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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
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My three Trumps: Envisioning strategies leading to an exit strategy.
Start here: I am not a Trump fan-boy. Never was, and, while I haven’t written much here lately, you can follow my trajectory of Trump affination in these pages over the last five years. At first I feared what everyone … Continue reading
Why does the Deep State hate Donald #Trump? He’s taking their war profits – and your Gold Stars – away.
Why are these men smiling? Because they – and you – are no longer slaves to the Deep State’s perpetual war machine.I’ve been writing here and there about President Trump’s foreign policy since last fall, but if you don’t get it … Continue reading
The DISC of #Trump’s policies: Behind the media-flummoxing bluff is warm and fuzzy Ds goodness.
Nothing fertilizes human thriving like exploding eggheads…Illustration by: Noé MartínezFrom James Pruitt, by email: Was thinking this morning whether you could apply your take on DISC to countries and how they interact with the world? See the US as behaving … Continue reading
‘How The Meshugonoph Grabbed Festivus’ suitable for framing – just like #Trump.
Click on the image or this link to download a PDF file you can print out and tack to the company bulletin board when no one is looking. And pass this along. If you have an employer, I’m no longer … Continue reading
What’s wrong with @realDonaldTrump’s domestic agenda? It’s the #Marxism, stupid!
Donald Trump and the Seven Genocidal Evils of Marxism in 3.5 minutes flat:
Donald #Trump is Prince Hal, not Henry V. Here’s how you can spot the tells.
Cleaning up this mess? Now that would be women’s work.Once more unto the breach: This weekend’s events demonstrate that newly-anointed President Donald Trump is an Incandescent temperament, not a Driven personality. (Say whuuut? If you’re new, here’s the Cliff’s Notes … Continue reading
In my high school comedy of manners, #Trump would be the goofy kid-brother stalking horse for #Cruz.
Who wants to buy ‘Frankenstein’ retold as a high school farce?Photo by: Peter StevensFrom December 10, 2015: Call this a movie treatment. I’ll flesh it out and make it farcical fiction when somebody’s check clears the bank. For now, the … Continue reading
Contra @realDonaldTrump, @Nero, @StefanMolyneux – and Eric Cartman: Tu quoque is never okay.
An Incandescent in power will always become a Cautious tyrant. And #BrotherYouAskedForIt!The Army of Cartmans marches on – to its terminal peril – with new generals, and now with an even more tragic end goal. This week’s Church of Splendor … Continue reading
#BrotherYouAskedForIt: #Trump thrall @Nero parades on a litter borne by his pretend slaves.
@Nero’s litter bearers deserve what they will get. No one pretends to be a slave for long.Opposing evil with evil assures the triumph of evil. Until I saw that photo, I hadn’t known I could be even more disgusted by … Continue reading
You know #Trump is a monster. What do you plan to tell your children when he comes for you – or for them?
No one does smug like a lifelong thug.Will you feed your kids to this monster?The Republicans are screwed: They have reduced their options to Benito Mussolini versus Frank Underwood. The worst of it is, the election will be won by … Continue reading
#NeverTrump and #NeverHillary: The most self-loving way I can think of to vote for slavery-by-proxy.
There are a lot of different ways to think about voting, most of which are just quasi-religious white noise to me. But the issue of voting — do it or don’t, and, if so, how and why? — has gnawed … Continue reading
The DISC of #Trump – why he is a thug and why he will grow evermore thuggish.
This is what a child’s face looks like when he realizes his father will not yield to his affected display of infinite pain. Within his home, Fred Trump was the Irreproachable. What did that make troublesome young Donald?I know how … Continue reading
What’s wrong with #Trump? That’s easy. Trump is the kind of thug who exterminates people like me.
Trump talks and acts like a thug because he is a thug.The question was: “If Trump is such a thug, then what about Rubio and Cruz?” My response: I suspect Rubio is a repressed or closeted homosexual – like Obama. … Continue reading
Donald #Trump’s fatal conceit? You can’t fake leadership.
You were expecting Henry V? More fool you.What cost Donald Trump Iowa? The man is a phony – and everyone knows it. I’ve written too much about this loser already, and I expect there will be more to be heard … Continue reading
Want to dump #Trump? You give me three minutes, I’ll give you Donald Trump’s Achilles heel.
A short clip from yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily, how to make Donald J. Trump blow up in public like the fat, needy pussy he is: The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a … Continue reading