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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Reflect: The Ugly American - Irony

 

Reflect: The Ugly American - 1958 Irony 2025


"The Ugly American" The history of a phrase tells us much about the collapse of US foreign policy Dan Gardner Feb 04, 2025


In the form of a novel, Lederer and Burdick were making a policy argument — that the United States was doing foreign affairs in south-east Asia all wrong. Set aside smug superiority, they urged. Stop lecturing. Be curious. Learn. Be helpful. Make a real difference. That is how — to borrow a phrase from a later era — America will win hearts and minds.

          And keep the Communists out.

...

The controversy wasn’t limited to foreign policy circles, however. The Saturday Evening Post — the magazine of middle America — serialized the novel. The Ugly American became a huge bestseller, eventually selling more than four million copies.

A young senator by the name of John F. Kennedy was particularly taken with the novel. He bought copies to give to every one of his colleagues in the Senate.

 

When Kennedy became president in 1961, he created the Peace Corps to advance the vision of Lederer and Burdick. He also collected the various foreign aid programs developed under Dwight Eisenhower and consolidated them into a new agency called the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.

 

That’s right. The same USAID Trump, Musk, and Musk’s minions are carving up without so much as a cursory policy review.


Reflect: The #UglyAmerican - 1958 Irony 2025 - US foreign policy

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Hansel and Gretel : Connecting the Crumbs or Podcasts or Dots - February 2025

 

Connecting the Crumbs or Podcasts or Dots:

All you have to do is look around ... satire and humor



Elon is not 150 years old but he may become COBOL immortal!

[D]epartment [o]f [G]overnment by [E]lon DOGE


ANI News

Added 2/18/25 - Mistakes "error coding" for his birthday


GZERO Media - Ian Bremmer on Tariffs - Business Perspective

Added 2/3/25:  Policy seems strange - 25% on Canada and Mexico; 10% China


Rachel Maddow Show clip - from 2/4/2025

Added 2//5/025: Perspective on what is going on - A Coup?!


Mary Trump Media ... always something current and NEW!

Added 2/1/25: So #Trump did know about #Project2025


#Trump -Hansel and Gretel : Connecting the Crumbs or #Podcasts or Dots - February 2025

#DOGE is another #TLA +1 which is translates to
"Department of Government by #ELON"



Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show

 

Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show



#BROliogarchy #Billionaires - #DailyShow #Harrington #Wealth Privilege hath Responsibility - Capital Without Borders

#BROliogarchy #Billionaires - #DailyShow #Harrington #Wealth Privilege hath Responsibility -  Offshore

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

#Trump should read the #Constitution - says David Cay #Johnson ...

 

Another Trump perspective by a long time journalist, best selling author and now Professor.

The Mark Thompson Show


#Trump should read the #Constitution - David Cay #Johnson ...
The Mark Thompson Show (Podcast)

#Trump should read the #Constitution ... and today tried

to ignore Constitutional Article II and NOT spend dollars

appropriated by Congress as directed according to law

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Peter Hegseth compared to Donald Rumsfeld -- What do you know?

 

There is a tendency for public statements to be too clever!  


Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense during the 9/11 crisis!

He is famous for the line, "You don't know what you don't know."


Pete Hegseth, during 2025 Senate confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Defense, for Donald Trump, should become famous for uttering, "I know what I don't know!"


Really, how do you do that?  That says it all.  Perhaps Hegseth will use the 'defense' -- 

"That is an anonymous smear."




Peter #Hegseth compared to Donald #Rumsfield  --  What do you really know? Senate #ConfirmationHearings for head of #Defense Department.  Hope Hegseth becomes #anonymous !


"You don't know what you don't know." - Donald Rumsfield

"I know what I don't know." - Pete Hegseth

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to By Naomi Forman-Katz - PEW

 PEW - Americans are following the news less closely than they used to By Naomi Forman-Katz

In 2016, 57% of Republicans and independents who lean Rep­­ublican said they followed the news all or most of the time. In the 2022 survey, 37% said the same, a decrease of 20 points. By comparison, the share saying this among Democrats and Democratic leaners dropped by only 7 points, from 49% to 42%.


#Americans are following the #news less closely than... is the default to be #uninformed

#Americans are #StovePipes - following the #news less closely than... is the default to be #uninformed



Thursday, January 2, 2025

Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !

 

What does aberrant mean?  

ab·er·rant
/ˈabərənt,əˈberənt/
adjective
  1. departing from an accepted standard.
    "this somewhat aberrant behavior requires an explanation"
    Similar:
    deviant
    deviating
    divergent
    abnormal
    atypical
    anomalous
    digressive
    irregular
    nonconformist
    rogue
    transgressing
    strange
    odd
    peculiar
    uncommon
    freakish
    eccentric
    quirky
    exceptional
    singular
    twisted
    warped
    perverted
    Opposite:
    normal
    typical

Know anybody like that?  Whose name should be on this page?!


I say aberrant personality as it relates your first impression of of something unusual about another person.  This "impression" can be positive or negative but for some reason you reacted to noting something out of what you consider the "ordinary".  Of course this can be problematic if you have have an "aberrant personality".


Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !  #Deviant #Eccentric #Uncommon #Odd #Transgressing - Who would you tag ?

Know any Narcissists?  Beware the 'Aberrant Personality' !  #Deviant #Eccentric #Uncommon #Odd #Transgressing - Who would you tag ?