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Thursday :: Oct 29, 2020

US 2020 Election Confidence Smashed


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Given what we know about the character and behavior of President Trump there is zero doubt in anyone’s mind that if he could President Trump would pull a Golovchenko of Belarus, he’d make a show of an election and then outright steal it.

Somehow Golovchenko got loyalists into the voting apparatus who then bluntly changed the totals to steal the election. For President Trump to pull that trick would mean subverting the Governors and Secretaries of State in key battleground States, for many reasons in the American environment that’s just impossible.

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Friday :: Oct 23, 2020

Omg, the American Trains are Coming!


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Among all the cacophony of news in a presidential campaign and rampaging pandemic the proposed Biden administration Amtrak plans caused barely a ripple in American public consciousness, but the train people were deliriously happy with high-fives and blissful embrace, the era of 21st American rail build-out is about to begin!

Before even the broadest outlines of the campaign have begun to gel it’s very important for the general public to understand that even here in America, birthplace to the internal combustion automobile and a society almost completely set up for them, well, a growing number of citizens loathe emission cars and dream of massive transportation change away from them—electric trains the primary method, in fact.

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Wednesday :: Oct 21, 2020

Chuckling at the Most Inept Presidential Campaign Ever


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It turns out in the smashing splat of the Trump presidential campaign the most successful real estate developer in the race is Vice President Joe Biden. It’s really true, Eric Trump was stupid enough to post on Twitter an old mansion Mr. Biden used to own, thinking he lived in it now and sneering at the hypocritical Democratic elites.

Classically Trump stupid, Twitter immediately eviscerated the fool with the truth and noted that after ten years of ownership Mr. Biden sold the place for a profit of approximately a million dollars. Where in all this screaming mess is proof of a profitable President Trump real estate transaction? Nowhere.

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Friday :: Oct 16, 2020

Forces of Roaring Change Gather Momentum


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It did not escape my attention that after being very hard on the US journalism corps the previous week they pathetically fell on their face with a mighty splat on Wednesday, two disgusting incidents that do not foretell well to the growing roar of change all around them, despite all the enormous energy if these inept charlatans do not get it together progressive change could be severely hobbled next year.

First was the grossly reprehensible decision by NBC News to schedule a Trump town hall forum precisely in the same time slot as Vice President Biden’s, which was only happening because Trump quit the initial format. This disgusting leap for ratings, this treating of politics as nothing more that lying spectacle, this groveling to power, this enraging trait to treat the public good and sphere as nothing more than a NBC urinal, my god, what a bunch of lousy greedy no-good Americans, is there a Putin town hall next week?

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Wednesday :: Oct 14, 2020

Why Does Trump Still Get 30-35% Latino Support?


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One of the most baffling and concerning statistics of Election 2020 is the rock steady 30-35% level of support President Trump still gets from the Latino community. After all the vicious, inhumane treatment of Latinos at the southern border how could this still be possibly so?

Reported in the New York Times today the phenomenon is explained as “the macho appeal of Trump.” Well, what is macho, or machismo, then? Authoritarian asshole, the singular male in charge.

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Monday :: Oct 12, 2020

Moscow Mitch Doesn’t Think the Democrats Can Expand the Supreme Court


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Fearing a wipeout unified government win for the Democratic Party, many Republican operatives in print and teevee emerged over the weekend to frantically attempt stopping the blue tsunami by gravely warning the Democrats would pack the Supreme Court if they win it all November 2nd.

There’s been a lot of tough liberal talk on expanding the Supreme Court but Mitch McConnel is quite sure it won’t happen, do whatever it takes—anything—to ram home the Supreme Court pick home now for a 6-3 conservative majority, she’ll be there for 30 years with no accountability whatsoever, the Democrats can’t and won’t ameliorate the pack with court expansion in 2021. Why is he so sure of that?

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