Explaining “our democracy”
This 6-minute explanation might come in handy someday:
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Poll indicates support for Trump fading
Of course, polls can be wrong, and opinion can change – sometimes rapidly. But my gut tells me that this is substantially correct: The poll finds Trump deeply unpopular at 30% favorable, 62% unfavorable. That places him well below Joe … Continue reading →
Twitter power and Yoel Roth
The amount of coordination between federal agencies such as the FBI, DOJ, and DHS was vast, according to the latest analysis by Matt Taibbi, third in the series. Here’s one small part of it: 17. During this time, executives were … Continue reading →
How the FBI got the Hunter laptop story suppressed while attempting to preserve plausible deniability for itself
You can’t call the FBI dumb. It was clever – very very clever. The story is somewhat complex, but Miranda Devine of the NY Post has done good reporting on this from the start. I highly recommend reading her latest … Continue reading →
Divided party, united party
The divided party is the GOP and the united party is the Democrats. Oh, I know the Democrats aren’t really united. Not completely – just nearly completely. In recent decades and especially since Obama became president, they have purged their … Continue reading →
Warnock wins re-election
Of course he did. Of course he did. Although I knew this election was going to be happening Tuesday, I couldn’t bring myself to analyze it ahead of time because a Warnock win seemed a foregone conclusion. It felt as … Continue reading →
Trump’s explanation
Trump has attempted to explain what he meant and didn’t mean by his recent statement that caused so much controversy, about Twitter and the 2020 election. An excerpt: “The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that … Continue reading →
The left circles the wagons on the Twitter censorship story
The story about the media and Twitter coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 election in order to help elect Joe Biden is now followed by a coverup of the coverup – or excuse-making, minimization, rationalization, … Continue reading →
Geoff Duncan of Georgia, what a guy
Seems there’s an awful lot of fake sanctity going around these days – for example, Georgia’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan. Ah, such virtue! Such principles! Perhaps Duncan will have a future someday with that pinnacle of moral rectitude and … Continue reading →
Maricopa fight highlights the bitter disagreements between the GOPe and the Trump wing
The battle in Maricopa County at this point is mostly among Republicans. It’s a familiar one that’s been waged for as long as I can remember noticing anything about politics on the right, although the terms to refer to each … Continue reading →
King Joe and the dueling investigations
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”.] From Andrea Widburg: Today’s we-now-live-in-a-3rd-world-dictatorship news from the Biden administration is Merrick Garland’s breathtaking announcement that he has named a special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation into Donald Trump. Given the complete absence of evidence … Continue reading →
A walk through presidential first-term midterms election history of the last 100 years
[NOTE: Whenever I have a math-heavy post like this, I always get nervous that I’ve made an arithmetical error.] I see it again and again: the assertion that the 2022 midterm results were almost unheard-of, because a president’s first midterm … Continue reading →