PRAGMATIC ISSUES

  • The Thirst Trap Presidency

    By Solin | Pragmatic Issues Everyone wants him. Not in the noble way you want a leader. In the same way you cannot look away from a reality show that should have been cancelled five seasons ago. The cameras cannot quit him. The headlines feed him. The microphones practically drool. America has fallen for its…

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  • Stop ACA subsidies, by Donald Trump

    The latest stunt from Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of political tantrums is a demand to alter ACA subsidies in the middle of a government shutdown. The move is as strategic as throwing gasoline on a kitchen fire and then demanding applause for the brightness of the flames. He has taken a nation already staggering under…

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  • Chicago Bleeds While Washington Counts the Votes

    Chicago woke up to sirens again. This time it was not a school shooting or a freeway crash. It was immigration enforcement. Federal agents rolled into Little Village before dawn with their bulletproof vests, rifles, and scripted lines about public safety. A man opened fire on them from a black Jeep. No one was killed,…

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  • A Filibuster Fix or a Portability Trick?

      Mr. President, Is This About Guarding America or Guarding Your Agenda Donald Trump is clinging to his demand to kill the Senate filibuster. He says it is time to stop gridlock and start “getting things done.” That sounds noble until you realize that what he really means is “getting his things done.” He has…

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  • South Park’s Homegrown Heroes Torch Trump in a Season of Savage Colorado Satire

    Colorado’s Comedic Guerillas –  South Park’s Homegrown Boys Are Still Torch­ing Trump and Laughing All the Way to the Avalanche   By Solin for Pragmatic Issues   Somewhere high in the Rockies, between the smell of pine, skunkweed, and irony, two Colorado boys are still doing divine mischief. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of…

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  • Supreme Court Just Proved It’s About as “Supreme” as a Big Mac Under a Heat Lamp

    The Supreme Court just decided that feeding Americans is optional. In an emergency order Friday, the Court sided with the Trump administration and temporarily blocked full SNAP food-aid payments, a move that reads less like justice and more like a late-night impulse swipe on political Tinder. Let’s be clear. The administration illegally froze funding that…

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  • Trump’s Newfound Obsession With ‘Affordability’ Is About as Believable as His Old Hairline

    Donald Trump says that 2026 will be the “year of affordability.” Adorable, really, like watching an arsonist promise to start a fire department. Because if there’s one thing Trump knows how to do, it’s drive prices up, gut safety nets, and then sell the ashes back to us as luxury condos. His administration’s latest slogan,…

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  • The Backlash Is Here And Even JD Vance Can’t Calm Trump’s Tantrum

    By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com There’s a certain poetic justice in watching the self-proclaimed master of winning lose his composure. As Democrats notched key election night victories across several states, Donald Trump didn’t congratulate, didn’t self-reflect, no, no he detonated. “And so it begins,” he posted, as if democracy itself were a personal insult. HuffPost called…

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  • Stop Calling It a Civil War — You’re Just Cheapening Journalism

    Aaron Parnas, his every headline screams civil war, then none of them mean a damn thing. America doesn’t need more panic peddlers, it needs reporters who remember what truth sounds like. Damn I tried to stick up for the journalists when the white house kicked you out… Today a headline screamed across social feeds: “Internal…

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