A reader says: “I respect Trump for what he’s accomplished. I like to look only at the statistics.” Yes, but which ones? Environmental damage? Children living in poverty? Human health? Education? Racial violence? Police killings? Associates imprisoned? Dictators coddled? Allies …
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Trump: What’s Next?
It’s clear that Trump has lost the 2020 presidential election, to the joy of essentially every human being on Earth, minus his remaining supporters here in America. People around the world are celebrating that the United States has rejected its …
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Trump To Face “Scrutiny” from Prosecutors?
“Scrutiny?” Is he kidding? A deluge of criminal indictments, some of which have already been prepared, are going to rain down on Trump the moment he’s no longer the U.S. president. Take your pick: the 2016 Russian election attack, the …
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Trump Losing, World Rejoicing
The Irish Daily Mirror is admittedly left of center, but holy cats do they hate Trump. The cover here is one of dozens of extremely vitriolic pieces they’ve run over the years. The rest of the world will be almost …
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Violent Morons Claim Voter Fraud
A reader offers the graphic at left. I know there are QAnons out there, and other idiots with completely baseless, unsupported claims, but this type of bullshit is really dangerous. The problem is that there are plenty of people stupid …
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What Trump’s Tenure Has Shown Us About Ourselves
I’ll never forget the conversation I had with my mom when Donald Trump arrived on the political scene in 2015. “This is so weird,” I said. “Until now, a serious candidate for U.S. president needed to be a good, honest …
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Abolishing the Electoral College
A note of explanation to begin: California has 39.96 million residents and is worth 55 electoral points, meaning 726,545 residents per electoral vote. Wyoming has 579,000 people and is worth 3 electoral points, which is 193,000 residents per electoral vote. …
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Yes, America, This Is Who We Are, At Least For Now
This guy makes a good point. An accurate understanding of our fellows requires that we acknowledge that about half of Americans have very poor values. But how important is that to you and me?
Feeding the Fear of Socialism in America
A reader notes: South Florida Cubans, who are amongst the biggest enrollees and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act per capita, anywhere in all the United States, voted en masse for the man whose stated goal is to destroy and …
Why Americans Feel Stress
Part of the reason so many Americans are stressed out about the election results is the feeling of a lack of agency. We each have only one vote, and, when we look at the photo here and are reminded of …
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