Given the strange confluence of the new president’s first “presidential” speech and the growing scandal of Russian’s tampering with the election along with the help of one Trump advisee after another (Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation just today for his involvement (Or was it his lying about his involvement under oath? It’s all very strange here in Upside Down and Backwards World), it is equally bizarre that the country is still debating about who this man in the White House is.
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And now, for the first time since WWII, we find ourselves in a nuclear arms race. And he’s not even president yet.
Last week, President-Elect Trump said he was planning to expand the United States’ nuclear arsenal . In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin retaliated with his own saber rattling: “The Russian Federation is stronger than any potential aggressor,” he said. “It’s very important to note that it’s not a coincidence that I put it that way. What does aggressor mean?
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“He is who he is,” Melania Trump told People Magazine earlier this year. “Even if you give him advice, he will maybe take it in, but then he will do it the way he wants to do it. You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.”
Although I’m sure Melania meant her words to be an asset and compliment to her husband’s personality, I see the characteristics she describes as being a huge liability to his being the forty-fifth president of the United States.
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At this writing, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead is just shy of three million votes, a number the size of the city of Chicago, the state of Nevada, Kuwait. She has won more votes than any white man has ever gotten, win or lose. Barack Obama is the only president to receive more votes than Mrs. Clinton, including the one the Electoral College is expected to confirm on December 19. In fact, the difference between the number of votes for her and those for Mr.
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In 1787, the Constitution was being framed in strict secrecy. Nearing the end, some citizens gathered outside Constitutional Hall, anxious to find out what had been produced behind closed doors. Immediately upon the framers’ emergence from the hall, as the story goes, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Straight away, Franklin said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
When I first heard this story,
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Yes, of course I’m talking about the circus of politics that was the presidential election we just had. On November 10, 2016, Carolyn Gregoire, senior writer for The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com, wrote an article entitled Your Post-Election Pain Is Real Grief. She states, “For more than half the nation and much of the world, we are in a period of mourning. After waking up to President-elect Donald J. Trump—what many can only describe as a nightmare—Americans face emotionally charged weeks and months ahead.”
She also states,
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After reading this lovely piece in the aftermath of the triumph of hatred and vapidity in the US election, we invited Kay Burch to offer it for this week’s post in Political Straight Talk. After all, sometimes the only thing to do is look for the biggest of big pictures.
Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has published a book-length meditation on a fascinating concept: Is beauty the driving force of the natural world?
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We’re continuing here with our discussion about the September 23, 2016, CBS This Morning show with Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey on the grand opening of Washington DC’s Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture. We think it’s really important for us as white people to get a much deeper understanding of racial discrimination as it has been historically and continues to be experienced by Black Americans. We also know it is similar to but not identical to all kinds of other intolerance of many groups,
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I agree with Elizabeth Preza, a staff writer for AlterNet, the website that focuses on politics, media, and cultural criticism, when she says, “Donald Trump is a bully without exception.” What’s disturbing about this fact screams from the very lead-in (also called lede) of her excellent June 2, 2016, article, “Trump’s Childish Name-Calling Is a Time-Honored Strategy of Bullying”: “Trump’s insults may seem immature, but there’s a longstanding tradition of elevating bullies to power.” Of course she couldn’t be sure at that point that he would become the Republican candidate for president,
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Way back in February Sean Illing spelled it out for us in Salon.com: “Donald Trump Is a Fraud: Report Confirms the Billionaire’s Presidential Bid Is a Long and Calculated Con Job.”
Illing began his blog by saying, “Everything Trump has done during the campaign is designed to dupe the media into funding his marketing strategy.”
Illing continued: “Donald Trump’s presidential campaign feels whimsical, like a practical joke or publicity tour gone awry. But it turns out that Donald is running a long con.
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