Tag: Russia

Trump at rally

Cultural Heroin

“Cultural Heroin” is how J.D. Vance described Donald Trump before tech billionaire Peter Theil made him a rich man, paid for his Senate campaign, and ...
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Hurricane Warning

America’s Natural Disaster

Sadly, all the absurd and dangerous “misinformation” about the two recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton, distracts attention away from the fact that our poorest citizens ...
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Port Strike Workers

American Crisis Unfolding

Along with just about everyone else, this humble spirit fears that he’s spent too much time writing about Donald Trump.  Unfortunately, the man provides an ...
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White man with white power written on his back

Racist Hate-Mongering

It would appear that Trump has nothing left to say to the American people but to spread ridiculous conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants eating pets, ...
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Trump Violates Hallowed Ground

Given that Donald Trump violates everything and everybody, most especially women, it’s not very surprising that he and his campaign staff violated the hallowed ground ...
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Trump Rambo sign

Trump’s Greatest Hits

Despite what his advisers tell him, Trump refuses to abandon his tried-and-true (if always false) play list—which primarily centers on drumming up irrational fear and ...
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Freedom!

No matter what happens in November, the Democrats finally have a viable candidate in Kamala Harris.  After the frustration of feeling powerless to stop Donald ...
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Joe Biden

Yes, We Have Work to Do

This humble spirit would like to join the crowd in commending President Biden on passing the torch.  Even avid Biden supporters should acknowledge that what ...
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No Project 2025

The Second (Third) American Revolution

Kevin Roberts, president of the far-right-wing Heritage Foundation, the organization responsible for the equally far-right-wing “Project 2025” announced last week on Steve Bannon’s War Room ...
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Crisis

 “Trumponomics”

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has suggested enacting a foolhardy and frightening fiscal policy that one commentator has aptly dubbed “Trumponomics.” “Bidenomics,” which is serving ...
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Shiesty Smiley

Billionaires’ Retribution

It’s both shameful and depressing how many billionaires, including much of the Silicon Valley crowd, have been “coming back” to Donald Trump in recent weeks, ...
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Biden and Trump

Feeling Helpless to Stop Trump

Will anyone do anything to stop Donald Trump from becoming president again?  Journalists and commentators have been regurgitating the threat he poses to our democracy ...
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Stormy Daniels and Cricket the Dog

Two events in the news last week highlight MAGA’s ugly machismo tendencies, its pent-up anger and readiness to engage in violence: ambitious up-and-comer Kristi Noem, ...
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Capitol Building during January 6th insurrections

Conspiracy Against Democracy

This humble spirit hates to sound like a wacko QAnon conspiracy theorist, but that’s how I’m feeling lately.  I’m not so concerned that everything is ...
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My Body My Choice

Make America 1864 Again

An abortion ban dating back to 1864?  Are you kidding me?!  That’s only a year after this former Confederate officer lost his life fighting (on ...
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Man selling fake elixir

Snake Oil Salesman… in Chief

Surely you’ve already heard all about it, but it’s impossible not to comment on the aspiring snake oil salesman in chief. Donald Trump was, is, ...
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Nibbling at the Edges

How did the Democratic Party become the party of college educated “elites”?  What happened to the party of the American middle class, the working people?  ...
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MAGA Hat

MAGAs Defining “America”

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) always contains disturbing revelations, but this year they outdid themselves.  As a sample, right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened the ...
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Trump and Putin

White Christian Existential Panic

Lately it’s hard to ignore MAGAs’ dangerous attraction to white, male authoritarian rulers.  What the hell?!  Donald Trump and other prominent MAGAs, including House Speaker ...
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Texas Border Crisis

Civil War at the Border

As someone who lost his life fighting (on the wrong side, of course) in the American Civil War, your humble spirit humbly suggests that MAGAs ...
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