Category: Opinion

Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser

Cartoon. (09/08/25)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2551

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“Multiple advocacy organizations representing military families, including the Sarah Stryder Initiative and the Chamberlain Network, have reported an influx of affected service members contacting them to express their disgust with Trump’s mission in the City of Angels. At least 105 members of this deployment have also sought counseling from behavioral health offices and at least one company commander and one battalion commander have been reassigned after expressing their objections to Trump’s orders. This is fertile soil for mutiny which anti-fascists would be wise to sow. History is rife with examples of disgruntled soldiers leading open revolts that ultimately led to the downfall of the very regimes they were tasked with fortifying.” (09/07/25)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/nothing-fights-fascism-like-mutiny-call.html

Source: Fox News
by David Marcus

“In the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversation and controversy over advertising. First, we had the wild allegation that American Eagle jeans ads with Sydney Sweeney were racist, then a kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel logo. Ever since trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney popped open his first Bud Light, advertising has seemed less and less like an effort to sell widgets and more and more like ground zero in our society’s culture wars. An early example of an ad that had significant backlash was in April 2017, when Pepsi aired a spot with Kendall Jenner in which she magically subdues angry protests by offering everyone a soda. Reaction from the left was swift and angry.” (09/08/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-our-last-shared-experience-its-shaping-culture-wars

Source: The Hill
by Corey Kvasnick

“They are now painting the border wall black. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that, at President Trump’s request, the steel fence along our southern border will be coated in dark paint so it heats under the sun and becomes harder to climb. But isn’t that like decorating the house before you’ve built the roof? This structure, once Trump’s rallying cry, has been lost in all the noise of his second term. I had nearly forgotten it myself, until I saw pictures of men with paint rollers freshening up the unfinished monument. The image is striking: darkened to intimidate, a monument less to function than to appearance. It is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency.” (09/07/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5486806-unfinished-wall-trump-presidency/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kyle Anzalone

“President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that India and Russia are now firmly tied to China and have drifted away from the US orbit. Trump also demanded that Europe end Russian oil imports and place pressure on China. ‘Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!’ Trump wrote on Friday. The post is a response to a trilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi, Russian President Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Modi. … Trump appears to be prepared to force countries to choose between their relations with the US or Russia and China.” (09/07/25)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-looks-like-we-lost-india-and-russia-to-china

Source: The Atlantic
by Scott Lincicome

“When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse — economists warned that the experiment would end badly. They were right. Over decades of rule by Perón and his successors, a country that had once been among the world’s wealthiest nations devolved into a global laughingstock, with uncontrollable inflation, routine fiscal crises, rampant corruption, and crippling poverty. Peronism became a cautionary tale of how not to manage an economy. President Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.” (09/07/25)

https://archive.is/kz3vP

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen

“In March, Democrats faced a decision: shut down the government over the litany of lawless actions and usurped spending powers by the Trump administration, or fall in line. They decided not to fight, reinforcing the fundamental fault lines in current-day Democratic politics between weakness and fortitude. Fast-forward six months and Democrats have the same decision. The government spending that was extended for the full fiscal year by a continuing resolution in March runs out at the end of the month. Twelve appropriations bills aren’t going to be passed in a few weeks, so some stopgap continuing resolution will probably be offered for a vote. Any spending bill, needed by September 30, will require 60 votes in the Senate (because of the Senate filibuster), meaning Democrats will have to supply some of them if it’s going to pass.” (09/08/25)

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-08-democrats-bet-on-briefly-preventing-health-insurance-apocalypse/

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.” (09/07/25)

https://www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter

“On face value, many observers took Trump’s pledge to mean a more hawkish posture by this administration with some on the left and right having a negative reaction to the possible change. He also appears to associate the old name with winning, like a talisman. Unfortunately, aside from Persian Gulf I, most Americans associate World War II as the last time they associate America with ‘winning’ a major war. But for others, even non-interventionists and foreign policy realists, the name change is just more honest.” (09/05/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/department-of-war/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“There is one good part of President Trump’s war on immigrants: He is proving a point I have long been making — that to win the war on immigrants, it is necessary to destroy freedom in America. Thus, with his war on immigrants, Trump is unwittingly putting Americans, including pro-immigration-control libertarians, in an interesting quandary: Should one continue to support America’s system of immigration controls even though it means forever giving up hope of living in a genuinely free society or should one instead support a system of open borders with the aim of achieving a genuinely free society?” (09/05/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/09/05/the-one-good-part-of-trumps-war-on-immigrants/