Author Archives: MissingthePoint.us

Taking Down Donald Trump

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, January 20, 2026

It’s time we need to start saying, out loud and repeatedly, what everyone here and abroad knows full well. Donald Trump isn’t just stupid or confused, doesn’t just fail to understand how to solve our problems.  And his politics has nothing to do with it.  The problem is that he’s actually mentally ill, suffering from clinical “malignant narcissism” according to many psychologists.  As such, he cares only about himself.  It’s the simple, but nonetheless profound diagnosis that explains everything he does.

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There’s nothing complicated about Trump’s problem with the Epstein papers.

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LinkedIn on Sunday, December 28, 2025

I watch entirely too much CNN and MS Now (formerly MSNBC).  They are the elevator music to the political work I do, forever on a screen in my office, ignored until my subconscious hears a story or commentary I want to follow and I perk up to pay attention for a moment or two.

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High Tech Dynamic Pricing, But At Whose Expense?

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LinkedIn on Saturday, December 27, 2025

“We, the people” – by which, in today’s America, I am referring principally to extremely large retailers – have the technology to enable instantaneous dynamic individual customer pricing.  Depending upon your gender, age, race and ethnicity, estimated income, what you had for breakfast last Thursday and other factors, major retailer AI computers will make sure you are spending the maximum you are willing to pay.  And you won’t have a clue it’s happening to you.  Congrats to all of us.  Who says American will never make any profound contribution to world culture?

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Lame Duck or Wounded Animal?

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LinkedIn on Monday, December 22, 2025

Media are increasingly describing President Trump as a “lame duck” – so named after the bird that can no longer fly.  Constitutionally unable to run for a third term – or win re-election if he did – it doesn’t surprise anyone that Trump is thinking about his legacy.  Replacing the historic East Wing of The White House with the “Trump Ballroom.”  Renaming the Kennedy Center.  What’s next?  “Trump…” instead of “Dulles International” or “Reagan National Airport”?  Pretending to be only musing about putting his head on Mt. Rushmore or maybe a new coin of the realm.

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Time To Put An End To Money Controlling Politics And Government – Before It’s Too Late

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LinkedIn on Monday, December 15, 2025

When I was a kid, there were no smart phones and you could still tune up your car with a handful of ordinary tools, without a graduate degree in computer science.  Chips and software that would humanize machines that can out-think us were science fiction.  Not anymore.  Today, their reality is singlehandedly supporting the stock market at levels that were once considered astronomical and powering the growth of our economy – masking problems elsewhere that might otherwise suggest an early stage recession.

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High School Civics

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, December 9, 2025

I’m not a lawyer.  Nor am a Constitutional historian.  And I’m lightyears away from being a Supreme Court Justice.  What I have, at best, is an understanding of how our government is supposed to work that I was taught in high school – a long, long time ago, figuratively speaking, in a galaxy (Annapolis Senior High) far, far away.

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Out of Control

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LinkedIn on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Sometimes it’s the little things that are the most telling.

As you may have already heard, President Trump has “ruled” – and I mean that literally – that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be fee-free days at our national parks.  In their place, he has added Flag Day (June 14) to the list which just happens to be his birthday.

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Absent Even Rudimentary Degrees of Kindness

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LinkedIn on Thursday, November 6, 2025

Never one to forego an opportunity to be nasty, here, below in italics, is what President Trump had to say today when Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement.

“I’m glad she’s retiring,” Trump said as he took reporter questions in the Oval Office during a news conference on reducing the cost of weight loss drugs for Americans. “I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump continued. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation.”

What an awful person – referring to the President, of course. He’s been diagnosed as having malignant narcissism. Is this what we’re seeing? Does he need to make other people small to make himself larger by comparison?

-Les