Category Archives: Politics

Corporate quislings are glad Kimmel got axed

Posted on September 19, 2025 by oddmanout215

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit was in a fighting mood after hearing that Jimmy Kimmel had been booted off late-night TV. It seems Donald Trump and his MAGA goons are using the murder of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to silence their … Continue reading →

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No winds of change in MAGA country

Posted on August 29, 2025 by oddmanout215

I shared with my neighbor Swamp Rabbit the news that Donald Trump’s lackeys had halted construction of a nearly completed $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Inquiring minds want to know: Why is Trump so hot … Continue reading →

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The Bizarro World presidency

Posted on January 24, 2025 by oddmanout215

I was telling my neighbor Swamp Rabbit that Bizarro World is defined in Wikipedia as “a fictional planet appearing in American comic books where “everything is ‘reversed’ in some way, with heroes being villains and vice versa, and beauty being … Continue reading →

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Bernie was right. (Wake up, Dems!)

Posted on November 11, 2024 by oddmanout215

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit took a moment to read the quote-out on my laptop, from an interview with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist Joseph O’Neill: My sense is that, in this era of the Internet, there are millions more fascists in this … Continue reading →

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The real ‘enemy within’ has been voted in again. Now what?

Posted on November 7, 2024 by oddmanout215

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit was drinking beer and praising a popular blogger who said the Democratic Party leaders, not Trump voters, are to blame for our election disaster. The party shouldn’t have waited so long to ditch the doddering Joe … Continue reading →

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The plot against America thickens

Posted on October 30, 2024 by oddmanout215

I was telling my neighbor Swamp Rabbit that Philip Roth would have been appalled but not surprised by the deification of Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden earlier this week. Roth, who died in 2018, depicted a fascist nightmare taking … Continue reading →

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WAPO’s ‘premature capitulation’

Posted on October 28, 2024 by oddmanout215

Media critics and informed people in general were bewildered and angered this week when the Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate. This move was made “in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own … Continue reading →

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Are Trump fans blind? No, it’s worse than that.

Posted on October 25, 2024 by oddmanout215

Here’s Robert Reich, echoing the thoughts of sane people all over the country: … At this moment, I’m frankly worried. How is it even possible that Trump is tied with Harris in the battleground states that will determine who becomes … Continue reading →

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Beware cat-less ladies who have too many kids

Posted on July 28, 2024 by oddmanout215

We’re effectively run, in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the … Continue reading →

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Why JD Vance no longer calls Trump ‘America’s Hitler’

Posted on July 15, 2024 by oddmanout215

Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s newly chosen running mate, wrote this on Facebook during the 2016 presidential campaign: I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even … Continue reading →

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