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What’s Next?
A question appeared on Quora yesterday asking, How will Trump will respond to the Florida federal indictment. Will he cooperate, flee the country, blame Biden, take a stand, etc? Perhaps all of the above with the exception of cooperation. Nobody tells Trump what to do. We already know that from his first indictment. Trump is…
UnFox My Box
Most of us know the games that cable suppliers play to up-sell us premium cable packages. Want to watch NFL football? It’s only $11/month and it comes with the exciting Billiards TV and the breakneck action of the Poker Channel! Have a Showtime series you want to watch? It’s only available in the $30/month Entertainment…
Justice For Sale
Sharing the media stage this week with Donald Trump’s indictment and Tennessee’s march to unabashed fascism has been a bombshell investigative piece in Pro Publica titled Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire. It’s about the quarter-century showering of expensive gifts on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by real estate billionaire, Harlan Crow. Not for nothing, but…
Trump “INDICATED”
I was playing the first set of a Happy Hour gig at a local jazz club when I heard someone in the audience comment that Trump had just been indicted. There was no cheering, dancing or horn honking in the streets. It wasn’t like Election Night 2020. It might as well have been a casual…
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Republicans are Stabbing Each Other in the Throat
So Kevin McCarthy created history by losing the first three rounds of voting for Speaker of the House. This increasingly dysfunctional GOP also started the clock on its next not-so-proud record: the longest that a House has gone without a Speaker. That was set back in the 1860s. House rules say that a simple majority…
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The Red Spurt
We’re already seeing what was predicted by pundits on both sides following Biden’s inauguration. I mean political experts including former Republican pols, not cable news hosts. After January 6th most said that Trump was a liability on the party’s future and that Republicans needed to marginalize him if it didn’t want to see the GOP…