Tag Archives: Donald Trump

We live in a democracy — or so they say

Posted on September 18, 2018 by oddmanout215

This is what happens when all the president’s men are grifters: Another day, another set of regulations targeted for reversal by President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency. The latest possible rollback affects a powerful greenhouse gas with up to 36 times … Continue reading →

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A weasel auditions for the Supremes

Posted on September 9, 2018 by oddmanout215

Brett Kavanaugh knows why Donald Trump chose him to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, and so do all the Republican senators who are so eager to finish the confirmation charade. Even my friend Swamp Rabbit knows, and … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump as Johnny Friendly

Posted on August 23, 2018 by oddmanout215

You can tell a lot about a president’s background just by his style of speech. Woodrow Wilson spoke like a cold-hearted preacher, FDR like an easy-going aristocrat, Harry Truman like a no-nonsense dry goods merchant, Ronald Reagan like a too-wholesome … Continue reading →

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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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From ostrich jacket to jailhouse jumpsuit

Posted on August 3, 2018 by oddmanout215

This is what happens when you have all the money in the world but no heart or imagination: Paul Manafort — President Trump’s former campaign chairman who’s currently on trial in Virginia on charges of money laundering, tax evasion and … Continue reading →

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John ‘Bomb Iran’ Bolton may yet get his wish

Posted on July 25, 2018 by oddmanout215

I spoke to the president over the last several days, and President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before. — National security … 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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Fourth of July in Pennsyltucky

Posted on July 5, 2018 by oddmanout215

I’m still tired from working July 4th with Swamp Rabbit at a folk fest in upstate PA. Not a good event for sales, too rural and rightwing, and way too hot. I pitched a lot of German Americans with pot … 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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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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