I’ve been slow to update my website since other things have intervened and I’ve also debated how much I want to occupy my mind with the “world’s most successful narcissist” as one friend called our new president-dictator. But I did write this piece for Caracas Chronicles and republished it in Spanish at Trópico Absoluto on…
I was among those who, in the early weeks and months of 2017 refused to call Trump and his followers “fascist.” I was (and still am) so sick of the tired, now only slightly combustible, rhetoric of my ultra-Left comrades that I winced at the term. When everyone out of the Leftist Circle of Light…
I haven’t written about Venezuela for a while, mainly because after the Juan Guaidó fiascos the Maduro dictatorship just went on pillaging the country as he and Chávez had been doing for the previous two decades. The situation appeared hopeless and, frankly, I lost heart. I became more preoccupied with my own country and its…
What? Donald Trump trying to “defraud the United States”? (Canned laughter, please). Yes, but of course. This malignant narcissist, unsurprisingly a compulsive liar, scamming cheater, and conman supreme, clearly did his best to steal the Presidential election of 2020. The evidence has been laid out by none other than the US Congress. There is no…
Note: You need to read Rafael Osío Cabrices and Raúl Stolk’s piece on the state of Venezuela today, posted at Caracas Chronicles. This is what twenty years of wreck and ruin by a “socialist” elite operating with impunity hath wrought. Do we need more lessons on why a dysfunctional, inefficient, hypocritical, half- and weak-hearted liberal…
Out of respect for Mr. Marti, I’m posting a link to his post, and to another here, wherein he claims Biden stole the 2020 election and responds to my article at Caracas Chronicles. I make these available to those of you who have the time, interest and inclination to read work that appears to me…
I don’t like “attacking” people and prefer to keep discussions to ideas. It’s part of a program I try to practice of “principles before personalities” and my dear life partner and wife, Marcy Rein, has helped me in that process immensely. It’s particularly painful to me to go after someone who I’ve once respected and…
(traducido por Guillermo Useche del artículo en inglés, “Your Friend Trump.”) Imaginen mi sorpresa al escuchar que a los padres de mi amigo venezolano les gusta Trump. Yo supongo que “la distancia hace crecer el cariño” pues por muchos años Chávez tuvo el mismo efecto en mí. Y ya que estamos en aforismos trillados pero…
(La traducción al español, hecho por Guillermo Useche, sigue después de la versión en inglés) https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/in-2016-republicans-called-democrats-sore-losers-after-election-95846469523 Take a look at the difference between the Democrats and Republicans… For four years now I resisted the temptation (not always successfully) to add in this blog to the clamor against Donald J. Trump, knowing that he already was…
Michelle Goldberg’s “Four Wasted Years Thinking about Donald Trump” was published today at the New York Times (yeah, they have a paywall you might not be able to jump; but, as consolation, do you REALLY want to read another piece on that shitpile DJT?). After listing all the casualties of 45’s presidency, Goldberg concludes that…