- At MadMikesAmerica, Gregory Gonzolez takes a look at category 5’s, sharpies, Taliban meetings, tweets and concludes that all this represents more than just a bad week for my President.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors takes it from there, with a weird counter-announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contradicting their own Birmingham forecast office in Alabama, which turns out to be because of threats from Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, which turn out to be on orders from President Trump’s Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, which turn out to be at the direction of his boss, which scientists say is Donald Trump his own self. OH! And, guess what? It’s all fake news! My President don’t know nothin’ about no orders to anybody. So draw a line through it. With a sharpie.
- After the Dorian Category 5 sharpie adventure, our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has an idea for an Alabama historical marker.
- News Corpse watches Fox News so you don’t have to. Seems Donald Trump fired John Bolton, but then he didn’t. Maybe. Bolton texted Fox News live to say he actually resigned and can prove it.
Maybe they are both correct? Bolton resigns. Trump is furious at the rejection. Nobody rejects him and gets away with it. So “You can’t resign! I reject your resignation!……Now then, You’re fired!”
- Jonathan Bernstein has been watching politics pretty much forever. He observes that Mr. Trump’s policy power to do tragically goofy things is being bled away by a US system that is actually working. The President is too dumb to understand how it’s happening. I dunno. Could be he is less motivated by policy than is generally acknowledged.
- For example, Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger explains in 3.5 seconds why military stays at a Trump property in Ireland should be important to voters.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz wonders if supporters of this President and this administration realize what they are teaching their children. It isn’t pretty.
- Infidel753 takes a close look at the decline of mainstream news media in the new environment of electronic communication and offers a few thoughts and one cautious recommendation.
- nojo, one of the two best bloggers online, takes the dry topic of vigorous fact-checking and makes it entertaining; in the process stressing the critical importance of taking what we are told and what we trust and making sure that it is actually true.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post has been studying voters and candidates. For those voting for President in 2020, he has a solid recommendation.
- While many Americans tuned in to the latest Democratic debate, Frances Langum caught an ad on a Sinclair affiliate suggesting that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses genocide because socialism. The ad ends with a photo of AOC lit and burning. An unsubtle suggestion of how patriots against genocide should deal with her.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara breaks it all down for us. Bernie Sanders and, by label extension, AOC want government ownership of companies producing renewable energy, which will be designed to entirely replace fossil fuels. Since public ownership means socialism and since socialism means dictatorship, Bernie and AOC are working hard to establish totalitarianism.
One problem with ideological purists is often an inability to perceive political distinctions. If I am in favor of publicly owned sidewalks or fire departments, I am a statist, which means socialist, which means Stalinist, which means I crave government led by a totalitarian dictator. Life is binary, don’t you see.
- Dave Dubya speculates how Fox News will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 9/11 attack.
- Dorian de Wind of The Moderate Voice reports on a friend, a survivor of the 9/11 attack in NYC, whose perspective on the attack was changed by his young daughter’s reaction. I have a few thoughts on the eventual death of the individual responsible for the attacks.
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