Archive - Dispatches From Exile

The Dumbass Vote: A Modest Proposal to Repeal Universal Suffrage

The Founding Fathers had a point in placing parameters on voting eligibility. Time to require the citizenship test for the right to vote.

Mar 16 •

Weekly Mind Dump: Biden's Churchillian Moment

President Biden mobilized the English language and sent it into battle this week.

Mar 10 •

Weekly Mind Dump: Trump's Dementia

And - Despite what Macron says, don't expect to see La Grande Armée in Ukraine any time soon.

Mar 5 •

Fifth Columns, Fascism & the Republican Party

Today’s Republican Party, careening toward fascism and serving the goals of Vladimir Putin, is the Fifth Column of our time. What are we going to do…

Mar 2 •

February 2024

Weekly Mind Dump: Time to Call the GOP What It Is: An American Fifth Column

Are congressional Republicans witting agents of the Kremlin or incredibly disingenuous Useful Idiots?

Feb 26 •

Trump as Ozymandias: The Bleak Moral Desert That Will Be His legacy

Vast graveyards of reputations are filled with the brittle bones of blindly ambitious old men.

Feb 23 •

Weekly Mind Dump: Dissidents Like Navalny Are Martyrs for Freedom

And - Today's GOP finishes Charles Lindbergh's job.

Feb 20 •

A Modest Proposal: A Coup to Save Our Republic from MAGA Tyranny

Time to ponder the unthinkable: a coup to pre-empt Trump from re-taking power and imposing a fascist dictatorship.

Feb 18 •

Weekly Mind Dump: The GOP's Final Solution to the Migrant Question

And - Trump confirms yet again his intention to destroy NATO.

Feb 11 •

The View from the Trash Heap of History

The amply populated trash heap of history patiently awaits those who sell their souls to evildoers. Tucker Carlson and Elise Stefanik - pay attention.

Feb 10 •

Weekly Mind Dump: What Is Tucker Carlson Up To in Moscow? Only a Useful Idiot Would Know

And - More Fort Sumters erupting. And - Has Trump's downfall begun?

Feb 5 •

What Do Alexander Dubček and Volodymyr Zelensky Have in Common?

Ukraine's fate and Zelensky's legacy hinge on whether the Republican Party returns to being the party of Lincoln or of Philippe Pétain.

Feb 2 •

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