Jeb Lund

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

There’s a scene from a classic-era “Simpsons” episode where an accountant confronts his client, Krusty the Clown, TV entertainer and gambling addict. “Let me get this straight,” he says. “You took all the money you made franchising your name and bet it against the Harlem Globetrotters?” Krusty protests, invoking the name of the team he doesn’t know is scripted to lose every game, “I thought the Generals were due!” The scene cuts to a flashback of Krusty watching the game.

2 weeks ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

When I was growing up, I remember hearing people refer to the expression “May you live in interesting times” as a Chinese blessing. I later learned that it was neither Chinese nor a blessing. I could double-check this, but most of the websites that a few years ago could have explained its origin have become AI chatbots that coach children to commit suicide, online masculinity colleges and online casinos. I am ready to be bored.

1 month ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

We all know Trump’s thing about Canada is deeply psychopathic, right? On Tuesday, Trump posted to Truth Social that, to avoid his tariffs, “the only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State.” It’s a form of extortion so subtle you can already see Democrats at the State of the Union waving tennis racquets marked “PROTECTION” at him. His threats aren’t new, but they are escalating.

1 month ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

If Trump’s first joint address to Congress in his second administration was a harsh beam of light, then the Democratic Party was the comatose patient everyone was desperate to see produce a sign of life in reaction to it. You can go through the footage frame-by-frame if you want, but they didn’t. Cory Booker began the night saying he was there to hear Trump “explain himself,” a rationale that could only have made sense if he’d just been revived from his own coma.

2 months ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

In the past week, Donald Trump has expressed a desire to purchase and develop an ethnically cleansed Gaza, handed over the government to a Sieg Heiling foreign dweeb, shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, taken over the Kennedy Center and renamed the Gulf of Mexico. That doesn’t even count the things he’s claimed to do. As for the Democrats’ response… well, what’s your March like?