“Saturday Night Live” went after the GOP senators who have endorsed former President Trump in its post-South Carolina primary cold open on Saturday, pointing out the many times Trump has insulted the same men who now back him for president. The cold open showcased characters of Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Marco Rubio…
Article: Trump s Seven Magic Tricks Revisited, again - This column is about Trump s Seven Magic Tricks, a subject on which I have been writing since the time when he only had six. First I review the Seven and how he has used them in the past. Then I discuss how he might be able (or not) to use them this time around. And of course, as everyone knows, this time is different, because now he is enmeshed in the criminal, not the civil, law. The tricks might no longer work. We ll see.
Article: A Set of SJ Tweets for the End of 2023. Happy New Year? Let s Hope So - This is a set of Tweets (and yes, I still call it Twitter, not X ) of mine from this month (Dec., 2023). The majority of them concern Trump. Gee. I wonder why.
Article: Is it Hair Trump or Herr Trump? Redux - This column is a re-run of one I first posted towards the end of 2015, on Trump and the fascist danger he presents. Given the increasingly openly fascist
program proposals (if one can call them that) he is putting forward, I thought (even though I have republished it previously) to re-publish it again. As my regular readers know, I am publishing more and more on this subject. But a retrospective at this time can t hoit.