Month: November 2018

The NRA told doctors to stay in their lane

Doctors fought back.

Excellent tweet about Nancy Pelosi

Republican attacks have made her unpopular

Trump’s record cabinet turnover

Republicans will do anything to win

This is an excellent column.  We saw this in 2000 when the Florida recount was stopped.  From the column:

“A better way to put it is that when the 2000 election was thrown into chaos in Florida, Democrats operated under the mistaken belief that there was an orderly process to be undertaken and eventually it would all get sorted out fairly. Meanwhile, Republicans were all but crawling through the Okefenokee with knives in their teeth. Republicans knew that there were no rules that needed to be obeyed and no niceties that needed to be considered. All that mattered was winning, and the winner would be the one who was more ruthless and determined.”

We’re seeing it again now with the Republicans baseless claims of fraud in Florida and Georgia.  Trump is the ringleader.  Republicans don’t care how much damage this does to public confidence in the elections, they just want to win.  They should just let the legal election process play out.

Hate crimes are up 17%

I blame Trump for a large part of it.  His hateful, bigoted speeches and tweets hive riled up the bigots in his cult.  I also blame Fox News and other right wing outlets.

Their influence was clear in the recent bomb mailings and synagogue mass murder.  And no, the answer is not more people with guns.

The CNN lawsuit over Jim Acosta

I expect CNN to win their lawsuit over the White House’s taking of Jim Acosta’s hard pass.  CNN is being supported by other news organizations, even Fox News.  Also, the White House is changing their story – their response said nothing about their allegation that Acosta hit the press aide.

The White House doesn’t get to choose which media members cover them.  It’s that simple.

 

 

 

 

CNN was wrong

In their effort to be even-handed, CNN asked voters about extremist violence without pointing out that the great bulk of it is by right-wing extremists.  Left wing extremists attack Tucker Carlson’s house.  Right wing extremists kill people (such as the recent killings in Pittsburgh and Kentucky and the bombs).

I understand that they want to be fair but this is very misleading.  The screen print above is from my iPhone.

Trump didn’t include Hindus in statement about Diwali

 

This one included them.  I guess it was later.

Decline in international students is bad for the US