First consideration: is there anyone they love? If you need a definition of love you are out of this conversation. Think of Trump: who does (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Alito Tears His Britches
06/10/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn response to a person declaring that as a faithful Catholic she doesn’t see how the Left can be worked with, read compromised with, and (Continue Reading)
The real shift
03/27/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor all my life I and my friends have gently ridiculed conservatives and their “bible based” crack-pot ideas about lost tribes and the naked greed (Continue Reading)
How does Trump survive?
03/08/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentI don’t mean politically; I mean mentally. Here’s an example: most observers with more than 2 intact brain cells noticed in Trump’s quoting of a (Continue Reading)
What bugs you most about MAGA people?
01/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsIs it possibly that they go on the internet, read whatever strikes their interest and supports their presuppositions and then think it’s true? In another (Continue Reading)
I’ve got my pride
12/05/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife tells me how the White folk driving through Phoenix and running out of gas and money would come to the Black churches for (Continue Reading)
Of the four counts against Trump……….
08/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote (Continue Reading)
Rebels……….really?
07/12/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo one is going to protest a 50+ year high school reunion where to old and now replaced mascot was a Confederate soldier known as (Continue Reading)
Our very own Golem
06/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)
At the Jailhouse Door
06/13/2023 Pat Barrett 1 CommentAs Trump is finally facing accountability under Jack Smith, we will want to project Trump’s “coverage” in our nation’s history textbooks. He will be reviled (Continue Reading)
A silly plot come true
04/29/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentA recent television series depicts a British Prime Minister who hires an international assassin to blow up a British ship so he can take credit (Continue Reading)
Lost Cause Redux
04/21/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe Lost Cause is an affectionate term to refer to the “cause” of slavery. The Lost Cause was followed by The Fascist Terror State. The (Continue Reading)
The Hearings
06/10/2022 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsTake aways: Videographer testified Proud Boys left the Ellipsis before Trump even arrived, clearly to reconnoiter the Capitol, depending on Trump to send the crowd (Continue Reading)
Gohmert unleashed
06/03/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentFinally, we see the true face of the far right. Louie Gohmert tapped into his inner Jim Jordan on TV yesterday, 6-2-22, and spewed his (Continue Reading)
One commentator’s take on our political situation
05/13/2022 Pat Barrett 1 CommentLawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC’s The Last Word began his show May 10th saying the world does not understand us, the U.S. Looking at the SCOTUS (Continue Reading)
Speculation on leaked draft opinion re Roe
05/13/2022 Pat Barrett 6 CommentsPre-decision:The purpose of the release may have been to:elicit massive protests eliciting ‘adjustments’ in the opinion.force wavers, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, to firm up so as (Continue Reading)
I find conservatism egregiously wrong
05/08/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentI find conservatism egregiously wrong from the start (unless you like living in a cave)………..and its reasoning exceptionally weak (no change unless it benefits me) (Continue Reading)
All Snakes Have a Backbone
04/25/2022 Pat Barrett 3 CommentsOur Arizona Representative, Ruben Gallego, thought through Mike Pence’s refusal to get into the car to whisk him away from danger and realize it was (Continue Reading)
What is a statesman?
04/22/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe have a contrast. When it became clear that Nixon had to go, it was Republicans, including, most famously, Barry Goldwater, who went to him (Continue Reading)
Do you really doubt it………..?
01/15/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen I saw the faces of the young people caught up in the police dragnet in Belarus, I saw the future of our children and (Continue Reading)
Reason in, Reason out
01/05/2022 Pat Barrett 3 CommentsMichael Steele, former RNC chair, said a friend asked him a good question concerning the Trump/Insurrection supporters: how do you reason someone out of a (Continue Reading)
What I Am Most Proud Of
12/10/2021 Pat Barrett 6 CommentsIn his Atlantic article, “Are We Doomed?” George Packer has two lines that went to something I’ve been saying ever since the rise of Trump. (Continue Reading)
The Fascists Among Us
11/14/2021 Pat Barrett 6 CommentsHaven’t you met natural fascists? Don’t give me the salesman b.s. about “I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.” You know who they are, (Continue Reading)