Tag: Donald Trump
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Waiting For Trump’s Indictment Is Like Waiting For Godot
Whoever is scripting this life of ours needs to calm the eff down. You can only keep an audience on pins and needles for so long before they turn on you. Though he’s evaded punishment of any sort his entire life, Donald Trump is about to face real accountability for the very first time. At…
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Mediocrity Kills
Without average people, exceptional people would stop being exceptional. If most of the world wasn’t so average, there’d be no average. Averages rely on most people and events falling within certain – average – parameters. Or, seen another way, averages are the sum total of people being average. But even average people can excel despite…
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That Look In Lindsey Graham’s Eyes
Remember back when Lindsey Graham said Trump was a kook and a racist and a bigot and that nominating Trump would lead to the end of the Republican Party. And that they’d deserve it? How about the Lindsey Graham who used to call John McCain his BFF? What happened to that guy? How did he…
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Dear Mike Pence: Shut The Flaming Hell Up
Mike Pence thinks he lives in God’s grace. To a degree, he’s right. He’s living in something’s grace because we all still think of him as something other than a traitor! Make no mistake: Mike Pence is every bit the traitor Donald Trump is. And Donald Trump is, first and foremost a traitor. But then,…
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Why ChatGPT Can’t Ever Really Be Funny
There’s a reason comedy is hard. It’s pretty easy to make people laugh. Even a robot can do that. AI can indeed produce hilarious “comedy” that seems to do everything a human stand-up does. That’s an illusion however. Worse, it’s more an abuse of comedy than comedy itself. You kinda feel that while watching it.…
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“Good” Tribal v “Bad”
Here’s a stone cold fact: all humans are tribal. Tribalism’s a survival instinct for social creatures like us. We need to feel connected to others in order to be happy within ourselves. Even a raging egomaniac like Donald Trump needs everyone else’s approval (or disapproval) in order to be. Take the rest of us away…
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Kevin McCarthy: Speaker Of The House & Treason’s Poster Boy
Wanna talk Rogue’s Gallery? Let’s talk Republican Speakers of The House. From Newt Gingrich (he the GOP’s culture war against the rest of us) to Denny Hastert (convicted pederast) to Paul Ryan (record breaking ineptitude), Republican Speakers have been disastrous for America. Kevin McCarthy kicks that up a whole bunch of notches. As far as…
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You Can’t View Extraordinary Times Through An Ordinary Lens
I keep trying to put my finger on this strange feeling I get every time I turn on cable news. It’s like the news media – even as they report the biggest story ever – fail to grasp how big the story is. A patch of grass fascinates them. Too bad it’s in the middle…
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Why E Pluribus Unum Matters
Most Americans – if they think about the country’s founding – focus on “All men are created equal”. Alas, when our founders wrote those words, they didn’t mean them. Oh, they meant the “men” part. Only men could be other men’s equals. But by “men”, they meant only men like themselves: white, wealthy, land owning…