Category: Politics
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Similar
Been watching a documentary on Watergate, with the central focus on John Dean, who served as White House Counsel for Richard Nixon. Given the timing of the documentary, aspects between Watergate and the January 6 insurrection were raised. This, in turn, raised comparisons between Trump and Nixon. The similarities are somewhat alarming. Both were/are very…
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158 And 236
June 7 is day 158 of 2022. So far, in Ameerica, there have been 236 mass slayings, during this year. There is a school nearby and it is lunch hour. I can hear the kids playing outside, laughing and screaming. It breaks my heart to think about the different type of screams in Uvalde a…
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187 Minutes – 64 Days
The January 6 Committee will resume public hearings with a prime time hearing on June 9. Over the next month or so, the world will get insight as to what Donald Trump was doing for 187 minutes on January when the Capitol was under siege. Details, more than we have now, will come out as…
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They Wont Carry It
Fox News has announced that they will not carry the prime time January 6 Committee hearings this Thursday night. Instead they wil carry the regular programs with occasional look-ins to the hearing. This will give Tucker, Laura and Sean, the opportunity to present their alternative facts relating to the evidence to come out in the…
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Seditious Conspiracy
The person in the photo above is Enrique Tarrio. He is the leader of the far right extremist group the “Proud Boys. The same group that Donal Trump told to “stand back and stand by”. Tarrio and four of his top lieutenants have been indicted by the Depertment of Justice (DOJ) for seditious conspiracy for…
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Stranger than Fiction Part 2 or Can’t Even Lie
This is Louie Gohmert. He is a Republican Congressman from the great state of Texas. He is a bit of a clownish character, though not intending to be so. Just google him and you will see what I mean. As an example, Gohmert caught Covid and blamed it on the fact that he had to…
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Ready for Primetime
The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack (Committee) will be holding its first primetime hearing on June 9. The Committee has indicated that this will be the first of a number of primetime hearings. These primetime hearings will, of course, have a large tv audience, given that the hearings will be…
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Lose, Lose, Win
Three different Conservative Party Leaders. Three different approaches to the Covid pandemic and to the trucker convoy. Differing results. Jason Kenney, on the left is the Premier of very blue conservative Alberta. The United Conservative Party (UCP), that he leads, is the amalgamation of the Conservative Party and the, much more to the right, Wildrose…
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Gift Keeps on Giving
I was torn between giving this chirp the title above or naming it “Stranger than Fiction” Marjorie has a podcast “MTG Live” . In one of her latest podcasts, she was complaining about Big Tech surveillance. She was complaing that Big Tech wants to know if you are eating cheeseburgers. She added, wisely, that this…
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Differences
Following the tragedy at Uvalde, the US is twisting itself in knots trying to bring in any form of increased gun control. As usual, there is strong opposition by the Republican right to any increased gun control. There is a bipartisan Senate efflort to bring in some change, but, there is little optimism that anything…