Tag: history
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TAPA #121 THE SHIT SHOW
I’m still in disbelief over the video Trump disseminated. An American president literally defecating on his own people. Or perhaps, as reality suggests, trump isn’t truly our president; he’s his president. For those inside his tribe or the “dear leader” bubble, there’s an intellectual insulation, a numbness to his outrageous behavior. Anne Applebaum captured the fascist dynamic perfectly: “For…
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TAPA #119 RHETORIC VS. REALITY
The past week has laid bare the true rot and diseased thinking infecting the Republican maga leadership. Those Republicans still trying to rationalize trump’s erratic, unprincipled, unconstitutional, and often illegal behavior now find themselves skating on cracking thin ice as they struggle to make sense of what has unfolded. Take, for instance, the case of…
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TAPA # 102 WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN, WHEN…?
Reading Heather Cox Richardson this morning—a scholar who rigorously documents every claim—while scanning the headlines and catching a few news clips, I felt myself slipping into a fog. It was as if I were listening to a 1933 radio broadcast from Berlin or a 1947 propaganda report out of Moscow. The echoes are chilling. In…
