Politics
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Paul Krugman hardly needs publicity. Check this out: Below is what the Daily Beast article about this looks like. If you’re reading this and don’t know who Paul Krugman is, and admire him for his insights, you must be a Trumper who by some twist of fate stumbled on my Substack. This is the comment…
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As we enter the dark days of democracy’s death there are several positive things I can think about Trump’s grandiose narcissism that can derail his quest to establish his ruthlessly cruel dictatorship. The obvious one is that some of his plans will fail so egregiously that some of his supporters in Congress will turn against…
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Perhaps because there have been reports that say that going back 20 or 30 years Donald Trump was, most likely unbeknownst to him, being groomed by Russia’s KGB to be an asset, the news these days says that he is planning to turn the FBI into his personal KGB. Yesterday I wrote that Trump was certainly going to…
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The highest American military rank is a Five Star General. I wouldn’t be surprised if as Commander in Chief he starts wearing a uniform with six stars.The following blog has adult language. With Trump his self-worth is all about his self-image as Mister Macho the Lord High Pussy Grabber Emperor of the Manosphre and star…
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Consider this from the NY Times article Hamas Faces a Future Without Its Most Important Ally (subscription) And Iran, which supports Hamas and Hezbollah, seems keen to avoid a direct fight with Israel, at least for now. Iran’s air defense systems were devastated in an Israeli attack in October, and after the victory of President-elect Donald J.…
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The HuffPost article Trump Hurls Attacks At Maggie Haberman In Midnight Meltdown About Her Reporting inspired me to do a Google search about Trump and his midnight meltdowns. Above you see the first links in a general Google search and in a Google News search for Trump meltdown. Google didn’t provide the DonkeyHotey caricature. I added this.My focus here isn’t that Maggie…
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Read Sabrina Haake’s substack The Haake Take: Passivity is the enemy- dog update, it inspired me to write this. Here’s an excerpt: MAGA reminds me of chaining a dogHearing a dog bark all night while it’s 20º F outside, I realize I feel the same way about MAGA voters as I feel about people who chain their…
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This is the Wikipedia definition of shock and awe: Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight. Trump won’t get over newspaper headlines like those he saw when he was arrested in the…
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I couldn’t sleep worrying about what our country was becoming so I was up writing this between 11:30 PM and 3:30 AM. When we lived near Boston and visited the city frequently we almost always paid our respects at the New England Holocaust Memorial. At the New England Holocaust Museum you walk down a pathway…
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Perhance Photo AI can give us images of who Trump will turn out to be, but it can’t predict. No ifs, ands, or buts, and no what’s ifs, we have entered the era of Trump trumpified. That word isn’t in the regular dictionary but has several definitions in The Urban Dictionary. I mean it to say he…