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Sleepy Joe, Senile
Trump’s plan to overcome his unpopularity with Independents is straightforward: He’s going to make Biden more unpopular than he is. And being Trump he’s blunt about it – he tweeted: ‘Sleepy Joe doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing – I don’t think he even knows what office he’s running for.’ At a…
Read MoreHow Trump’s Going to Conquer Ambivalence
Years ago a political savant told me, There’re three types of elections: One, the election where you like both candidates and vote for the one you like most. Two, the election where you like one candidate and dislike the other – that one’s easy, you vote for the candidate you like. Three, the election where…
Read MoreThe Election: How Vanity Bred a Mistake
At his rallies Donald Trump roars about the might of his base – in his eyes it’s the key to his defeating Joe Biden. So he tweets (to his base) how he has the highest approval rating among Republicans of any President, even Lincoln – but Trump’s calculation may boomerang: If every Republican Trumpster in…
Read MoreThe Election: Trump Makes a Miscalculation
You hear the words spoken every day, over and over, on CNN and Fox News: We’re more polarized than ever before. And on Facebook and Twitter President Trump – who sees igniting his ‘base’ as a key to defeating Biden – pours fuel on the fires of polarization. But there’s one wayward fact: Polarization isn’t…
Read MoreAround the Next Bend
Punching away after watching the Democrats debate in Las Vegas Trump tweeted Michael Bloomberg “was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent” – punching back Bloomberg started putting up billboards around Trump’s rallies saying, “Donald Trump Eats Burnt Steak. Mike Bloomberg Likes His Medium Rare.” George Washington said no to being crowned king. At the end of…
Read MoreTwo Vices
Politicians see a block of voters and think, Let’s give them something and they’ll vote for us. We just saw one example: African-Americans made up half the voters in South Carolina’s Democratic Primary and a third of the voters in North Carolina’s primary and before the first vote was cast Joe Biden announced he’d give…
Read MoreEnough for One Day
The first news story I read (on the internet) showed Trump tweeting out a video of a bearded Hell’s Angel-type riding a motorcycle cussing out an older man driving an SUV beside him, using the f-word seven times. The next story was the Washington Post jumping all over Trump but not for the f-word –…
Read MoreRolling Downhill
The first minister, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, looked across the room full of Washington politicians who’d been eye-gouging one another since the day Trump took office and made a suggestion: Why not try a bit of “love your enemies.” President Trump stood up next and spoke. I don’t know that I agree with…
Read MoreAnother Associated Press Fact Check
I’d like to see President Trump take the Associated Press head on. In another ‘Fact Check’ the AP said President Trump lied three times at the Davos Forum in Switzerland. At a press conference, Trump said he’d ‘saved HBCU’s’ (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The AP called that ‘a big stretch.’ It said HBCU’s were…
Read MoreWho lied? And why?
This is a test. Read that. Leaning across the table Judge Gavin handed Mike and Vic a newspaper article: At the impeachment trial Trump’s lawyer said the House Judiciary Committee denied Trump the fundamental “right to cross examine witnesses” and that same day, before the sun set, the Associated Press reported “That’s false.” Who’s lying?…
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