“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” Wendell Berry, “The Unsettling of America”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama, Super Tuesday speech, February 5, 2008 Barack Obama turns 65 today. Happy birthday, President Obama!
If you’re Donald Trump, that’s how you fight a war: with your eyes closed and your head lolling and your hand forever in the till raking in the bucks. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump’s leaning tower of incompetence
Here is how to fight a war against a determined enemy, according to Donald Trump.
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Me too… “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”
He’s a sick man. It’s on his face. It’s in his garbled syntax. It’s in his gait. It was on display at gold-leafless Camp David. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/mountain-w...
Mountain whine: Sick Donald Trump holds cabinet whimper-fest at Camp David
There is shrunken Trump seated between Rubio and Hegseth looking like a couple of unwilling pallbearers called at the last minute to serve at his funeral.
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“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick or, The Whale”
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." Primo Levi, "If This Is a Man"
“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.” Thorstein Veblen, “Absentee Ownership”
“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"
“every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint” Don Marquis, “certain maxims of archy” from “archy and mehitabel”
"The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking the language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them." Roger Tory Peterson
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”
He stood up there, when he finally woke up, and he insulted your colleagues and friends like Kaitlin Collins and others. They’re the ones you should be loyal to, and you just sat there and according to reports, looked uncomfortable and studied your phones. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/bended-kne...
Bended knees on the Potomac: White House Correspondents Dinner lives up to its reputation
Why didn’t you stand up, one by one, and walk out during Trump’s obscene tsunami of lies that he called a speech? White House correspondents, or D.C.
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"The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world." Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer”
“The tragedy of life…is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.” Raymond Chandler, “The Long Goodbye”
