Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
So here we are, after another incredibly bad week in the incredibly bad presidency of Donald Trump, and the question really has become: How much longer will Trump be allowed to occupy the Oval Office? To review this week that was: On Monday came word that Trump had revealed highly classified information to two Russian…
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As a public service — just in case you haven’t been able to keep up with Donald Trump in the past few days — here’s a recap of what our current president has been up to. He fired FBI Director James Comey, who was leading his agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s…
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Well, well. It turns out that Hillary Clinton has learned nothing — absolutely nothing — about her loss to Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election. How else to explain her ludicrous remarks today that she was on her way to winning until a combination of FBI Director James Comey’s letter revealing a new investigation…
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So it has actually happened – the biggest name on the right-wing Fox News Channel is gone. Fox’s decision today to kick Bill O’Reilly off the network may be shocking to those who believe that Fox News really is “fair and balanced” and that O’Reilly is as close to a God-like figure as you can find –…
Read More about Bye, Bye, O’Reilly!These past few days, I’ve been wondering why so many people and institutions have seemingly lost their senses — why they’ve lost their ability to reason, and to avoid saying or doing stupid things. Example: United Airlines. Why in the world would any United employee on board that jet think it was a good idea…
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If I were Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa — and I’m not, I tell you, I’m not! — I’d be mighty upset at our own upstart Valley Congressman, Devin Nunes. For years now, King has worked hard — hard, I tell you, hard! — at becoming known as the Worst Congressman in America. He…
Read More about America’s Worst Congressman?There’s no other way to put it: Donald Trump and the GOP suffered a disastrous loss Friday when their horribly thought-out healthcare plan dropped dead. Remember, Trump campaigned for president on a platform of fear and loathing: fear of immigrants and loathing of Obamacare. And recall that Republican congressional candidates have campaigned for years on…
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You may have heard about a children’s book titled “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Maybe you even read it to your kids. Guess what? President Trump had one of those terrible, horrible days on Monday – and now the very future of his presidency may hang in the balance. Because…
Read More about Trump’s Terrible DayA funny thing happened on the way to a Washington, D.C. mired in permanent Congressional investigations and seemingly intractable political animosity — private sector employment surged by nearly 300,000 in the first full month of the Trump Presidency. While the bumbling Tweeter-In-Chief struggles to get through politician school, his other persona precedes him. It’s called…
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My wife and I just spent a few days at Walt’s World in Anaheim. And as always, Disneyland did not disappoint us, in spite of our long waits in lines that seemingly stretched forever. Over more than 40 years of marriage, we’ve trekked to Disneyland perhaps two-dozen times. But this was our first visit since…
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