Tag: Donald Trump
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Election 2022 post mortem
I went into the voting booth on Tuesday wondering if this was going to be the last free and fair election that I would ever participate in. It was a reasonable question given that our Supreme Court is taking up a case this year to decide if states can overrule voters in assigning their electoral […]
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Republicans will excuse any behavior by Trump
Sorry for a late post. I was at a family reunion which took place near Asheville, North Carolina. I enjoyed my extended family (all but the youngest brother made it) for five days at a rental house east of Asheville. We kept busy with chatting, eating and doing touristy stuff. It’s an area I hadn’t […]
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Trump, the “gift” that keeps on giving
I’m starting to root for Donald Trump for 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. I don’t actually want him to be president again, unsurprisingly. And I admit just as he surprised us in 2016 by actually winning the Electoral College, he might do so again in 2024. But I suspect that any other Republican nominee would […]
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Trump is truthing his way toward justice
It’s been another busy week in Trumpland. Of course, it’s always a busy week in Trumpland. Trump has always believed that it’s more important to have his face and voice in the news, even in a bad way, than to not have it in the news at all. Even with a scorecard, it’s hard to […]
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I’ve been enjoying a lot of schadenfreude lately
First, it was Alex Jones’s comeuppance in court. He mouthed off to the judge and ended up with two judgments resulting in about $50M in punitive and compensatory damages for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was staged. This weekend though it was watching Donald Trump writhe in Bedminster while FBI agents raided his Mar […]
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Our nation’s biggest political mistake
The missus and me have been watching Showtime’s The First Lady. It’s a pretty good series and features three first ladies, at least in this season: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michele Obama. All were groundbreaking in their own ways. Betty Ford though was an unusual choice. Her husband Gerald Ford became our only unelected […]
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White replacement theory is so painfully dumb
In my last post, I noted that Trump famously said he likes the uneducated. I’m not surprised, since Trump is appallingly uneducated. But he can relate to them. But Republicans in general seem to prefer the uneducated because they will believe any sort of crap they throw out there. White replacement theory is just the […]
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Blogging in unprecedented and depressing times
Well, this is new: two new email subscribers to my blog in less than twenty four hours! Welcome! Occam’s Razor is a very obscure back corner of the internet, so it’s flattering when I get new subscribers. I hope you find it is worth your time. In 2002, when I started blogging, it was chic. […]
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Republicans are dancing to the Pied Piper
Attention Republicans, or should I say lemmings: you are being misled. Right off the cliff, I mean. I hate to break this to you, but you guys (and gals) are painfully easy to manipulate. All your opinion leaders have to do is play to your prejudices and you fall in line like enthusiastic sheep welcoming […]
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Pondering the Ukraine war endgame
I guess it’s good news that so many Americans now hate Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a way, I’m surprised because about 30% of voters tend to vote Republican and whatever Dear Leader (Trump) says goes. Trump has never hid is fascist inclinations. Indeed, he sensed them in the party and brought […]
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