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Game Theory: Stupid Watergate, Part 1

December 5, 2018 8 Comments

It is human nature to try to make sense of the crazy thing happening before your very eyes by looking at it through the lens of the most similar thing to which it compares, so holding Trump’s aberrant presidency up against that of Richard Nixon is a natural response. The ways in which those two men, their presidencies, and their respective scandals differ, however, are at least as effective at predicting Trump’s fate as are the ways in which they are similar — the most notable difference, of course, being that Nixon was a smart and savvy politician who committed a crime, while Trump is an arrogant fool and dimwitted criminal who accidentally stumbled into the presidency while executing what he thought would be his greatest con.

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Filed Under: Politics, Portfolio Tagged With: Adam Schiff, D.C., Devin Nunes, Nixon, Nunes Memo, Paul Ryan, Trump, Trump-Russia, Watergate

Trey Gowdy is the canary in the Trump-Russia coal mine

February 5, 2018 2 Comments

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Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Devin Nunes and the rest of Team Treason on Friday (2/2) released their much-hyped memo … and, as a service to those of you who haven’t had time to read it (it is, after all, a whopping three-and-a-half pages), I’ve gone ahead and worked up this summary:

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Carter Page, Devin Nunes, Nunes Memo, Paul Ryan, Trey Gowdy, Trump-Russia

The argument against universal healthcare is bullshit. Here’s why.

March 10, 2017 1 Comment

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Let’s be clear: The American Health Care Act — the legislative turd that Paul Ryan desperately wants you to believe is a thoughtful and compassionate fix for America’s healthcare system — is actually an all-out assault on the most vulnerable among us, and its primary purpose is the same as almost all legislation championed by the Republican party: To make rich people richer.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Congress, Healthcare, Paul Ryan

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