If a rapidly heating planet were the plot of the movie, everyone knows what would happen: the political class would drop everything to try to fix the problem and there would be crazy action heroes pulling out all the stops to save the world.
This Is a Defense?
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In what seems to be a fairly lame “October surprise” attempt, the Republican-owned New York Post is reviving the story about Hunter Biden’s “soft corruption” in Ukraine and attempts to influence peddle with his father, the then-vice president. The story doesn’t seem to hold a lot of water but the basics remain. What Hunter and Joe Biden did doesn’t smell good.
Bipartisan Uncaring
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Democrats and Republicans find themselves in a unique position: they both agree on something. Economists from left to right agree that the economy desperately needs stimulus. But neither party wants to move forward before the election because they fear the other one would take credit for the benefits.
Not Getting the Message
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Some progressives are planning to vote for Joe Biden in order to send a very specific message. Unfortunately, the powers that be do not read minds.
Extremism Is OK As Long As It’s Christian
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Even Democrats seem to agree that asking judge Amy Coney Barrett about her religious beliefs would be going to far, even though some of those beliefs are pretty strange.
A New Shithole Country
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If nothing else, the political and economic collapse of the United States means it no longer has much stomach for lecturing other countries.
I Hate You Leftists, Please Don’t Leave Us
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The centrists and moderates who control the mainstream Democratic Party repeatedly tell progressive voters that they are not needed or wanted. But when progressives refuse to vote Democratic, they are vote-shamed.
The Bizarro World of the Overmasked
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Everyone focuses on the Republican areas where the locals refuse to wear a mask in order to make a political statement of some kind. But there are other areas, dominated by liberal Democrats, where a different kind of insanity prevails.
So Trump Really Is a Great Businessman
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The New York Times has obtained years of Donald Trump’s tax returns. As suspected, the president has avoided paying taxes to a dramatic extent, declared many millions of dollars in losses and appears to have created a fortune based on BS. In other words, he is a great businessman.
Neither Emperor Is Wearing Clothes
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Both parties are so personally loyal to the current presidential nominees that they will support them no matter what they happen to do or say. In this case, both emperors have no clothes.
