Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Same Circus, Different Clowns

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Joe Benning

As roughly everybody knows, on January 6, 2021, then-President Donald J Trump stirred up a crowd by claiming that the most recent presidential election was stolen from him, implying that  Joe Biden’s ascension to the office was illegitimate.  Immediately thereafter … Continue reading →

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Impeachment Redux

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Joe Benning

Clowns to the left of me,  Jokers to the right… From “Stuck in the Middle With you” written by Gerry Rafferty.  It seems reasonably clear that Donald J. Trump, who has by now passed Richard M Nixon in the proverbial … Continue reading →

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A Supposed Return to “Normalcy”

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Joe Benning

President-elect Joe Biden won the race by running a determined campaign that focused exclusively on an indisputable fact. Joe Biden is not Donald Trump. To which the voters responded by giving Trump the heave-ho while cutting into the Democratic majority … Continue reading →

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Sore Loser

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Joe Benning

On Friday evening the Supreme Court refused to hear the case brought by Texas’s Attorney General and joined by 18 additional Attorney’s General, all of whom are Republicans.  The plaintiffs in the case sought to have the Court throw out … Continue reading →

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Post Election Absurdities

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Joe Benning

It would seem that “the most important election of your life” was a tie.  It is hard not to laugh when political partisans make impassioned arguments about the cause du jour. And not just because the arguments are typically awful.  … Continue reading →

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Biden Against Violence. Sort Of.

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Joe Benning

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is about to unleash a huge ad buy  decrying violence in general, but not in particular. The reason is obvious.  Polling indicates that he is being hurt in swing states where support for Black Lives Matter … Continue reading →

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And About Those Norms…

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Joe Benning

We hear a lot about norms these days, and in particular, about how President Donald Trump’s typically juvenile behavior violates long standing norms and therefore harms democracy. There is something to this. Trump is, after all, boorish, a habitual liar … Continue reading →

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We Need to Talk about… Joe Biden

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Joe Benning

His name is not Donald J Trump. That is all it takes, apparently, for a Democratic challenger to command the loyalty of the party faithful. It doesn’t matter what he thinks, assuming he is capable of it. After all his … Continue reading →

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The Season is Upon Us

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Joe Benning

When January of 2021 comes rolling around it is virtually inevitable that a supremely ambitious, self-serving, vicious and ignorant partisan hack will take the Presidential oath of office. The only question is whether the hack will be named Donald Trump … Continue reading →

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