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Monthly Archives: July 2020

Give credit where due

Friday, July 31, 2020

I’m a big fan of Driftglass, who is constantly and accurately reminding us that today’s “Never Trump” Republicans consist largely of political operatives who helped shape the electorate that brought us Trump. As he points out, it is considered impolite (though he does it all the time) to remind these people that they shaped the […]

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A helpful writing tip to a man in blue

Sunday, July 26, 2020

This morning’s New London Day has an article about two complaints filed by Groton Town Council candidates against the police last year. One Republican and one Democrat, so this is an instance in which both sides do it. I won’t say much about the substance of the Republican’s complaint, though his observation that: “If you […]

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The wrong bogeyman

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Over at the Palmer Report, we are assured that the threat of Donald Trump refusing to leave office is an illusion: We can’t stress this enough: this an imaginary narrative that pundits have manufactured for the sake of ratings. Donald Trump is playing into this fake narrative because he’s hoping to use the empty threat […]

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There’s something happening here

Sunday, July 19, 2020

What it is, is exactly clear. (With apologies to Stephen Stills) When Trump unleashed a fairly mild (in comparison) version of Nazi Stormtroopers on protestors so he could hold up a Bible, it made headlines. Apparently, he learned his lesson. So long as you start the process somewhere other than D.C. or New York, the […]

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Sounds familiar

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Yet another sign of hope, assuming of course that they can’t steal the election: Brian Kilmeade gave hope to worried Trump supporters. “But of people who believe that Donald Trump will be successful they talk about a secret vote, the underground vote because if you wear are a red hat or bumper sticker on your […]

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The Times edges toward saying the obvious

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

It has long been obvious to the casual, somewhat informed, halfway intelligent observer that the very stable genius is, in fact, a very unstable, seriously mentally ill individual, possibly mixed with a heaping helping of incipient senility. For purposes of this piece I’m going to assume it has been even more obvious to the New […]

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If you made this up people would think you were crazy

Monday, July 13, 2020

Many years ago Tom Tomorrow inked a good cartoon, in which he posited that George W., Dick Cheney, et. al., were a bunch of leftists who figured they could destroy the Republican Party from within by governing in a manner so obviously bad that people would turn en masse to the Democrats. What brings this […]

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There must be a word for this

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

“Hypocrisy” comes to mind, but I’m not sure that captures the essence of it. The Texas Republicans are planning to hold a convention in which they cram people together like cattle. But… The Republican Party of Texas is moving forward with its controversial in-person convention during the coronavirus pandemic — but elected officials including Gov. […]

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You read it here first!

Saturday, July 4, 2020

I just came across this: It is easy to imagine [Trump] is the worst leader the US has ever had. It is a view endorsed by the American Political Science association, which canvassed some 170 historians who ranked Trump dead last—a largely bipartisan verdict, too, since even self-identified Republicans on the panel rated him fortieth against the […]

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Math Lesson

Friday, July 3, 2020

I was a bit struck by this from an article on Crooks & Liars about a poll that found that Trump has not had much luck painting Biden (of all people) as a dirty fucking hippie: There is at least one cause for hope for Trump in the poll: Forty-one percent of voters agreed with […]

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