Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re living through a period of rising authoritarianism in US politics. The January 6th Capitol riot was not an isolated incident but a culmination of conservative extremism. Former President Donald Trump regularly flouted political norms and pushed his base toward what were previously fringe, anti-democratic positions. There is evidence that the Republican Party has moved […]
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Some More Polling Analysis and Hunter Biden
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here are some interesting points of late: The race, as predicted in the final stages, is tightening to some degree. Even with Rasmussen, who skew Republican big time, have Biden to win 319 Electoral College seats. Given that Trump won the three Rust Belt seats by less than 1% only, again Rasmussen has Biden winning Wisconsin […]
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To Golf Or Not To Golf, Trump Is in Question
Reading Time: 4 minutes I could pick any topic to discuss in this sort of manner, but golf it is. There is an eclectic mix of commenters here and I wanted a definite answer from a group of them, namely the fervent and immutable Trump supporters. First, let me give you Trump’s own words before I hit you with […]
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Trump’s Playing Chicken with the Electorate. Obama: What’s Good for the Goose…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Holy hell, what the bejesus is going on with this man. It’s like Trump is trying his hardest to win a game of chicken with the American electorate, playing who will pull out first, the electorate, or the man trying his hardest to be the world’s most powerful douchebag, openly flaunting rules, protocols, general morality […]
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Trump Has No Vision or Positive Driving Moral Force
Reading Time: 5 minutes This comment from Michael Neville is Quote of the Day stuff: Another problem that Trump has is that he doesn’t know what he wants, other than self-aggrandizement. He has some vague idea about what his hard-core supporters want or more often don’t want and to keep them happy, gives them lip service But Trump doesn’t […]
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Quote of the Day: Andy Schueler on Trump and See Noevo
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is blisteringly good, as ever. Andy Schueler, absent for too long, bangs See Noevo to rights: I know. You and virtually all liberals and Dems. Don’t forget every single independent and conservative with even just a shred of decency. And that’s what’s been so great about every one of the days since November 8, […]
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Obama vs Trump: No Contest
Reading Time: < 1 minute I cannot begin to express how much I dislike Trump as a human being. Such narcissism and nefarious moral values. What, to me, gives a reflection of Trump’s moral character is to see how he pales into the merest of moral shadows in light of Obama, his character and his work. Obama’s eloquence, background and actual […]
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Trump Is a Huge Threat to Everything
Reading Time: 4 minutes Holy shit. I simply cannot believe it. I can’t even bring myself to discuss in any great depth the volume of sheer insanity. So I am going to list them: Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead education task force for Trump Trump vows to “totally destroy”the Johnson agreement that stops churches funding political parties. […]
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Bonkers Epistemology: “I think Trump is great” and “I don’t like Obama”
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was having a conversation the other day with some family members and I was struck quite forcefully by how so many normal people have an utterly and explicitly biased epistemological methodology. It’s very disheartening, but in this post-fact reality (and one, perhaps, that we have always lived in), it is apparent that people often […]
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Bill Maher Questions President on Religious Nones
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bill Maher’s interview with the President was fascinating for a whole host of reasons. I would watch the whole thing, including the stuff on media and facts before this section. Here, the video starts at 10.58 when Bill Maher talks about atheism and then science: