Category Archives: Politics

What protest? I don’t see any protest

Posted on June 7, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was listening to me enumerate the lies Donald Trump told in Britain this week. My favorite was Trump saying, “I didn’t see any protest” when asked about the anti-Trump protest in London. Then he said the protesters were … Continue reading →

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GoT’s political science lesson

Posted on May 22, 2019 by oddmanout215

The finale of Game of Thrones moved at a snail’s pace and was mostly anticlimactic, but it featured an amusing scene in which VIPs from the Seven Kingdoms gathered to choose a new ruler. The bookish Samwell Tarly argued that … Continue reading →

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Biggest loser’s fan base remains rock-solid

Posted on May 10, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and his parole office, Victor C, were digesting the news that businessman Donald Trump, in what most people assumed were his most successful years, had actually lost more money than almost any other American taxpayer: The numbers show … Continue reading →

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WAY worse than Watergate

Posted on April 29, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was trying to read the news to me but I was on the porch feeding the swamp cats and blasting Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch through my JBL speaker. “I can’t hear you,” I shouted through the window. … Continue reading →

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‘The fix is in’ — a cliche, but how true

Posted on April 19, 2019 by oddmanout215

No collusion… No collusion… No collusion. I could hear Donald Trump’s mantra through the window yesterday as I was hanging clothes on the porch at my shack. But it wasn’t Trump speaking; it was William Barr, the attorney general, who … Continue reading →

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D.C. is a cesspool, not a swamp

Posted on March 19, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was reading from a newspaper column by a guy who dissed the Trump administration for hesitating to ground all of Boeing’s 737 Max airliners, even though two airplanes of this type have crashed and burned in the past … Continue reading →

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GOP still clings to Trump’s sinking ship. Good.

Posted on February 28, 2019 by oddmanout215

The heater in my shack broke down yesterday, so Swamp Rabbit and I put on heavy coats and huddled around a space heater to watch newly disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen testify at the House Oversight Committee hearing. Cohen started with … Continue reading →

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The ‘national emergency’ is Trump

Posted on February 17, 2019 by oddmanout215

From The Hill: President Trump said on Friday that he “didn’t need to” declare a national emergency but did it to speed up construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. “I want to do it faster. I could do the wall … Continue reading →

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Trump to Democrats: Stop digging, or else

Posted on February 7, 2019 by oddmanout215

From Donald Trump’s State of the Union address: An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigation… If there is going to … Continue reading →

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Soup’s on, Manafort!

Posted on November 30, 2018 by oddmanout215

What’s up with the smooth operator in the ostrich-skin jacket? He made a deal to tell the truth to the special prosecutor, ostensibly to get some years shaved off his prison time, but then he continued to lie for Donald … Continue reading →

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