What is your "one" word guess ... and it is not "entitlements"!
Do you think the " politicians " have figured out what the billionaires are REALLY afraid about?
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Reflect: The Ugly American - Irony
Reflect: The Ugly American - 1958 Irony 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
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
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
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