Do you still support Trump

The Art of the Lie

It’s useful to know early in a conversation whether you’re talking to someone living in the Trump delusion. You can usually tell within a minute. The signs are familiar: denial of facts, hostility toward truth, and a strange loyalty to a man who treats democracy like a nuisance.

It’s almost impossible to imagine a rational person still supporting this dictator-in-waiting. Trump has managed to offend and degrade every moral, legal, and human standard this country once held dear. He insults veterans, mocks the disabled, cheats his workers, and uses religion as a marketing tool. If that’s your idea of leadership, then you and I live on different planets.

Ignorance is the virus Trump spreads—infecting reason, compassion, and civic responsibility. He thrives on resentment, manufactures enemies, and sells hate disguised as patriotism. His followers don’t see the manipulation because they’re too busy cheering the man who turned their anger into his business model.

Trump once bragged about writing The Art of the Deal, but history will record a truer title: The Art of the Lie. Every chapter is the same—deceive, distract, deny, and repeat. He turned the presidency into a scam, the truth into an inconvenience, and half the nation into customers for his con.

America can survive corruption, but not willful blindness. It’s time to inoculate ourselves against the Trump virus—with facts, courage, and a little old-fashioned decency.

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The Payson Stooges Try a Quick One

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The Payson Stooges and the Politics of Hypocrisy

In small towns across America, local politics often mirror the national stage — full of bluster, hypocrisy, and backroom maneuvering. Payson, Arizona, offers a textbook example.

The town’s self-styled reformers — Mayor Steve Otto and councilmen Charlie Bell and Jim Ferris — campaigned as champions of fiscal restraint. They rose to power by railing against a 1% sales tax increase passed by the previous council to fund essential community projects — including a long-overdue public swimming pool.

They thundered about waste, big government, and “tax tyranny.” They waved Tea Party banners and promised to roll back what they called “reckless spending.”

But now that they hold the reins of power, the tune has changed.

Instead of repealing the tax they so loudly condemned, the Three Stooges of Payson have decided to keep the 1% tax — not to build community assets, but to redirect the money toward their own pet projects. It’s the oldest political con in the book: condemn your predecessors, then pocket their work for your own agenda.

One of the town’s honest council members put it perfectly:

“If you want to use that money, repeal the tax and then pass your own — show the public who’s really raising their taxes.”

It was a clean, fair challenge — and a political trap the Stooges may find hard to escape. Do they expose themselves as hypocrites, or betray their Tea Party base?

Across America, from Washington to the smallest town hall, the same pattern repeats: politicians preaching purity until power tempts them. The lesson from Payson is clear — watch not what they say, but what they do with your money.

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NEW BLUES TUNE - Man He Be Rotten

Danger, Danger, Danger,

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DANGER, PAYSON — THE TEA PARTY STRIKES AGAIN?

Remember the robot on Lost in Space who used to shout, “Danger, Will Robinson!”? Well, it might be time for that warning here in Payson. Word is circulating that our new town manager has been spotted attending Tea Party meetings.

Now, the facts still need to be verified — we’ll leave room for that — but if true, this could be serious. Has our town’s top administrator drifted into the gravitational pull of the far-right vacuum? Once someone gets caught in the Tea Party’s black hole of conspiracy and extremism, it can be hard to escape.

To make matters worse, there are whispers that Inga — yes, that Inga, one of the most toxic figures in the local Tea Party orbit — might be involved. If this unholy alliance is real, the consequences could be disastrous for any effort to move Payson forward with reason, fairness, and truth.

Let’s hope this is all just a misunderstanding. But until we know more — Danger, Payson. Stay alert. Stay informed.

(Follow updates at the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity.)

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The Idiot

OK, here is a plan. Listen to the song by Stan Rodgers, The idiot. Next read the lyrics below and sing to the Stan Rodgers tune

The Hooplehead (Parody of “The Idiot”)

(to the tune of Stan Rogers’ “The Idiot”)

Verse 1:
They called me a fool when I left my school,
But I knew what I was doin’.
I went to the hills with the Tea Party thrills,
Where the facts are always losin’.
Now I’m sittin’ in town where the flags go up,
And logic’s been outlawed too,
They say “Six bucks for the pool’s too much,”
While they’re buyin’ more guns than they’ll ever use.

Chorus:
So I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
I love what Otto said,
He said duct tape can fix that pool,
And the Hooples all nodded their heads.
Yeah, I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
Got my Trump flag out instead,
While the kids swim laps in potholes,
And freedom rots in red.

Verse 2:
Down at McDonald’s, they sip on lies,
While Fox News hums along,
They’ll curse the town and praise the crown,
And think they’re never wrong.
They talk about “tyranny”
As they ban each book they see,
And call themselves patriots,
While they kill democracy.

Chorus (repeat)
So I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
Proud of what Otto said,
He’s buildin’ a kingdom of nonsense,
Where the smart folks all have fled.
Yeah, I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
Wearin’ red hats till I’m dead,
Can’t afford a pool for our children,
But I’ll buy more ammo instead.

Bridge:
Now the council meets, and the truth retreats,
Behind another prayer,
They call it “freedom,” I call it “fraud,”
But no one seems to care.
So I’ll raise a glass to the good old days,
When facts still meant a thing,
Before the Hooples crowned their king.

Final Chorus:
No, I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
And I’ll quote what Otto said:
“Why swim in a pool when a pothole’ll do?”
That’s progress in my head.
Yeah, I ain’t a fool, I’m a Hooplehead,
Livin’ where brains are shed,
But someday this town will wake up,
And paint the future blue instead.

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A man suffering from mental illness controlling nuclear weapons

 

The Nuclear Near Miss — and the Trump Factor

Today’s New York Times features a chilling reminder: humanity has survived several close calls with nuclear war. Each time, disaster was averted not by luck, but by the wisdom and moral restraint of thoughtful, sane individuals—people who placed humanity above ego.

Now imagine those same split-second decisions in the hands of Donald Trump. The prospect should terrify every rational human being. Trump’s behavior has long made clear that he is unfit—his choices driven not by reason, compassion, or strategic thinking, but by narcissism and rage.

No nation, and certainly no planet, should have to depend on the impulse control of a man whose entire worldview revolves around self-glorification. The thought of a nuclear button resting under the trembling finger of a mentally unstable egomaniac should jolt us all awake.

When the future of civilization hangs on one person’s judgment, character matters. Intelligence and morality matter. Decency matters. The next time Americans choose their leaders, they should remember that survival itself may depend on it.

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Now I can be the asshole I always wanted to be

The King on his throne

Trump’s America: The Unmasking of Our Worst Instincts

Donald Trump has done something no other American president has dared — he has unlocked the darkest corners of the American psyche. Under his example, racists, haters, and the crudest voices in our society have stepped proudly into the light, waving their anger like a badge of honor.

Where decency once drew a line, Trump erased it. His public barrage of insults, slurs, and cruelty has become the new political language for those who mistake rage for strength. The man in the lifted pickup, flying his Trump flag and flipping off anyone who dares to disagree, is not an accident — he is a reflection of Trump’s America.

When Trump posted a video of himself flying a jet and literally defecating on his opponents, it wasn’t just a juvenile act — it was a declaration. It told every extremist and every bully: this is who we are now.

Trump hasn’t made America great. He has made hatred fashionable, made ignorance loud, and made cruelty acceptable. The question for the rest of us — the people who still believe in decency, truth, and humanity — is whether we will let this new “morality” become our national identity.

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