US Politics

January 11, 2021

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Stopping short with impeaching Trump suggests that Trump's crimes are equal in severity to lying about a blowjob that got Clinton impeached. Trump's crimes are infinitely worse than Clinton's. Trump's punishment should be equally more severe. He must be imprisoned.

January 9, 2021

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You have to laugh

While the insurrection was happening in Washington D.C. with the trumpettes invading the Capitol building, Donald Trump, his family and assorted sycophants were ensconced in what looks like a marquee…

January 9, 2021

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Let’s not hear any more moral lecturing from so-called conservatives. When the test came in the US (but here too) a clear choice between institutions and chaos, democracy and their own system-wrecking advantage, most either actively cheered, or stayed silent. Authority gone.

Mark Kenny

January 3, 2021

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Biden’s task

By admin | US Politics | 4 Comments

The election of Donald Trump and the behaviour of him, his family and his appointees have demonstrated the shortcomings of the democratic system of the United States. Their constitution was…

December 31, 2020

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Trump came to power as the repudiation of the Republican establishment. But the conservative political class and the new leader soon reached an understanding. Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to strip-mine public assets for the benefit of private interests.

George Packer

December 13, 2020

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305,000

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Ever since Donald Trump lost the US presidential election by a margin, in electoral college terms, of 306 votes to 2321, that he described four years ago as a landslide,…

December 11, 2020

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A lack of imagination

By admin | Australian Politics, Science, UK Politics, US Politics | 6 Comments

I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…

December 3, 2020

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Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.

Bradley Whitford

November 28, 2020

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Call me a radical lefty if you'd like, but I refuse to accept a system that enables Jeff Bezos to grow his wealth by $66,000,000,000 in 5 months — during a pandemic that's left 40,000,000 Americans on the brink of eviction.

Robert Reich

November 26, 2020

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Now that the stock market has reached an all time high, even as millions of Americans are in bread lines trying to fend off starvation during a plague, perhaps more people will finally get it that the stock market is not the economy.

Bill Palmer

Stopping short with impeaching Trump suggests that Trump's crimes are equal in severity to lying about a blowjob that got Clinton impeached. Trump's crimes are infinitely worse than Clinton's. Trump's punishment should be equally more severe. He must be imprisoned.

You have to laugh

Let’s not hear any more moral lecturing from so-called conservatives. When the test came in the US (but here too) a clear choice between institutions and chaos, democracy and their own system-wrecking advantage, most either actively cheered, or stayed silent. Authority gone.

Biden’s task

305,000

A lack of imagination

Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.

Call me a radical lefty if you'd like, but I refuse to accept a system that enables Jeff Bezos to grow his wealth by $66,000,000,000 in 5 months — during a pandemic that's left 40,000,000 Americans on the brink of eviction.

Now that the stock market has reached an all time high, even as millions of Americans are in bread lines trying to fend off starvation during a plague, perhaps more people will finally get it that the stock market is not the economy.

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