Tag: trump
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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 # 177 ‘NOBLESSE OBLIGE’
“Noblesse oblige”: with privilege comes responsibility, is an 1808 French phrase that mirrors Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much will be required.” It means that those with wealth and privilege, whose lives are largely removed from the daily struggle for life’s basics (food, clothing, and shelter) have a moral responsibility to help those who do struggle.…
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TAPA # 176 WHAT A DEAL???
Sometimes liars, in their effort to obfuscate and redirect, reveal what they are actually thinking and doing. Trump’s tweet yesterday did just that. Until the Trump Republican war, “old bone spurs” was touting low gas prices. And it was true: low gas prices were good for the average American who lives paycheck to paycheck. They…
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TAPA # 175 BLOODLUST & BLUSTER
Most Americans, and much of the world, do not support the war in Iran. Trump is constantly asked for the rationale, and his answer changes depending on the last thing he heard or thought about. But this is not Trump’s war alone. It is Congress’s war. It is a Republican war; bought and paid for…
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TAPA # 174 THE ROGUES’ GALLERY
Maureen Dowd’s attached opinion piece is simultaneously humorous and sad. The story of Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski is a microcosm of Trump World, people in it for themselves, looking for every opportunity to gain power, position, and pleasure at America’s, or anyone else’s, expense; life or death be damned. What ultimately triggered Trump to…
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LET’S HOPE
A friend sent this to me. You don’t have to be religious to grasp the core of the message. There’s little doubt that when the Iran and Trump debacle are over, we will be a different country. Let’s hope we can reclaim the sense of humanity and purpose the founders believed they had enshrined in…
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TAPA # 173 EXISTENTIAL OBLITERATION
Richardson’s Letters from an American frames Trump’s march toward war as a rejection of principle, morality, and constitutional process. She argues that bypassing Congress, substituting one man’s unilateral decision for the deliberative structure the Constitution requires before risking American blood and treasure, is itself a betrayal. When Republicans, who swore an oath to uphold that Constitution, fail…
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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 