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This Trump tweet is 50 words long but says so much more.

I don’t think it’s wise to parse the words of someone as erratic and incompetent as Donald Trump, but this recent tweet is a real doozy and demands a little scrutiny.  Take a look.  Let’s dig in. First, we have the President claiming that the book is boring. But the only way to determine if…

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Trump isn’t fit to clean toilets

In response to Trump’s tweet earlier this week about Senator Gillibrand: USA Today’s Editorial Board wrote: “With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room…

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Guest post: Daniel Dale’s Twitter feed

Daniel Dale, Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, tweeted the following thread that I have cut and pasted here in the event you don’t use Twitter or didn’t see it on Twitter. It’s fantastic.________________________________ Here is a thread about Donald Trump getting hilariously lost in his own lying.  This is what Trump told radio host Mike…

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Trump’s boycott list does not make America great at all

Over the course of his Presidency, Donald Trump has asked the American people to boycott the following corporations and entities: The Hamilton musicalOreosAppleNetflixAmazonThe entire state of HawaiiNordstromBudweiserStarbucksThe National Football League For the minority of Americans who support Donald Trump, America is becoming a far less entertaining and amusing place.  Honestly, it must suck.  For the…

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A Trump supporter has found his bridge-too-far, and it’s pathetic

Former NFL head coach turned television analyst Rex Ryan was on ESPN’s pregame show on Sunday. Ryan was a vocal Trump supporter during the election, going so far as to introduce him at a rally in Buffalo, NY. On Sunday, in a conversation about Donald Trump’s comments about football players kneeling for the anthem, Ryan…

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My favorite billboard

The billboard is up on Southern Boulevard, which is one of the only streets that links directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. With Hurricane Irma now battering Florida, my thoughts are with everyone whose lives and property are at risk from this cataclysmic storm.   My thoughts are also with this particular billboard. Envisioning how angry Donald…

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Trump’s “real” job numbers

On the wake of a less than stellar jobs report, Trump has been touting his “million jobs created” in the first half of 2017. One million jobs sounds great. But look at the first half of 2017 job creation in comparison to previous years: 2013: 1.12 million 2014: 1.50 million 2015: 1.39 million 2016: 1.24…

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Call it a lie when it’s a lie.

In a Wall Street Journal interview this week, Trump claimed that the head of the Boy Scouts called him to heap praise on the politically aggressive speech Trump delivered at the Scouts’ national jamboree last week. “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever…

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Republican Congressmen threaten female Senators with violence. This is not normal.

In the last three days, Republican men in the House have threatened their female Senate colleagues with shooting and beating. ON MSNBC, Rep. Buddy Carter said on Lisa Murkowski: “Somebody needs to go over there to that Senate and snatch a knot in their ass.” Apparently, “snatch a knot in their ass” means to hit…

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Trump stomped on tradition at the 2017 Boy Scout National Jamboree.

Yesterday Donald Trump spoke at the Boy Scout’s National Jamboree. This is a standing invitation to every United States President. Seven of the last eleven Presidents have taken the Scouts up on their offer since the Jamboree began in 1937. None of those seven Presidents ever took the opportunity to turn a day of celebration…

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