Rich Beck
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January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Name any institution that is a basic and necessary component of the kind of society you want to live in and right now the United States either does not have one or it has a fundamentally broken one.
We’re not even close. Nothing that is comfortable or familiar will even begin to fix this.
We’re not even close. Nothing that is comfortable or familiar will even begin to fix this.
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Name any institution that is a basic and necessary component of the kind of society you want to live in and right now the United States either does not have one or it has a fundamentally broken one.
We’re not even close. Nothing that is comfortable or familiar will even begin to fix this.
We’re not even close. Nothing that is comfortable or familiar will even begin to fix this.
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“The world now appears to be at the mercy of a 79-year-old egomaniac…there is no doctrine, no philosophy, no sense to what America will do next.
“Foreign policy relies on predictability and stability, and Trump is allergic to both—and with no-one around him either able or willing to rein him in.”
“Foreign policy relies on predictability and stability, and Trump is allergic to both—and with no-one around him either able or willing to rein him in.”
Trump promised Maga the US wouldn't police the world - now it's running Venezuela
The world now watches on with astonishment, fear and horror - what's next?
inews.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“The world now appears to be at the mercy of a 79-year-old egomaniac…there is no doctrine, no philosophy, no sense to what America will do next.
“Foreign policy relies on predictability and stability, and Trump is allergic to both—and with no-one around him either able or willing to rein him in.”
“Foreign policy relies on predictability and stability, and Trump is allergic to both—and with no-one around him either able or willing to rein him in.”
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If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
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This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?
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And the complicity of 53 GOP Senators, 200+ US Reps, 6 members of Roberts/Taney Court
Plus Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg/Thiel/Ellison tech allies. The law firms, universities, corporations, etc that cowered. And ICE thugs.
There are more of us than of them. But for now they have the controls.
And the complicity of 53 GOP Senators, 200+ US Reps, 6 members of Roberts/Taney Court
Plus Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg/Thiel/Ellison tech allies. The law firms, universities, corporations, etc that cowered. And ICE thugs.
There are more of us than of them. But for now they have the controls.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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And the complicity of 53 GOP Senators, 200+ US Reps, 6 members of Roberts/Taney Court
Plus Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg/Thiel/Ellison tech allies. The law firms, universities, corporations, etc that cowered. And ICE thugs.
There are more of us than of them. But for now they have the controls.
And the complicity of 53 GOP Senators, 200+ US Reps, 6 members of Roberts/Taney Court
Plus Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg/Thiel/Ellison tech allies. The law firms, universities, corporations, etc that cowered. And ICE thugs.
There are more of us than of them. But for now they have the controls.