Tag: Donald Trump
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The Day After
There was a global sigh of relief yesterday as the news broke that Joe Biden would be the 46th president and Kamala Harris would be the first bi-racial woman as his vice-president. The funny, The emotional, But as we pick up the champagne bottles from the park, let’s not forgot how we got here in…
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Behind the scenes
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Post-Midterm Trump
I am shocked at how this president treats the press. I can appreciate how the relationship is adversarial, that is healthy, but there is no reason for him to hurl insults from the podium and say things like, “You are a rude, terrible person,” to Jim Acosta from CNN. Good for Peter Alexander from NBC…
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Turn of the Screw
August 21st felt like a turning point. With the simultaneous trials of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort popping out new bits of information about how Donald Trump ran his campaign, we learned that our President may be an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a crime. That’s an especially loaded term commonly associated with Nixon and Watergate (Wikipedia has…
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Two Headlines
She Loves Me? “I would love to do that — I’d like to do it as soon as possible,” the president told reporters on Wednesday of the prospect of being interviewed by Mr. Mueller She Loves Me Not. Cobb told The New York Times that Trump was speaking hurriedly, and only meant that he is…
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Hillary Clinton on Trump
HRC is on tour to promote her book, What Happened. She was on the popular liberal podcast, Pod Save America and shared this snippet which I’ve transcribed and linked to below. I wrote this book to come to try to come to grips with what happened but also to sound the alarm about what I…
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California and Sanctuary Cities
I think it’s charming that the California State Legislature opens the session with a prayer from a Buddhist priest. I also love that the Governor begins the swearing in of the new Attorney General with a jocular, “Are you ready?” and ends with a casual, “That’s it! Congratulations!” But if you want to skip ahead…
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What happened last night?
There’s a video is going around in Japan trying explain to people there how Donald Trump tapped into the under-represented and dispossessed to win the election. Over the moaning cellos from Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar soundtrack, Michael Moore rants in a clip from his latest movie TrumpLand against a gliding montage of Ken Burns-ed images of Trump supporters. Moore warns of the political landslide to…