Trump
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Amend everything below: Hes not a natural born citizen so he can’t become president. Last night I posted a second blog for the day: “The quickest exit for Elon Musk will be if he steals Trump’s thunder. If he goes if this is a good or bad thing? ” It featured 11 AI images of Musk like…
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There is a good case to be made that Donald Trump wouldn’t have won the election had he not made the lie about schools changing the gender of children a major issue. I lived in the town of Middleboro (sometimes spelled Middleborough) for 20 years having moved there to grow cranberries on my late wife’s…
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Consider this from the NY Times article Hamas Faces a Future Without Its Most Important Ally (subscription) And Iran, which supports Hamas and Hezbollah, seems keen to avoid a direct fight with Israel, at least for now. Iran’s air defense systems were devastated in an Israeli attack in October, and after the victory of President-elect Donald J.…
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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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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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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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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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