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A Piece of the Political World
Vivek Ramaswamy’s fast-talking, quirky, untouched by humility and staring at Ronna McDaniel sitting in the audience at the last debate picked a fight: ‘Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we lost in 2018, 2020, 2022. We got trounced last night in 2023. Ronna, if you come on stage tonight…
Read MoreMedia Polls
Gary and I disagree a lot when it comes to politics but after reading his article yesterday about ‘Media Polls’ I thought, Amen. A New York Times poll ‘predicted disaster for Biden and Democrats in big states a year from now’ – but, as Gary pointed out, two days later, Democrats swept elections in ‘big…
Read MoreHe’s a Fascist
Donald Trump’s Veterans Day speech in New Hampshire sounded right out of a 1930s Nuremberg rally. The Washington Post: “Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing Hitler and Mussolini.” Forbes: “Trump Compares Political Foes to ‘Vermin’ on Veterans Day, Echoing Nazi Propaganda.” Trump vowed to “root out…the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the…
Read MoreStumbles and Struts
Hamas slaughtered Israelis, anger shot across the internet – Biden said he ‘had Israel’s back.’ Israel bombed Gaza, civilians died, Biden said he wanted to give Gaza $100 million. Nursing an old grievance, after Hamas attacked Israel Trump mocked Netanyahu, called Hezbollah ‘very smart’ – that backfired. About facing Trump said he stood 100% with…
Read MoreAmen
Cameras rolled, the second Republican debate started, a surprising thing happened: Fox News played a video of Oliver Anthony singing, “These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all just wanna have total control…” Out to get MAGA Republican viewers to increase ratings Fox News played Anthony singing about corrupt politicians. After dropping out…
Read MoreGerrymander-go-round
Donald Trump’s Big Lie is the father of today’s Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina. It’s the same authoritarian, democracy-denying DNA. Duke professor Jonathan Mattingly, who analyzed the Republicans’ new redistricting plan here, concluded, “The maps the legislature have proposed essentially negate the need to have elections for the U.S. House of Representatives.” Trump and MAGA…
Read MoreIronic
Attacking a court clerk in his New York trial, Trump put a post on Truth Social and on his campaign website. The judge, angry, ordered him to take it down. Trump nodded. But left the post on his campaign website. The judge slapped him with a $5000 fine. It’s ironic. Trump likes to say eighty-year-old…
Read MoreLooking Stronger
Starting out Ron DeSantis was Trump’s strongest opponent – Trump punched him, punched him again, DeSantis tumbled in polls. DeSantis’ Super PAC did an ad saying: Trump’s mean. But who doesn’t know Trump’s got a mean streak? Telling people what they already knew didn’t work. Then the unexpected happened: Hamas slaughtered Israelis; Trump, fuming over…
Read MoreThe Media Just Can’t Get It Right
The New York Times ran a story saying Trump got indicted for saying ‘the election was stolen – going on and on the Times spelled out Trump’s ‘false statements’ like claiming ‘In Detroit, turnout was 139 percent of registered voters’ when turnout in Detroit was really 51%. But if spinning tales was a crime jails…
Read MoreBirdbrain
Nikki Haley moved up to second place in New Hampshire and South Carolina, passing Ron DeSanctis, and Trump’s antennae twitched – Trump called Haley a ‘birdbrain,’ sent her an empty birdcage. Haley moved up, Trump gave her a nickname.
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