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How about some politics from the “golden” age of democracy?

The Tale Of The Tape

By insinuation and timing it’s likely that the limited Tax Transcripts the New York Times released are filings related to his Casino ownership mandatory financial disclosure. I didn’t find much of a smoking gun because I’m looking for a wholesale Real Estate/Money Laundering scheme with branches at least in the Middle East and Russia. Among …

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What Vigorous Defense Of The Constitution Looks Like Nancy

In case you’ve forgotten. Only one 2020 Democrat fully grasps the threat Trump poses By Greg Sargent, Washington Post May 8, 2019 Is President Trump an aberration whose defeat in 2020 would allow the nation to begin rebounding toward normalcy? Or does his ascendance reflect long-running national pathologies and deeply ingrained structural economic and political …

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The Most Powerful Woman In The World

Pelosi’s Failure

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… Won’t get fooled again. Like Atrios I frequently remind people that Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio is not the worst ever. That’s simply an illusion of novelty and topicality, the worst ever was W, who was by every objective measure a War Criminal worthy of mention besides …

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Gerrymandering is complicated

Which is why we need a disheveled shouty guy to explain it. For what it’s worth he’s also White.

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Bless Your Heart

I suppose the shocking Oedipal revelation does kind of make the gouging of eyeballs superfluous but it’s an important bit of staging that wows the audience every time. Still pretending it’s not Justice Theater? Consider whom we share the practice with. This is why the maximum penalty I can endorse is a cell and a …

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40 Year Old Comedy Show In Decline!

Film at 11. Seriously, it sucked this week for about the 3rd week in a row. Certainly having Adam Sandler constantly there as a reminder of the ’90s gave it that Episode 2, pounding our way out of a coffin feel, well, that and Zombie Chris Farley. Yes, it is too soon. Why do you …

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Adam Driver is bad casting Who wants wimpy millennial Vader anyway?

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