District 5 Diary
Rob Anderson's commentary on San Francisco politics from District 5
Monday, March 31, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
For once Trump is right
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Joel Engardio and the Great Highway
Labels: Engardio, Golden Gate Park, Great Highway, Homelessness, Neighborhoods
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Remembering Kevin Drum
Labels: California, Kevin Drum, Reading, Right and Left, The Repugnant Party
Monday, March 10, 2025
RFK Jr. pushes bogus medical cures
Labels: Health, RFK Jr., Science, Texas, The Repugnant Party, Vaccination
Trump rolls over for Putin
Labels: Russia, The Repugnant Party, Trump, Ukraine
Sunday, March 09, 2025
Saturday, March 08, 2025
Anti-Tesla, anti-Musk
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Labels: Anti-Car, Musk, Radical Right, Tech, The Repugnant Party
Why Trump is who he is
....Why does he needlessly make such objectively self-destructive moves? His tariffs certainly cannot be justified economically, and the predictable results are so severe they make even less political sense.We know that Trump—who reads nothing, lacks the least bit of curiosity, and surrounds himself with thick-headed sycophants—often gets fixated on a wrongheaded idea (e.g., NATO is ripping us off).When challenged by numerous informed people, he digs deeper into his ignorant stances. Agreement with him (or at the very least silent acquiescence) becomes a sign of MAGA loyalty.Trump delights in playing the schoolyard bully. He is entirely uninterested in whether Americans get hurt or not.Similarly, he seems thrilled with his ability to threaten loyal allies (e.g. Denmark), as he did in his speech to Congress, simply because he can....
Labels: The Repugnant Party, Ttump
Don't play dead
Labels: Democratic Party, The Repugnant Party, Trump
Thursday, March 06, 2025
Hot Tesla market: Burn baby burn
Torched Teslas |
Labels: Fire, Musk, The Repugnant Party
Political censorship
Anti-Semitic? |
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Art, Gaza, History, Immigration, Israel, Trump, Vietnam
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Elon Musk: Scientist
Labels: Animal Rights, Musk, Radical Right, Science, The Repugnant Party
Monday, March 03, 2025
Trump: Appeasing Russia is US policy
Andrew Harnik (Getty Images) |
Labels: History, Radcal Right, Russia, The Repugnant Party, Trump
Sunday, March 02, 2025
Saturday, March 01, 2025
Vote for Republicans, you get this
Rob's comment:
What did you expect? Vote for assholes, you get shit. Trump is the biggest asshole in American history, and Republicans make him president. We need to make the Repugnant Party pay for this disaster in every election---local, state, national---from now on.
Labels: History, Radcal Right, The Repugnant Party, Trump, Vance
Friday, February 28, 2025
Is Trump a Russian agent?
Susan Glasser today in The New Yorker:
Is Trump literally a Russian agent?
Trump shames the US by bullying Zelensky
Are we the bad guys now?
“Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine,” Cheney wrote in a post on the social platform X. “History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.”
Recall how in his first term Trump betrayed and denigrated the Kurds.
Putin is pleased with Trump |
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Trump's Russian ties
Trump and Putin |
Labels: History, Russia, The Repugnant Party, Trump
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Trump's toxic Gaza fantasy
Trump's fantasy |
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump declared at the press conference with Netanyahu. “We’ll own it, get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area....do something different, just can’t go back, if you go back, it’s gonna end up the same way it has for 100 years.”
Labels: Gaza, Musk, The Repugnant Party, Trump
Elon Musk's empire: Billions in military contracts
Labels: Animal Rights, Musk, Science, Tech, The Repugnant Party, Trump, Ukraine