Life in the post-truth landscape. I chose a busy time for my vacation. Thank god. I didn’t miss it at all. Look, this is what kind of week it’s been. Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal had a huge scoop: Michael Flynn, while working as both Trump’s National Security Advisor and a secretly paid agent of the Turkish government, plotted with Turkish government […]
Jeeze, what a putz! I swore I was going on a Trump vacation, but with the London attack, I looked anyway. What a waste of my time. Trump spouted some new lies trying to distract us from his real dealings, in this case, his deeply corrupt Russian connections. For the new lie to work, he has to be shrill enough to drown out his last […]
Arithmetic for Americans. First, local, state and federal governments spend about $21,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. That’s the baseline. I’m always surprised when people get frosted about the US spending their hard-earned dollars (their emphasis) on that.. (and they’ll sputter for a second) art. When people in America are starving! (Somewhere, they’re sure, although they never really cared enough to […]
Pay no attention to the Reform behind the curtain. Don’t forget: Republican ‘reform’ is another lie, trying to get you to blink and turn away. They’re not talking about reforming anything. I’m reading about the Republican Party looking toward Tax Reform. A Google search for ‘Tax Reform 2017’ returns 15 million hits. Here are some typical headlines this month: Fox News: McConnell hits brakes on […]
Is the State Department just under-priced real estate? The Trump Administration has removed dozens of State Department people, and more are streaming out. First, the entire senior administrative team resigned, and there have been dozens more since then who’ve left or not been requested to stay. Most of these are career positions, not political appointees. As former Ambassador Daniel Fried said on Rachael Maddow, it’s […]
I see so many articles about whether the government should ‘fund Planned Parenthood.’Â (Or, today, ‘de-fund’ the organization.) Since that’s a Republican lie, you’d think the ‘liberal media’ wouldn’t go along, but since ‘the liberal media’ is another lie, what can you do? The government doesn’t fund Planned Parenthood. It never has. Agencies get funded, not healthcare providers. Republicans started that lie long ago, and […]
The new Muslim ban is out, and it’s still terrible. I really hate this stuff, but at least it’s a different category. Normally, I have so much Trump crazy to talk about that I don’t have time to do the Republican crazy. This is what Trump promised to his crowds. It’s a key Republican position. It’s still as racist, xenophobic and wrong-headed as always, but […]
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