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Nothing new here

Saturday, September 28, 2024

This article in the New London Day brought back memories. The Day reports that Old Lyme Democrats are using tracking technology to find the folks that are stealing their signs. There’s no indication that Republican signs are being stolen. Back in 1980 I was actually planning on voting for Barry Commoner, but with a few […]

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Call them what they are

Monday, June 24, 2024

I am in the process of reading Radical Connecticut by Andy Piascik and Steve Thornton. I was struck by this paragraph in the chapter titled “It Can’t Happen Here”, which discusses the performance of Sinclair Lewis’s play of that name in Connecticut: Americans in the 1930s were being groomed to accept fascism as a macho […]

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Even in Vermont

Thursday, June 20, 2024

A bit out of the ordinary for this blog, but since I spend a lot of time there, I can’t help passing on this story from Vermont. It had been my impression that the Vermont Republican Party had not yet gone full crazy, at least not as crazy as most of the rest of the […]

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They can only preach to the choir

Monday, March 11, 2024

I’ve written a number of posts about the Democrat’s seeming inability to grab control of the narrative. They always seem to be on the defensive and rarely, if ever, speak in unison, unlike the Republicans who will come up with a line of attack which is repeated endlessly and by practically all of them. One […]

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Good day, yesterday

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

So, the Democrat won convincingly in New York yesterday, cutting the Republicans’ razor thin majority in the House down even more. It was supposed to be close, but wasn’t. 2022 was supposed to be a Republican wave, but wasn’t. In fact, it appears to be the case that Democrats have outperformed the polls quite a […]

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Grifters Gotta Grift

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Couldn’t resist passing this along. It truly is the case than on multiple levels the Republican Party is just a massive grift. After all, the business plan is to get Fox-addled minds to cast votes against their best interest so the Republicans can deliver for their real constituency, the selfish rich, by sucking money from […]

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New Hampshire speaks

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

…and now everyone can argue about what they said. I think it’s fair to say that reactions to yesterday’s vote are all over the map, often depending on the spin one wants to put on things. Trump won, though I understand that in terms of delegates to the convention, he came away with a small […]

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If they accuse others you know they’re doing it themselves

Saturday, January 13, 2024

I am certainly not the first to make the observation encapsulated in the title of this post. If a Republican accuses a Democrat, or Democrats generally, of certain behaviors, it is almost a given that said Republican is doing those things. I thought I’d pass the latest one along, as it is happening in our […]

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On this day (actually on yesterday) in Trump history

Thursday, January 4, 2024

I keep a sort of journal, usually only a few paragraphs a day. No Thoreau or Pepys am I, but during the Trump years I usually put in something about whatever idiotic thing the stable genius did on that particular day. The journal is on my Ipad, and it has an “On This Day” feature […]

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Bring it on

Saturday, December 16, 2023

So, the Republicans have initiated the impeachment process, all of them voting to do so, despite the fact that they have no evidence of wrongdoing. All the so-called “moderate” Republicans went along with it, though you can bet whatever part of your body you like that they did so unwillingly, but they all feel the […]

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