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Read article here. This is a summary of the article from Daily Beast which is a subscription website. This was the featured story on Daily Beast (here if you have a subscrption). These are the relevant excerpts from the Raw Story article: In an interview with the Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery, a celebrity athlete who…
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This is from Wikipedia: The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and…
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The HuffPost author quotes Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “But the booing is also a kind of lethal blow to the kind of ego that the strongman has because the secret of the strongman is that they are very weak and they are very brittle,….” The crucial qualifier above is “a kind of” because she doesn’t mean “a…
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The fable of the scorpion and the frog has been used frequently to describe Trump’s self-defeating behavior. This is another example. He just can’t help himself. He can’t resist the urge. It’s in his character.
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The line between free speech and speech that violates the Logan act has never (to my knowledge) been legally drawn. This is doubtless because Trump is the first presidential candidate to send a message to a foreign power (which has in a previous election made an effort to assist his winning campaign) having a dispute…
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We don’t know why Judge Cannon is doing everything she can to make sure the documents case doesn’t go to court before the election. It has been surmised that this was because Trump appointed her and she wants to curry favor with him for whatever reason. Now we learn there may be more nefarious reasons.
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As I write this MSNBC is showing images but not broadcastng the sound of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaking outside the courthouse. The article includes Liz Cheney’s post and also says: “I am a Bible-believing Christian,” he said last year. “Someone asked me today in the media, they said, ‘It’s curious. People are curious.…
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I thought I’d make some quick and not particularly good photo manipulations of cards President Biden could issue in order to both make fun of Trump and his self-aggrandizing depictions of himself and raise some money.
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I recommend against Stormy Daniels egaging with Trump on social media. Here’s why.
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If you look up “stormy” in the theraurus this is what you find: blustery, squally, wild, tempestuous, turbulent, windy, gusty, blowy, rainy, thundery, rough, choppy; angry, dirty, foul, nasty, inclement; howling, roaring, raging, furious; angry, heated, fiery, fierce, impassioned, passionate, lively; tempestuous, turbulent, tumultuous, explosive, volatile, violent, intense. If you look “stormy” up on Google News this is what you get on the top of the page: Today we have articles like these: ‘Humiliating details’ from Stormy Daniels are physically ‘impacting’ Trump: reporter Excerpt: He “had trouble controlling his…
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