RGRobins
@rgrobins.bsky.social
Retired historian (American Christianity), working EFL teacher living in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Prone to random thoughts and scattershot expressions. Old-school liberal, moderately left-of-center in the current scheme of things. Married, father of 7.
Easy to laugh at the sheer buffoonery of Kim Jong Trump and his shameless sycophants, but if he succeeds in placing brownnosers, Witkoffs, and Lutnickers atop every level of America's judicial and enforcement agencies, you'll all be bowing and scraping, or else.
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Easy to laugh at the sheer buffoonery of Kim Jong Trump and his shameless sycophants, but if he succeeds in placing brownnosers, Witkoffs, and Lutnickers atop every level of America's judicial and enforcement agencies, you'll all be bowing and scraping, or else.
Notice that DJT, who fumes incessantly about any who have crossed him, never mentions Thomas Crooks! And since at least September 2024, no evidence of injury! Try asking ChatGPT the likelihood of an “ear struck, even superficially, by an AR-15 rifle healing with no trace of injury.” Fun answer!
August 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Notice that DJT, who fumes incessantly about any who have crossed him, never mentions Thomas Crooks! And since at least September 2024, no evidence of injury! Try asking ChatGPT the likelihood of an “ear struck, even superficially, by an AR-15 rifle healing with no trace of injury.” Fun answer!
Based on the best data I or ChatGPT could locate, these charts represent the top 10 ten cities (2024) and top 10 states (2023) in homicide per 100K population in the US of A. See a lot of red states and cities in red states, but don't hear anything about Trump sending troops to them!
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Based on the best data I or ChatGPT could locate, these charts represent the top 10 ten cities (2024) and top 10 states (2023) in homicide per 100K population in the US of A. See a lot of red states and cities in red states, but don't hear anything about Trump sending troops to them!
Let me get this straight. Maga is energized--"So Back!!!"--because a major paper published evidence of Trump's close relationship with party bro Epstein, thus proving he wasn't Epstein's party bro after all? MAGA-faith is pure Huck Finn: “faith is believing something you know ain't true.”
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Let me get this straight. Maga is energized--"So Back!!!"--because a major paper published evidence of Trump's close relationship with party bro Epstein, thus proving he wasn't Epstein's party bro after all? MAGA-faith is pure Huck Finn: “faith is believing something you know ain't true.”
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico: Keep America Free!
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico: Keep America Free!
Picture says a thousand words . . . .
June 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Picture says a thousand words . . . .
Trump learns that voters for the Face-Eating Leopard Party don't want the leopard to eat THEIR faces: "farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them . . . .”
June 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump learns that voters for the Face-Eating Leopard Party don't want the leopard to eat THEIR faces: "farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them . . . .”
Bait and switch much? Trump terrified his gullible base with horror stories of violent killers he would arrest and deport. What we actually see are tactics the feds might adopt if those WERE the targets being used to round up menial laborers, mothers with children, and, yes, children!
June 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Bait and switch much? Trump terrified his gullible base with horror stories of violent killers he would arrest and deport. What we actually see are tactics the feds might adopt if those WERE the targets being used to round up menial laborers, mothers with children, and, yes, children!
So, Senator Joni Ernst mocks people who objected to her comment for believing in "the tooth fairy," then wraps up by saying you don't have to die after all--you can enjoy "eternal . . . life" if you believe in "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
June 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So, Senator Joni Ernst mocks people who objected to her comment for believing in "the tooth fairy," then wraps up by saying you don't have to die after all--you can enjoy "eternal . . . life" if you believe in "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Trump erupting at the Federalist Society tells us everything we already knew—Trump doesn’t want any judge, no matter how conservative, holding loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to him. When he says “America First,” he means “Trump First.”
June 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Trump erupting at the Federalist Society tells us everything we already knew—Trump doesn’t want any judge, no matter how conservative, holding loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to him. When he says “America First,” he means “Trump First.”
Don't you hate it when you tweak the formatting on an article and it throws a junk citation into your footnotes! You know, just trying to widen the margins a skosh and BOOM--peer reviewers pile on and it gets REJECTED! I feel ya, RFK, J.
May 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Don't you hate it when you tweak the formatting on an article and it throws a junk citation into your footnotes! You know, just trying to widen the margins a skosh and BOOM--peer reviewers pile on and it gets REJECTED! I feel ya, RFK, J.
Another bonkers Trump post:
The percentage of foreign students enrolled at Harvard is public knowledge. Foreign governments payments . . . Does the US government fund all US students studying abroad? And "Nobody told us that!" Uhm, "us"? = "Nobody spoon fed me what everybody else already knows!"
The percentage of foreign students enrolled at Harvard is public knowledge. Foreign governments payments . . . Does the US government fund all US students studying abroad? And "Nobody told us that!" Uhm, "us"? = "Nobody spoon fed me what everybody else already knows!"
May 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Another bonkers Trump post:
The percentage of foreign students enrolled at Harvard is public knowledge. Foreign governments payments . . . Does the US government fund all US students studying abroad? And "Nobody told us that!" Uhm, "us"? = "Nobody spoon fed me what everybody else already knows!"
The percentage of foreign students enrolled at Harvard is public knowledge. Foreign governments payments . . . Does the US government fund all US students studying abroad? And "Nobody told us that!" Uhm, "us"? = "Nobody spoon fed me what everybody else already knows!"
Five pillars of democracy under direct attack: separation of powers; due process; equal justice under the law; free speech and freedom of the press; and government for the people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
May 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Five pillars of democracy under direct attack: separation of powers; due process; equal justice under the law; free speech and freedom of the press; and government for the people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
Come home from a hard day's work to find that Vance killed the pope.
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Come home from a hard day's work to find that Vance killed the pope.
Erez Reuveni: Like the law or not, he tries to apply it. Sanctuary cities defying federal law? He goes after them and is praised & promoted by Dicktater. DOJ itself violating the law and leaving him emptyhanded in front of the judge? He tells it like it is and is placed on leave.
April 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Erez Reuveni: Like the law or not, he tries to apply it. Sanctuary cities defying federal law? He goes after them and is praised & promoted by Dicktater. DOJ itself violating the law and leaving him emptyhanded in front of the judge? He tells it like it is and is placed on leave.
White House Press Secretary Leavitt on ostensible judicial bias against her man: Sixty-seven percent of injunctions issued in this century have been directed at Trump!
Let's Occam's razor this: Maybe because NO PRESIDENT in this (or any other) century has been as lawless as DJT!
Let's Occam's razor this: Maybe because NO PRESIDENT in this (or any other) century has been as lawless as DJT!
March 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
White House Press Secretary Leavitt on ostensible judicial bias against her man: Sixty-seven percent of injunctions issued in this century have been directed at Trump!
Let's Occam's razor this: Maybe because NO PRESIDENT in this (or any other) century has been as lawless as DJT!
Let's Occam's razor this: Maybe because NO PRESIDENT in this (or any other) century has been as lawless as DJT!
Oh, Paul, Yo Mama so GAY!
March 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Oh, Paul, Yo Mama so GAY!
Ontario's premier cancels $68 m contract for Starlink, bars US-based companies from govt contracts: “We could have poured our effort into making Canada [and] the U.S. the two richest . . . most secure countries on the planet. Unfortunately, one man, President Trump, has chosen chaos instead.”
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ontario's premier cancels $68 m contract for Starlink, bars US-based companies from govt contracts: “We could have poured our effort into making Canada [and] the U.S. the two richest . . . most secure countries on the planet. Unfortunately, one man, President Trump, has chosen chaos instead.”
March 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Dismantling the federal government, renouncing NATO and our European allies: This is Manchurian Candidate territory.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Dismantling the federal government, renouncing NATO and our European allies: This is Manchurian Candidate territory.
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So, is this what a bubble looks like?
February 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So, is this what a bubble looks like?
It's not just a "unitary executive" he's after. It's a "unitary government," with Trump controlling all three branches. They better wake up. (Image by Dall-e)
February 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's not just a "unitary executive" he's after. It's a "unitary government," with Trump controlling all three branches. They better wake up. (Image by Dall-e)
Our former presidents have to hold their tongues a bit longer, I suppose, and Kamala Harris can't really speak yet without seeming self-serving or vindictive, but where is that small rational stream of the GOP? Well, of all things--Mike Pence!
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Our former presidents have to hold their tongues a bit longer, I suppose, and Kamala Harris can't really speak yet without seeming self-serving or vindictive, but where is that small rational stream of the GOP? Well, of all things--Mike Pence!