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Trump* pardons miscreants
Trump* pardons miscreants
I can think of four reasons for Trump* to issue pardons and commutations today.
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Trump* pardons miscreants
“Sully” Sullenberger on stuttering
“Sully” Sullenberger on stuttering
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect. You become a true leader, not because of how you speak, but because of what you have to say — and the challenges you have overcome to help others.”
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“Sully” Sullenberger on stuttering
“Us”
“Us”
Donald Trump*, in advance of signing his “deal” with China, acknowledging audience members Sheldon and Miriam Adelson: “They’re tremendous supporters of us and the Republican Party.” Us = me, not the country. It’s the presidential plural again.
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“Us”
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
A Times opinion piece by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson, “We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated,” announces the Lincoln Project.
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The Lincoln Project
Pat the chair
Pat the chair
Have you noticed how often Jerrold Nadler’s Democratic colleagues give him a pat on the back as he makes his way to or from his place as chair of the House Judiciary Committee? In such a toxic environment, the human touch must help.
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Pat the chair
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
For impeachment, or the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, or a resignation for “medical reasons,” none of which T.S. Eliot had in mind.
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HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Stooges as amigos
Stooges as amigos
The Three Stooges — Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard — will star as Gordon Sondland, Rick Perry, and Kurt Volker in the forthcoming release The Three Amigos. Talk about straight out of Central Casting.
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Stooges as amigos
Joe Biden’s stutter
Joe Biden’s stutter
Worth reading: John Hendrickson’s “Joe Biden’s Stutter, and Mine” (The Atlantic ).
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Joe Biden’s stutter
“A continuum of insidiousness”
“A continuum of insidiousness”
I have to imagine this continuum as existing in both space and time, because Gordon Sondland was in way over his head as he traveled it.
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“A continuum of insidiousness”
What’s up with Trump?
What’s up with Trump?
It seems to me reasonable to suspect that something is wrong or that Trump and company have begun laying the groundwork for resignation.
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What’s up with Trump?
Kentucky
Kentucky
Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining, or shinin’. I hope.
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Kentucky
I’m in. You?
I’m in. You?
White House “press secretary” Stephanie Grisham goes Donald Trump one better in declaring anyone who opposes the leader to be “just that.”
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I’m in. You?
Whoa again, at least a local whoa
Whoa again, at least a local whoa
Commenting on Donald Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria, our representative in Congress, John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15), told an interviewer, “Pull my name off the ‘I support Donald Trump’ list.
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Whoa again, at least a local whoa
John Shimkus, profile in courage
John Shimkus, profile in courage
A Washington Post article about House Republicans leaving Congress notes that John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15), one of those leaving, “declined to say whether he had any problems with Trump.”
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John Shimkus, profile in courage
Agitated?
Agitated?
Donald Trump has issued thirty-one tweets and retweets in less than three hours this morning, beginning at 4:08 PDT. A record?
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Agitated?