Archive of AMERICAN SPIRIT/TRUMP/MAGAWORLD UPDATES
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AMERICAN SPIRIT/TRUMP/MAGA WORLD-Not Just Surviving but prevailing
UPDATE 8/28/26: The passing of Dolly Parton has precipitated universal grieving and a massive outpouring of love and longing for The Real Deal, and she was IT. Shrewd beyond measure, she kept her politics private, allowing herself to be a “many-colored” blank slate on which people around the globe could savor without partisan obstruction a flesh-and-blood spirit of true talent, ambition, vision, goodness, kindness, common (horse) sense, grit, the living embodiment of all that is the best of humanity. And, dare we claim her as our own, quintessential America, an American great and a great American.
Country (real) class outclassing by miles the acquired, skin-deep variety.
A successful life’s quest to be like no one else, rich in the most important sense.
Running in her Scots-Irish-English blood, a haunting, neo-Gothic ballad of her own making, a modern folk tale of a timeless predicament. The exterior is 20th century “store-bought hair” and Opry rhinestones, the interior a desperate Thomas Hardy milkmaid begging for the return of her unfaithful ploughman.
Solid roots and background to envy.
A pair of American entertainment titans on Dolly’s home turf.
Deep, religious faith, a life well-lived, rewarded in the hereafter.
UPDATE 8/27/26: Dear Donald, regarding the Kennedy Center: allow it to remain just The KENNEDY Center, a tribute to John and Jackie’s notable legacy championing the best in the performing arts; AND, leave your part in it just the current Board’s wisely suggested postscript “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.”
The building hosted some glorious early events when the artists honored were themselves beloved national/international monuments. Initially the intention was to recognize exclusively AMERICAN citizens, then as the pickings became a bit slim, international personalities such as foreign-born opera and rock stars like Pavarotti and McCartney were included. Note: the first honorees were Fred Astaire, Richard Rodgers, George Balanchine, Marian Anderson and Artur Rubinstein. WOW! For roughly the next 30 years, politics did not play a part in the choice of honorees, everyone proudly united in appreciation of great art, great artists and America. Consider the instance of Hollywood’s annoying La Pasionaria Barbra Streisand being kissed by George W. Bush and, cornered into reluctant graciousness, returning the kiss. For the moment, politics could be forgotten and forgiven. For the moment. No longer when Obama came in and through the subsequent first Trump and Biden years, partisan/virtue-signaling politics has been a big wet blanket on the proceedings, Linda Ronstadt providing just one ugly sample of the Left’s abandonment of any class or sense of American camaraderie.
Now that Trump is boss again, it’s become necessary to choose individuals who have the dignity to accept the honors without making them a political pulpit. Sorry to say (and doing my best to avoid cultural snobbery), the best in the arts ain’t what it used to be. This last year’s “safe” honorees allowed Trump himself to appear as host without an embarrassing incident: George Straight, Sly Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, and rock band Kiss. All are indisputably accomplished and celebrated in their respective fields, but they most definitely lack the Olympian stature of their predecessors. The long-established view of “a great artist” has changed dramatically in the half century since the Honors began. So it goes, and one can only hope we are not a doomed culture in permanent decline. Trump’s insistence upon putting his name above Kennedy’s on the building is not helpful.
Aaah. It’s pre-Obama, 2006, and there’s Smokey from Motown, Andrew from the West End/Broadway, Dolly from Nashville, the Bushes, Steve from Hollywood and Zubin from Lincoln Center. No politics, just gratitude all around for making good in America.
UPDATE 8/27/26: For all the justified criticism a mercurial personality like Trump elicits, he’s still The One willing to address the big issues and not continue to kick the can down the road. Meanwhile, even his most steadfast supporters hold their collective breath and hope for the necessary miracle(S) to get us through the turbulence.
MEGA (Make Europe Great Again)
UPDATE 8/26/26: It’s mystifying why the once-staunch Brits and their Australian cousins have gone Woke, caving to virtually every assault on the brilliant culture & basic civil liberties that once defined them.
MEMORIAL DAY AND D-DAY
MAKE AMERICA ACCOUNTABLE AGAIN (OPENTHEBOOKS.COM)
DOGE-Dept. of Government Efficiency (Major Work In Progress)
LAWFARE/THE LAW IS AN ASS/PERVERSION OF JUSTICE
(In search of) AN AMERICAN MARGARET THATCHER
UPDATE 8/27/26: Hasan Piker’s proudly evil celebration of Charlie Kirk’s murder this week is more a condemnation of those millions of soulless sheeple titillated by and drawn to his theatrics than of the power-drunk psychopath himself.
CASSANDRAS-WARNINGS FALLING ON DEAF EARS
ELECTION FRAUD-America In The Balance
UPDATE 8/28/26: The RINO/GOP establishment deliberately sabotaging the Save Act will go down in infamy, but the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that yields SOME ground to the administration provides SOME hope for election integrity, however small.
JANUARY 6-Deep State Tyranny vs A Nation of a Trillion Sparks
PLANNED PARENTHOOD/SELLING ABORTED BABY BODY PARTS
CALIFORNICATION/DETROITING/NEWYORKING/MINNESOTIZATION/ILLINOISING OF AMERICA
UPDATE 8/27/26: San Francisco is a Leftist/Progressive nightmare up/down/all directions with LA fast closing in on copping the top prize for Left Coast urban depravity.
Easy choice for the clear-headed: neither.
UPDATE 8/27/26: Yet one more symptom of Californication that threatens to go national is its desperate attempts to censor, criminalize, absolutely silence anyone exposing the state’s mind-boggling corruption that continues to metastasize. For obvious reasons, the legal move has become known as the Stop Nick Shirley act.
UPDATE 8/27/26: What a nightmarish era for parents sending their college-age kids off to what have overwhelmingly become mass hatching factories for little Socialists.
CLASSLESS, GENDERLESS, RACELESS, FAITHLESS-Erasing all defining lines
MAHA/MEDICINE COMPROMISED/CORONACRAZED
UPDATE 8/29/26: Those still on a virtue-signaling high from Covid tyranny continue to double down in mass denial of the incalculable damage done to millions.
MEDICAL HELP FROM
FRONT LINE COVID-19 CRITICAL CARE (FLCCC) ALIANCE
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS (AAPS)
MARIJUANA HARMLESS? THINK AGAIN.
THE TRANSGENDERING/OMNISEXUALIZING OF AMERICA
UPDATE 8/27/26: The demonic rage and potential violence possessing those seriously confused about sexual identity and acted out repeatedly in recent times remain a nothing-burger to the Woke Left stuck on the stupidest sort of “tolerance.”
Also well described as “suicidal empathy.”
SUPREMES-Different faces, still a Leftist Weird Sister act
WAR & PEACE: LENIN’S (and fellow Socialist HITLER’S) HEIRS
ORWELL-OBJECTIVE REALITY/TRUTH
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN ABSURDISTAN
THE GREAT RESET-The Clocks are striking 13? Can you live with this?
THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCY (and INDEPENDENCE)
GREEN MONSTER-Environmental Tyranny
ID/WOKE POLITICS, Obama’s Permanent Civil War of Transformation
I’M A VICTIM! YOU’RE A VICTIM! EVERYBODY’S A VICTIM!
UPDATE 8/28/26: A copycat social contagion of mothers murdering their children is upon us, now most prominently in the case of a Massachusetts woman deliberately strangling her 3 children. There is no debate about what she did, but somehow the White Woke Ladies of Libdom have turned her into a cultural heroine.
What she was thinking at the time (as ascertained in court) will determine what punishment the law will visit upon her. No doubt she had her reasons doing something that was so clearly evil and premeditated. Medea did it to wreak revenge on her unfaithful husband. 30 years ago Susan Smith did it to run off with a new boyfriend. At the latter time, the public opinion and the legal system displayed a normal, outraged reaction, and Smith’s paid for it with life in the slammer. Now, we have lost the commonly held notion of what is good and what is evil, and, as a result of that fatal void, the world has gone mad.
Lindsay Clancy, a feminist heroine for Woke women?
IAVT-I’M A VICTIM TOO! (Successful Black division)
BLACK LIVES MATTER…but only selectively to the race baiters.
BALTIMORE=FERGUSON=GEORGE FLOYD REDUX: The Next One
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION/ OPEN BORDERS-Creating a Permanent Democratic UniParty Majority
UPDATE 8/28/26: Do the Luvvies and ICE haters with their signs about “Hate Has No Home Here” really think well of those whose specific, fulltime business it is to bring in drugs like fentanyl that will kill millions? Biden ignored it all, thinking only of all those new Democrat dependents/voters pouring in while Trump is doing what needs to be done.
Nothing to see here.
UPDATE 8/25/26: It’s a step in the direction of truth and real progress when a prominent Palestinian activist dismisses a typical virtue-signaling, Hollywood know-nothing shrieking about “Israeli genocide” and accurately declares the blood being on the hands of Hamas leadership.
A rare, honest Palestinian voice cancels out an ignorant pest from La-La Land.
AMERICAN JEWRY-Brightest & Dumbest People On Earth
JEXODUS-Sensible Jews leaving the Dem Party
UPDATE 8/27/26: When the Iranians state in a public statement that their only course ahead is to build a bomb and detonate it, believe them. Likewise, believe them when they say they wish to assassinate Trump and his family members and have offered generous bounties to anyone doing the dirty work. The downside to waging war on the Mullahs is real, but given the nihilistic, unperturbed madness of this opponent, what other choice is left?
UPDATE 8/27/26: The growing political influence of the Islamic/Marxist alliance obviously doesn’t concern the politically detached, but perhaps they might consider what this toxic presence promises them. Basically, these two forces are united in their desire to erase Western/Judeo-Christian culture from existence and, starting from Year Zero, replace it with their New World Order. No unthinkable absurdity or lie is off-limits selling this to the obtuse voters, particularly for the Islamic element pretending to embrace the wild tenets of the Woke Left. Full surgical gender transitioning (castration) for boys? No big deal, millions of men are circumcised; what’s the diff? Sharia law is, in essentials, the same as the West’s legal system. Agreed? Want to visit or live in Dearborn, MI? No problem as long as you don’t expect to speak or live as the average American does everywhere else.
THE LIBERAL MIND and THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PROJECTION
LIES/HOAXES/FRAUDS/EVIL OF THE WEEK
UPDATE 8/28/26: When deliberate lying and ignorant repetition of falsehoods become as normalized as they have, simply telling the truth is often inadequate to set one’s equilibrium right. But it is the only solution. If there is any one thing at the root of what’s going wrong in our world, it is this poisonous gas cloud enveloping our everyday lives without pushback from the truthtellers.
Deeply discouraging that this mad woman has been allowed by the legal system to get away with profiting from this whopper, as big and transparent as they come.
UPDATE 8/28/26: There are virtues and practices that don’t change in value over the generations. One man’s list.
SOUTH AFRICA aka MARXIST MANDELALAND aka
UPDATE 8/28/26: The Peter Pans of the Left, rich kids all in for communism while living high on the perks of capitalism, are a joke…or should be. Says optimist John Fetterman, the one honorable Democrat in Congress today, “Fancy-pants” socialist hypocrite brats aren’t the future of his Party. If he can stay in office, one suspects he may be forced to consider changing his Party status.
AMANPOUR/ASSORTED MSM DETRITUS
CLINTON (The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave)
FAUCI and the curse of the “EXPERTS”
UPDATE 8/26/26: The latest good news from the overdue Great Covid Reckoning: emails documenting Fauci’s attempt to destroy his direct involvement in funding the Wuhan gain-of-function research that was the real Ground Zero of the whole horror story.
UPDATE 8/28/26: She belongs in Frauds and Liars, but she has her very own post here, serial notoriety being the one thing she is good at. The amazing thing about Meghan is her lack of embarrassment and nonchalant persistence in going right on to the next disaster delicately hand-crafted by Herself, the true mark of a sociopath.
UPDATE 8/28/26: Those RINOs betraying Trump and the GOP base who stand behind him should be punished. He (and we) have good reason to detest them.
If only he could. Being a businessman was infinitely easier than dealing with DC, particularly those in his own Party.
UPDATE 8/28/26: The long (well-deserved) knives are out for mild-mannered, so-called moderate PA Gov. Josh Shapiro, now making a fool of himself hoping to ride to the White House as the new Pandemic Panic hero. The “crisis” calling for newly minted powers in PA that dwarf Covid’s measures? Two fatal cases of the measles. And no answer when asked if he can say whether the patients died OF the measles of WITH the measles.
SUPREMES-Different faces, still a Leftist Weird Sister act
UPDATE 8/26/26: The Maple Leaf Former Boy King, now ridiculous rock star Boy Toy, reminds us of no one currently stinking up the place as much as Comrade Zohran, another Teen Age Tyrant, inexplicably handed power.