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Brief summaries of the age we live in.
It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing...
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Wow. It certainly was some week. Not a great week mind you, as far as the history of the United States goes, but it was a unique week. That is, if you are hell-bent on destroying the government of a...
View ArticleThrough the looking glass….
“Keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times. The ride is going to get rocky from here on out.” – Robert Mueller, bus driver. Robert Mueller still has faith in the Constitutional process in...
View ArticleCould not have said it better myself.
As I mentioned yesterday, I have found the current set of depradations of the Orange threat to the Constitution to be exceedingly depressing. Even more depressing from my standpoint and an issue I...
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The Third Boer War
People, myself included, love to use historical analogies to describe the current hellscape we are living through. The most popular comparison of the rise of Trumplandia is to that of Nazi Germany in...
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I would have preferred not to be right. The painful flash of memory
From time to time, I love to use this quote from the movie, I Robot: It really doesn’t! In my Facebook memories, today came a post from 2016, which I posted during the Republican National Convention....
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A good life……stolen
Donald Trump murdered Herman Cain yesterday. “No, he didn’t!!” you say. “He died of COVID-19. He was not murdered.“Really? Who browbeat people into supporting the extraordinary level of ignorance...
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Throwback to simpler times
I’m off today and looking forward to chasing the little white ball across the grass. My game still sucks – but it does so more consistently now.This has been quite a week for American democracy. To...
View ArticleNo more dangerous menace to civilization
Than a government of corrupt, incompetent or vile men. In Trumplandia, we won the Trifecta and got all three. I just spent the last two weeks on the mainland of the United States. I am glad to be...
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The major machinery is broken
It’s been a hell of a month for the land of my birth. Not in a good way, either, what with the death of RBG, Trump’s disastrous debate performance, the utter hypocrisy of the GOP’s stand on a Supreme...
View ArticleIt’s broken all right – they don’t even try to pretend anymore.
Hopefully, you had a chance to read my latest post before this one about how the major machinery of our US government is broken. If you have not, please go here first, then come back and read this...
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There can be no redemption for this.
A worthless man, you know very little about, achieved his long-stated goal of destroying the United States tonight.That man is Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society: Leonard Leo is on the...
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She still has the ring. It still does not mean a thing.
So. It’s 2020 and another election cycle. That means it’s time once again to comment on yet another Nancy Mace political campaign. It’s now been ten years that she has been either running for office...
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Into the home stretch, or into the abyss. The answer is TBD.
I have not had a “normal” Presidential election since 2000, where coming into November, I did not feel anxiety and fear in the lead up to election day. Especially since 2012, when it became apparent...
View ArticleAnd so, once again we are standing at the abyss……..
I wrote this post 4 years ago on the eve of the election. It’s truly frightening that we are here again. Nothing has really changed- and it’s worth re-reading. That’s where the land of my birth is...
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Literally, tears of joy and relief!
The mission of this Allied Force was accomplished at 11:25 EST, 07 November 2020. It’s been four LONG years. Years of misery and anger.Years of astonishment watching the norms of American society...
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Devoid of human kindness and happiness.
I’ll have several posts up this week commenting on the election and its implications. Celebrating this weekend was awesome – I can’t tell you how much of a weight has been lifted by knowing that the...
View ArticleThe good news and the bad news ( Part 1)
I’ve been holding off posting anything because I wanted to watch the outcome of Trump’s efforts to pull off a coup de etat following the election. I was anxious and am still worried that Trump would...
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The fuse for this disaster was lit a dozen years ago.
If you are an American and watched what happened at the Capitol today – and are not outraged – then you are a defective person. And probably have been for a long time.Soonergrunt, long time commenter...
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The sun rises on a bright new day.
This is a day I have looked forward to for four very long years. I woke up at 5 AM this morning and in the opposite of my normal morning routine got up very quickly. Today was the end of one of the...
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