Tag: news
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TAPA # 246 LIPSTICK FOR A PIG???
Trump has an extraordinary ability to create problems, blame everyone else for them, and somehow persuade people to believe him. I watched his rally in Syracuse, my hometown, with particular interest. Many in the crowd came for the spectacle. Some traveled from out of state, while others were local residents who, still blind to the…
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TAPA. # 245 WHAT MORE DO WE NEED TO KNOW???
Who knows where the coming elections will take us? What I do know is that unless Americans bring about a change or at least erect a firewall between Trump and the further exercise of unchecked power, our liberties, living conditions, personal safety, and standing in the world may be severely, perhaps irreparably, damaged. That is…
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TAPA # 243 THE CHASSIS OF FREEDOM
He suppressed the free press, saturated public life with propaganda, demanded personal allegiance, subordinated the courts, stripped the legislature of its authority, and used police power to crush civil and human rights. No, not Trump, Adolf Hitler. His destruction of democracy should serve as a warning: institutions cannot protect a nation when those entrusted with…
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TAPA # 239 THE ASSET
Since last Friday the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, I have been drilling down on Trump’s history of bankruptcy scams and sources of funding for the deals where he refinances a project then skims off the cash with bankruptcy at the conclusion. This administration is a similar journey as he uses American taxpayer dollars to leverage business…
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TAPA # 235 UNHINGED=DANGEROUS= 25TH AMENDMENT
On Labor Day, our president, the so-called leader of the free world spent his time governing for us by posting. Old Bone Spurs posted: on the official White House account, a video of himself as the DC Comics Green Lantern superhero, captioning the video: “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my…
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TAPA # 234 THE PICKPOCKET PRESIDENT
Maureen Dowd’s opinion piece says it better than I could. I’ve watched the Supreme Court become an anachronistic appendage, an addled actor pretending to be our third independent branch of government. At times I have defended their decisions because it appeared they were trying to ‘call balls and strikes’ making decisions that were independent of…
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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 # 227 WRITTEN IN PENCIL???
WRITTEN IN PENCIL “Written in pencil.” That is how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described agreements made with Trump. It is a fitting description of dealing with this White House: nothing is dependable, nothing is permanent, and apparently nothing is worth the paper it is written on. Once again, Trump has triggered a “war”, this time…
