I would like to see more opinion polling on the issues the country faces. There are, of course, the inevitable polls on the horse race, but they tell us (and the politicians) little about the issues that are important to people and how they want their government to deal with them. Our President continues to …
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Seriously: A Disgrace Before All the Nations
“You had the Nobel Prize?” Donald Trump learns of Yazidi activist Nadia Murad. Here’s how the interaction unfolded pic.twitter.com/DE3exTAm7N — The National (@TheNationalUAE) July 18, 2019 If you wrote this scene for the cartoon villain in a genre movie, it’d be rejected as ‘too broad’. If your grandfather reacted this way during a serious event, …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Now *We* Have “the Bigger Half”
When you get mad and kick the chessboard so the pieces go flying in every direction, technically that IS 3-D chess. — James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) July 16, 2019 On these 71/72 analogies, a key issue. Back in I think 1971 Pat Buchanan, then a young aide and speechwriter to Nixon wrote a memo to the …
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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Their Last Resort
Expecting this stuff from Trump doesn't really inoculate you for when a top White House staffer whips out the skull calipers for a reporter. — Matt Ford (@fordm) July 16, 2019 OOGA-BOOGA SCARY STRANGERS!!! is the Trump / Repub bolthole, the place they retreat when they perceive the situation as going badly for them. It …
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Friday Night – Demonstrate Against Concentration Camps!
Lights for Liberty, a coalition of a great many organizations, is holding demonstrations against the concentration camps Friday night. The list is long – I’ll bet most of you in the United States can find one near you. And it’s not even fully inclusive – the Santa Fe demonstration isn’t on it. We have to …
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Eat Your Heart Out, Jerzy Kosinski
I’m so fucking glad I quit drinking during the Obama years or I would be dead.
GOP Venality Open Thread: Kiddie Concentration Camps, Not Polling Well
I’ve never asked you for a retweet, until now. https://t.co/oBZrSHvcbi — feminist next door (@emrazz) June 24, 2019 WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING BACK – LOUDLY. The only ones going are Democrats, and DHS won’t let them into the concentration camps. https://t.co/5TbS00sRyC — Hesiod Theogeny (@Hesiod2k11) June 24, 2019 Interesting to see Trump supporters feigning …
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