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METHOD TO TRUMP’S MADNESS
He bellows the same outrageous, easily-disproven lies over and over again, until, so he hopes, the national psyche will be so battered it will accept anything at all in order to tamp down the noise pollution and the assault on … Continue reading
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AMAZON TRYING TO SMACK DOWN DEMOCRACY
I’m sure this story will be exhaustively covered by the Washington Post, but it seems that Amazon doesn’t like the fact that the City Council of Seattle wants to impose some fiscal accountability for the company’s responsibility in making housing … Continue reading
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TRUMP TAKES IT ON THE LAM
Fleeing to Florida, he leaves, as usual, in his wake a trail of lies, deflections, smokescreens.
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A SUNNY SPEAKER
When I saw Nancy Pelosi on Colbert in her yellow dress with beads and shoes to match, I was ready to forgive her almost everything. That’s the kind of guy I am. But seriously, I wish her all the best … Continue reading
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DONNIE TKES A LEAF FROM RONNIE’S BOOK
Integral to the President’s war on truth and facts as manifested by his attacks on the media is the trick of screaming answers to unavoidably screamed questions from the media–remember Reagan’s trick of getting lost in the prop wash?
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TIHAT’S RIGHT, KELLYANNE
Not a single Democrat was stupid or venal enough to vote for Trump’s tax scam or his apocalyptic deregulation agenda. Get over it. One of this pathetic fraud’s favorite gambits is her nattering pretense the her boss’s traitorous treachery and … Continue reading
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THAT WAS MULVANEY BEING MULVANEY
One of the trademarks of this slimeball is the way he tosses back at his accusers the admission that yes, they’re right, he is what they’ve accused him of being–“a right-wing nut job,” among other things, and no only what … Continue reading
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THE BEAUTY OF ELLIPTICAL
Where artistic perception is concerned. In S.N. Behrman’s “Portrait of Max,” Max Beerbohm is quoted as saying, “There is no poetry in a straight mirror—just a reproduction of life. But what one sees in a convex mirror is a complete … Continue reading
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TRUMP BOOERS ARE DEFENDING THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
Trump has defiled and betrayed his office and this country. Outside the Fox “News” bubble, there is an actual country of Americans who are willing to confront him for it. And that is a sign of a resurgent democracy in … Continue reading
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WHY ISN’T FOX “NEWS” BEING SUED FOR LIBEL?
In their attempt to overthrow democracy, Fox’s traitorous “news” personalities spout scurrillous lies about patriotic Americans. And somehow they get away with it.
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