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Even thinking that Trump would be a model for a modern day Rodin to turn into a 21st century version of The Thinker is no doubt a stretch for most of my readers. I would venture to say most of you would more likely think that if an artist, a cartoonist for example, wanted to…
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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 H1-B visa controversy is all over the news (see Google News search). It involves immigration but has nothing to do with our southern border. Click image above to enlarge. The vast majority of Trump’s base never heard of H1-B visas or other kinds of visas until recently. At times in my life a few people have called…
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Consider this Google News search for Laura Loomer. I like this story from The Times of India in part because of their illustration. Click above to enlarge image. Groypers are a group of alt-right and white nationalist activists, provocateurs, and Internet trolls.Look at Loomer’s Wikipedia profile. Read about her background and history and ask yourself why this woman…
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Will Susie Wiles go from being one of Trump’s closest and trusted advisors to be vaporized by Musk’s Starlink satellite disintegration ray? This is from an AP article published the day after the election about her: She can control some of Trump’s worst impulses Wiles was able to help control Trump’s worst impulses — not…
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How long before Trump starts wearing the MAGA Panama hat? I want bragging rights for predicting this if he does. President Theodore Roosevelt wore a Panama hat when he visited the Panama Canal. Will Turmp wear his own version when he goes there if he can take it back? My hunch is that Trump felt…
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This is the CDC information about the bird flu. At present the bird, or avain, flu is not highly effective at infecting humans. Read more from the Oregon Public Broadcasting article here. This is the concerning takeaway from the article: There are two paths the virus could take to get better at infecting humans Good news is,…
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As I completed this blog this was on CNN: I can’t take the comparision between the competition for the designation of “boss” as in “who’s the boss” between Trump and Musk beyond the title of the long running award winning (eight seasons) tv series starring Tony Danza and Judith Light as the the adults, Tony and Angela,…
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This is from the Raw Story article above: President-elect Donald Trump managed to cobble together a popular vote-winning coalition and he did so by making notable but modest gains with certain minority groups. But the problem for him, wrote Ronald Brownstein for CNN, is that he won the election with a group of voters who broadly don’t like him, and may not even agree…
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Consider how public perception might have been changed if all the articles and signs saying “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted felon to be elected president” instead said “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted rapist or sexual abuser felon to be elected president” or billboards were put up like my version of the one below:…
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