Tag: election
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TAPA# 242 YES IT IS DEGRADING BUT NECESSARY
Friedman’s opening sentence captures the heart of his message, but the particulars matter. Trump is out of control. He acts as though he is untouchable and all-powerful. His goal is to make Trump great for once, and he seems to measure that greatness in money, favors for himself, his family, and his friends. He also…
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TAPA # 233 DILBERT’S DILEMMA???
As I listened to Texas Republicans plead with Trump to open his pocketbook so they could deluge the Texas market with propaganda about Paxton’s supposed virtue, Trump’s choice to represent the people of Texas in the U.S. Senate, I was struck by the irony. Using the word virtue in the same sentence with Trump seems almost oxymoronic,…
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TAPA # 232 A ONE EYED CARPENTER???
Anthony Scaramucci, known as “the Mooch,” recently expressed surprise at how many holes our Constitution seems to contain, holes that Trump has chosen to drive through. I disagree. Our problem is not the form of the Constitution. It is the character of the people entrusted with managing the government it created. In a democracy, leadership…
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TAPA # 228 ATTENTION OR ACHTUNG???
ATTENTION OR ACHTUNG??? “We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise.”Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore, discussing the midterm elections and suggesting that any Republican loss would be the fault of his supporters, not his own. “The German people demonstrated that they were…
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TAPA # 226 LIPPMANN’S LESSON!!!
“The blazing otherness of reality will always defy the simplifications we impose upon it. But the representations we hold in our heads can be better or worse.” This quote from Walter Lippmann, found in Ezra Klein’s attached opinion piece, really grabbed me. Every day, as I listen to the harmful and nonsensical statements Trump and…
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TAPA # 194 CHOICES!!!
Watching the Secretary of Defense’s recent testimony before Congress raises a fundamental question: what are the priorities of this administration and Republicans and who benefits from them? Priorities are choices. Nations, like individuals, choose what to value: to feed or to starve, to fight or to negotiate, to build or to destroy, to heal or…
