Ted Cruz Tag

Posted On Mai 17, 2016By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Kolumne: Thomas Adcock: Toilet Panic!

NEWEST BUGBEAR in the world of American political lunacy is the mythical predatory transgender brute intruding on the sanctity of women’s restrooms. As depicted in a meme gone viral on Facebook (above), the fixation infected the presidential election campaign. Toilet Panic! Right-Wingers in Sexual Frenzy  Ted Cruz thrills the hateful faithful   by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2016 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America  In the waning days of April, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was bereft of hot prurience, the gassy fuel powering his pestiferous and ultimately futileRead More
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?  FIFTY THOUSAND gun fanatics demand loaded firearms be permitted in a crowded arena where the Republican Party meets this summer for what promises to be a combustible presidential nominating convention. How America Got Punk’d Bang! Bang! You’re dead in Cleveland? by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2016 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Over the course of seven days in late March, fifty thousand trigger-itching paranoiacs signed an internet petition demanding their “right” to carry loaded guns onto the assembly floor of the quadrennial Republican PartyRead More
“IF YOU KILL ME NOW,” Benito Mussolini reportedly said to his Italian executioners in  1945, “I will come back as the head of a far more powerful nation in need of a leader…” Bigots, Bibles & Bombs America’s Dangerous Political Season The beast is loose   by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2016 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Fascism plagued much of Europe from the 1920s through the 1970s, and even somewhat beyond. Political disease of this recent past is prologue to the dangerous political season at present.Read More

Posted On Dezember 5, 2015By Stella SinatraIn Litmag, Stella Sinatras URknall

Stella Sinatras URknall

Sterne über Hillsborough 1 bild / 100 worte Orion hängt über unsern Köpfen, so dicht, gleich stürzt er auf uns herab, bereitet dem Wundern ein Ende, arm/reich, „einheimischer Terrorismus“, Wagen voller Clowns. – „Wann sagt der Präsident endlich, wie’s ist?“ – Die einen suchen Veränderung, andere warten auf den Meteoriten, das Ende der Menschheit, den zweiten Niedergang Roms… Er aber stellte bei der Golden Gate Bridge sein Auto ab, wo man es später fand. Ihn sah man nie wieder. Heute wäre er ein alter, alter Mann. Froher vielleicht? Sein RobinsonRead More

Posted On Januar 28, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Kolumnen und Themen, Litmag

Thomas Adcock: Theatre of Distraction

New York, near America Never mind America’s backstage squabbles and squalors, our societal troubles and turpitudes, our devastations and disappointments. All eyes, please, on the spotlighted proscenium! Pay no attention to those ring-kissed plutocrats and oligarchs behind the curtain; behold, as it rises on the Theatre of Distraction. Hark! The pieties, platitudes, and perfidies we hear compose a farcical prelude to the oldest established permanent floating crap game in these United States: the quadrennial presidential campaign season. Per custom at this stage of the game, festivities were officially launched lastRead More
Send in the Clowns Republican Genius on Parade By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Two decades ago, I worked for a mordantly wise and very wealthy man named Jasper R. That which he taught me I hereby pass along to you, dear Reader: lessons to help us grasp meaning from a fresh cycle of political flapdoodle now commenced—namely, a new cotillion of Republican Party clowns campaigning for presidency of the United States, never mind that the election is three years from happening. While stillRead More