Oh, let’s not be too hasty here. If gasoline goes up 50 cents per gallon, it will have a temporary negative affect on the personal economy of some Americans. Who cares if we wake up one day to find that …
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America: Where’s This Going?
From an old friend: Today is the day we learn how many of our fellow citizens will be cool with authoritarian rule if it just lowers the price of gas 25 cents or so a gallon and bumps the Dow …
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Lying About the Electoral Process
Here’s one of Donald Trump’s attorneys explaining how she expects to have the election results sometime in the middle of the night, saying that if we don’t have the results by morning, it will appear that the Democrats have “extended …
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Republican Party Nominates Revolting Characters
It will be fine with me when the Republican party stops nominating criminals and pathological liars to positions of political power. In the meanwhile, it takes a truly disgusting person to vote for Dr. Oz.
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Bullish on Democracy
From Robert Reich: Obviously, I can’t tell you how today’s elections will turn out. But I do want to reassure you about one thing: Over the long term, we are winning. Why else would the election deniers, the monied interests, …
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Trump and His Classified Documents: The Dog Ate My Homework
We need to give Trump credit, not only for his brazen willingness to tell lies that are absolutely impossible to believe, but for his extreme creativity. Here are documents that should have been housed at the National Archives, but instead …
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Indifference
(Roughly) “I suppose that the only time in which the majority of people think about injustice is when it happens to them.” This is an excellent summation of life in America. In particular, there is an entire political party whose …
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The Stolen Election
Here’s another reminder of how gullible and stupid certain Americans are. Suppose you find it irrelevant that 65+ judges at various different levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, found no evidence of massive voter fraud. Doesn’t the logic in the …
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To Whom Does the Republican Platform Appeal?
Republicans are expected to do quite well in tomorrow’s midterm elections here in the U.S., though it’s not exactly clear how and why that can be achieved. Social Security and Medicare have been fixtures in American life for close to …
What Did We Expect from Musk? Not Sure, But it Wasn’t This.
I have to admit that Musk’s antics at Twitter are quite an entertaining side-show as we brace ourselves for the midterm election returns.
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