The Launchpad

Category: Politics

  • State of the Union, 2025

    As promised, here it is. If you thought my criticism of the Democrats was scathing, this is probably going to ruffle a few more feathers. Let’s keep in mind, this guy is the duly-elected President of the United States of America. Customarily, the President starts off every year by giving a rousing speech detailing the…

  • The Piss-Stench of Fear and Weakness

    Long ago, Republican acolyte and political strategist extraordinaire Lee Atwater (one of the people responsible for the Nixon and Reagan Administrations) allegedly stated that “perception was reality” in terms of how the American public viewed politics. He was entirely correct, and under his guidance the Republican Party successfully framed Jimmy Carter as a weak, fearful,…

  • Idiocy In Action

    Elon Musk is a wealthy, powerful man who has bought his way into the Oval Office, the U.S. Government and the Republican and Democratic Parties. He is a venture capitalist, an investor and has some understanding of engineering and software. One thing he is not is a historian. In the aftermath of World War II,…

  • A Futile Mission

    Today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky visited the Oval Office for a photo op and meeting with President Trump, Vice-President Vance and the greater American political caste. As usual, the American President was completely untethered from reality and historical connection. Trump and Zelensky have interacted before (Zelensky was elected in 2019 and was famously the other…

  • Water Doesn’t Flow Uphill

    So, it’s been nearly a decade since I last used this platform, so please bear with me. Today, I’m sitting on the edge of entering middle age, and I’m quite a bit wiser than I was when I used to write screeds on Facebook.  A lot has changed in the last decade. Not so much…

  • J.A.G.

    Back in the 1990s, Donald Bellisario, a TV producer, was looking for his next great idea. After what I presume was an incredibly boring night of whatever old people did in the early 1990s, he came up with the idea of a show about military lawyers. Paramount bought it, ran it for ten seasons, and…