Tag: Putin
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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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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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That “Treason Moment”
America is slowly awakening to the fact that we are awash in treason. If we go by the word’s standard definition – a traitor being someone “attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance” – then pretty much every Republican who isn’t Liz Cheney or Adam…
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Maybe If You Have To CHEAT To Win Elections, It Means You’re Not Actually “Winning” Them
When, oh when, did America legitimize CHEATING as a way “to win”? Take this to the bank and prepare to get filthy, stinking rich: if anyone other than white, Christian, male Republicans tried to pull off what the Republicans were pulling off well before Donald Trump took them over but even more wolfishly ever since…
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Our News Media Keeps Getting It Wrong
It was foolishness to think our news media would step out from under the shadow of their terrible Trump years performance and spend the Biden years reminding themselves what journalism is. Alas, they’re still convinced that “both sides do it”. It’s painful and ironic that the White House Press Corps saved all their skepticism —…
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At The End Of The Day, This Is A Story About Treason
The Republican Party is no longer behaving like a political party; they’re behaving like criminals with a political purpose: permanent minority rule. Make no mistake, the white people behind this are an extreme minority of white people but they are attempting to cage a diverse and woke majority. This will fail — and fail horribly…
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Cyber War IS War And WE Have Been Under A Cyber War Attack For Five Years Now
It sucks to be the second person to discover that you’re in a fight. Better to be the first. Especially when the first has attacked the second unexpectedly. Ask the folks who lived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. As far as they knew — as they slept in on…