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I read this on another blog and then investigated where it came from and it is more than disgusting...It is begging for secret service intervention. www.meidastouch.com/... Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope Trump signals...
by Vetwife
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 02:50 PM PDT
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we should revisit this moment in history. Reagan's second term It begins with these paragraphs The president was acting strangely. In the wake of a scandal about his illegal dealings with foreign powers, White House aides felt he was so “inattentive...
by Unsung81
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 02:34 PM PST
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In 2020, I wrote "Why I'm Optimistic about Biden's Chances" (www.dailykos.com/...). Turns out that I was right. This year, I'm again optimistic about Biden's chances. Here is why. As we get closer to the election, we can expect Biden and his allies to...
by Sarajen
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 08:40 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s one obvious point that isn’t made often enough: American taxpayers are now spending close to a trillion dollars a year on...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 07:03 AM PST
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Back when I used to be a lawyer, there were times when I had to argue a very tough case. When I represented people accused of crimes, I never asked "Did you do it?". I viewed that question as needlessly confrontational and frankly, irrelevant. My job...
by daylin
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 09:19 AM PST
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[NOTE TO READERS: Yesterday the US Supreme Court agreed to review the recent decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald J. Trump from the Republican primary ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (the “Disqualifying...
by dratler
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 01:18 PM PST
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Barring the workings of chance or other factors, it seems the nominees for president for the 2024 election are going to be Donald Trump for the Republican Party, and Joe Biden for the Democratic Party. That’s the way things are going, and we’re just...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 08:34 AM PST
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Biden’s 80 and will be 81 on November 20th. Trump’s 77 and will be 78 on June 14th, 2024. People say Biden’s old. Not many stories tell us he’s healthy and vigorous. He is. His sister Valerie, 78, brother James, 74, and brother Francis, 70 are all...
by 888guy
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 03:17 PM PST
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One thing I can absolutely guarantee you: If Joe Biden wins reelection in 2024, he will leave the Presidency and White House when he is age 86 or sooner, depending on his health. The same CANNOT be said about Donald Trump, who is 77 now. By contrast,...
by EagleOfFreedom
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 09:38 AM PDT
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It’s that time of year again, when I think back on the night when I almost missed seeing history, because I was studying history. I was taking summer classes at the University of Pittsburgh that year, including a women’s history course. Unlike most of...
by MeJean
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 05:23 PM PDT
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I always chuckle when I read articles in the mainstream media about the “near impossibility” of balancing the budget and reducing our deficits. Elect me President and I’ll solve this problem in an hour! Maybe less! In my first hour in the Oval Office,...
by wruckusgroink
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on Sat May 20, 2023 at 08:22 AM PDT
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Way, way back in the day before the Republicans lost 7 of the last 8 Presidential popular votes they really had a mental precept their Party had an electoral lock on the Presidency–until that horrifying interloper Bill Clinton came along. One the...
by paradox
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on Thu May 04, 2023 at 07:44 AM PDT
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If you want a look at what conservatism has done elsewhere, there’s a scathing indictment of the Tories in England in The NY Times by Samuel Earle, a journalist who writes about politics and culture and the author of “Tory Nation: How One Party...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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“If republican Rome was the first of modern self-governing national communities, she was certainly the ‘Neanderthal’ of them.” H.G. Wells, THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY The Roman republic’s slow but painful transformation into an empire is alarmingly similar...
by Gregg Matson
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on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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I published a scare essay “What Might Have Been” on Halloween. It assumed that DJT had been president for the last two years, and described a possible scenario for two ongoing significant crises. The essay did not generate much comment at the time,...
by OutsideTheBoxToo
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on Thu Nov 17, 2022 at 11:06 AM PST
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I hear so much criticism of Joe Biden. He’s blamed for everything, when in reality a president—no president—has the power to magically change things. He’s most often blamed for inflation, yet economy expert Robert Reich says: “Regardless of what the...
by otter54
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on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 02:02 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I doubt you’ll be shocked to discover that, in the years of the (first?) Trump era and the now distinctly crippled Biden one, the...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jul 18, 2022 at 07:25 AM PDT
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Friends: Below is the letter that I sent to my Governor; Senator and Congressman. If you agree with me, please start writing letters and making phone calls to Democratic politicians and leaders across the country; and spread the word to all Democrats...
by Political Junkie
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on Tue May 10, 2022 at 01:35 PM PDT
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There is a tradition of presidents having a single photographer chronicling the experience of their administration. There are obviously lots of photographers taking photos of the administration for various news outlets, and there are White House staff...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 02:09 PM PDT
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Our Constitution is showing its age, and every bad feature of it has a constituency that is absolutely committed to the its preservation. The Electoral College and the Senate allow minority rule. Trump’s clumsy attempts to overthrow the election show...
by Thutmose V
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on Thu Sep 30, 2021 at 09:02 PM PDT
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