Eric the Blue
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Nerdy Minnesotan
Category: Politics
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On Sunday (Easter), our president announced: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP. Until I transcribed…
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I suppose that, for Kool-aid drinkers, the Trump administration suspending for 30 days sanctions on Iranian oil sales is another example of Our Dear Leader “playing chess, not checkers.” To me, it looks like desperation as the midterms loom and the price of crude rises. We might be a week away from offering Iran some…
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If you read around very much in the right-wing media world–in my case, a guilty pleasure that’s yielded a metric ton of entertainment value–you soon comprehend that a leading theme, maybe the gold-medal winner, relates to the supposed liberal bias of what they sometimes call “legacy media,” which means New York Times, BBC, Reuters, NPR,…
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Now and again I’ll hear someone say something like, “Oh, yeah, The Onion is funny as hell,” which, as compliments go, seems to me a little limp: a phrase such as “national treasure” would be more apt. They’re currently running a story beneath the headline “ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In…
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I tuned into the State of the Union Address last night, because I enjoy the absurd pageantry that precedes the actual speech, and, of course, once Trump starts talking anything can happen, and you might not want to miss it. Once he started talking, however, I was quickly bored, plus over on the Big-10 Network…
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Keeps happening, but I still feel startled to see a place I know well, including especially the people who work there, featured in national news spots. Here’s a segment from yesterday’s PBS News Hour on my place of employment, Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, Minnesota: I’m eager to associate myself with Ms. Fultz and…
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Since there’s hardly anything more common, at least from atop a bar stool, or key board connected to a social media site, than the opinion that politicians are universally corrupt, ignorant, and ineffective, I’m going to drop in here a clip of a US senator performing his job well. For context, the Trump administration has…
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About a week ago, Trump said that the federal government should “take over”–“federalize”–voting procedures in 15 states. He didn’t say which 15, but probably not South Carolina or Idaho, right? They get the right results. He did name three cities that he thinks are “crooked”: Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit. These are in the “swing” states…
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I’m on a blood thinner, because I have a tendency to form blood clots–DVTs (for deep vein thrombosis) in the professional jargon of the white coats, which can be dangerous when hiking around in your circulatory system. The only danger of the blood thinner that scientists have warned me about concerns the increased possibility of…
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Don’t know anything about Bad Bunny, but based on his enemies, I’m beginning to look forward to the halftime show. I remember that the Speaker of the House, when Bad Bunny was first selected, opined that Lee Greenwood would have been a better choice. Maybe Lee wasn’t available, like there was a conflict with a…
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