Tag: Patriotism
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The Republican Party Is A Monstrous Ponzi Scheme Of Treason
The bottom line is always the emperor’s birthday suit. That’s what he’s wearing and everyone knows it. The question is who will say it – out loud – bursting the bubble of bullshit? For a Ponzi scheme to actually work, everyone in existence would have to buy in. The goal of a Ponzi scheme is…
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America Has Achieved A State Of “Intractable Absurdity” (But In Our Defense, We Were Born This Way)
Know why few things in America seem to make sense anymore? Because they don’t. Know why it feels like there’s no way to fix it (whatever the hell “it” is)? Because there is no way. “Insane Problem To Have”, meet “No Way To Fix It”. Have fun together! There’s not a subject matter you can…
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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 —…
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What This Country MEANS To Me (America IS Exceptional — When Republicans GET OUT OF OUR WAY…)
I have a mixed marriage. I am American and my wife is British (now also American). My children are mixed – British & American Nationals. I have contemplated becoming like them – a Bi-National. And yet — I have always had reservations about doing such a thing — because, on some level, I feel like…
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Hey, America — Next Time, Let’s Take Better Care of Our Democracy, Okay?
There’s a Joni Mitchell song — pretty well known — with a lyric that goes something like this — They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone…