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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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I first saw this where Vanity Fair’s Molly-Jong Fast reposted it on BlueSky (above and at this link). Then doing a little web search I saw that Rachel Maddow talked about it on her show, watch brief video here: This was reported on elsewhere, for example here: This article reminds us that he used the same illustration before he…
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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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Wikipedia used a painting of an innocent Narcissisus enraptured by his visage by Jan Cossiers to illustrate their entry for malignant narcissism. I modified it to show a more malignant version of him. This is the second parapgraph in the Wikipedia entry for malignant narcissism: “Malignant narcissists are grandiose and always ready to raise hostility levels, which undermines the families and organizations in which they…
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Fox News has taken politainment to a new level – we could call it infamotainment.
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I was struck by one sentence in the excellent conversation Chauncey DeVega had with M. Steven Fish, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book is “Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nationand Restoring Democracy’s Edge.” Here’s the entire Salon column: The path forward for progressives is a return to PR basics: Put…
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HuffPost described four men in their main story today: Trump Is Filling His White House With Men Accused Of Sexual Misconduct. They didn’t bother to mention that the fifth man not only accused but convicted of sexual misconduct has already assured his place in the White House because everyone knows this.They did decide to show photos…
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It is best to read this at https://www.halbrown.org The two illustrations above on top best describe the primary reasons which assured that Trump would win the election. Add to this a third reason, the coining of the term “Trump derangement syndrome”which has a Wikipedia page here.Trump and his supporters would say George Conway had a…
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Democracy loving Americans, don’t deceive yourselves with delusions and denial, Trump and his goons are out for your blood.
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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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