Chpt 4 –
Outside Moscow. Putin’s dacha.
Putin’s walking in the woods outside his home. Wearing a T shirt and jeans, he’s accompanied by his dog and a Woman dressed in a grey pant suit.
Putin stops, picks up a stick from the ground, rears back and calling to his…
Trump is finishing addressing a huge rally, standing room only. A multitude of American flags are waving in the crowd. The noise dies down just so…
Trump (into the mike) — You know… I am here because of you… because you love me…and together… you and me… will MAKE AMERICA…
Talk of using the upcoming Winter Olympics to protest against China’s mistreatment of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang province has been gathering momentum.
A boycott of the games by diplomats only, has been mentioned, while others have proposed it should include the athletes themselves, corporate sponsors and even US spectators.
…
Trump strolls by himself in the White House lawn. It’s already dark. After a while he goes back inside and into the Oval Office. He sits at his desk.
Trump — I could’ve been more forceful. Melania’s right. Why wasn’t I? That’s my ghosts coming back to haunt me. Moral…
A few days ago, Mr Gosar, a Republican representative from Arizona, tweeted an anime video of himself ‘attacking a character with the face of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging a sword at a character with President Biden’s face,’ as reported by the WSJ.
This last Wednesday, the democratic majority…
Trump and Melania are sitting in their White House suite. At the table.
Melania — What happened?
Trump — Nothing. The press, as usual, is making much too much of it.
Melania — I was watching. I felt like I had been punched in the stomach.
Trump — Why?
Melania…
This play was written and published in 2018, soon after Trump and Putin’s conference in Helsinki. I will make it public in consecutive blogs and also in podcasts, anchor.fm, apple podcasts, buzzsprout etc.
Dear Mr Trump,
There is still time, dear sir,
It’s not too late,
For you to spark…
Immigration is at the core of our political antagonism but we’re not confronting the issue in a way that aims to resolve the matter.
There are several key themes to which we have not fully applied our ingenuity and thus linger partly unresolved. These themes are inequality, racism and immigration…
There are forces that affect us every day of our lives. One is Admiration.
Notice how much effort goes into stressing the differences between us. ‘Look at my Tesla. My Mercedes. Look at how I dress. Check out my handbag — designed by such and such. I live over there…
On Possible Settlements of About $450,000 per Immigrant (WSJ 11/1/2021)
They are now being proposed on behalf of immigrant families alleging trauma when parents and children were separated after they crossed the border — illegally — in 2018.
The separations occurred as part of the zero tolerance enforcement policy put…
