Category Archives: Politics

‘Autocrat’ doesn’t quite say it

Posted on June 16, 2020 by oddmanout215

We were reading from Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy, a book that has appeared at exactly the right time: If politicians, journalists, and even kitchen-table debaters adopted the habit of defining their terms, we would understand each other better — and … Continue reading →

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OK, it’s Biden, if he still has a pulse

Posted on April 11, 2020 by oddmanout215

.@BernieSanders bowed to the math in acknowledging that @JoeBiden will be the nominee. He used the time today to laud his movement. But if his goal is to defeat @realDonaldTrump, he’ll have to make a more affirmative case for Biden … Continue reading →

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Battle royale in Vegas

Posted on February 20, 2020 by oddmanout215

Warren came out SWINGING at Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/3D8bnvvm4m — Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) February 20, 2020 Swamp Rabbit dropped by my shack last night toting a couple of stolen TV dinners with the brand name DEVOUR. Fittingly, we ate them while … Continue reading →

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NYT to readers: Vote for both of them

Posted on January 22, 2020 by oddmanout215

“This is pathetic,” I said after reading the editorial twice. “What’s going on at the New York Times?” Swamp Rabbit looked confused. “How would I know? I ain’t no Manhattan neolib. I live in a shack in Tinicum swamp, just … Continue reading →

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Magnanimous she ain’t

Posted on January 21, 2020 by oddmanout215

HRC on Bernie Sanders: "He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I … Continue reading →

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A rogues’ gallery of impeachment foes

Posted on December 21, 2019 by oddmanout215

Frankly, I don’t care what the Republicans say. It reminded me that our founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. I don’t think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a … Continue reading →

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Thanks for not coming to dinner

Posted on November 29, 2019 by oddmanout215

This week the media cranked out stories about how to peacefully coexist with jerks who end up eating Thanksgiving dinner at the same table with you. The sort of stories that are especially relevant if there are Trump fans among … Continue reading →

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GOP strategy — see, hear, speak no truth

Posted on November 22, 2019 by oddmanout215

We were on the way to a job upstate on Wednesday, listening to the impeachment hearings on the radio, waiting to hear what Trump’s foreign-service boy Gordon Sondland would say now that it was clear he hadn’t been forthright in … Continue reading →

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Zuckerberg unbound

Posted on October 25, 2019 by oddmanout215

"So, you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? I think that's just a pretty simple yes or no." Complete exchange between @RepAOC @AOC and Mark Zuckerberg at today's House Financial Services Cmte hearing. Full video here: … Continue reading →

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How about a moat? And toss in some alligators

Posted on October 3, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were drinking coffee from tin cups, listening to a Jimmie Rodgers album and reading a surreal story in Guardian UK: Donald Trump discussed shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, after ordering advisers to … Continue reading →

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