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I was thinking about a few of the fantastically boring candidates the Democratic party puts for President. Let’s go down the recent list of losers: Hillary Clinton John Kerry Al Gore Michael Dukakis Walter Mondale Really, really boring.
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Might be good ‘shrooms. I remember, listening to Trump’s speech, wondering if he was living in some cocaine-fueled delusion: Dying industries will come roaring back to life, heroic veterans will get the care they so desperately need. Our military will be given the resources its brave warriors so richly deserve. Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways, gleaming across […]
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Can You Be Both Pro-Trump and American? And here’s a quote from Trump’s speech to Congress: It is a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially. Yet, in America, we do not enforce this rule, straining the very public resources that our poorest citizens rely upon. Here’s the full quote on the Statue of Liberty, […]
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I can’t believe I’m about to write this. I find myself almost awash in truly excellent news coverage about the dishonest and corrupt Trump administration. Not only is Trump himself despicable and openly evil, his minions have been really amazingly corrupt and venial. Time and again, his nominees have perjured themselves under oath, when asked directly and specifically about exactly those issues. And yet, neither […]
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The post-speech people are talking to Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) from the Finger Lakes region, which I call something close to home. Asked about how Trump can restart industry and create all the new jobs we need, and the $1 trillion infrastructure bit, Rep. Collins was stuck with tariffs and maybe repatriating profits from corporations. Nothing, in other words. The commentators noted that Trump didn’t […]
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It’s hard to know how the speech worked. It’ll probably be well received by his base, since he didn’t trip over his tongue, and even waxed poetic at the end. At least as poetic as you can be talking about immigrants as “vicious, murdering criminals”, as Rachael Maddow characterized it. Rachael, Brian Williams, et al, comment about Owens’ widow being a high point. I was […]
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Trump Talks about strongly supporting NATO. And then swears that money is starting to pour in from our partners. He conflates that money with respect from our partners, as if they are the same thing. He talks about respect as measured by the money our partners provide. NATO payments have been a perennial problem, but making money into respect is so telling, chilling, and sad. […]
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Oh, Jeez. He introduces a widow of “a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism, and securing our nation.” It’s Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, the Special Forces guy who died on the Seal Team 6 raid in Yemen. You remember? That raid that Trump authorized over dinner, and where Trump went to bed as the operation went pear-shaped? The raid where everything that […]