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Category Archives: The Very Stable Genius

One of life’s mysteries

Thursday, April 23, 2020

I know all these people must be smarter than me. For instance, I never could have masterminded the theft of an election like Brian Kemp did. But even I have noticed that more than one person who has loyally done as Trump asks has had reason to echo these lines from Paul Simon’s Paranoia Blues: I […]

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Hey Susan, what lesson did Donald learn?

Saturday, April 4, 2020

The crumbling of the Republic proceeds apace, as Trump, t aking advantage of a plague he is responsible for amplifying, takes steps that will be mostly ignored by a distracted populace and press: National Security Analyst Samantha Vinograd laid into Trump for firing Inspector General Michael Atkinson yesterday. IG Atkinson was doing his job, and […]

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Told like it is

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

My wife and I subscribe to the Boston Globe, though we are more than a stone’s throw from that fair city, for reasons that, if not already known to the reader, will become obvious in the course of this post. The Globe’s coverage of the genius has, compared, for example, to the New York Times, […]

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There’s only one issue

Thursday, February 20, 2020

I’m not a Michael Bloomberg fan, though I’ll vote for him if need be, but I give him credit for one thing. He seems, more than any of the other candidates, to understand that the central issue in this election is Donald Trump. Sure, better medical coverage, anti-trust enforcement, Green New Deals, are worth talking […]

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Another blast from the past

Monday, February 10, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that I keep a diary on my Ipad, in which I’ve tried, along with my own pathetically dull life, to chronicle the day to day developments related to the Orange menace. Four years ago the New Hampshire primary had just taken place, and I wrote this: In other news, there’s no other […]

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Oh, Please dear god that doesn’t exist, grant my prayer!

Monday, February 3, 2020

Ask my better half, this has been one of my fantasies, and now it may come true: Two Swedish lawmakers have nominated 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Associated Press, Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling—members of Sweden’s Left Party—argue that Thunberg’s pursuit of climate change legislation on a global […]

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Looking on the bright side

Sunday, January 19, 2020

There aren’t many things to be thankful for in the current political situation, but one is that we have a right wing president who has managed to alienate the military, which tends to be…you know…right wing. The recently publicized excerpt from the upcoming book Very Stable Genius gives us reason to hope that, should the […]

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There’s something (else) happening here

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The stuff that has come out from Lev Parnas’s phone leads, in my humble opinion, to the ineluctable conclusion that there was something else afoot in Ukraine, other than digging up dirt on Biden. Perhaps it’s a good idea to fall back on a tried and true Trumpian rule: whenever he accuses anyone else of […]

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In case you missed it

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

I have mentioned before that I keep a diary on my Ipad, which automatically shows me entries from the same date in past years. I think I’ve also mentioned that I try to note the latest doings in the world of the very stable genius.  I didn’t get to it until late last night, so […]

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Yet another stupidity defense

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

I was just checking in at Crooks & Liars, and ran across this post, in which I learn that a Fox News host, Steve Hilton, of whose existence I had no prior knowledge (I do so thank the non-existent god that I don’t own a TV), is urging Trump to stuff not only Giuliani under […]

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