Here’s just one more voice from history calling forward in time, instructing us how to deal with the attempt to overthrow the United States government.
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Prosecuting Trump Is Problematic, Refusing To Is Unthinkable
A reader sent me this, remarking: He’s still here, on duty, guarding the country. As we’ve all learned over the past six or seven years, we live among tens of millions of amazingly stupid people. And for this reason, the …
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Bringing It All Together
We’ve all read novels in which various plots threads with no apparent relationship to one another come together at the conclusion to form a unified and consistent package with no loose ends. One hopes that investigation in the January 6th …
Tagged with: Andy Biggs, fake electors, investigation in the January 6th insurrection and the larger coup attempt is an example of this, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Proud Boys, Roger Stone, sending Trump away on charges of treason, State of Georgia's investigation in election tampering, Steve Bannon (finally going to prison), Trump incited a march on the Capitol by people he knew to be armed, Trump's "stop-the-steal" organizers
Nothing Happened Today
Here’s a gag that could apply at any point in our modern history, but it’s particularly timely now, given our concerns about Merrick Garland and the invisible set of procedures that are supposedly taking place within the walls of the …
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The Coup Attempt and Watergate Have Very Little in Common
I normally don’t write posts that feature gross generalities like that contained in the meme here, but this was too good to pass up. I’m afraid it’s true, and that, deep inside all of us, we know that as well. …
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U.S. Politics in Plain Language
When my kids were little, I explained a summary of American politics to them like this: If you have an honest concern for everyone on this planet, now and into the future, you’re a Democrat. This means you believe that …
Tagged with: Biden is not senile, Climate change is not a hoax, proliferation of guns doesn't make America safer, prosecution of those responsible for the January 6th insurrection is not a politically motivated "witch hunt", steady influx of immigrants across our southern border is not causing huge surges in crime, Trump is not a good person
Any Atrocity Is Fine If It Serves Trump
A reader notes: “Go home now…We love you…You’re very special.” Q. Is that something you would say to somebody who just attacked your house?? It’s been clear from the start, well before he was elected, that Trump adores violence if it …
Tagged with: insurrection
It’s Just Sad
So many emotions–all negative–apply to life in today’s United States. Most people are angry, having watched a common criminal become and remain the most important figure in American politics. They know that millions of our soldiers fought and died to …
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Texas Gets “F” Grade on Its Quality of Life
Sure, that sounds bad, but it really depends on how one defines “quality of life.” If affluence, education, and health mean a great deal, then, yeah, there are 48 states in which you’ll fare better. If you want to see …
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America Waging War–Against America
We’re a country at war with itself, in so many different ways. As suggested here is the battle being fought between our nation’s gun nuts and its parents of school-age kids. Parents will do anything to protect their children, but …
