As America’s institutions swerve into oncoming traffic, Trump rewrites science, diplomacy, law, and even the Epstein saga, with all the stability of a Molotov cocktail sommelier.
Brilliant metaphor: "If there is a single theme running through today’s news, it’s that every institution you once imagined had guardrails is now behaving like a Tesla on Full Self-Drive: confident, delusional, and accelerating toward a flaming guardrail it insists isn’t there."
And if familiar with San Francisco where many Teslas go up, down, and around hills, there are additional visuals. Not a place where confusing brakes and other pedals works well.
The abyss is most certainly staring back. When the dust settles a bit, the American people will realize truth is at the check out counter. It will be the implosion of bubbles, AI appears to be one, as markets collapse. It most certainly will be the International courts determining we have committed crime in bombing boats. It will be the increasing number of ER visits in lieu of preventative care. Most sadly, it will be increased preventable childhood disease and mortality. To the latter, damn you Kennedy.
Meanwhile, not mentioned by Mary, which I totally understand, is that Laura Loomer is suing Bill Maher for making a joke about her sleeping arrangements with old don. Oh, and her lawyer in FL has only a few days before he's disbarred, so that adds to the humor.
Mary, I look forward to your posts everyday. They help me make sense of what is going on, if that is actually possible. Thank you for helping me retain my sanity.
Mary captures stark reality in humor that so fascinates me. I shriek in amusement , giggled spontaneity escapes…savoring exactness.
Mary paints the truth in Substack - classy, pinpoint sharp reality.
Substack writers Nobel Prize Winning best-evers 🫶
…so sad the readership is at 5th grade level ( nationally)…while somebody is trying to dismantle the education Dept (as if it hadn’t been already) and….
As Trump ,Tucker , and their crew…fall off the abyss..So long, farewell
The national reading level is another pet bugaboo of mine. I was in my 30s before I knew of households with no reading material except the TV Guide. No books, no magazines, no newspapers, not even the Farmer's Almanac. (Well, maybe they had a Bible.) That was the 1980s, so no internet, but certainly there were libraries. And these people weren't living on shoestrings. They lived in a circle where education wasn't valued and books were considered useless. Still makes me shudder. But it certainly explains the national reading level of today.
I look forward to something positive, since it sounds like the White House is the Kremlin in disguise. My son had a nice visit to Portland last weekend, hiking the Colombia River gorge with his GF ... so beautiful!
The reason non-MAGAts (who may or may not be Democrats) go right ahead and encourage the release of the Epstein files, letting chips fall where they may, is because they do not worship any of their "leaders." If they're guilty, charge 'em, try 'em, and jail 'em.
Unfortunately, the MAGAts hold Trump in such high esteem, spouting nonsense in his defense, that they believe non-MAGAts must also want to protect their pseudo-saints. Not the way justice works, people. Publish those files, in their entirety.
From pseudo-saint to pseudo-science: oh, for Gawd's sake, will we ever be done with this vaccines-cause-autism crapola? Brian Wakefield, the British ex-doctor (he was struck off), used a total of a dozen children in his so-called study. His fabricated results were published in The Lancet in 1998. Within just a couple years, investigations proved (note: PROVED) that Wakefield input false data, manipulating results and creating outright false information, to provide the outcome he wanted - that the MMR vaccine was the root cause of autism.
With the exposure, The Lancet retracted his article's assertions, and also revealed that Wakefield was receiving payments from attorneys who wanted to sue manufacturers of the MMR vaccines. So much for connections. (There was a hue-and-cry about the pertussis - whooping cough - portion of the DPT vaccine in the early 1980s. The earliest viable typhus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines were developed in the first quarter of the 20th century, though not combined until the 1940s. That being the case, why haven't more boomers been diagnosed with autism?)
And if we really wanted to search for connections, how about nonstick coatings? The use of aluminum cookware dates back to the 19th century. I'd doubt that's the cause. But nonstick coatings made their first appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. Given that as a cause-and-effect timeline, that's a stronger possibility than the MMR, to my mind. Perhaps even more likely, microplastics. Though it's only been within the last eight years or so that research has found microplastics do accrete in human organs, scientists believe such accumulation began in the 1950s with the mass commercial use of plastics everywhere.
I've never appreciated the fact that RFK Jr has been a proponent of anti-vaxxing, yet his kids are all vaccinated, so what does that tell us? He's been vaccinated (thanks to Ethel, no doubt). But he thinks the rest of us shouldn't be. His divine mission is to save us from ourselves. Horseshit.
Worse than that is his lying during his confirmation hearings just to get into a position of power so he could force anti-vaxxing down the collective throats of the nation. If this regime is ever brought down, Trump - and Bondi, Noem, Nutlick, Bessent, and the rest - surely should be tried. But Kennedy as well. He can claim he didn't know any better, in an effort to protect himself, but that doesn't alter the fact he lied to get this position, simply to use it to impose his crazy beliefs on the rest of us.
Thank you for your daily updates of the madness. I run one of the several Facebook sites named "Trumpton", based on an old BBC children's program of the same name and parodying the current U.S. administration. But I fail to keep up with the nonsense.
Brilliant metaphor: "If there is a single theme running through today’s news, it’s that every institution you once imagined had guardrails is now behaving like a Tesla on Full Self-Drive: confident, delusional, and accelerating toward a flaming guardrail it insists isn’t there."
And if familiar with San Francisco where many Teslas go up, down, and around hills, there are additional visuals. Not a place where confusing brakes and other pedals works well.
Well written.
The abyss is most certainly staring back. When the dust settles a bit, the American people will realize truth is at the check out counter. It will be the implosion of bubbles, AI appears to be one, as markets collapse. It most certainly will be the International courts determining we have committed crime in bombing boats. It will be the increasing number of ER visits in lieu of preventative care. Most sadly, it will be increased preventable childhood disease and mortality. To the latter, damn you Kennedy.
Meanwhile, not mentioned by Mary, which I totally understand, is that Laura Loomer is suing Bill Maher for making a joke about her sleeping arrangements with old don. Oh, and her lawyer in FL has only a few days before he's disbarred, so that adds to the humor.
Things are so scary due to this corrupt White House. The guy and regime in charge need to be impeached/fired IMMEDIATELY before they start WWIII!
Mary, I look forward to your posts everyday. They help me make sense of what is going on, if that is actually possible. Thank you for helping me retain my sanity.
It's madness, pure unadulterated madness and something needs to give.
Mary captures stark reality in humor that so fascinates me. I shriek in amusement , giggled spontaneity escapes…savoring exactness.
Mary paints the truth in Substack - classy, pinpoint sharp reality.
Substack writers Nobel Prize Winning best-evers 🫶
…so sad the readership is at 5th grade level ( nationally)…while somebody is trying to dismantle the education Dept (as if it hadn’t been already) and….
As Trump ,Tucker , and their crew…fall off the abyss..So long, farewell
Auf widersehen, goodbye….
The national reading level is another pet bugaboo of mine. I was in my 30s before I knew of households with no reading material except the TV Guide. No books, no magazines, no newspapers, not even the Farmer's Almanac. (Well, maybe they had a Bible.) That was the 1980s, so no internet, but certainly there were libraries. And these people weren't living on shoestrings. They lived in a circle where education wasn't valued and books were considered useless. Still makes me shudder. But it certainly explains the national reading level of today.
I look forward to something positive, since it sounds like the White House is the Kremlin in disguise. My son had a nice visit to Portland last weekend, hiking the Colombia River gorge with his GF ... so beautiful!
Maybe the Don figures he can retire in Russia or Crimea after his medicine show alchemy gets him indicted again!
The reason non-MAGAts (who may or may not be Democrats) go right ahead and encourage the release of the Epstein files, letting chips fall where they may, is because they do not worship any of their "leaders." If they're guilty, charge 'em, try 'em, and jail 'em.
Unfortunately, the MAGAts hold Trump in such high esteem, spouting nonsense in his defense, that they believe non-MAGAts must also want to protect their pseudo-saints. Not the way justice works, people. Publish those files, in their entirety.
From pseudo-saint to pseudo-science: oh, for Gawd's sake, will we ever be done with this vaccines-cause-autism crapola? Brian Wakefield, the British ex-doctor (he was struck off), used a total of a dozen children in his so-called study. His fabricated results were published in The Lancet in 1998. Within just a couple years, investigations proved (note: PROVED) that Wakefield input false data, manipulating results and creating outright false information, to provide the outcome he wanted - that the MMR vaccine was the root cause of autism.
With the exposure, The Lancet retracted his article's assertions, and also revealed that Wakefield was receiving payments from attorneys who wanted to sue manufacturers of the MMR vaccines. So much for connections. (There was a hue-and-cry about the pertussis - whooping cough - portion of the DPT vaccine in the early 1980s. The earliest viable typhus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines were developed in the first quarter of the 20th century, though not combined until the 1940s. That being the case, why haven't more boomers been diagnosed with autism?)
And if we really wanted to search for connections, how about nonstick coatings? The use of aluminum cookware dates back to the 19th century. I'd doubt that's the cause. But nonstick coatings made their first appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. Given that as a cause-and-effect timeline, that's a stronger possibility than the MMR, to my mind. Perhaps even more likely, microplastics. Though it's only been within the last eight years or so that research has found microplastics do accrete in human organs, scientists believe such accumulation began in the 1950s with the mass commercial use of plastics everywhere.
I've never appreciated the fact that RFK Jr has been a proponent of anti-vaxxing, yet his kids are all vaccinated, so what does that tell us? He's been vaccinated (thanks to Ethel, no doubt). But he thinks the rest of us shouldn't be. His divine mission is to save us from ourselves. Horseshit.
Worse than that is his lying during his confirmation hearings just to get into a position of power so he could force anti-vaxxing down the collective throats of the nation. If this regime is ever brought down, Trump - and Bondi, Noem, Nutlick, Bessent, and the rest - surely should be tried. But Kennedy as well. He can claim he didn't know any better, in an effort to protect himself, but that doesn't alter the fact he lied to get this position, simply to use it to impose his crazy beliefs on the rest of us.
Thank you for your daily updates of the madness. I run one of the several Facebook sites named "Trumpton", based on an old BBC children's program of the same name and parodying the current U.S. administration. But I fail to keep up with the nonsense.