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When things get tense, whites get dense.

Part 1: Willful ignorance and privilege help the Right forget how badly they snapped during the Obama years.  NEWSFLASH:  Long before the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” got batted around conservative media circles to gaslight the left, some left-leaning media pundit coined the phrase “Obama Derangement Syndrome”.  Yeah. Those geniuses at Fox News, the type of […]

Book Burnin’ Bikini Babes on Bourbon

America 2028 Movie Reviews, #14 America 2028 Movie Reviews My esteemed readers, I’m assuming that when you first saw the title Book Burnin’ Bikini Babes on Bourbon, your reaction matched my own. Upon reading the movie’s name, you most likely thought to yourself, “Gawd…that title offers no hints as to what the story could be […]

Financial security. Emotional and spiritual insecurity.

Take it from a broke writer who has heard well-off folks’ sob stories: America’s higher-net-worth individuals need a tax increase—in ways that they can’t currently imagine.  Winding down the decade…aww yeah.  Winding up the chatter about tax increases for corporations and wealthier individuals, using that money to pay for needs like infrastructure, education, healthcare…aww fucking […]

With Tea Bags Dangling from their Faces

America 2028 Movie Reviews, #13 Previous America 2028 movie reviews. To experience this sweeping piece of historical fiction is to feel like you stepped into a time-traveling machine and transported yourself back to the year 2009. Ahhh, the first days of the Tea Party movement.  A point in time that seems like it happened many, […]

Finance has a fascism fetish.

Rentier capitalism sucks for everyone except those few at the top. And those few at the top know it. Rollin’ into the 2020s…aw yeah. As we roll, I wish Americans would quit saying that the nation’s top earners work harder than any other group of Americans.  Twelve years ago, Wall Street speculators crashed the economy […]

Alan Berg: hi again from Earth.

Part two: Anti-Semitism has mutated in some strange ways since you left the planet.  Part I. Hello, Mr. Berg, wherever you are.  Another nice day here in your old town, Denver.  I don’t know how the Internet works in your part of the universe, but if you have access, check out this YouTube clip. The […]

The Four Horseshits of the Apocalypse.

Gaslighting. Sealioning. Tone policing. Concern trolling. These days, it’s all about keeping people silent. Ever had a crystal-clear story in your head that you wanted to share? Or a well-thought-out opinion about an issue?  Only…once you begin to talk, the ideas get all twisted around. The other person isn’t getting what you’re saying. You seem […]

Alan Berg: hi from Earth.

Part One: You left the planet thirty-five years ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn’t.  Hello, sir. I hope all is well.  You’re probably hurtling around the universe and checking out cool interstellar collisions and explosions. I bet they’re rad.  You wouldn’t know me from Adam. I grew up in Park Hill, less than […]

The Right wants to be feared and hated, but they’re just hated.

When a white nationalist takes the Electoral College but loses the election by more than three million votes, the numbers do not favor the racist agenda. Here’s a sure-fire way to tell if a white man is a racist nazi-wannabe ammosexual nincompoop. If his posts, e-mail sign-offs or websites display the following Latin phrase, guess […]

Can’t outsmart ’em? Outdumb ’em!

A favorite MAGA memory? Hearing broke-ass folks who don’t own stocks declare, “The stock market is doing great…take that, libs!” Willful ignorance is ‘in’ these days. It’s so fashionable, not using your brain. Especially if you’re white and convinced that your idea of America is endangered. If you happen to feel this way, then the […]