Tag: Election 2020
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I Have A Feeling THESE 20’s Are About To “Really” Roar
The Roaring 1920’s brought economic prosperity to the Western world — until a lot of that prosperity turned out to be phony, crony capitalism — and the world plunged into the Great Depression. These 20’s — the 2020’s — are about to roar as well — but for a whole different reason. The underlying cause…
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Dear American News Media: YOU Will Be The Problem Until YOU Stop Being It
When your job is to tell our story in real time, as it’s happening, it’s vital that you know how to frame that story — in real time. If you screw up the framing, you’ll end up telling the wrong story. Our news media can’t ever get the Donald Trump story right because they insist…
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Donald Trump & Trumpism Are What Happens When Magical Thinking Goes Psycho
Magical Thinking should have an expiration date — at the end of childhood, say. Or when one turns 18 and votes for the first time. Alas, that’s not the case. Some people — Republicans — never lose their taste for Magical Thinking. That’s because it’s more than a taste, it’s an addiction. The reason religious…
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What Are All Those “Trump Won 2016” Journalists Going To Say When We Establish That, No, Trump STOLE The Election?
Spoiler alert — that IS where this story is going: Donald Trump did not “win” the 2016 election in any sense of the word. He stole it. Literally. Go look up the two words — “win” & “steal”. They’re not the same thing. To have legitimately won the 2016 presidential election (and this applies to…
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The Majority Of Us Did Not Vote For Trump Or What He’s Doing. So, How Come He’s Doing It Anyway?
It’s strange to live in a democracy (well, a democratic republic) where the majority does not get its way. Apparently by design. It’s kind of hard for a democracy to continue being a democracy when too few of its citizens take part in the very process that makes a democracy work: voting. The whole point…
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Have An “Election Strategy” Unless We Count Cheating As “Strategy”
The news media uses the word “strategy” the way Wallace Shawn’s Vizzini uses the word “Inconceivable!” in The Princess Bride. As we all remember, Inigo Montoya’s notices how much Vizzini uses the word — and how conceivable all the inconceivable things actually are. Finally, Montoya calls him out on it — Every single day, at…