Tag: history
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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 # 170 FROM THE MOUTHS OF REPUBLICANS: IT IS A DUCK!
The following written by a Republican makes the case in TAPA 169! From the mouths of Republicans, listen we can be set free. Those Ducks just keep walking & talking. No denial now. VOTE!!! RESIST!!! & EDUCATE!!! April 2026 Issue The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem How did the GOP become a haven for slogans…
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TAPA 169 “THOSE DUCKS JUST KEEP WALKING & TALKING;
“A shameful disgrace” is how Donald Trump described the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating his tariff approach. The ruling did not say tariffs cannot be used; it said tariffs are taxes, meaning Trump’s tariffs amounted to one of the largest tax increases on Americans in history. Under the Constitution, taxes must be enacted by Congress. If…
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TAPA # 167 ‘DISGRACEFUL’
Richardson’s letter documents the McCarthy era’s long trail of lies, fear and ruined lives all for power and position. One detail she did not mention is that McCarthy’s chief counsel was Roy Cohn who, after McCarthy was exposed and discredited, went on to become Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Trump proved to be an attentive student…
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TAPA # 166 CALLOUS DISREGARD!!!
The historian Heather Cox Richardson’s February 7 letter, describing what is now happening to immigrants in America, is chillingly reminiscent of events in 1938, when Jews and other minorities were scapegoated by the Nazi regime and blamed for Germany’s past woes to justify pogroms and persecution. German Jews, who had long enjoyed the basic civil…
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TAPA # 165 NAH – AIN’T NO RACISM HERE!!!
Gee that ‘fake news’ Trump always complains about that says he is a racist is so insulting. He must really be feeling badly???? Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry The White House press secretary had dismissed criticism of the clip’s racist content as “fake outrage.” But later Friday, the clip disappeared from the…
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TAPA # 164 SAVE OUR ELECTIONS
This is a worthy read, especially for those concerned about upcoming elections and the future of our democracy. Trump has debased the presidency and diminished America’s character, both at home and abroad. If our democracy is to survive, we must pay close attention to what is happening. This is not normal. It is deviant. Yet…
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TAPA # 160 MURDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Trump has no bottom to his depraved indifference to citizens’ rights. What we have witnessed in the Trump-directed invasion of Minnesota and the murders in Minneapolis confirm his fundamental inability to lead or protect the public, indeed, even our most basic right to life itself. His coterie of loyalists Noem, Patel, Bessent, Bovino, and Blanche…
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TAPA # 157 NUREMBERG TWO
• 1984: The government rewrites reality, invents enemies, and uses propaganda to justify torture, disappearance, and execution.• The Trial: A man is arrested and prosecuted by a faceless legal system in which guilt is assumed.• Darkness at Noon: Based on Stalin’s purges, where victims are coerced into confessing to invented crimes.• Fahrenheit 451: The state suppresses dissent by destroying…
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TAPA # 156 TANTRUM
A tantrum is an episode of emotional dysregulation characterized by an intense, poorly controlled expression of anger, frustration, or distress that exceeds what the situation typically warrants and reflects a temporary failure of self-regulation. Common features include emotional loss of control and a disproportionate reaction to a trigger. Tantrums often occur when an individual feels overwhelmed, thwarted,…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 