Tag: Putin
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Taking Treason For Granted
It’s a stone cold fact: our news media now takes treason for granted. Just as true, they’ve been taking it for granted from even before Trump became POTUS. From the beginning, Trump has fawned over Vladimir Putin like a groupie fellating a rock star. Has anyone in main stream news media ever done a deep…
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Republicans Are The New Confederacy
Oh, the irony… The Party Of Lincoln is now the official political party of The New Confederacy. You think it’s a coincidence that the current Republican Party likes flying confederate flags? Flags are symbols. They compact lots of ideas into a simple, single image. American flags concentrate “what it is to be American” into their…
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Crimes Against Democracy
Yesterday felt distinctly like a horror movie. The SCOTUS announcing they’d hear Donald Trump’s immunity gambit sent shock waves coursing through the news media. This should have been a no-brainer for the Supremes. A simple “no thanks” would have sufficed. Instead, at least four of the sitting “Justices” gave Trump one more day in court…
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Fifth Column Traitors And Republicans
That headline could just as easily read “Republicans Are Fifth Column Traitors“. Same difference. A traitor is a traitor is a traitor. And the Republican Party isn’t just the Trumpist Party now, it’s the party of treason. The term “fifth column” originated during the Spanish Civil War. Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general who served…
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Alas Our News Media Is Intellectually Lazy And Stupid
There’s a great line in National Lampoon’s Animal House. Dean Wormer stands before our heroes – the boys from Delta House – but he’s focused on Flounder in particular. “Fat, drunk, and stupid,” says Dean Wormer, “is no way to go through life, son.” Dear News Media: think of me as Dean Wormer and you…
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It’s All “News” To Them
Why does it always feel like our news media remain clueless about the biggest story they’ll ever cover – Donald Trump and the GOP assaulting our democracy? To be fair, they do know how to do freeway chases and beauty contests and horse races. The chase ends. Someone wins the beauty contest or the horse…