THIS IS A GREAT METAPHOR FOR TRUMP’S INNER CIRCLE AND MOST CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS
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‘A combination of amazement and horror’: Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes
13 May 2026 Leave a comment
in Political Humor Tags: Anal, Congressional Republicans, Donald Trump, Hitchhiker fish, inner circle, sucker fish
A FAST RISING, BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP
08 Feb 2026 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Alex Pretti, An American Spring, Donald Trump, ICE Murder, Politics, Renee Good, Trauma, Trump's Gestapo
Not only has Trump ignored the US economy as it pertains to the working class, even as his actions are sending the stock market—mostly owned by multi-millionaires/billionaires—to record-breaking highs, among his worst atrocities is purposely and indifferently traumatizing small children for life.
Reading The Guardian recently, I came across an opinion piece by Moira Donegan, Republicans are the party of separating and destroying families. Never forget that.
Her first two paragraphs—next two paragraphs—are especially disturbing when we remember that Trump is just getting started, having spent most of his first year of his second term transforming America into a budding police state and an authoritarian oligarchy. And he is building, at taxpayer expense, a personal army of masked, unidentifiable, and unaccountable thugs (not unlike the Nazi Gestapo in the early to mid 20th century) that is virtually immune to brutally beating immigrants as well as US citizens—even immune to murder. He has, in his own words and actions, made it clear that cruelty, even to small children, is the point.
“Of the 3,800 children and infants taken into immigration custody between January and October of 2025, a majority – 2,600 – were detained by ICE officers. That means that the children, as young as one or two years old, were not arrested at the border or legal ports of entry, where asylum seekers frequently present themselves to border officers, but inside the country.
“That means that those children were not new arrivals seeking help; they were kids going about their daily lives in the US, often with legal status. They were children like Liam Conejo Ramos, aged five, who was snatched from his driveway after school by immigration agents while wearing a blue bunny hat to keep him warm in the Minnesota cold. They are children like one student, a 17-year-old from Liam’s school district in Minnesota, who was taken from their car, or the other child, a 10-year-old girl in the fourth grade, who was taken alongside her mother; or the two other boys, brothers in the second and fifth grades, who were delivered by school officials to an ICE detention center after their mother was arrested and taken there. She had called the school to ask them to bring her boys to her in the prison; there was no one else to take care of them.”
Every citizen, republican, independent or democrat, who has the capacity to be angry with Trump’s brutality and building an uncountable army to occupy US cities, kill immigrants and citizens, and traumatize small children for life, and who, no doubt, plans to use that army to hijack the mid-term elections, must stand up, protest every way you can, and vote blue!
The Continuing Crucifixion of Liberty in the USA
18 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in Acts of the Ignoble, America's shame, Antipathy, Corruption in the U.S. Government, Religious Indoctrination, Right-wing Deception Tags: Animal Farm, Blaspheme, Christianity, Crucifixion, Donald Trump, Politics, religion, Republican Party, Theocracy
The Crucifixion of Liberty, created by Max T. Furr on 7/18/2024
I am reminded of a quote from George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm: “All Animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
As it turns out, Animal Farm may be the perfect allegory for the USA if the Trump-Vance team assumes the “throne” in November. Non-Christian Americans may be facing the darkest future of all—the return of inforced anti-blasphemy laws across the nation.
According to an editorial today in The Guardian by Sidney Blumenthal, “Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee endorsed the party platform, a document that contained a plank pledging to create a new federal agency to defend Christian nationalism: ‘To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America.’”
When far-right Christians speak of religious freedom, they do not mean religious freedom for all, because they’ve never accepted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of conscience for every citizen in matters of religion. They want Christian dominance in American society, i.e., a theocracy.
Therefore, the only way to prevent such an occurrence is for either a Democratic President to win in November or for congressional Democrats to gain a supermajority in Congress.
FUNDAMENTALISM: A Powerful, Mental Growth Inhibitor
06 Feb 2018 4 Comments
in Child abuse, Childhood Development, propaganda, Religious Indoctrination, Uncategorized Tags: Christianity, Donald Trump, propaganda, racism, Rural America
(Photo: Wikimedia commons)
A child is born neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Muslim, nor atheist, nor an adherent to any other brand of religious or philosophical order. A child is born a human being with an ability to learn and from this raw material society builds her walls of nationalism, [prejudice] and religious certitude —Max T. Furr, The Empathy Imperative
An insider explains how rural Christian white America has a dark and terrifying underbelly
FORSETTI’S JUSTICE, ALTERNET
06 FEB 2018 AT 02:20 ET
As the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: “Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”
Trump supporters are saying this. Progressive pundits are saying this. Talking heads across all forms of the media are saying this. Even some Democratic leaders are saying this. It doesn’t matter how many people say it, it is complete BS. It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to draw attention away from the real problem. The real problem isn’t East Coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is that rural Americans don’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of the choices they’ve made and the horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe.
Read more at https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/
07 Feb 2017 9 Comments
in Acts of the Ignoble, America's shame, Antipathy, Political Cartoon, Uncategorized Tags: Christianity, Donald Trump, ethics, Islam, morality, paranoia, religion, Social Justice
I have vetted the following Dr. Seuss cartoon on Snopes. It is TRUE and a very chilling affirmation that history does, indeed, repeat itself (in varying ways).
— Max T. Furr is author of The Empathy Imperative, a philosophical novel exploring the nature justice and religious belief.
Was Descartes wrong and God was a deceiver, after all?
Consider that if the Christian Bible were true (sans contradictions), then what would that say of objective science, such as astronomy, biological evolution and medical research? Indeed, what would it say about logic and the Creator, Itself?
What would the world be like had it been created by a truly benevolent god and our primary motivating force was empathy, not self interest? How, indeed, with the human condition as it is, could we achieve such a world either via a god or by humanism?
Join Professor M. Jefferson Hale as, in part II, he puts God on the witness stand in an ethereal court to answer for Its malfeasance and terrorism.
Donald Trump Needs an Appropriate Moniker
22 Jan 2017 7 Comments
in Antipathy, Childhood Development, Dishoner Tags: authoritarian, Captain Queeg, Donald Trump, narcissism, paranoia, psychology, Rex Tillerson, The Caine Mutiny
Captain Philip Francis Queeg
AMERICA, MEET DONALD (CAPTAIN QUEEG) TRUMP,” a real-life version of the fictional Captain Philip Francis Queeg of the minesweeper USS Caine. The Caine Mutiny, was the 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Herman Wouk, and subsequently became, in 1954, a five-star movie starring Humphrey Bogart—one of my all-time favorites.
The “Queeg” moniker came to me yesterday after months of observing and listening to Trump’s unstable lashing out at virtually anyone of note (and some not-so-much of note) from whom he perceives an insult and his consistent display of an uber authoritarian persona. It reminded me of Captain Queeg’s monomaniacal obsession with strict discipline—dominating and micromanaging his crew—which easily distracted him from his primary duties in WWII.
I recalled Queeg’s paranoia, his turning the Cain inside out in a search to find the thief of a can of strawberries, his demanding that no one may interrupt him while he’s talking, his intolerance of being contradicted and his angry rebuke of a subordinate while his ship steamed over its own tow cable.
Considering this juxtaposition with Trump, his presidency is chilling on many levels, especially that he’s now in possession of the nation’s nuclear missile launch codes (Dr. Strangelove comes to mind), his global-warming denial and his intention to go full bore in opening up more land to drilling for fossil fuels, a bow to the Kochs and which includes rescinding the sanctions on Russia for the sake of huge profits for Exxon Mobile (the corporation of Rex Tillerson—Trump’s nomination for Secretary of State and likely confirmed on Jan. 23rd).
As for Trumps thin skin, in my mind he needs some early conditioning on how to thicken it. Since his subordinates in the White House and most congressional conservatives likely are sycophants (yes men) who would bow to his demands for no other reason than for profit and power (although I hope the military types are not so greedy and demonstrate the integrity his Wall Streeters are not likely to display), his education is left to the public.
I will, henceforth, refer to him as Capt. Queeg, until and unless he proves me wrong. I won’t, however, bet the farm. I hope others adopt this view as well.
I once thought that GW Bush was much like Queeg and suggested as much in my novel, The Empathy Imperative, but at least Bush’s insecurity left him open to manipulation (mainly by Cheney). Trump, however, masks his insecurity in extreme narcissism and hostility, therefore, he is not likely controllable.
TRUMP’S TRUE REASON FOR NOMINATING REX TILLERSON FOR SECRETARY OF STATE: Lust, lies, and videotape
14 Jan 2017 2 Comments
in Acts of the Ignoble, Dishoner, Injustice, Intellectual Dishonesty Tags: Donald Trump, Exxon, Follow the Money, Rachel Maddow, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Secretary of State, Vladimir Putin
Hope you don’t have combustible hair. Rachel Maddow brings a bit of history to what leads up to the reason for Trump’s selection of Tillerson and why they are so friendly with Putin.
As always, FOLLOW THE MONEY:
ONGOING: The Greatest Heist in History
06 Apr 2016 8 Comments
in Antipathy, Con Games Tags: Corporatocracy, Donald Trump, Indifference, oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wall Street
From Bloomberg Businessweek
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States
Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business.
Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew Penney, a managing director at Rothschild & Co., gave a talk on how the world’s wealthy elite can avoid paying taxes.
–’tis I, Don Quixote, fighting corporate windmills–Image from Pinterest
And From Spiegel Online
Oligarchs and dictators’ daughters apparently have a penchant for bunkering their assets on the British Virgin Islands. Barons and composers, on the other hand, seem to prefer the Cook Islands. To cheat on taxes, they create bogus firms with imaginative names like Tantris, Moon Crystal or Sequoia.
. . . and conservatives in the U.S. blame the poor and the working poor for being poor.
Can there be a better argument for voting for Bernie Sanders for president and progressive candidates for Congress?
The greatest sin of humankind is indifference to poverty and suffering. Think about it! GET THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS! VOTE FOR PROGRESSIVES!
Max T. Furr is author of The Empathy Imperative, a philosophical novel featuring a trial of God. A bold story that takes a logical look at the god of the Abrahamic Religions.
Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?–from Plato’s dialogue, Euthyphro–a Socratic dialogue.
Is an act of God just and right because god does it, or does God do only that which is just and right?–Author’s paraphrase
An Evil Demigod in the White House 
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