Tag: donald-trump
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TAPA # 199 REPUBLICAN COMPLICITY
Over the weekend I listened to a podcast, read about the Louisiana primary where Senator Cassidy was defeated by a Trump supported rival, and reflected on the Indiana primary where Republicans who dared oppose Trump suffered a similar fate. Then I read the Sunday article, “Lamar Alexander Wants Republicans to Stand Up to Trump.” Alexander,…
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TAPA # 193 WHO’D A THOUGHT???
TAPA (The American Poseidon Adventure) #192 was titled “Stupidity on Display.” But after listening to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch report on the Comey indictment, even that feels like an understatement. This latest episode doesn’t just match #192—it surpasses it. The predicate for the indictment is, frankly, preposterous. A photograph of seashells arranged on a…
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TAPA # 191 LET’S KEEP IT REAL
The attack on the White House Correspondents Dinner was sad, but not surprising. The tenor of violence in America has been ramped up over the past few years. The data illustrates the uptick of political violence since 2016, and I don’t need to detail why. It is very apparent. What is also sad and a…
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OUR EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGE
Read the Atlantic attached article and if you have access to the Wall Street Journal the article “Behind Trump’s Public Bravado. We have an out of touch, emotionally unstable and incompetent leader. If you have time read about the intensive recruiting effort of the FBI and DOJ to backfill the multitude of professional staff who…
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HONOR vs. SLEAZE
There are no words fit for public use that fully capture the character of “President Bone Spurs.” His latest comment on Robert Mueller’s death echoes his disgraceful insults toward a true hero, Sen. McCain, and others of integrity, like the Reiners. Trump’s pattern is consistent: diminish others, belittle achievement, and attack those whose service and…
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TAPA # 179 THE BULLYING PARADOX
The attached article from The Atlantic is about an old, nasty, ignorant, ingrate neighbor who trash talks everybody and nobody wants to talk to or hang out with anymore. They have ostracized him. Can you blame them? What did he expect? Sadly, he can’t figure out why. Dementia? Stupidity? Narcissistic megalomania? VOTE!!! RESIST!!! & EDUCATE!!! Trump Is…
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TAPA # 178 WHAT A DEAL…???
The attached Robert Reich article provides the detail behind my TAPA #176, “WHAT A DEAL.” The administration, led by “Hillbilly” JD Vance, is quick to cut or freeze funds that save lives while enabling those who profit from death and destruction. It is just one more example of the Trump administration’s irresponsible, devious, and self-serving behavior; filling their coffers…
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TAPA # 172 YOU TELL ME!
There has been so much coverage of Trump’s State of trump’s Union that there is little need to rebut every detail about the economy, immigration, food assistance, tariffs, foreign relations, and America’s global standing. It was fiction layered over grievance, what one senator aptly called the ranting of a “divisive demagogue.” How many repetitions of…
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TAPA # 171 WHO CARES???
WHO CARES???? NOT TRUMP! Pundits and politicians, especially Republicans facing reelection, appear bewildered by Trump’s response to the Court’s tariff ruling, flinching at his disrespectful characterization of the Justices who rejected his use of IEEPA. The Court did not rule against Trump personally; it ruled on the limits of presidential power, just as it did…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 