Category: Politics 2023
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Republican stunned bunny syndrome
I came across a picture of Kari Lake the other day. Lake ran for Governor of Arizona last year, lost and immediately claimed the election was rigged. The look on her face was priceless, but epitomized our modern Republican Party. I imagine Donald Trump looked the same way when someone told him he lost the…
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U.S. default – time to run to the hills?
In case you’ve missed it, it’s possible that on June 1 the United States won’t be able to pay its bills because we’ll have breached an arbitrary debt limit. This is hardly a new threat. So far, parties have been able to extend the debt limit because despite a lot of brinkmanship ultimately both parties…
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Biden’s fine for a second term
There’s a new alarming poll from the Washington Post: 58% of Democrats want someone other than Joe Biden to be their 2024 party’s nominee for president. I don’t. I want Joe Biden as the nominee because he’s best positioned to win the election and deliver results to the American people. I guess I can understand…
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Most Christians aren’t
The other day I came across this article about Montana legislator Kerri Seekins-Crowe. The state has been debating banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. She’s a Republican, which is almost expected in Montana. What brought her into the news is she proposed the legislation, she has a trans youth and she said she would rather…
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I don’t like Disney, but not enough to see it suffer
The Florida legislature and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s war on Disney is something of a Rorschach test for Republicans, not to mention a scary and revealing look at how far Republicans will go to (yes) cancel opponents they don’t like. It doesn’t bode well for the future. If you are having trouble envisioning what authoritarianism…
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Ignoring the law legally
It’s abundantly clear that Republicans are finding federalism inconvenient. In a federalist system, power is distributed between the federal and state governments. States can’t do certain things that the U.S. Constitution delegates to the federal government, and visa versa. “Inconvenient” means these states want federalism when it works for them only. What’s new is that…
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Gloves off
My sister and brother in law are finally retiring. My brother in law is a private plane enthusiast and was looking for an airpark to live at: basically a community of houses on a private airpark shared with neighbors like they used to have in Friendswood, Texas. The good news is they found such a…
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Destroying Democracy
Donald Trump is under indictment. Anyone who has been following events in only the most cursory manner should not be surprised. After all, Trump’s personal fixer Micheal Cohen already went to prison for the crime Trump now stands indicted for. The major difference is because Trump has more money he was able to avoid indictment…
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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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