What comes out of Trump’s mouth is a strange blend of falsehood and truth. Yes, occasionally he tells the truth, but generally at the least opportune moment. Headline from May 11, 2017:
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Trump Shoving Ex-Supporters Across a Line
Here’s an article that offers the perspectives of 25 people who voted for Trump in 2016 but subsequently withdrew that support–each for a different reason. The only commonality was that each had reached a “breaking point.” That’s a good thing, …
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What’s Up with Trump’s Plummeting Approval Ratings?
For a long time after Trump leaves office, historians will be arguing about the proximate cause of the steep decline in his approval ratings. After all, he has survived hundreds of scandals and embarrassments, so what changed in early/mid-2020? For …
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What Government Can Be
Neoliberalism (free-market capitalism) took over in the U.S. in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected, and has reached the point that many people hate government. Now, when people say they “hate government,” what they’re really saying is that they …
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How The Rest of the World Sees the United States
I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage. It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad …
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Trump’s Health
I like this. Not only is this right from a humanitarian perspective, but who wants to see Trump removed for health reasons? He needs to be removed (and imprisoned) because he’s a sociopathic criminal; that’s the only way to fully …
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Election Day Is Our Opportunity to Make Orwell Fiction Again
If I didn’t live on a small cul de sac where no one would see it, I’d be sporting this little beauty out on my front yard. Some people knew that we were going full Orwellian before Trump was sworn …
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Calling All Patriotic Moms and Dads
“Hey parents! Get this fun and free patriotic bundle from Mike Huckabee’s “Kids (sic) Guide to the Presidential Election” while supplies last!” Sounds good to me. Who wouldn’t like a “patriotic bundle” for our kids? I’m sure there are robust …
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“Mr. Trump Increasingly Sounds Like a Cultural Relic”
Here’s another person echoing the point I made the other day about Trump: he’s standing on an island that’s getting smaller with each passing day, as the seas are rising around him. Yes, he has a hardcore base that will …
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Evaluating Presidential Candidates
I have to love Kelly’s remarks. Really? We have to be more careful about who (sic) we elect? We need to apply a filter? Character matters? It’s not good enough to vote for someone who hates the same people we …
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