This past November, just a few weeks after the presidential election, Donald Trump quietly settled a fraud case against Trump University for $25 million, rather than go to court and respond to charges that the unaccredited education company operating under his name, was, to quote a former Trump University employee, “a fraudulent scheme… that preyed […]
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The redeployment of Mike Pence, agent of distraction, and the ever widening war with the NFL
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 60 Minutes, Bob Corker, bots, culture war, Dan Pfeiffer, distraction, Donald Trump, election hacking, election integrity, Facebook, football, fraud, Hamilton, Indiana Colts, kneeling, Mike Pence, NFL, political theater, protests, Puerto Rico, race, race relations, racism, Russia, settlement, stunts, Trump University, Twilight Zone, World War III 25 Comments
DeVos, promising to do more to protect the rights on those accused of committing crimes against women on campus, says, “If everything is harassment, then nothing is”
There was an interesting article in the New York Times just after the election about the 53% of white women, and 42% of women across the board, who cast their votes for Donald Trump in 2016. [note: A whopping 64% of non-college educated white women voted for Trump.] Well, I was reminded of the piece […]
Our word of the day is “leverage”
A few days ago, I suggested on this site that Donald Trump, by pardoning Joe Arpaio, was signaling that he wouldn’t leave office willingly, like Nixon, but instead intended to fight, even if it meant fracturing the GOP, and perhaps the entire country, beyond repair. By rewarding Arpaio for his blatant contempt for civil rights […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Civil War, Dan Pfeiffer, Donald Trump, identity politics, Illinois, Illinois Nazis, impeachment, Iowa, Joe Arpaio, Jon Favreau, leverage, Mitch McConnell, Nazis, Paul Ryan, Pod Save America, propaganda, racism, Richard Nixon, Russia, sanctions, tax cuts, trade, transgender, Wall Street, white nationalism, white supremacist 6 Comments