michaelwillard.bsky.social
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America first should mean having the ideals the world respects and to which it looks up. It should not be some selfish version of US me-ism.

Our time here is too short, and the world is too small for international arrogance.

(PHOTO) A wide world. Willard painting.
March 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Don't claim to be a patriotic American if you support Donald Trump's dismantling of Democracy and support of Putin.
March 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I don’t know about others, but the Tesla symbol to me has become the equivalent of Putin’s fascist Z mark.
February 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The lights are out in America’s shining city on the hill. Lex Luther and the Penguin are in charge of Gotham City. Oh, when will the GOP grow a backbone and rid us of these pests?
February 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am more concerned about Americans transitioning to Nazis than men transitioning to women.
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My friend and mentor, Harold Burson, PR Week's PR Man of the 20th Century, died five years ago today. I was proud in the 1990s to work for his company, Burson-Marsteller

(Photo--Introducing Harold to my The Willard Group team in Moscow in 2005 while cruising on the Moscow River.
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/u...
Confidence in U.S. Courts Plummets to Rate Far Below Peer Nations (Gift Article)
Very few countries have experienced similar declines, typically in the wake of wrenching turmoil. Experts called the data, from a new Gallup poll, stunning and worrisome.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
With the coming MAMA crowd (Make America Miniscule Again), there is no longer that shining city on a hill. It is a fact that the world over no longer casts its lonely eyes on us.

I'm still going to try to be optimistic. I'm a novelist. I make up things to fit my mood.
December 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I told my wife I would quit drinking booze cold turkey if she endorsed me for US Defense Secretary. She said no. So, all bets are off.
December 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Yep, we're having Ukrainian borsch on Thanksgiving Day in tribute to our brethren in arms and in opposition to the bloody Russian turkeys in the Kremlin.

(Photo) Willard family on Kyiv's Maidan for the Revolution for Freedom and Dignity in 2014.
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Thanksgiving week: When we thank the native Indians who taught undocumented pilgrims how to make popcorn, thereby ensuring this gastronomic treat would be with us for ages.

Sunday Willard painting: Channeling O'Keefe.
November 25, 2024 at 12:32 AM