Or is that “Tranos” or “Thrump”? Well anyway, the idea for this hit me a month or so ago and I spent most of the morning committing iPad Pro and Apple Pencil toward making it happen. Obviously a homage to the classic cover of The Infinity Gauntlet #4 from 1991:
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Visiting the Reagan Presidential Library over a year ago impressed upon me the Gipper’s charm and cordiality toward Gorbachev. Yet Reagan was also fiercely resolute in his conviction that people desire to forge their own destinies. It was the two Cold War leaders riding horses together as much as it was Reagan’s defiance at the Brandenburg Gate that ended the threat of communism in Europe.
It was a fine example of the “neo-noblesse oblige” that had been the template since World War II. Countless perished in that conflict due in no small amount to the failure of “gentleman diplomacy” on the part of the upper crust. But for its time, that was sanity. And then a new sanity dawned with the rising of a false sun over Hiroshima.
Yet Ronald Reagan… was insane. Or so we were told by pundits and academics.
Speaking of peace while drastically building up the ...
You are waking up to something that most of us never, ever even dreamed we would be seeing. That the flags of the United States and North Korea are being displayed with one another in an official capacity would drop jaws alone.
But then, this…
Two men who in the space of a few hours have accomplished more than their respective predecessors achieved in the previous seventy years combined.
The end of the Korean War is at last at hand. Kim Jong Un has indicated he wants full stepdown of a nuclearized peninsula. Time will tell what the full measure of that intent yields, of course. But there really is a sense that the leader of North Korea is being genuine. Maybe Kim has done something even more impossible than what we are seeing on the world stage. Perhaps he is stepping out of the long shadow of his father ...
In what might be the most hilarious case of unintended consequences in recent memory, today Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that President Donald Trump was wrong to have blocked users from his Twitter feed… which inadvertently has officially designated Twitter (and by extension Facebook and YouTube and other social media outlets) to be common carriers like the telephone system!
In a 75-page ruling, Judge Buchwald declared that Twitter was a “designated public forum” on which Trump could not discriminate against selected readers by blocking their accounts. “This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, ‘block’ a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States,” Buchwald said ...
So this is not only the first video blog post I’ve made in… well a VERY long time. It’s also the absolutely FIRST blog post that I’ve made about now-President Donald Trump ever!
To be fair though, it’s not about Trump himself. It’s about what I’ve seen waaaaay too much of in the way of hatred toward the guy. It’s not warranted and it’s not worth it. Anyhoo, roll the clip!