Nikki Haley's "Gaffe" Was No Gaffe. But the Thing That Baffles Me Most......
Nikki made an icky……….This much we know.The thing that baffles me though, is that as a studied and (so far) successful pol, Haley could have side-stepped that question any number of ways. But she...
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What Nikki Haley Learned in Middle School — The Week in Editorial Cartoons,...
Link to Part 1 of this Diary — (Re-Post) About Those New Year's Resolutions — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 1As always, I’ll post more editorial cartoons in the comments section of the diary....
View ArticleDKos Asheville Open Thread: We’re back
This space appears each weekend to share news and opinion from Asheville and Western North Carolina . The floor is open for comment and discussion. Wishing all a good day from this beautiful part of...
View ArticleDisqualifying Trump
[NOTE TO READERS: Yesterday the US Supreme Court agreed to review the recent decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald J. Trump from the Republican primary ballot under Section 3 of...
View ArticleStupid TFG Quote of the Day
So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you, I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died.Trump...
View ArticleTrump claims that Lincoln should have "negotiated" to prevent the Civil War
Reposted from My SubstackAnother day, another stupid ridiculous fucking statement from Donald John Trump. Spouting nonsense every day is a regular occurrence from the great orange poltroon, but this...
View ArticleThe Civil War Could Have Been Negotiated
Just when you thought TFG couldn’t be any more stupid… Abraham Lincoln made lots of mistakes, and the whole slavery/states’ rights thing could have been negotiated. If only TFG had been alive back...
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Comic: Jefferson Davis for President-14th amendment
This might have been possible without the Fourteenth Amendment, if not in 1868, then perhaps 1872, 1876, et cetera.Why should it be possible in 2024?The Fourteenth Amendment refers to “insurrection or...
View ArticleTrump says he could have "negotiated" Civil War.
Being a history teacher, I can’t help but take extreme offense to this, just the level of distain held toward reality mixed with wanting to make all moments in the universe past and present about him....
View Article"The Man Who Knows Even Less Than He Thinks Award"-- and the winner is...
Well, the competition is over, and the winner is… Donald J. Trump— again. The vote was even more than unanimous! PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced that never-have-they-ever tabulated a more than...
View ArticleCartoon: Donald Trump negotiates to avoid the Civil War
Donald Trump recently said that he thought the American Civil War could have been avoided through negotiation. I think this is something along the lines of what he had in mind, which he did not reveal.
View ArticleThe Ku Klux Klan monstrosity continues trying to destroy America
www.theguardian.com/…After reading this article, please read Timothy Egan’s seering “Fire in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the Woman who stopped them.” It’s the tale...
View ArticleThe next insurrection will not be televised, because there won't be one....
Like most good Americans, I was shocked and appalled by the events of January 6, 2021. For the next two years I lived with a deep anxiety, wondering if my country was truly headed towards another civil...
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Lincoln could NOT have "Negotiated" the Civil War... VIDEO
The former guy recently claimed that Lincoln could have negotiated away the Civil War and that TFG could have done so if he’d been there.To start, let's compare the dates of Lincoln's election to...
View ArticleHaley's Comet: Fireworks on a War Footing?
In Iowa on 1/4, an ostensible POTUS hopeful/realistic veep wannabe claimed no small degree of solidarity among herself and some “Black friends” from her grade school days (see “’Painful’: Nikki...
View ArticleYes, America is racist, and Republicans want to keep it that way
One of the more stunning concepts, arising out of certain hopeful Republicans to somehow distinguish themselves from the overwhelming and suffocating presence of Donald Trump, was the idea that the...
View ArticleMissouri GOP is at war with its own Freedom Caucus
On Wednesday, Missouri’s Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden announced that he was stripping several of his fellow Republican state senators of their committee chairmanships. After calling the start...
View ArticleThe Irony of Southern History, Again
When I think about the Confederacy and The Civil War, as I think about all wars, I am struck with the tragedy. Wars are tragic things. The Civil War was a horrible war fought for horrible, indefensible...
View ArticleTrump Calls For Civil War...Again. And Apparently, That's Just Fine.
It is quaint to think about the things that used to damage presidential campaigns.In 1972, Ed Muskie's campaign was destroyed when he briefly cried in public. Someone had said something nasty about his...
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