Category Archives: Politics

New opiates for the masses needed

Posted on August 21, 2018 by oddmanout215

Yesterday, I googled a piece of old news and ran it past my friend Swamp Rabbit. The gist of the article was that many Democrats and independents who voted for Obama in 2012 didn’t vote at all in 2016 and … Continue reading →

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When will Trump’s minions stop applauding?

Posted on July 16, 2018 by oddmanout215

Last week Swamp Rabbit and I watched House Republicans grill FBI agent Peter Strzok and wondered if they really believed Strzok was part of of an FBI conspiracy to link Donald Trump to Russian interference with the 2016 election, even … Continue reading →

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A white haven for the blues

Posted on July 11, 2018 by oddmanout215

So I was upstate again last weekend, speeding home from a sales job, when a road sign on the highway caught my eye: WHITE HAVEN 4 MILES. “Perfect,” I said to Swamp Rabbit, my sales partner. “White Haven is a … Continue reading →

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Update — Justice Kennedy, worse than a hypocrite

Posted on July 3, 2018 by oddmanout215

Jeffrey Toobin is a lawyer who writes for the New Yorker and appears on cable news shows, portraying a legal expert of sorts. Which is why I was surprised to see this in a recent column of his: So there … Continue reading →

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Justice Kennedy — defeatist or hypocrite?

Posted on June 29, 2018 by oddmanout215

Anthony Kennedy was the U.S. Supreme Court’s swing vote, but he usually swung far to the right. He deserves a lot of credit for helping George W. Bush’s steal the presidential election in 2000. We can also thank him for … Continue reading →

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They really don’t care — ALL of them

Posted on June 25, 2018 by oddmanout215

“I really don’t care, do u?” was the message scrawled on the cheap jacket Melania Trump wore on her way to visit a detainment facility – a jail, really — for kids who were separated from their parents by U.S. … Continue reading →

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Trump claims the right of kings. Anyone surprised?

Posted on June 6, 2018 by oddmanout215

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very … Continue reading →

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For news without context, tune into NPR

Posted on May 16, 2018 by oddmanout215

Do not report on Kushner in the Middle East without mentioning his family's West Bank settlement investments, his family's long-time ties to Netanyahu, and his many infractions as an amorphous "advisor", ranging from lying on security forms to the probable … Continue reading →

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Fool me once… OK, now fool me again

Posted on May 9, 2018 by oddmanout215

The race is on. In one lane we have Donald Trump using false evidence from Benjamin Netanyahu as an excuse to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal, a first step in drumming up support for another Mideast war. In the other, … Continue reading →

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Rabid Rudy just won’t fade away

Posted on May 4, 2018 by oddmanout215

In 1951, Douglas MacArthur, grand poobah of the armies and supreme egomaniac, announced his retirement by telling Congress, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” That was then. Nowadays, old soldiers and politicians and grifters and lawyers fight to … Continue reading →

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