I have traditionally used RealClearpolitics polling for a reasonable “Pulse of the Nation” update. But of late I have switched and am trying two new sources for Popular Political Pulse taking. First, I am following leading Republican media commentators that have a modest moderate bent. Think David Brooks, Anna Navarro, David Frum, and George Will. …
In a Medium essay Tim O’Reilly asks the question “how much value has Jeff Bezos added through his company Amazon?”. Now Tim is a successful publisher through O’Reilly Press of books and tools used in ITdevelopment. So Tim will be very familiar with Jeff’s two major business undertaking – the eCommerce goliath Amazon.com and the …
Liz Cheney speaks for Democracy as she refutes the Big Lie that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. In her speech in Congress, Liz Cheney stands for the reality that the election was free, fair and fraud free in the face of 80% of Republican House members shameful embracing of that Lie. Her …
Satirists, humorists and pseudo Cancun Culturalists love a Great Buffoon – that is a very proud public figure who either has Texas Prime Beef Hoof-in-Mouth disease or is Ted Cruz, Texas Canadian Senator. And until he is finished running for President in 2024 the Great Buffoon will be spreading delicious Texas Patties such as seen …
When you have the former President of the United States nurturing an elaborate fiction that his election was stolen and then convincing his MAGA Militia Mob a)that this was Gospel truth and b)they should go to the Capitol to ensure that Mike Pence trigger election turmoil by not certifying Joe Biden’s election … you have …
The Big Lie arose again in the 4th day of the Impeachment Trial. Senator Bernie Sanders asked Trump Defense Lawyer Michael van der Veen the following: “The House prosecutors have stated over and over again that President Trump was perpetrating a big lie when he repeatedly claimed that the election was stolen from him and …
Trump lied about the gravity of the Covid pandemic and then doubled down by abandoning any realistic attempts to control the disease . In contrast, Taiwan, which is right next to China has had a total of 928 Covid cases and 9 deaths compared with USA’s 27,799,946 cases and 479,772 deaths. Thanks Donald. Trump lied …
Amazon Prime has a TV Series, Flack that captures the essence of the first definition of flack – a slick set of arguments which can turn any criticism of a policy or politician to their advantage. For example, Senator Susan Collins lead the 10 GOP Senators with a faux Covid Relief Package whose key provision …
Here are the 147 Republicans who have been Complicit Conspirators in the Capital Insurrection. Just after the Capitol Riots, they ignored overwhelming evidence that Joe Biden won the election fairly and instead voted twice for the Big Lie that the Presidential Election was Stolen. The preceding Riots threatened the lives and welfare of fellow Members …
147 GOP Members of Congress Hunkering Down Under The Trump Big Lie Read More »
Since the Washington Capitol Riots, there has been unadulterated disbelief and a labored reckoning as to a)what happened and when during the January 6th at the White House Rally and then the Capitol, b) what was the purpose of the various groups making up the riot, c) who planned and enabled the riotous actions and …
22 year old Amanda Garman was given a daunting task to create a poem for Joe Biden’s Inaugural ceremony. As she was composing the latter part of the poem on January 6th, the Capitol Riots injected harsh and stark strands into her composition as Amanda worked the night through to capture a more fissile set …
Amy Coney Barret is Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee 40 days before the 2020 Presidential Election and despite the fact that in 2016 President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland,was refused even a hearing before the Senate because in the words of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “The American people should have a voice in the selection …
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Comedian Trump is nominated for several Pandemmy Awards Here for The Best Cure Award See the full set of Pandemmy awards and vote before Monday September 21st where the Pandemmy’s will be announced on the Trevor Noah ‘s The Daily Show.: Just scroll up and down to see all the PanDemmy Awards and which ones …
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Triumph The Insult Dog conducts a focus group meeting with real Trump supporters
Tip of the hat to Jimmy Fallon, the Tonight Show
Cartoon in celebration of Trumpian Science on West Coast Wildfires. Tip of the hat to TheWeek.com and Clay Jones @ claytoonz.com
Trump Promo ad asks people to Support the Troops … But it uses a picture of Russian soldiers and jets. See all the ironic details at Politoc.com as Trump still relies on his Putin comrades in 2020
In the aftermath of 4 mass shootings in a week in the US, two view points on the nature of the Gun Culture appeared to offer insights and into the prevalence of gun ownership in the US relative to the rest of the world by CNN and a provocative analysis of what sustains the American …
Bernie Sanders Money Gathering operation has couple of major missteps. First, as a donator to Bernie’s Campaign, I have received over half a dozen requests to contribute again. This past week I got an emessage from https://brniesnders.com asking for a donation. But that domain has just been registered in June of this year as a …
Marianne Williamson continues to make surprisingly well measured comments – especially about Reparations for Slavery. But the best comments at the debate were made in the bowels of NYTimes live coverage of the debate. Buried in the commentary is Reid Epstein note about Montana Governor’ Steve Bullocks signature issue: Steve Bullock tries to pivot to …
Watching the Women’s World Cup 2019 in France was a Delight In several ways it is like watching the Women’s World Hockey Championships. The two super powers are Canada and the USA with 637,000 and 567,000 registered hockey players respectively. While for soccer there are 867,000 registered women players in Canada and 1,763,000 in the …
NYTimes has taken the initiative and has recently presented defining profiles of 21 of 22 Democratic candidates for President. The profiles come from each cadidate’s answers to the same 18 questions about the upcoming Presidential contest and their reason for participating in it. Despite many requests by the NYTimes, Joe Biden declined to participate given that …
Worldwide Inequality Becomes More Pronounced Both Wealth and Income continue to skew in favor of privileged 1% as seen in these reports and charts: First there is the trend of income inequlity shows three disturbing trends: First, the top 10% of the population continues to increase its disproportionate percentage of National Income giving substance to …
The recent surge in Sports Pay Levels has added a new dimension to the annual astonishment “let us see what Pay Executives are now making”. Here are the numbers from Equilar and ESPN for compensation levels: ORGANIZATION CEO YEARS TOTAL COMPENSATION Facebook Mark Zuckerberg 7 $5,600,752,735 CBS Corp. Leslie Moonves 12 $1,023,459,129 Apple Timothy Cook …
“Do No Evil” Google has in the past 3 years lost a lot of its technical lustre and credibility as Google+ has been killed. Google was once the goto computing innovator among scandal ridden monopolistic players like Apple, IBM and Microsoft. But now Google is crashing in technical and business stature. And It all seems to …
The Web has been transformed from benignly hopeful just 25 years ago to an increasingly dangerous place. There are key players silently vying for control of Web Space – the Nation-State cyber warriors almost all have been armed primarily by an incompetently vulnerable NSA and CIA.The Cyber Criminals trolling for vast amounts of easy money pickings …
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I just abandoned watching the Champions League Final at the half between Liverpool and Real Madrid + The Referee. The Referee was bad enough ignoring Real Madrid dives, tripping and gouging. But then a crushing judo-like tackle by Sergio Ramos on Liverpool’s star, 44 goal star Mohammed Salah was the tipping point – this was …
The title says it all – Adobe has once again made using Adobe Photoshop 3 impossible: This is a replay of the Activation Game we played with Adobe on this same edition of Photoshop as part of Adobe CS3 Suite 2 or 3 years ago. At that time Photoshop would not start as Adobe claimed …
This Truthdig cartoon by Dutch illustrator Tom Janssen encapsulates the true position of China as economic and political protector of the rabid rogue state of North Korea. Despite Chinese many protestations to the contrary, the aspiring new Responsible Nation in Asia is using North Korea as a military suzerain or puppet state to keep its …
Make America Great Again has a half-life of about 1-2 years at most. Then disastrous economic decision making will have the Political Fiddler on the Roof calling the End Tune. And nowhere has this become more obvious in the cobbled together, greed and revenge ridden “GOP Tax Plan”. The “Plan” is in quotes because it …
David Brooks has had a thankless task since 2000. He has had to defend the policies of the Republican Party first under George W. Bush and 9/11 and the Iraq War and then Wall Street Housing Collapse. This was quickly followed in 2008 to 2016 by the Newt Gingerich+Mitch McConnell Scorched Earth NO DEAL policy …
The New York Times has done the leg work to show how the GOP lawmakers have been bought by the NRA in both Houses of Congress. The list is of the top ten beneficiaries of NRA money first in the Senate and then in the House of Representatives. The layout is telling. First is a …
