Tag: Paul Manafort
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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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Not Every Issue Has Two Sides – Like The Question “Should American Democracy End?”
The “Both Sides Do It” brand of journalism – cynical all the way down to its mitochondria – gives all sides to a story equal weight because it refuses to judge anything, prizing “neutrality” above even the Truth. Pick a conflict between two people, two groups, two nations and both sides, BSDI journalism says, have […]
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The Real “Big Lie” Is That Donald Trump Won In 2016
Fact: Donald Trump projects everything that he is and that he’s doing – especially if it’s scummy, corrupt, perverse or treasonous – onto others. The GOP has made Trump’s corruption its own. That was why it was so easy for Republicans like Marco Rubio to insist that there was no way they were going to […]
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I’m All For Compromise But The Question Is Who Or What Are We Being Asked To Compromise With?
Relationships are all about compromise. No marriage can survive without copious amounts of it. The bottom line is incredibly simple: if you want any relationship to survive, be prepared to compromise pretty much everything. That means whoever (or whatever) you’re compromising with better we worth the compromise. You will be living with that compromise’s results […]
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At The End Of The Day, This Is A Story About Treason
The Republican Party is no longer behaving like a political party; they’re behaving like criminals with a political purpose: permanent minority rule. Make no mistake, the white people behind this are an extreme minority of white people but they are attempting to cage a diverse and woke majority. This will fail — and fail horribly […]
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Cyber War IS War And WE Have Been Under A Cyber War Attack For Five Years Now
It sucks to be the second person to discover that you’re in a fight. Better to be the first. Especially when the first has attacked the second unexpectedly. Ask the folks who lived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. As far as they knew — as they slept in on […]
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