Tag: Trump Treason
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It Isn’t Just That A Trump Second Term Would Destroy American Democracy Forever, A Trump Second Term Would Finish Turning Us Into Him
Former Republican Rick Wilson got it so right: everything Trump touches dies. There are no exceptions to that rule. Like a virus, Donald Trump can’t survive without a host. In our case, us. If he can’t infect us, he can’t reproduce his toxicity in sufficient quantity to survive. The best he can do is infect…
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There’s A Huge Difference Between Skepticism & Cynicism; Here’s Why That Matters
At the same moment a skeptic and a cynic cock their eyebrows in doubt, two very different things happen inside their heads. The skeptic wants more evidence before passing judgment. The cynic has already made up his mind. In fact, his mind was made up at the start — and he already assumed the very…
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What Are All Those “Trump Won 2016” Journalists Going To Say When We Establish That, No, Trump STOLE The Election?
Spoiler alert — that IS where this story is going: Donald Trump did not “win” the 2016 election in any sense of the word. He stole it. Literally. Go look up the two words — “win” & “steal”. They’re not the same thing. To have legitimately won the 2016 presidential election (and this applies to…
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Failure Of Imagination — As Much As Treason — Got Us Here
It sucks waking up every day, feeling exactly what former first lady Michelle Obama described yesterday in her podcast — a persistent mild depression. I’d quibble with the word “mild” but then I’m a quibbler by nature. Mrs. Obama was speaking more to the relentless parade of racist cop incidents. Yesterday’s wasn’t deadly but it…
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Maybe It’s Time To Make “Stupid” A Verb — As In “Donald Trump & The GOP Are ‘Stupiding’ America To Death”
The very worst part about going down the shitter the way we are is how stupid we are for going down the shitter. Watching other countries not go down the shitter because they weren’t as stupid — it’s salt in the wound. But, Republicans aren’t just being stupid here. They’re being very deliberate. They still…
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Damn! “Worldwide Pandemic” Was NOT On My “Shit That Could Happen During MY Lifetime” Bingo Card
On the other hand, I didn’t have “Treasonous POTUS” on my card either.
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Failure Of Imagination Is A Very Real Thing; We Should Know — It’s KILLING Us
Some of us saw Donald Trump coming. Some of us didn’t. Those who did see it didn’t perform magic. We used our imaginations. We asked ourselves “Hey, what if Donald Trump actually became president — what (do I imagine) would actually happen?” What we imagined was massive corruption — the merging of Trump’s business with…
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Dear American News Media — If You’re Covering Jeffrey Dahmer, You’re Allowed To Call Him “A Cannibal”; If You’re Covering Donald J Trump…
Rules are funny things, aren’t they? Journalism has no “laws” guiding its practices, it has “rules”. Ideals of how journalism is best practiced, its ultimate goal the fair, unbiased reporting of what’s happened, what’s happening — and what’s likely to happen next. Somewhere along the way, American journalism took that desire for “unbiased” reporting to…