Arnie v. Trump

Click here for a three-minute video of Arnie (The Terminator) challenging Trump's support for coal -- bring back Blockbuster! (It's interrupted by a couple of annoying advertisements.)

Reverence For The Dear Leader

Click here for an article at Crooks & Liars by Frances Langum (Blue Gal), entitled "Open Thread: Fox News, Or NoKo State TV? YOU Decide!"

Accompanied by swelling, inspirational martial music, and video clips of Kim and Trump before their adoring fans, Fox News and Korean state TV praise their leaders -- notice any similarity?

President Trump has now accomplished what no other American president has ever had the vision or the courage to even attempt.

With our venerable Supreme Leader's acute intelligence and courageous leadership, the world is able to witness this zenith of world peace and a vital moment for our humanity.

*****

Only days ago, President Trump ushered in a new era of diplomacy.

Our venerable Supreme Leader comrade opened a new, triumphant era of diplomacy.

*****

This is something that many analysts and pundits thought was totally impossible.

Who could have imagined that this moment was possible?

*****

The president's continued success in his every undertaking, whether in domestic politics, international trade or foreign policy, President Trump standing taller than ever on the world stage ...

The venerable statesman, whose leadership has been verified by the world, our Supreme Leader comrade is a hero revered by all people.

*****

Donald Trump has instincts that are different than ours, but most often, 99% of the time, they tendd to be better than ours.

We have this world-respected outstanding statesman, a once-in-a-lifetime great man as our leader.

*****

And it's topped off with this expression of praise by Jeanine Pirro:

You simply can't comprehend the genius of Donald Trump. Our president has no fear!

How to Automatically Enable Windows 10's Dark Theme at Night

Click here for an article at How-To Geek entitled "How to Automatically Enable Windows 10's Dark Theme at Night."

(I did this, so I may need this article to find out how to make changes to -- or undo -- what I've done.)

Windows 10, Video Editor

Click here for an article at HTG (How-To Geek)by Chris Hoffman entitled "Hot to Use Windows 10's Hidden Video Editor."

Lippmann v. Dewey (1910s & 1920s)

Click here for an article dated October 2, 205, at The Electric Agora, entitled "Lippmann and Dewey: Debating Democracy in the Age of Metropolis."

Walter Lippmann, a journalist and social critic, made a name for himself through a series of works published in the 1910’s and 1920’s, in which he questioned the logic behind democracy and the capacity of the ordinary citizen to fulfill their civic obligations, in the industrial age. Having been disabused of any romantic notions about electoral politics and the machinery of democratic legislation by his teacher, British political scientist Graham Wallas, Lippmann would go on to argue for the idea that men commonly were not rational, and that the modern world was too complex for them to play the role that liberal democracy expected.

Philosopher and educator John Dewey agreed with Lippmann about the fundamental problem of an unenlightened populace to democracy, but where Lippmann advocated appointing advisory boards of experts to advise government, Dewey advocated political education of the masses. Lippmann saw the problem and sought a way around it; Dewey saw the same problem and sought to correct it. This article is relevant today, when a know-nothing demagogue has manipulated an ignorant, gullible populace into supporting changes detrimental to the well-being of American citizenry.

Trump Knows The Words To "God Bless America"! (nah, just kidding)

Click here to watch the president* sing along to some of the words to "God Bless America." (Courtesy of Charlie Pierce at Esquire.)

This Is Scary

Here is a chart of the popularity of post-war presidents among members of their own party after their first 500 days:



W., of course, was extraordinarily popular because he was still basking in the glory of his enormous popularity in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when the people would have rallied behind any president. That anomaly aside, Trump's the most popular president (among members of his own party) since they started tracking these things.