If everything is reduced to for and against, then it is reduced to choosing sides. And if that is how “news” is presented, why are we surprised that the country is “polarized”?
Tag: POTUS
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The NWS Birmingham office had tweeted that Trump was full of crap and Hurricane Dorian was too far east for Alabama to be impacted.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The President wants us to believe he didn’t rape Carroll because she is not his type. This means, of course, that there actually is a type that he finds, what — worthy of sexual assault?
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Worst of all, he seems oblivious to the betrayal of American democracy that he is advocating.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Trump praised his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in March 2018 after the ruling Communist party announced it was abolishing the two-term limit for the presidency.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
“Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels, it ruins your presidency.”
CONNECTIONS: Waiting for Mueller
All the clever people who were calculating the odds, acutely judging the politics, and weighing cost/benefit, what do they have to say now? All elected officials who cared more about keeping their jobs than doing their jobs, how do they like waiting for Mueller now?
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications had been denied for “disqualifying issues” that could put national security at risk.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The aid [that Trump threatens to cut] is part of a bipartisan program designed by the Obama Administration to reduce illegal immigration.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The numbers appear to come from the president’s avid TV-watching… But it’s quite possible the president missed an important nuance.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The Interior Department revealed that 40 more workers would be brought in for offshore drilling, in addition to the 84 others who have already been working during the shutdown.
Nativity tableau, 2018
Merry Christmas from the Border Patrol.
POEM: SCOTUS AWOL
Everyone agreed it was a bad hair day…
And the president chose to watch TV,
high and dry and far from the fray…
AMPLIFICATIONS: Moments
I believe we are not really a nation of baby-killing, Jew-hating, Islamophobic racists. Now everyone just needs to stand up and prove it.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrages
Donald Trump has reiterated his doubts about climate change, suggesting that the climate could “change back again.” and that climate scientists are politically motivated.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
As an “outstanding man,” Kavanaugh joins a less-than-illustrious group of crime-doers, scam enthusiasts, and lecherous crank-yankers whom Trump has defended
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the goal of this White House is to cripple the U.S. refugee program.”
— J. Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Trump denied on Thursday that nearly 3,000 people had died last year in Hurricane Maria, falsely calling it a made-up number by Democrats out to get him.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
It’s hard to look away from a train wreck. It’s impossible to look away from successive wrecks.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Those who have followed Trump’s career say his lying isn’t just a tactic, but an ingrained habit.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Characterizing the North Korean’s intentions as “very honorable” was an interesting choice of words considering the regime’s troubling human rights history and reputation for ruthlessness..
A NOVEL: ‘Over the Edge,’ Chapter 3
How can you figure out the truth when everyone is lying, and sometimes they don’t even know they’re lying?
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Aides said that the president rarely assumes responsibility for a misstep, and they anticipated him looking for someone to blame.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Moore suggested that the September 11, 2001, terror attacks happened because the United States had distanced itself from God.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
President Donald Trump’s accusation that a federal watchdog has devastated the financial industry is unsupported by the evidence that banks like best: profits.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
“There can be no truly open internet without net neutrality. To believe otherwise is to be captive to special interest power brokers.”
— Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Two Tough Guys and “The Course of Empire”
Jackson’s upswept silver coif seems to foreshadow Trump’s layered goldilocks arrangement – the two tough guys revealed as natural-born hairdressers.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
A rewriting of history to satisfy the president’s interpretation of the holiday.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Trump’s chief economic adviser has had to admit that they broke their promise that the middle class would benefit most.
POEM: Lyrics for ‘The Oval Office Exit Song’
The president’s men are lining up,
waiting to see who’s next in line
to follow the norms out the window
and crash-land on the White House lawn.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Trump said he took Putin at his word that Russia did not seek to interfere in the US presidential election last year.
POEM: It Happened One Night … in Alabama
The crowd unzips
like the Red Sea back in the day – and the dog bounds up
onto the podium and gripping it with both paws, becomes
POTUS!