Tag: Bill Barr
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What If Lying Were Physically Impossible? Could Donald Trump — Or Any Republican — Still Exist?
No one ever has to lie. That’s just by definition. A lie is something we do deliberately with the absolute intention of misleading whoever we tell it to. You can argue whether a sociopath like Donald Trump knows he’s lying but the fact is he KNOWS there would be consequences to telling the truth —…
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In The Midst Of The Coronavirus Crisis, A Reminder: Donald Trump & The GOP Are STILL All TRAITORS
I’m old enough to remember how quickly our Main Stream News Media got over their jaw-on-the-floor outrage at Donald Trump’s “Mexicans are rapists” announcement (on Day One of his presidential campaign no less). Yes, they shrugged off Trump’s racism because “Pussy Grabbing” was now part of our political discussion, but by shrugging off one outrage…
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Coronavirus Throws A Monkey Wrench Into The GOP’s Soft Coup D’Etat
The Trump Era keeps proving — it’s hard to keep your eye on the ball when there are fifty balls flying at you. Trump’s coronavirus response has been everything you’d expect it to be — a chaotic, self-centered act of corruption. It’s been such a massive failure that it’s even managed to make everyone forget…
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Who Is Directly Responsible For The Shit-Show We’re In? THESE Guys…
While the whole world is now laser-focused on surviving Covid-19, it’s important to remember that this pandemic isn’t isolated. Yes, the original vector — whether from a live animal market in China or from bat guano that migrated from shoes to hands in a Chinese cave — would have presented regardless. But what happened afterwards…
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Dear Fellow Humans: Can We All PLEASE Admit It — We’re Making It All Up As We Go Along
You know how kids learn not to trust adults because, kids quickly get, adults are lying pretty much most of the time about pretty much everything? What we all experience as kids is a moment of absolute clarity — about adults and the world adults make for us all: it’s all bullshit. Kids realize that…
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We Live Inside A Giant False Narrative — That Donald Trump Is “Legitimate POTUS”
False narratives — creating them, living them, suffering the consequences of living them — it seems to go with being human. So, I’ll cut us some slack. The unfortunate humans who live inside North Korea’s borders live inside a false narrative that Kim Jong-On isn’t a sociopathic madman at the helm of a hermitic dictatorship…
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I Know Who I See Staring Back At Me In A Mirror… What Does A Republican See?
At some point, unless you’ve removed every reflective surface from your house, you WILL have to see your own face reflected back at you. I don’t know about the rest of you (cos none of us will EVER be in a bathroom ALONE with anyone else) but when I look at myself in the mirror,…
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Show Me An “Uber Christian” & I’ll Show You A Man Who Thinks HE’S “God”
A few days ago Attorney-General-From-Hell Bill Barr gave a speech to the Federalist Society — that bastion of soft, white, institutional bigotry — in which he (again) donned his full Cultural Warrior battle armor. Barr has a history of stepping in and deflecting justice. He did it most recently by hijacking both the end of…
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These Are Desperate Times, Mrs. Lovett, And Desperate Measures Are Called For
Sweeny Todd got it right. These ARE desperate times we’re living in. What if it’s already be too late for desperate measures? What measures come after the desperate ones? A lot of us sensed it election night 2016 the way animals can sense a temblor coming. Trump “winning the election” (he didn’t, Russia did) wasn’t…
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WE Think Republicans Are Putting On A Crime; THEY Think They’re Putting On A “Show”
It’s the movie buff in me. I see classic movies playing out in real life all the time. It struck me this morning that we’re staring at a perverse version of Babes In Arms, the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney-MGM collaboration that gave us “Hey, Let’s Put On A Show!” Here – sample this… See what I…