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Author Archena Posted on April 3, 2025April 3, 2025Categories Current, ThursdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Leave a comment on Zelenskyy Isn’t President of the US

Zelenskyy Isn’t President of the US

I’d have thought that much was obvious but evidently, not. For those of you who seem perpetually confused, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the duly elected president of Ukraine. I know, it’s hard to keep track sometimes but the US president is Donald Trump. Please make a note of it. Sheesh! Sure, I’m being snarky as all get out but this has gotten to the point of absurdity. Honestly, I’m not sure why the heck so many Libertarians despise Zelenskyy so much. … Continue reading “Zelenskyy Isn’t President of the US”

Author Archena Posted on April 1, 2025April 1, 2025Categories MondayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Leave a comment on Calm Down, Europe

Calm Down, Europe

Seriously? One little kick in the proverbial behind and you’re convinced the United States is suddenly ‘unreliable’? Does your definition of reliability involve promising to do something and not bothering for twelve years? ‘Cause we Americans seem to recall you European NATO members promising to get your defense spending up to 2% of GDP back when Obama was still in office. Just so you know, 2% was half of the 4% of GDP that the US spent on defense at … Continue reading “Calm Down, Europe”

Author Archena Posted on March 26, 2025March 26, 2025Categories Current, WednesdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Leave a comment on Putin Doesn’t Seem to Have Gotten the Memo

Putin Doesn’t Seem to Have Gotten the Memo

Good grief. If Putin thinks he’s bringing his A game he better have something special up his sleeve. Playing dominance games with Trump is playing with fire. Dominance games? The silly stunts like being late for meetings or in this case a phone call and making others wait for you. It’s the political version of fighting for pole position. There are a lot of times when this sort of nonsense actually is important. When your country’s economy is about to … Continue reading “Putin Doesn’t Seem to Have Gotten the Memo”

Author Archena Posted on March 25, 2025March 25, 2025Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Leave a comment on Can the Democrat Party Rebuild?

Can the Democrat Party Rebuild?

I forgot to mention this possibility in my last post. Yeah, it’s possible. Not probable at the moment and impossible to predict, but possible. If – very big if – it happened, what would it look like? Basically, there would be an internal fight for control of the party. It might start with a split between the Clinton and Obama camps with each trying to gain control of the party. Neither of those camps is particularly in favor with their … Continue reading “Can the Democrat Party Rebuild?”

Author Archena Posted on March 18, 2025March 18, 2025Categories MondayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Democrat Party Is Dead

It officially died on Friday, March 14, 2025. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice! I didn’t kill it. The Democrats did that all by themselves. Yep, that’s a pretty specific date. Enjoy it. It’s extremely rare that an exact date gets applied to a political condition. So, why do I say it happened Friday? The Democrat leadership played themselves. The forced a situation where either they shutdown the government on Friday which would have cost them the … Continue reading “The Democrat Party Is Dead”

Author Archena Posted on March 12, 2025March 12, 2025Categories Current, TuesdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Putin’s Blunder

Bwahahahahahahaha! I swear, I thought about this possibility but would have had to edit a whole lot to include it in the earlier post and was way too lazy for that. Also, I’m slow enough as it is. But anyway, what a difference a day makes, huh? I did wonder if Putin was stupid enough to capitalize on the reduced intelligence that Ukraine was getting. Trump had made it crystal clear he wasn’t taking sides. The smart move was to … Continue reading “Putin’s Blunder”

Author Archena Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025Categories ThursdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Oval Office Meltdown – Much Ado About… Something?

So, that was fun, huh? I waited to do this blog because it’s almost never useful to analyze fast moving events. When events are going fast, it’s best to rely on real reporters (the few that still exist) and let events shake out if at all possible. That’s not to criticize commentators that weighed in earlier. I’ve found a lot of that commentary very useful. Special nods to Bill O’Reilly and William Spaniel (links provided below) for more measured and … Continue reading “Oval Office Meltdown – Much Ado About… Something?”

Author Archena Posted on February 17, 2025February 17, 2025Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Immigration: The Two Edged Sword

The issues around immigration to the United States are mired in hype, hoopla and plain old snake oil. Ninety percent of the time legal and illegal immigration are conflated as if they were the same thing. They aren’t. Yes, America is a nation of immigrants. The American continents are entire continents of immigrants, if anthropologists are to be believed. There are no native Americans because there’s no moral difference between 250 years and 20,000. We’re all immigrants. Except it’s total … Continue reading “Immigration: The Two Edged Sword”

Author Archena Posted on February 12, 2025February 12, 2025Categories Current, TuesdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

America Doomed or Party System Shift?

The latter. You can quit panicking now. Have a nice day. What do you mean you don’t understand? You don’t know what a party system shift even is? What are they teaching in graduate level Poli Sci nowadays? Oh, right. Not everyone took those classes. Which is a condemnation of the edumacation system. Seriously, this happens fairly regularly in American politics. It’s a feature, not a bug. You’d think they’d mention this in History and American Government in middle school … Continue reading “America Doomed or Party System Shift?”