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The Do-Nothing Party 0

Methinks Bill Sher is onto something (emphasis added):

. . . in the short run, Democrats have limited capacity to thwart Trump’s agenda (though I have argued Democrats have wielded what powers they have as well as can be expected).

The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start.

I commend the entire article to your attention.

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Occupied Territory 0

David runs the numbers that show that Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D. C., is backfiring, even as Trump continues to lie about it.

Afterthought:

I wonder. Does Trump even know when he’s lying, or does he just believe what he believes because he believes it?

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Yastreblyansky reports that a lot of people seem to be resigning themselves from it.

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Occupying Army 0

Thom sees an ominous precedent for the Trump maladministration’s push for military occupation of American cities. (Warning: Short commercial at about the 1:30 mark.)

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Suffer the Children 0

As we know, that’s a Republican family value, even as they vociferously claim to be “pro-life.”

Farron runs the numbers that put the lie to that claim.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Rule of Lawless 0

It seems that D. C. grand juries aren’t buying the–er–Trumped up charges against the sandwich slinger.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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A Trumpled Screening Process 0

Caption:  FBI Lowers Recruiting Standars.  Image:  FBI HR Rep says to  uniformed man standing on a Segway ans asks,

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 0

For years, the right-wing has been telling us that the federal government can’t be trusted.

And they’ve given us one.

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The News Cycle 0

Mans says, Woman says, “The Epstein files are a distraction from the arbitrary cruelty of his deportation program.”—>Man says, “The arbitrary cruelty of his deportation program is a distraction from his inexplicable subservience to Putin.”—>Woman says, “His inexplicable subservience to Putin is a distraction from his disastrous tariff policies.”—>Man says, “His disastrous tariff policies are a distraction from his blatant financial corruption.”—>Woman says, “His blatant financial corruption is a distraction from his autocratic consolidation of power.”—>Man says, “His autocratic consolidation of power is a distraction from the malevolent incompetence of his entire administration.”—>Woman says, “The malevolent incompetence of his entire administration is a distraction from his fascist militarization of D. C.”—>and back to the beginning.” />

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Windbags 0

Emma and the crew debunk de bunk about wind farms.

Afterthought:

In Trump world, government does not exist to serve the people.

Government–and the people–exist to serve the Trump.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.

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The Cracker Up 0

Afterthought:

I dined–if you can call it that–at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day the space shuttle blew up.

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They Got What They Voted For 0

Farron points out that, occasionally, poetic justice happens.

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The Me Veneration 0

Does this remind you of anyone in the news?

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy has a premonition.

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The U. S. S. Banana Republic 0

Glynn Wilson argues that the United States has gone bananas–banana republic, that is. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

“No God and no religion can survive ridicule,” Mark Twain once wrote. “No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.”

But Trump is proving all previous political punditry pathetically wrong, the first autocratic tin pot dictator in American history with little political credibility and delusions of grandeur, trying to run the United States like a banana republic.

Follow the link for the rest. Methinks he makes a strong case.

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Stray Question 0

Did you seriously believe that the Trump maladministration would act on actual factual information when, instead, they can deploy the Republican thought police?

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