Meanwhile the “Orange Jesus” Continues to Parrot Hitler, and President Joe Biden Calls Trump an ‘Insurrectionist’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to get excited about celebrating Christmas — or Hanukkah for that matter — when your country is torn asunder by war. So there won’t be…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everything has changed since Donald Trump cheated and got himself elected president in 2016. All of us true believers in American democracy were naive, including the top public opinion pollsters and journalists. Almost no one gave him a chance. Now many of the same…
But She Get’s Her Moment in the Sun Taking on the Orange Jesus – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Allow me to be facetious for a couple of minutes to set this up. Back in the good old days before 24-hour cable news and the internet, Congress would be…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everyone should remember this day elevon months from now on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Election Day — because of what I’m about to say. As the one American journalist and public opinion analyst who predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidential election of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing will make us healthier or happier in America when we never have to hear about or talk about Donald Trump ever again. The country and the world would be a much better place if the most corrupt politician in American history would just…
Apparently Not at the Hawk ‘n’ Dove – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government is so dysfunctional here that it might well lead one to seek out strong drink. But where to go? Are bars as divided as members of Congress these days? The government dysfunction is especially…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you like reading news online but hate paywalls and popup ads? There is a solution. But it will take a smart law firm to file the right kind of legal case against Google and Meta to bring it about. It has long been…
“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” – Walter Lippmann The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — What image pops into your head when you see or hear someone say, “That’s cool, man?”…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As if we needed any more evidence to backup our unique name for the so-called “Freedom Caucus,” a new book and review show that a far right movement of MAGA Republicans in the House should be called the “Dixie Caucus,” because the brain trust…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Who is the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson? Let his own words reveal all. “It’s no secret that I am a steadfast Christian and man of God,” Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told supporters in recent fundraising emails. But in…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It may be too little too late, or too little too soon, but at least the Biden administration is trying to do something to try keeping people grounded in reality. What are the Christo Fascists in the House doing other than trying to push…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was just a matter of time. Too bad we don’t have televangelist Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell around anymore to remind us so we can run stories making fun of them. Give Mike Johnson, the new Louisiana Christian conservative Speaker of the House,…
“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.” – John Adams The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s no good excuse these days to be ignorant about anything. Any information you want or…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everybody knows the dice are loaded. Gamblers may roll with their fingers crossed. But the war is not over. It never ends, even though the good guys already lost. The fight was fixed. And the poor stay poor, while the rich just get richer.…
Gonzo Journalism – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Man, I was all mentally prepared for a government shutdown. I was dreaming of sleeping late every morning and taking a long unpaid vacation from having to pay attention to the morons making a mockery of running the Congress of the United States. But nooo!…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With all the clouds of gloom and doom rocking the world, there are still days when a little light shines through with portents that could hint at a chance of better days to come. It’s a long shot, but I think we should cling…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So I heard on CBS radio while riding around in a large campground near the nation’s capital in a Ford Escape hybrid that Rupert Murdoch announced his retirement from News Corp at the age of 92. By the time I got back to the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s face it, there are times in this crazy world and this funny business when the only recourse in the face of imminent disaster is to call up the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson, the doctor of Gonzo Journalism. Now is such a time,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending some time this week thinking about the world of 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London published Principia Mathematica — with a little MAGA Republican distraction thrown in — I’ve stumbled on to another epiphany. Newton’s Laws Work:…
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” ― Sir Isaac Newton The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sitting here in front of a big screen hooked up to the internet on a late summer morning and wondering what to say about a nagging…
