May 25, 2020

Politico has a great piece out about U.S. Senate candidate, Theresa Greenfield (D.IA), and how Democrats are spending big to not only win back Iowa but also to flip this seat to win back the U.S. Senate: The party is placing a surprisingly large bet on the real estate executive...

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  • May 25, 2020

The real problem is (human) capital flow. But it’s about referring to human capital as “stock” in a yard. Remember that Hassett’s model was the one followed by Trump/Kushner that predicted an early near-zero COVID death toll. x White House adviser Kevin Hassett: “Our human capital stock is ready to go back...

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  • May 25, 2020

Don’t worry, faceless industrial-production facilitators! Your output will be duly leveraged when the time comes! Never fear! Steven Mnuchin will not be forced to empty the contents of his safe deposit boxes to pay for his wife’s spider monkey placenta face creams. White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready...

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  • May 25, 2020

That is how Tom Nichols describes him in this powerful piece in The Atlantic.  I might note the phrase “the Most Unmanly President”  has been trending on Twitter today. The piece, which is well worth your reading (and the publication allows several free reads/month) is subtitled Why don’t the president’s...

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  • May 25, 2020

This happened yesterday in Frankfort, the state capitol in Kentucky: Beshear hanged in effigy as Second Amendment supporters rally at Capitol before Memorial Day What started out as a freedom-loving celebration of the Second Amendment ahead of Memorial Day turned into Gov. Andy Beshear being hanged in effigy and protesters...

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  • May 25, 2020

It remains bizarre to me that Donald Trump is the president of the United States. If I’d woken up yesterday from a 20-year coma to discover Carrot Top or Fred “Rerun” Berry was president, I would have been marginally less surprised. But the day-to-day reality of Trump’s presidency is even more shocking...

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  • May 25, 2020

Trump needs/wants the big crowds, because he doesn’t care about the chaos of infection spread, especially if he will appear to be in a downward spiral approaching November Third. Do Republicans deserve to be infected or is it more about their ability to infect others beyond Trumpists, especially since Trump prefers the...

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  • May 25, 2020

Most people know Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as a distinguished Supreme Court Justice. But as a young man he served in the Union Army in our Civil War, with one distinguishing act being his quite possibly saving the live of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, raised up...

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  • May 25, 2020

“As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided & insulted perceived enemies & promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf.” https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264717545787006976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Perhaps Howard Stern, of all people, said it best: “The oddity in all of this is...

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  • May 25, 2020

Jared Kushner’s Air Bridge may have worked to not only expedite delivery of PPE, but also failed to deliver by perhaps hoarding an as yet unaccounted amount of PPE materiel. Slender Man made Air Bridge more like DoorDash. There is a 100 percent chance Kushner watched every episode of Silicon Valley without...

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  • May 25, 2020

Here’s some encouraging news courtesy of CNN political analyst, Harry Enten: Poll of the week: A new national Fox News poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden with a 48% to 40% lead over President Donald Trump. The average of all polls taken at least partially this week have Biden up by a 48% to...

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  • May 25, 2020

Trump’s unfitness for office, and his destruction of government institutions and norms, is positively cartoonish in its obviousness and threat.  But — three years in — have any of your Republican friends admitted that to you? It is a really important question because as bad as Trump is, the long term threat...

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  • May 25, 2020

Received this e-mail today from singer-songwriter Carole King on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar (D. TX) Hi there, First, and most important, I hope you and your family are safe and well. I'm emailing you personally...

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  • May 25, 2020

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D. NY) in support of U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D. MI) re-election: That’s what Donald Trump tweeted, officially endorsing GOP Senate candidate John James, who is trying unseat my colleague Gary Peters. Big-money Republicans are funneling millions into Michigan,...

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  • May 25, 2020
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