Category: Election 2020
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Russia Has Always Been The Glue Holding The Trump Conspiracy Together
But for Russia, Donald Trump would NEVER have been president. To this very day, our perspective-free news media scratches welts into its scalps trying to figure out why Donald Trump still holds the Republican Party in the palm of his orange, small-fingered hand. Even when Trump’s grip seems to wane, it only ever wanes slightly.…
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America Is Drowning In Bullshit
One of America’s two political parties has no problem hitching their wagon to a literal “Big Lie” (having already hitched their wagon to Trump despite KNOWING he was compromised by Vladimir Putin. Almost everything about Donald Trump is bullshit – starting with the idea that he’s been successful at anything other than bullshitting people. Trump…
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What White Guys Really Mean By “Replacement Theory” Is “We Can’t Compete”
I have to admit that when white supremacist Nazi sympathizer marched through Charlottesville back in 2017 chanting “Jews will not replace us”, I was baffled. As Jonathan Sarna (scholar of American Jewish history, modern Judaism and Israel studies at Brandeis University) points out, “Jews are barely replacing themselves, let alone the white population as a…
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Q: In The Coming Election, What Is The “Republican Alternative”? A: There Isn’t One
Maybe if our news media didn’t insist on seeing EVERYTHING through a binary lens, we wouldn’t be in the deep trench we’re in where the alternatives are so stark. Per our news media, the world’s either “this way” or “that way”. The middle ground – a much desired thing called “bi-partisanship” – remains forever out…
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Is Corruption Some Sort Of “Super Power”?
Consider corruption’s remarkable power to destroy everything good in a heartbeat. Consider how hard it is for good to wipe out corruption. Now, corruption itself is just an abstract idea – it’s greed asserting itself in some form or another – wanting more for oneself than one is entitled to. More money, more power, more…
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“Republican Leadership” Is An Oxymoron
George Carlin used to do a great bit (almost everything that man did was great!) about words that really don’t belong together like “jumbo shrimp” or “military intelligence”. Add “Republican leadership” to that list. As we stand here today, we can point to the people in the Republican Party whose job titles assert they’re “leaders”…
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Hey, Russia, If You’re Listening…
How much treason does a traitor have to commit before our news media finally deigns it “treasonous”? Maybe a better question is “how much treason do they have to describe before they finally accept their own reporting as true”? One of the truly confounding things about Donald Trump and his assault on our body politic…
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What Exactly Do We Mean By “War” (And Aren’t We Already IN One)?
Is Vladimir Putin’s nuclear sabre rattling meant to keep us out of a war or is it meant to keep us from realizing we’re already in one? I don’t think it’s even close: we’re already in a war – a world war, in fact, we just haven’t stopped to see it for what it is…