Speaking strictly for myself, I find this extremely difficult to swallow. In the United States, the president is elected by the electoral college, which itself is informed by the popular vote in each of the 50 states. From where I …
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In my recent post Trump’s at the End of His Rope, I made the point that the evidence of Trump’s guilt in the 91 felony counts he faces, especially the testimony of dozens, maybe hundreds of eyewitnesses, is about to …
An important factor in the upcoming U.S. presidential election is the vote of traditional Republicans who have enough intelligence and integrity not to re-elect Trump. As suggested in the meme here, Liz Cheney is the unofficial spokesperson for this group; …
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The comment at left is from former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and it’s hard to dispute. Allowing Trump to use some technicality to avoid prosecution for the 91 felonies of which he’s accused says one thing: all American citizens …
Re: Trump’s post at left, economic analyst Robert Rapier writes: He already predicted in 2020: “If Biden is elected, the stock market will crash and your 401k will be zero.” Now that the stock market is at a record high, …
This from French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire. If you’ve never read Candide, I hope you’ll treat yourself. The reason he’s correct here is the truth of what Plato said 2000 years prior, …
Without doubt, there are many vectors in American civilization that have all come together to create what we call “Trumpism” or the MAGA movement. One, of course, is the presence of Trump himself. Until 2015, when he came on the …
My conservative mother points out that, whenever Trump is attacked, his popularity rises. There does seem to be some truth here, though perhaps the causal element here is simply that his name stays in the news. For example, the media …
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Wow. If nothing else, Trump is shameless. Apparently, he thinks his supporters forget that he said this both before and during his four-year presidency, and exactly zero happened.
If there is one good thing about the MAGA cult, it’s that these people are not trying to slip by unnoticed. The red hats and Let’s Go Brandon signs are hard to miss. Then there’s this guy with the truck.
