Tag: Trump
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The DACA reaction: push comes to shove
Hawkeye: How do you feel? Private Peterson: All ready to go out and kill me some more “gooks”, sir. Hawkeye: Wendell, another word for “gooks” is “people.” M*A*S*H, Season 1, Episode 15 Conservatives are having a call to conscience. For more than a decade Congress has kicked the immigration can down the road, unable to…
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Trump must go
If there was every any doubt (and it’s hard to imagine how there could have been), at his news conference yesterday Donald Trump essentially admitted he was a racist. This means we have the first openly racist president since Woodrow Wilson. Trump definitely has the ability to keep astounding us, just not in a good…
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Lots of Americans prefer totalitarianism
It’s been noted that democracy is on the decline around the world. Venezuela is the most recent example. Unhappy about 2015 election results that gave socialist president Nicolás Maduro an opposition legislature, Maduro refused to let the national assembly meet. Most recently he is pushing for a rewriting the constitution by a new Constituent Assembly,…
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Democrats score a big budget win
The budget agreement which funds the federal government through the end of the fiscal year (September 30) proves that although Democrats don’t control any part of government, they still wield enormous clout. For the most part the Omnibus funding bill demonstrates the power of Democrats and vested interests. Trump and Republicans may say they are…
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How to bring down Trump
Today on just the 88th day of Trump’s presidency I am frankly astonished by the speed by which his presidency is sinking. An insurgent Democrat is a deep red Kansas district came within less than seven points of beating a Republican, a district Trump carried by nearly thirty points. Today there is another special election…
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Chemical weapons: bad. Barrel bombs: okay
Of course it was only a matter of time before Trump decided to flex our nation’s military might. Predictably his actions turned out to be both scary and counterproductive and predictably it happened as his poll numbers were dropping like a stone. Thursday’s launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles against an airbase in Syria got most…
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Four weeks in, a Trump update
At four weeks into the Trump Administration things are about as bleak as I expected them to be. And yet there are signs of hope. The Trump Administration so far has proven staggeringly inept. Moreover, the protests arising to his administration are passionate, largely organic and growing in intensity. Trump’s stubbornness and dogged determination to…
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