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IF TRUMP DOESN’T WARRANT IMPEACHMENT, WHO EVER HAS?
The Republicans paid no political price at all for impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998, frivolous as that prosecution was, and yet Nancy Pelosi still dithers. And if a majority of American voters aren’t yet in favor, they sure will be … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS COMMITTING TREASON
Openly, on a daily basis. It’s time that the Democrats take off the gloves to save American democracy.
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THE GOP IS NOT PATRIOTIC
Led by Screaming Lindsay, yesterday’s Senate hearing reminded us that the GOP is closing ranks to protect Trump’s installation of a dictatorship.
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THE TRUMPS ARE LAUGHING AT US AGAIN
The White House, Inc. crime family truly believes that we the people are a bunch of chumps and easy marks. Holding them accountable to the law is “harassment.” Right. They’re laughing at us.
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WH CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER SHOULD BE HELD IN A KENNEL
Because these people are lapdogs. Trump has a petulant meltdown because the septuagenarian baby can’t hear anything but praise — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, when not accusing Democrats of executing babies, complains that her mascara was insulted — And so the WH … Continue reading
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TRUMPLANDIA IS WHERE INTEGRITY GOES TO DIE
I predict that sniveling Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be indicted for obstruction of justice–along with AG William Barr. As Trump finally understood, Rosenstein is totally part of HIS team–not America’s.
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TRUMP CAN’T LEARN ANY NEW TRICKS
Disgraced, disbarred attorney Roy Cohn taught Trump a few rhetorical comebacks and a few strategic plays, and since then he’s just coasted. Projection is, of course, the principal Trumpian play. Thus his grotesque blubbering–w/o a speck of evidence, naturally– to … Continue reading
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DO OLD WHITE MEN W/MONEY —
ever take responsibility for anything? Joe Biden gave Anita Hill the standard non-apology apology: he’s sorry for what happened to her (displaced passive tense hurrah!). Not he is sorry for how he behaved, what he did to her, how lamentably … Continue reading
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A LONG TIME AGO IN MILAN
Beloved reader: You’ve been very patient. Tentatively, “A Long Time Ago in Milan,” my downloadable-to-Kindle monograph on Benedetta Barzini, will be available via Amazon on May 1.
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TRUMP WILL RUN TO HIS VERY OWN SUPREME COURT
What were Obama and the Dems thinking when they allowed Mitch McConnell to mau-mau democracy and steal the Supreme Court? Trump believes that he’s got the Supreme Court in the bag, and given the utterly corrupt, elitist, anti-democracy majority now … Continue reading
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