Category: Politics 2023
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The bully state
President Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Former president Donald Trump has shortened it to “Just carry a big stick! And use it frequently!” The former bully-in-chief is warning of “potential death and destruction” if he is charged with a crime for paying off his alleged lover and porn…
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Siloed Republicans are causing their party’s demise
Are you “woke”? If you are a Republican, being “woke” means that you are “overly” politically correct. For weeks I couldn’t decipher what Republicans meant by “woke”. It turns out I have plenty of company. USA Today surveyed people to find out what the term meant to them. I am one of the 56% who…
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Nothing Christian about Christian Nationalism
It looks like Jimmy Carter won’t be among the living much longer. During his presidency, the 98 year old Carter was largely despised because he kept speaking inconvenient truths. Now that he’s almost gone, he’s being reassessed and his reviews are largely positive. In the 1970s, he saw the coming climate crisis, and mostly symbolically…
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One year of Putin’s folly in Ukraine
If I were Russian president Vladimir Putin, I’d be thinking about disappearing. He’s a dead man walking and is living in denial. It’s been a year since he launched an unprovoked war against Ukraine. To say it’s been a debacle is to be extremely charitable. There are multiple targets on his back. It’s just a…
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Chinese balloon threat nonsense
What the hell is wrong with Republicans? It’s been about a week since a Chinese balloon was detected drifting around 60,000 feet above sea level over Montana. In a sense though, the timing was right. Republicans are always looking for something new and scary to blame Democrats for. The Chinese balloon hit all the marks,…
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Medicare is pretty awesome
In my last post, I noted that a majority of Americans favor a single-payer health care plan over the current system. Some people though effectively do have socialized medicine already here in the United States: much of the U.S. military, veterans, the poor that can get on Medicaid and 65+ Americans like me, i.e. seniors.…
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The coming shit show
Rabid orthodoxy can make you clueless. In a normal political party, where in the 2022 elections you barely squeak by with a House majority, lose a Senate seat, and Democrats take total control of two state legislatures (Michigan and Pennsylvania) and add governorships (Maryland, Massachusetts and Arizona) to your party’s one governorship pickup (Nevada) while…
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I’m glad to be “woke”
It’s not just House Republicans, but Republican politicians everywhere that are scared of being “woke”. Admittedly, it’s hard to say what “woke” actually means to Republicans, but allowing kids to be “woke” greatly upsets them. It upsets them to the point where they are passing legislation and ordinances to not allow “woke” teaching because, well,…
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Mr. Marcus of Home Depot doesn’t understand capitalism
It’s hard to avoid stories about Prince Harry and his takedown of the royal family. His book Spare, which is released this week, apparently pulls no punches and disses much of the royal family including his brother William who he alleges bullied him as a kid. Despite watching all seasons of the Netflix series The…
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Republicans are trapped in their own cage
I must be feeling better if I can blog about politics again. Republicans “won” control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November with 222 seats to 213 for Democrats, a nine seat gain. It was an unusually anemic midterm performance for the party out of power, particularly since a round of redistricting was completed…
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