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Monthly Archives: August 2020

One thing to expect

Monday, August 31, 2020

I don’t think there is any doubt but that the Republicans are planning to steal the 2020 election. If they succeed, my guess it will be done so that it is plain sight, but nonetheless deniable enough to pass muster in the present partisan Supreme Court. It will be the end of our constitutional system […]

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We’ve seen this before

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Apparently there is a survey our there making the case that Trump is behind in the polls because his supporters are ever so shy about disclosing their preferences to telephone pollsters. I think it is well debunked at the linked article, but I think it should also be pointed out that this may be one […]

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Another (albeit small) brick in the wall

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Yesterday I wrote a sort of review of Kurt Andersen’s Evil Geniuses, which documents the myriad ways in which our country has been hijacked by the ultra-rich, who have succeeded marvelously in either repealing restraints under which they previously operated, or convincing the government and/or the courts to not enforce laws that theoretically restrain them. […]

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Book report: Evil Geniuses

Saturday, August 29, 2020

This past Sunday the New York Times Book Review featured Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen. It sounded good so I ordered the e-book (I use a Kobo so I can buy through my local bookstore. I avoid Amazon as much as I can) and I’ve been reading it over the last couple of days. I […]

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It’s perfectly normal when the right does it

Thursday, August 27, 2020

We often read about both siderism in our media: the insistence by the punditocracy and many reporters that both sides are equally responsible for the rot in our political system. But there’s often something more pernicious going on: an absurd emphasis on something when one political party does it (that would be the party beginning […]

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Trump admits guilt

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

One thing that’s little remarked among the punditry, perhaps because it’s so hard to make a both siderist case about it, is the Republican habit of projection. If they’re doing it, they’re loudly accusing the Democrats of doing it. They even had the chutzpah to claim that the Democrats were trying to destroy Medicare. They […]

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A simple solution

Saturday, August 22, 2020

This should come as no surprise: In an apparent effort to make his daily news conferences even more like campaign events than they already are, the White House press office has been packing the briefing room with supporters of President Donald Trump from far-right media outlets who can be relied on to toss him softball […]

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Thanks for the memories, internet

Thursday, August 20, 2020

One of the things about the Trump regime is that there are so many atrocities that any particular atrocity is down the memory hole in no time. I may have mentioned that I try to document those atrocities day by day in a journal I keep, but it only skims the surface. By the way, […]

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Sounds familiar

Thursday, August 20, 2020

I’m currently reading a book Alaric the Goth, An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, by Douglas Boin, a history professor at Saint Louis University. It’s a history of the sack of Rome from the Goth’s point of view, and is, of necessity, somewhat speculative in the details, though what I’m about to pass […]

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Bruce chips in for Biden

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

My wife sent me a link to this video, which I thought was great. One of the things that Republicans are good at is hitting Democrats in their strong spots and making many of them believe that they have to back away from a source of strength. For instance, the Republicans have often attacked Democrats […]

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