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Raising Cain

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain attended Donald Trump’s ill-advised campaign rally in Tulsa Oklahoma. He did not wear a face mask. Ten days later, on June 29, he tested positive for the coronavirus. Today, after a month-long battle with COVID-19, Cain died. May he rest in peace.

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American Horror Story

Relive election night from 2016. If you dare. Could it happen again? NY Magazine seems to think not. But personally, I don’t want to take any chances. Besides, the only way to stamp out Trumpism is to defeat him and his enablers in a landslide so huge we won’t have to endure such a monstrous […]

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Music and Politics

This comic made me laugh: Ironically, there is another connection from this comic to politics. The song (Don’t stand so close to me) is definitely apropos to the ongoing sex scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, both of whom have connections to Donald Trump. Maxwell recruited girls (especially underage ones) for Epstein to sexually […]

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Tooning out the Lincoln Project

Stephen Colbert’s “Tooning Out the News” interviewed Rick Wilson from the Lincoln Project, makers of viral anti-Trump ads. I have to admit that as I watched this, I was alternately laughing, cringing, and shaking my head in disgust. So what do you think? Is the Lincoln Project made up of good guys who are saving […]

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Wall of Moms

Donald Trump is famous for his wall, almost none of which he has built, but now mothers in Portland, Oregon have succeeded in building a better wall. In response to Trump sending in federal officers into Portland under the weak excuse that they are protecting federal property (like statues and other monuments), the city’s mothers […]

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Trump’s Wall of Death

Another ad from The Lincoln Project: I’m not sure, but this ad seems to have a somewhat different style than previous ads. I’m guessing that this might be the first ad since Ben Howe was let go from the project because of sexist remarks he made.

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John Lewis RIP

Heather Cox Richardson has an excellent post about John Lewis. Here are two paragraphs from it, to entice you to read the whole thing: Tonight, just before midnight, we heard the news that 80-year-old Georgia Representative John Lewis has passed away from pancreatic cancer. An adherent of the philosophy of non-violence, Lewis was beaten by […]

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Trump Enablers

I often tell people that I don’t hate Donald Trump. After all, he is who he is, and it is fairly obvious who he is. What tears at my heart are the people who enable him; who think he makes a good president. This includes the people who join his administration, ignoring the fact that […]

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Fauci v. Trump

The Lincoln Project has another very strong ad directly comparing Dr Anthony Fauci to Donald Trump. The Trump administration has started attacking Fauci, trying to discredit him because he often disagrees with (and occasionally contradicts) Trump, when Trump lies. In other words, Fauci is just doing his job, and doing it well. Trump can’t tolerate […]

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We’re Number 1

Do you ever wonder why the US has so many more Covid-19 cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world? Yes, DisneyWorld really did reopen last weekend, despite the fact that Florida now holds the record for most new cases in a single day, and right now has the most number of active cases […]

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No Hoax

A thirty-year-old went to a “COVID party”, where someone who has tested positive for the disease gets together with people who want to know if the disease is a hoax, by seeing if it gets transmitted to them. It did. The thirty-year-old ended up in the hospital. Just before they died, they said to the […]

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The Future?

Like many people, I’m curious what the future will look like after we spend a few years fighting the novel coronavirus into some kind of submission. Andy Slavitt, who was the Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA head for president Obama, talked to three scientists and came away with the conclusion “There is a Light at the […]

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Tulsa: super-spreader event

Two weeks after Donald Trump held an in-person rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, COVID-19 cases are surging in that city. Since the rally, the number of new cases has more than tripled, setting new records highs. This, despite the fact that the rally fizzled, attended by less than a third of the capacity of the venue. […]

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You Know Their Names

Another day, another killer ad from the Lincoln Project. This one goes after the GOP senators who were too chickenshit to say no to Donald Trump, and instead repeatedly kissed his rear and enabled the destruction of our country.

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Trading Paychecks for Death?

Donald Trump says that the cure must not be worse than the disease, and is trying very hard to jump-start the US economy by eliminating public health interventions, including reopening most retail businesses, eliminating quarantines, and (strangely enough) discouraging the wearing of masks. Now they are even trying to force schools to reopen in the […]

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