POST 1088 Reality Check Now that Trump was shot at, the Republicans/MAGAs are making noises about being kinder, losing the divisiveness and their cruelty. These are the people whose convention featured presenter after presenter engaging in world class divisiveness, faux masculinity, accusing Democrats of exactly the awful things righties have been doing. They had giant… [read more]
BOOM!
POST 1087 Preface The usually reliable service that sends you email notifications of new Disambiguations and links to them took an unannounced multi-day nap. The result is that posts have gone live without you receiving notice. Tech people are working on fixing this. Meanwhile, apologies for our radio silence. Definitions IED: An improvised explosive device… [read more]
Opportunity
POST 1086 Preface The usually reliable service that sends you email notifications of new Disambiguations and links to them took an unannounced multi-day nap. The result is that posts have gone live without you receiving notice. Tech people are working on fixing this. Meanwhile, apologies for our radio silence. Opportunity The post that should have… [read more]
Bang-Bang
POST 1085 Sleep Prevention Causal Factor As reported in the New York Times on July 13, 2024: Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has studied American attitudes toward political violence since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, conducted a nationwide poll on the topic… [read more]
2024 Isn’t Just Another Year
POST 1084 Breaking News At a rally last night in rural Pennsylvania former President Trump was shot, with the bullet grazing the top of his right ear. One attendee was killed and two others were injured by the gunman. As he was being moved to a vehicle by Secret Service agents, Trump was seen pumping… [read more]
Cognition
POST 1083 Historical Note On Presidential Cognition The ninnies and hypocrite Republicans are all a-whack over the Biden cognitive question. They are certain that his wheels just don’t turn well anymore and they broadcast their certainties from the top of Total Ignorance Tower. Biden has to go, they tell us, because he’s too far gone,… [read more]
Let Me Simplify These For You
POST 1082 It Almost Doesn’t Matter Who It Is Pundits, journalists, editorial boards and experts with bed wetting tendencies have put their advanced stages of hand wringing on public display since the first moments of the debate debacle on June 27. Full disclosure: We were at a watch party that night with fellow democracy loving… [read more]
The Death Knell
POST 1081 The Supreme Court rang the death knell on our democracy on Monday, July 1, 2024. They announced the end of presidential accountability, something neither found nor implied anywhere in the Constitution, and declared the official start of American despotism. It was upon us instantly. They could have easily decided the deplorable presidential immunity… [read more]
Abandoning Fantasies
POST 1080 Still Reeling . . . from the debate debacle. Yet we must continue our march forward. Trump was Trump, grifting, fabricating idiotic, outrageous lies and doing his fantabulous projections of his lunacy and criminality onto Biden. But that isn’t the oddest thing. What is far more odd is that millions of Americans want… [read more]
It’s Over
POST 1079 The presidential debate was over before the first word was uttered. Joe Biden walked in looking like a doddering old man. When he spoke his voice was strained, his enunciation was blurred and he sounded enfeebled. This country doesn’t honor age. We are about youth and vitality. \So, Joe Biden just confirmed the… [read more]
