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Trump’s No Boy Scout, But Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less
Trump’s Boy Scout debacle highlights the moral turpitude of his Evangelical base.
Politics & Fleas
Peddle to the Meddle.
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The Optical Allusions Of Donnie’s Emails
So, now that Junior stupidly dropped the emails on Twitter and the blatherati are now gleefully picking away at the carcass … let’s take a moment to recognize that this is still all about the optics. Yes, “optics” is an unctuous political buzzword, but it fits here because this all looks really terrible … despite…
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Two Takeaways From Trump’s Twitter Attack On Morning Joe
HOT TAKEAWAYS: 1. Trump is an idiot. This attack comes hours after Politico ran a story titled “Trump seizes the advantage in war with media.” And that represents a wider sense in the political zeitgeist over the last 24 hours that the CNN debacle has given him the high ground in his war on the…
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Does The Data Point To Flynn?
The newscycle is spinning on the Washington Post’s new story about the Obama Administration’s response to Russia’s cyberattack. It’s fairly detailed, it claims that the CIA got smokin’ hot intel directly linking Putin to election interference and it’s been expertly parsed by the indefatigable Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel. As ever, it seems to leave as…
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Trump’s Pittsburgh Ploy
“Pittsburgh, not Paris.” Really, nothing better exemplifies the false promise of Trumpenomics than this cute little catchphrase likely coined by a newly Born-Again Bannon. It only makes sense that the man who thought Sarah Palin would be president is the same man who concocted this callow juxtaposition. Pittsburgh is the Steel City, right? And “Paris”? Well,…