Tag: trump
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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 # 104 A BETRAYAL OF TRUST
. The New York Times article “How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein” is a disheartening exposé of money’s dehumanizing and corrosive power. The story is not just about one man’s crimes, but about how a powerful financial institution chose profit over principle, blind eye over accountability. For centuries, thinkers have warned us about money’s dangerous…
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TAPA #101 INCOMPETENCE ON DISPLAY
Anyone who has ever managed a large institution can see plainly that Kennedy is out of his depth. His erratic and disjointed views on health and healthcare were bad enough, but yesterday’s Senate hearing exposed a far deeper problem: a lack of even the most basic skills or comprehension required to lead a complex organization.…
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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…
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THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE. TAPA #1
This is the first post after trump was elected. I will be posting the subsequent posts to the site as well as new ones. Well, the “Slide” is complete, similar to pulling the plug on a loved one’s ventilator. We are now officially on The American Poseidon Adventure (TAPA) where up is truly down and…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 