Contra Trump 六幺四 The 14th of June 2025 is No Kings Day in the United States of America. It is also the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army and, as misfortune would have it, US President Donald J Trump’s 79th birthday.… Read

Contra Trump 呐喊   In America’s Real Cold War, an earlier chapter in Contra Trump & America’s Empire of Tedium, we used the Chinese rubric 苦迭打 kǔdiédǎ, or coup d’état, a term famously employed by Lin Biao, Mao Zedong’s key military co-conspirator in the Cultural Revolution, in a speech he made on 18 May 1966.… Read

Contra Trump 十字街頭 I swear I am not making this up. Tonight Trump will go to the Kennedy Center to see “Les Miserables,” a play about a mass uprising against a tyrannical king.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη,
ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν Tell me the tale of a man, Muse, who had so many roundabout ways
To wander, driven off course after sacking Troy’s hallowed keep.…… Read

Contra Trump 君者，舟也。庶人者，水也。
水則載舟，水則覆舟。 Previously in Contra Trump we featured Sebastian Brandt’s Narrenschiff (‘Ship of Fools’) when discussing a pro-Trump regime-adjacent ideologue. See Ready Player One — the Narrenschiff of American Gods.… Read

Contra Trump 直言無諱   It has been a graduation season unlike any other. The Trump administration is investigating elite universities and cutting research funding. Pro-Palestinian activism and claims of antisemitism are shaping campus life.… Read