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Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs (and his demonstrative adjective) claim reality for what’s non-existent. The present king of France is bald.
#grammar#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Jared’s verbs
Donald Trump*’s rhyme
Donald Trump*’s rhyme
Donald Trump*’s rhyme — “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” — has a history.
#politics#race
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Donald Trump*’s rhyme
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump*’s ghostwriter: “Understanding what we’re truly up against — the reign of terror that Trump will almost surely wage the moment he believes he can completely prevail — makes the upcoming presidential election a true Armageddon. “Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.”
#death#democracy#life#politics#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Schwan’s Dinners
Schwan’s Dinners
That logo for Mike Pompeo’s so-called Madison Dinners: where had I seen something like it? On the side of a Schwan’s truck.
#design#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Schwan’s Dinners
Meltdown
Meltdown
From the Financial Times, an utterly damning summary of the Trump* administration’s response to pandemic.
#death#life#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Meltdown
Science must trump politics
Science must trump politics
Dr. Rick Bright: “Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.”
#politics#science#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Science must trump politics
Cuomo and Gibbon and others
Cuomo and Gibbon and others
“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then [they] ceased to be free.” Who wrote/said it?
#politics#quotation
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Cuomo and Gibbon and others
Turtles all the way down
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
#culture#democracy#politics#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Turtles all the way down
Radio stars
Radio stars
A headline from today’s New York Times: “Trump Wanted a Radio Show, But Deferred to Rush Limbaugh.”
#politics#radio
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Radio stars
Matthews and Warren
Matthews and Warren
Elizabeth Warren explains the ridiculously obvious to the dullest knife in the MSNBC drawer. Chris Matthews needs to take his eructations, figurative and literal, into a comfortable retirement.
#MSNBC#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Matthews and Warren
Bam!
Bam!
Elizabeth Warren: “I don’t care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him.”
#money#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Bam!
“The 4d’s”
“The 4d’s”
“Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.”
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“The 4d’s”
Back to the USSR canard
Back to the USSR canard
Hearing the assertion that Bernie and Jane Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union, I thought, What? And then I remembered writing a post about that canard in 2016.
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Back to the USSR canard
Trump* in Colorado
Trump* in Colorado
If you can stand it, Aaron Rupar has short clips from Donald Trump*’s rally last night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Trump* in Colorado
Make it new
Make it new
“Shortly after the Democratic Presidential debate on Wednesday night, aides to Michael Bloomberg announced that he would spend ten billion dollars to buy an entirely new personality.”
#money#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Make it new