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Jill Stein And Anti-Vaxxers
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has been quite the fly in the ointment the last couple of weeks, though that will probably recede as, unlike during the Democratic convention, there’s now no...
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This Is What Passes For A ‘Moderate’ Trumpist: The Pizzagate Edtion
While I’ve argued repeatedly, that, at the margins, there are Trump supporters who can be peeled off (either switching or sitting out), many of them seem to be pretty far gone. For those who don’t know...
View ArticleIncivilitudiciousness, Paul Ryan Style
So this was a thing that happened in 2012 (boldface mine): The Republican ticket has embraced a new small-business hero. On Wednesday, the owner of a bakery who last week turned away Vice President...
View ArticleConservatives Will Always Find Something To Get Upset About. Ignore Them.
One of the hilarious things about the 2009 healthcare debate thingee was that, once conservatives started calling Romneycare ‘socialist’, we were still supposed to take them seriously (though maybe...
View ArticlePre-Nihilist Policy Making: Differences Matter
It’s hard to remember in the era of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, but the official Republican position on any policy question was’t nihilism. While it’s currently acceptable for one party not to...
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Paul Ryan Embraces the Congressional Retirement Plan™
Many moons ago, I described the Congressional Retirement Plan: I think he’s [Paul Krugman] right in that it’s not about the campaign contributions. If their reluctance to support a public option were...
View ArticleSome Impeachment Thoughts and Concerns
In no particular order: Republicans are just going to keep firing off bullshit until something sticks with our moronic press corps. For example, Rep. Jim “Gym” Jordan is now arguing that the delay of...
View ArticleNational Unity, Coercion, and Vaccination
I wrote this a few weeks ago, but never got around to posting it. Oh well.. Every so often, one commentator or another caterwauls pleas for national unity, and argues that, today, ‘we’ aren’t able to...
View ArticleDavos: On COVID, Watch What We Do, Not What We Say
This week, the Davos World Economic Forum, which is a gathering of powerful and famous assholes along with a few decent people who are trying to convince said assholes to occasionally do the right...
View ArticleThe Boston Globe’s Failure to Adequately Edit Ashish Jha’s COVID Op-Ed
Recently, former White House COVID czar had an op-ed in the Boston Globe, which is par for the course for Jha (and most other public officials): lots of imprecise talk about how things will be mostly...
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