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This story has been given a lot of coverage. Here’s the HUPPOST story about it. This should elicit a “well, duh, this ought to be obvious you brainwashed eejit” response and need no explanation. This means you Megan McCain and everyone else saying this. Her’s what she tweeted with a few replies. (You can read all of…
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The fact that Reuters wrote the headline “Venezuela’s opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, White House critical” for their article is nauseating. Why? Here’s the part that is appalling and unprecedented: HuffPost had several stories about this: Story one. Story two. Story three. Machado, in stark contrast to Trump’s spokespeople, praised Trump and even dedicated it…
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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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The United States is about to embark on its second great national experiment with Donald Trump being certified as the winner of the 2024 election as president. Very possibly this will mean Project 2025 will be initiated laying out the guiding principles of his administration. (Click above to enlarge) There’s nothing astonishingly original in my…
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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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Below are the article links. DON’S DEPORTATION DYSTOPIA LOOMS IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN WOULD TEAR COUNTRY APART NATION BRACES FOR TRUMP 2.0 WHEELS GREASED FOR AUTHORITARIAN IMPULSES The red, black, and blue headline articles on HUFFPOST above convey much of what I planned to write about today. As I wrote in my title, Trump is going to do, or try…
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I am keeping my Washington Post subscription despite the outrage I share with the some 200,000 people who canceled their subscriptions in protest of what owner Jeff Bezos did. While I can read news articles elsewhere, in The New York Times for example, I can’t read the Post opinions without a subscription. Today in the…
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To be a popular villain in fiction a character has to express their villainy with panache. Trump is a master of doing this, from floating the idea of putting alligators in the Rio Grande or shooting immigrants trying to cross the border in the legs to, just the other day, talking about having one day…
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Image by Perchance AI Photos I was perusing the internet this morning and among the first few articles that caught my attention there were two that gave me some guarded feelings of optimism. Still, I am scared. How scared am I? There’s one English idiom that some may consider vulgar but it describes better than any…
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