Tag: Insurrection
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DID Trump Actually Win The 2016 Election?
The question always was inevitable – once we began pulling threads on Donald Trump’s spectacular corruption. We now understand that the only way Trump can avoid criminal prosecution for everything he’s done is to “win back” the presidency. Right this second, when we say “everything he’s done”, we mean his role in the January 6…
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A “Gold Seam” Connects Republican Donors To The Insurrection
Fact: insurrections don’t pay for themselves. And, as a rule, insurrectionists themselves don’t have deep pockets. That was especially true of our insurrection. 99% of the angry white people over-running Congress on January 6 were middle class if that. In America, “middle class” means “just this side of broke”. Someone higher up the socioeconomic food…
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Why Right Wing Talk Is Cheap
Boy, the right wing makes a ton of noise, don’t they? They love getting up on their hind legs and spewing. The words being spewed don’t matter. It’s word salad that’s been through the garbage disposal. Alas, our undiscerning news media (undiscerning because they think “both sides do it”) makes zero distinction between facts and…
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Before We Go Praising Mike Pence For “Saving The Republic”, Let’s Remind Ourselves How Much Of The Peril We’re In Is Mike Pence’s Fault
Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” while watching the trial of Nazi SS officer Adolph Eichmann in 1961. Arendt, one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century, saw in Eichmann not an Aryan god who represented a true “master race”, but a mediocre, over-confident petty bureaucrat just doing what…
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After Trump, There Won’t BE A Republican Party Anymore
A wise man (more like a wise guy actually) once tweeted ““If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it.” That was Lindsey Graham and he knew exactly what he was talking about. What Lindsey understood – deep down, it turns out – is that Trump both personified the Republican Party’s…
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Everything The Republicans Are Doing Is Going To Blow Up In Their Faces
In a way, The Republican Party is about to become like a car-chasing dog that finally catches up to a car only to realize it never prepared itself for this moment – and this moment sucks – because the car just ran over it. On two different fronts, Republicans – white, Christian conservatives – are…
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Our News Media Keeps Getting It Wrong
It was foolishness to think our news media would step out from under the shadow of their terrible Trump years performance and spend the Biden years reminding themselves what journalism is. Alas, they’re still convinced that “both sides do it”. It’s painful and ironic that the White House Press Corps saved all their skepticism —…