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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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No matter that historians and polls rank Jimmy Carter near the middle of American presidents in terms of best to worst, all of them say something like the following (with my highlights): Based on the C-SPAN survey, Jimmy Carter is ranked 26th out of 45 pre-Biden presidents. Carter’s ranking among his White House peers was…
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The irony of all this, depicted above with a generic AI created billionaire bending at the knees (you have to imagine he’s before Trump), is that Ben Franklin ended up with his face on the $100 bill. I wonder how he’d feel today about the role money plays in politics? He might remind us of…
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To answer the question in my title: the reason Hegseth is so important is the last part of the word Christofascist. Forget the Christo, it is the fascist part that counts. For a fascist leader to succeed he must have control of the military which must be led by committed fascists. As of today, Trump is all…
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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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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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There are two different often used definitions of the word hang. One is to hang something or someone. You can hang a picture on the wall or you can hang someone on a gallows. The most recent time the word came into politics was the hanging chads in the 2000 election. Now when you refer to hanging…
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Thinking of this, which I often do, evokes a feeling of horrow beyond words. I see in my mind the well known photos of the the entrance to Auschwitiz. (Photos and captions from Wikipedia) Above: A doctor, center, with the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, walks with a group of survivors at the…
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It is fitting that the photo I used as a background shows people giving what could be decribed as a Heil Trump salute. It was used to illustrate an article in The Atlantic. Here’s the full photo. Here are the covers of two books that I’ve been thinking about: Why did I use the two…
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This is an imperfect analogy but I think it is worth comparing Israel’s response to the Hamas raid to the reaction to America’s retaliation for Pearl Harbor.
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