less than 50 of the vote which is to say he narrowly won he frequently says that his poll numbers are incredibly good and they are quite good among registered republicans or they were some portion of regular gop supporters are trumpy cultists but not 100 of them and he seems to be losing support you wouldn t really know it however if you read the nytimes interview with eleven trump supporters on what they do and do not like about him to those in the maga fold things are going pretty well trumpy is going after illegals nabbing maduro was just great tariffs are working well inflation is way down and prices are too uh all this talk about greenland well that s not too good and perhaps he is a tad too strong in his tactics with the undocumented but they are mostly rapists and murderers anyway so his base is not melting away anytime soon and probably never will it s upsetting to think that perhaps 30 of the american electorate is well disposed towards fascist thuggery and imperialism but that s probably always been the case there was a vibrant movement for fascism in the usa during the depression as well those people have always been here and probably always will be but what about these data plots this graph is only one of many that tell a similar story to wit trumpy and his policies are becoming increasingly unpopular very quickly he s a con man and a good one and he squeaked by in the election because as lincoln famously said you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you can t fool all of the people all the time the supporters interviewed by the nytimes obviously live in a trumpy bubble that most of the country does not inhabit it s not getting better for him either as for his brownshirts in ice americans have shifted to favoring the abolishment of the agency this is a massive shift since june in which the same poll found that americans opposed abolishing ice by a 45 27 margin that s a shift of 21 in favor of abolishing ice in just six months not looking good for trumpy still he is in power and he can and will continue to do tremendous damage how bad it gets is just a guess there are so many unknowns clearly if the midterms are held the gop is going to do badly and can he prevent the elections yesterday he told reuters that he didn t really see why the elections were necessary since he won the election so handily and since he is so popular and great his robot spokeswoman leavitt said he was being facetious but the hard fact is that american elections happen in fifty states and that the most contentious areas i e those where he has done well but may loose in november are suburban areas not the cities is he going to flood suburban american with armored ice agents there aren t enough of them and maybe some of them will have qualms about interfering in elections as opposed to beating up people with brown skin it s a scary thought but not likely to be effective and though the effect of intimidation is a concern my sense is that people are getting angrier and angrier i don t think american voters would back down i ll say that for them leave a comment uncategorized tagged democracy donald trump news politics trump permalink posted by lichanos are we there yet january 11 2026 secy of homeland security kristi noem and her fascist goons tim snyder author of on tyranny has speculated about whether trumpy and his goons are prepared to do the full on fascist thing that is start shooting american citizens last i read he was thinking that they don t have the guts for it i would say that possibility is markedly closer today than before the murder of renee good the administration has smeared her and her fellow protestors as domestic terrorists and claimed that the agent who shot her three times and then called her a fucking bitch was in fear for his life though the videos seen by millions make it obvious that he faced no threat good was trying to leave and he fired because he is an out of control thug with a gun what is the follow on from this going to be clearly trumpy and his brain trust stephen miller aka nosferatu are not going to back down noem in her appearances on news shows was robotic in her repetition of the party line under surprisingly harsh questions to the point that she appeared incoherent jake tapper showed her video of the trump supporters brutalizing capitol police officers on january 6 2021 and pointed out that they all got pardons not the label of domestic terrorist noem s response was that we have to examine the context yes trumpy s men get pardons his opponents get shot sued indicted and demonized i think that there will be more shootings of citizens by ice agents and that they will become more brazen and brutal the homeland security crews have become a shadow private guard for the trumpy administration not quite fascist storm troopers but edging ever closer if the death count keeps mounting the popular disgust and protest will grow tremendously how will trumpy respond he knows only one way more violence vitriol illegality and perhaps a new military distraction the likelihood that trumpy will seize on domestic opposition to his ice buddies brutalities to invoke the insurrection act is growing greater he would love to have an excuse to postpone or cancel the mid term elections in which his gop personality cult will clearly lose badly or perhaps he will pull a maduro trick allow the elections to go forward and when it is clear that he lost invalidate them with a national emergency of some kind he routinely claims to have won states in previous elections that he lost consistently minnesota most notably and the reason is of course that he was cheated he stated that he regrets not seizing all voting machines after the 2020 election which he had no right to do as president and one can easily imagine what the outcome would have been if he had gone through with it so my view of what s to come hasn t changed we re headed for a big confrontation for a while i thought that possibility had receded he was losing too many cases was too obviously incompetent his polling is in the toilet etc but now i fear that he is willing to go full bore on the fascist thing i used to dismiss the possibility of civil war and i still don t see a full blown conflict of that type on the horizon but the prospect of very widespread violence primarily initiated by the regime now seems very possible the unraveling of the federal union is possible as well when the president arbitrarily decides which states will get funds and which will have them withheld pending investigation democratic leaning states are more populous that those that vote for the gop and they send out more tax dollars than they receive the money goes to those poorer less populated gop states how long will they tolerate this situation if the regime targets them as enemies for not voting correctly the civil war may not be repeated with arms but the political situation is the same a reactionary minority is holding hostage the more populous and prosperous part of the nation because we have the electoral college and an absurd senate that grants the same powers to south dakota s population as that of california 3 comments uncategorized tagged donald trump history news politics trump permalink posted by lichanos hooray for sandwich guy november 7 2025 jeanine pirro taunted him he thought he was funny now he s going to be indicted for a felony the grand jury refused to indict him on felony charges pirro charged him with misdemeanor assault a jury of his peers found him not guilty leave a comment uncategorized tagged doj jeanine pirro sandwich guy washington d c permalink posted by lichanos he didn t know he was dead november 7 2025 crossfire 1947 includes the common noir themes of blackouts and post war vets at sea in peacetime society along with a heavy dollop of vicious anti semitism montgomery robert ryan a twisted hate filled creep beats a civilian jew to death he also murders a fellow demobilized soldier who gets the jitters about covering it all up ryan was a solid ultra liberal but he made a career of playing racists bigots and thoroughly amoral monsters proving wrong the old saw it takes one to know one keeley robert mitchum is a jaded soldier trying to keep his rather callow artist buddy from being framed and robert young is the cool offhand detective finley a lot of roberts it s a good police procedural with excellent performances all around es...