John Kushma

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Contributor at Park Record

Senior Consultant at Freelance

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Sorry, but someone has to say this ...

1 week ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

By Sorry, but someone has to say this ... The massive new flags that Trump has installed at the White House is just another example of the crude, crass, and vulgar nature of this man. There's a flag display etiquette regarding size. He wouldn't know or care. You only see these massive flags at supermarket openings and used car lots.
"I Know What I Know, and You Know What You know."

1 week ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

There's a difference between Fact, Fiction, and Opinion. But it seems today, and maybe there always has been, but today more than ever before, the lines are blurred between what we hear, see, and believe to be true, and how we translate all that into what we "know" or what we think to be true. And this is the information we process into communication and subsequently into action.
Journalism ain't Advertising ...

2 weeks ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

"The Responsibility of the Professional Communicator"After my own personal Vietnam War experience (see 'Sunset Playland' ), I was faced with what to do now with the rest of my life. All my disillusions became illusions and vice versa. I was on course to become a geologist. My studies completed, my degree received, barely, I was a poor student. But I persevered and came back to begin a master's program at Utah State University.
The Longest Day at the White House

3 weeks ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

Aside from the sophomoric Musk-Trump political nonsense at the White House yesterday, the continuing drama that has the nation and the world enraptured with Netflix-style entertainment, the most significant thing occurred that, to me, is the hallmark of the entire bizarre Trump saga. While meeting with the newly elected German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Trump made one of the stupidest, rudest, most embarrassingly outrageous faux pas I've ever seen.
John Kushma (@22brierhill.bsky.social)

3 weeks ago | bsky.app | John Kushma

This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com. John Kushma 22brierhill.bsky.social did:plc:jnkva6v3ehyjnr324xlyke2n MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL ... Trump's second new "official White House portrait" is an unwittingly glaring self-condemnation of his obsessive vanity. it's also an omen.
The MAGA Mentality ...

3 weeks ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

... it's more an attitude than a point of view or opinion (of which my opinion here is mine alone and not necessarily that of LinkedIn or any of its members)At this year's commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy our President compared himself to Al Capone. "I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone," Trump bragged to the West Point graduates. "Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal.
BOYS! BOYS! ... Trump: "What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize is that if it...

4 weeks ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

By BOYS! BOYS! ... Trump: "What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened in Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD." "He's playing with fire!" Dmitri Medvedev (head of Security Council and former Russian President): "I only know of one REALLY BAD thing - WWIII." "I hope Trump understands this!" (Rodney King: "Why can't we all just get along?"
In the year 2035 ... "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh ..."

1 month ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

( Best to read this on a full screen PC or laptop, not on a cell phone ... )The year is 2035. This author has been sent to a Republican MAGA/GOP re-education camp in North Dakota because of his critical "Goldfinger"-Trump op-eds. He has been imprisoned for several months now.
"Strategic Uncertainty"...?

1 month ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

Double-talking Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent (who some have called a "jackass"), recently defended his double-crossing President "Goldfinger" Trump's tariff policy as a way of creating "strategic uncertainty" thereby giving him a perceived edge when lying ... I mean "negotiating". Yeah, good one, Scott. Did you just make that up, pull it out of your ass? Or did you pull your head out of Trump's ass long enough for him or Stephen Miller, or that Howard Lutnick to tell you to say that?
HOW TO GET RID OF TRUMP: Use his own media tactic. The media made him, the...

1 month ago | linkedin.com | John Kushma

HOW TO GET RID OF TRUMP: Use his own media tactic. The media made him, the media can break him. Brand him. Keep him branded. Assassinate his ego with a golden bullet. Consistently start calling him "President Goldfinger"... it will catch on, here and worldwide. Replace "Trump" with "Goldfinger"... in the news, in the media, at home, at work, at school, on the golf course ... at the kitchen table. Don't let him shake it off. Don't let him turn it into a positive.