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How Different is the Presidency Four Years Later?
by Aron Solomon The 1980s were the greatest era for made-for-network-tv movies. They laid the foundation for Netflix thirty years before the service launched by testing America's appetite for the bizarre. A man becomes president, seemingly tries to tear away at every fiber of the office in an effort to retain power - even at the expense of permanently changing the nature … [Read more...] about How Different is the Presidency Four Years Later?
Joe Biden’s Cabinet: ‘Then’ and Now (UPDATED)
Update, Dec. 17: The Washington Post reports that President-elect Joe Biden will choose Michael S. Regan as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator. He would be the first African American to run the EPA. In what perhaps is one of the most popular selections, Dr. Anthony Fauci will be Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19 to the President And...just now: … [Read more...] about Joe Biden’s Cabinet: ‘Then’ and Now (UPDATED)
Yes they did go there: ‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy
Increasingly the worst assumptions about Donald Trump and his administration are proving to be correct. Have they just been incompetent, thinking in the short-term (or no term) or are they bad guys? Historians will have a field day when this crew leaves. The latest bombshell report- is a report by Politico. A top Trump appointee repeatedly urged top health … [Read more...] about Yes they did go there: ‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy
MAGA MIND (Cartoon)
Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out in cafes and bars – drains our creativity
By encouraging random encounters and free-flowing conversation, coffee shops are engines of innovation. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images Korydon Smith, University at Buffalo; Kelly Hayes McAlonie, University at Buffalo, and Rebecca Rotundo, University at Buffalo While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close … [Read more...] about Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out in cafes and bars – drains our creativity
TRUMP BIGGEST LOSER (Cartoon)
A peaceful transfer of power: We didn’t know how normal that was — until it was almost gone
“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” That Joni Mitchell refrain ricocheted around my head in the wake of Monday’s Electoral College vote confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. U.S. Supreme Court rejects GOP congressman’s last-minute effort to upend Pennsylvania’s election results In what passes for the new normal, swing-state … [Read more...] about A peaceful transfer of power: We didn’t know how normal that was — until it was almost gone
PUTIN’S CUE (Cartoon and Column)
How bad is it that the Senate Majority Leader is behind the authoritarian leader of Russia in recognizing a democratically-elected president of the United States of America? I understand Mitch McConnell has to appease a man-child and his followers, but he’s the leader of the Senate. He should be setting an example of how we do things in a democracy. We don’t allow our … [Read more...] about PUTIN’S CUE (Cartoon and Column)
Mitch McConnell congratulates ‘President-elect’ Biden
Wilmington (United States) (AFP) - One day after the Electoral College affirmed Joe Biden as US president-elect, the top Republican in Congress broke weeks of election silence Tuesday and sent a sober message to a defiant President Donald Trump: it's over. For more than a month Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had refused to recognize Biden, his former longtime Senate … [Read more...] about Mitch McConnell congratulates ‘President-elect’ Biden
Take Out Only
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US Electoral College to confirm Biden victory
Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden's US election victory was set for formal confirmation Monday by the Electoral College, further closing the door on angry efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 vote. Electors were meeting across all 50 states, often under extra security amid tensions driven by Trump's unprecedented refusal to concede. About halfway through the … [Read more...] about US Electoral College to confirm Biden victory
Trump Scamming Supporters
Donald Trump, our supposedly billionaire president, is asking for contributions from his supporters to help him fight what he claims is election fraud. With all of the wealth he declares that he has, why is he trying to get contributions from ordinary citizens who believe his lies about the elections. They need the money much more than he does. It is one thing if some of his … [Read more...] about Trump Scamming Supporters
SIMULACRA
The question whether Donald Trump is a political idiot savant or Jerzy Kosinski’s, Chance the Gardner – has been much debated over the last four years. His niece, the psychologist Mary Trump, describes him as both a malignant narcissist and the product of an abusive father who instilled in him an almost feral instinct to achieve dominance at the expense of any who crossed his … [Read more...] about SIMULACRA
Donald Trump must be a hell of a drug.
Donald Trump must be a hell of a drug. After all, his rabid supporters are acting like drug addicts going through withdrawals. What else would explain the number of people who insist that Trump won the 2020 presidential election? There haven't been this many Americans falling for a con artist since Joseph Smith, Jr. died. If I didn't know better, I'd think that … [Read more...] about Donald Trump must be a hell of a drug.
Trump bid to overturn election stymied but scars will remain
Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump's false claims to have won the White House race have been rejected by the courts but have deepened the wounds in a bitterly divided nation and risk leaving long-lasting scars on American democracy. "This kind of poison can really seep into a democracy and delegitimize how normal politics occurs in this country," said David Farber, a … [Read more...] about Trump bid to overturn election stymied but scars will remain
From the White House to ancient Athens: Hypocrisy is no match for partisanship
President Donald Trump plays a round of golf on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. Leon Neal/Getty Images Raman Sachdev, University of South Florida Donald Trump has spent a lot of time on golf courses during his presidency. That may come across as hypocritical if many of us consider how Trump criticized Barack Obama for playing golf during his … [Read more...] about From the White House to ancient Athens: Hypocrisy is no match for partisanship
Wall Street Journal Opiner Attacks Dr. Jill Biden for using her earned title::: Doctor
¡Ya basta! It is daily that many women are mocked for being accomplished. It is especially disheartening after having striven hard to do so, become so-- often having raised children, held a job and going to school all at the same time. If I had a cut for every put down, every mockery, every slam, every slur, every exclusion, every devaluation, every 'cant you take a joke' … [Read more...] about Wall Street Journal Opiner Attacks Dr. Jill Biden for using her earned title::: Doctor
Most House Republicans claim that Trump won the election
Almost two-out-of-three Republican members of the House of Representatives (64.3%) do not believe that Joe Biden should be President of the United States. They joined the "follies", what George Conway (yes Kellyanne's husband) dubbed the failed Texas lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to overturn mail ballots. The Trump campaign as well as 18 states … [Read more...] about Most House Republicans claim that Trump won the election
The GinGrinch Who Attacked California’s Governor
A couple of has-been politicians who do not live in California want to dictate who is the governor of California. From Politico, 11 December 2020: "The California activist movement to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom just got a national shot in the arm from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, two former Republican leaders who still have … [Read more...] about The GinGrinch Who Attacked California’s Governor