Tuesday, October 20, 2020

DONALD TRUMP, RESPECTER OF TRADITIONS

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The topics for the upcoming presidential debate have been announced, and the Trump campaign is unhappy. The president’s campaign manager, B...
Monday, October 19, 2020

THE GOP'S RELENTLESS CULTIVATION OF NEGATIVE PARTISANSHIP: HOW MANY VOTES IS IT WORTH?

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Sarah Longwell, a prominent Never Trump Republican, regularly conducts focus groups of voters who chose Donald Trump in 2016. In The Atlanti...

IS THE MEDIA GETTING READY TO WRITE A TRUMP COMEBACK STORY AFTER THE FINAL DEBATE?

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The press is full of stories about Democratic anxiety right now. The Washington Post : Democrats went to the polls last time certain they w...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

THE MONSTERS THAT ARE UNDER ROSS DOUTHAT'S BED, AND THE ONES THAT AREN'T

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Last week, Ross Douthat assured us that Donald Trump doesn't have it in him to be a full-blown authoritarian, even if he manages to win...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

HUNTER BIDEN'S CHINESE FRIENDS DON'T SEEM PARTICULARLY SINISTER

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And now Breitbart gets in on the act. Newly obtained emails from a Hunter Biden business partner lay out in detail how the Vice President’s...
Friday, October 16, 2020

MUCH OF MAGA NATION WILL BOYCOTT THE VACCINE

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Well, so much for that October surprise. The chief executive of Pfizer said on Friday that the company would not apply for emergency autho...

REPUBLICANS GO OFF MESSAGE, FOR ONCE

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This is true, more or less: NYP Hunter Biden story was overtaken by the Twitter kerfuffle which is in the process of being eclipsed by rep...

CHRIS CHRISTIE SHOWS US THE LIKELY PANDEMIC RESPONSE UNDER ANY OTHER GOP PRESIDENT: SCIENCE-BASED CORPORATISM

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We know that President Hillary Clinton would have handled the coronavirus pandemic much better than President Trump, although she would have...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

CONTROL OF THE JUDICIARY BY PLUTOCRAT SOCIOPATHS IS NOT GOOD IN A PANDEMIC

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On the op-ed page of The New York Times, John Fabian Witt, a law professor at Yale, writes about the way Republican-leaning justices are re...

WON'T SOMEONE SPARE A THOUGHT FOR POOR, SUFFERING TRUMP?

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Politico 's John Harris is worried about President Trump's emotional well-being. Just consider what Trump is facing in his life rig...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

OH LOOK, THERE'S THE EVIL UKRAINIAN BIDEN ALLEGEDLY MET HOBNOBBING WITH A TRUMPER

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So what's the big crime Joe Biden is said to have committed in this New York Post story? Kyle Cheney and Natasha Bertrand of Politico ...

TRUMP'S CORONAVIRUS EXPERTS ARE CHARLES KOCH AND DR. MACARENA

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The New York Times reports that the White House is all in on the idea of what President Trump calls "herd mentality." The White...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

TARA READE IS ABOUT TO SELF-PUBLISH A BOOK

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Fox News reports: Tara Reade is writing a memoir about the turbulent journey she has taken since coming forward with her allegation that h...

ALWAYS BE LIB-OWNING

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Right-wingers are over the moon because this happened a couple of hours ago at the Amy Coney Barrett hearings: Supreme Court nominee Judge ...

TRUMP, BUT WITHOUT THE TRUMP PART

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Bret Stephens embarrasses himself by writing a column that can be summarized as "Imagine how great Republican president Donald Trump c...
Monday, October 12, 2020

THESE ARE OUR BOAT PARADES

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Here's former GOP congressman Sean Duffy on Fox News: Fox contributor on Trump's Wisconsin poll numbers: "Man we've had b...

HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE NUMBER OF SEATS ON THE SUPREME COURT CHANGED?

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Seven times, according to the Constitution Center. ... the Constitution allows for Congress to decide on how many Justices sit on the Supre...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

ROSS DOUTHAT FAILS TO REASSURE ME

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In his column today, Ross Douthat acknowledges that President Trump has some authoritarian tendencies. Across the last four years, the Trum...

COULD THE POLLS BE WRONG AGAIN?

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The polls look good for Joe Biden, but Ari Melber notes that they also looked good for Hillary Clinton at this time in 2016. As @arimelber...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE SUPERMAN STORY?

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What The New York Times reports tonight is mind-boggling: In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed N...