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Donald Trump was never qualified to be president — or anything else

Let’s get one thing straight before Election Day — and before nearly half the electorate votes for him: Donald Trump was never remotely qualified...

02.11.2024 100

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Reject the lies: Trump only wishes he could have the Biden-Harris economy

Last month, a poll commissioned by the Financial Times found that people trusted Kamala Harris more on the economy than her felony-convicted...

08.09.2024 7

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Donald Trump, Honest Abe and Joe Biden: Which of these things is not like the others?

The worst president in American history is back at it, comparing himself to the best. But this is nothing new — the endless repetition of falsehoods...

11.08.2024 20

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I’m flying an American flag in protest

I recently bought and began to display the American flag at our home.  I found one from a company that makes its flags here in the United States but...

04.07.2024 40

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An appeal to heaven: Find Sam Alito another job

So in addition to the upside-down American flag displayed at his Virginia home, first reported by the New York Times, Supreme Court Justice Samuel...

02.06.2024 40

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Don't fall for MAGA's "election integrity" con job

Can journalists please stop repeating the term “election integrity” just because Republicans insist on saying it? Heck, if they don't offer...

19.05.2024 60

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Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it

You’re unhappy with this economy? OK, that’s your right. But you should seriously consider whether you want the available alternative. Last...

04.05.2024 200

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Can't we get a nationwide gag order against Trump's violent threats?

On Christmas Day in 1170, as the story goes, King Henry II, exasperated by his disputes with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said...

14.04.2024 8

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Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him

When Donald Trump came down that tacky golden escalator in his grotesque Fifth Avenue building on June 16, 2015, to the half-hearted applause of a...

24.03.2024 100

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After decades of embarrassment, New York finally dumps Trump

New York just told Donald Trump to pay up and get outta town — and while he was at it, to leave his fraudulent businesses behind for the locals to...

29.02.2024 10

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Republicans pick up where Trump’s “perfect call” left off

So, Donald Trump has betrayed the Ukrainian people for a second time.  His treachery is of historic, maybe even literary, proportions: repeatedly...

05.02.2024 30

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Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon

Judges overseeing the various criminal trials of Donald John Trump, our only ex-president with a mug shot, have repeatedly warned him that they'll...

28.01.2024 70

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Biden's economic troubles aren't bad vibes - they're "micro-insults"

Many people are upset with the economy and don’t care what the macroeconomic measures (GNP, inflation rate, job numbers) say. They watch the meter...

16.01.2024 40

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Trump the Confederate

Republicans are still losing their minds about the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court and the 34-page ruling from Maine’s...

07.01.2024 20

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Don't panic, men: We're not helpless — and we don't need the right's phony masculinity

In spare moments between elbowing rivals, physically threatening colleagues and witnesses, dehumanizing their political opponents and refusing to...

24.12.2023 50

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"Trump derangement syndrome" is real — but it's not what they say it is

Like the malicious, boastful schoolboy he will forever be, Donald Trump smirkingly twists apt descriptions of himself and his often cartoonishly...

10.12.2023 10

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