PRAGMATIC ISSUES

Commentary

  • A Presidency Mistaken for Power

      Donald Trump believes history bends to will. It does not. It bends to competence, restraint, and perception, none of which were present. There is something quietly pitiful about Donald Trump insisting that only death could stop him. It is the statement of a man who has mistaken noise for authority and longevity for inevitability.

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  • ICE Is Not Law Enforcement.

    It’s a Political Weapon With a Badge.     There is something almost darkly comic about officials insisting there is “nothing wrong” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as its operations continue to leave bodies, lawsuits, and shattered communities in their wake.     The joke, of course, is not funny to the people on the

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  • Trump’s ‘Peace’ Is Just Ego With a Passport

    Recently during an interview Trump spoke about peace. Donald Trump claims that he has ended wars and doesn’t need to confront Vladimir Putin because they “get along”. This is not diplomacy. It is a delusion, created from the mind of a very mentally ill man. And it is far more dangerous than open aggression.  

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  • Kidnapping Leaders, Threatening Fates

    How Trump Just Taught the World That the Rules Are Dead   When a US president openly threatens a foreign leader with a “fate worse than Maduro’s,” he is not posturing. He is signalling the end of restraint—and inviting every strongman on Earth to follow suit. The Atlantic put it plainly and without euphemism: “Trump

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  • America’s Intervention in Venezuela is Unlawful and The Precedent is Alarming

      The seizure of a foreign leader and plans for external governance violate core principles of international law and expose how quickly power can be substituted for process. There Is No Legal Basis for America’s Seizure of Venezuela Strip away the moral language and the Trump administration’s action in Venezuela collapses into something far simpler

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  • Three Men, One System, and the Lie We Keep Defending

    There is a reason this image makes people recoil. It is not because it is rude, or partisan, or unfair. It is because it collapses decades of denial into a single, unavoidable truth, much of the world’s current instability can be traced back to leaders who have stayed far too long, learned nothing new, and

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  • This Is What Moral Collapse Looks Like

      Let’s dispense with the cowardly qualifiers. Not that I blame him, I actually stand up for JD Vance who told a white Christian nationalist who insulted JD’s wife to “Eat Shit.” I don’t dislike that statement at all. But then again I stand for all women and…any man that defends them. Then again this

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  • We Traded Action for Algorithms and Pretended It Was Resistance

    The documentary Breakdown (1975) is not nostalgic comfort viewing. It is a rebuke. The documentary captures a period when political anger did not end with expression but moved, slowly and relentlessly, toward consequence. Organizing was physical. Pressure was sustained. People showed up repeatedly, often anonymously, and often at personal cost. There were no metrics to

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  • Two Cents for Me, Millions Missing for You… and Then the Disaster Check Gets Denied

    Colorado does not have a money problem. It has an accountability allergy. Time for a break from the Epstein files for something closer to home. If I’m two cents short on a tax payment, the federal government knows instantly. Not eventually. Not after an audit. Instantly. Letters appear. Deadlines harden. Interest accumulates. The system is

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