Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Bernie was right. (Wake up, Dems!)


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?


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


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’


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.


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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Trump’s dog day debate performance


In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs — the people that came in — they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating — the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s … Continue reading

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Give Harris a chance. (Don’t sit this one out, cynics.)


American politics, especially now, does not offer us a choice between a party that favors the rich and one that favors the poor. Clinton cannot be called to account by an electorally nonexistent left. We must choose between a party … Continue reading

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Regarding Trump’s infatuation with Hannibal Lecter


“Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner.” — Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention My neighbor Swamp Rabbit was wondering about the Republican presidential nominee’s bizarre fixation … Continue reading

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


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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Media help boost felon’s presidential hopes


From Salon: The presidential nominee of one party is a convicted felon, a business failure, an adjudicated rapist in civil court who paid off a porn star and advocated grabbing women by their pu**y if you’re a celebrity because you … Continue reading

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