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Of the four counts against Trump……….

  08/02/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote (Continue Reading)

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Rebels……….really?

  07/12/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No one is going to protest a 50+ year high school reunion where to old and now replaced mascot was a Confederate soldier known as (Continue Reading)

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Our very own Golem

  06/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)

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At the Jailhouse Door

  06/13/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As Trump is finally facing accountability under Jack Smith, we will want to project Trump’s “coverage” in our nation’s history textbooks. He will be reviled (Continue Reading)

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A silly plot come true

  04/29/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A recent television series depicts a British Prime Minister who hires an international assassin to blow up a British ship so he can take credit (Continue Reading)

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Lost Cause Redux

  04/21/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Lost Cause is an affectionate term to refer to the “cause” of slavery. The Lost Cause was followed by The Fascist Terror State. The (Continue Reading)

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The Hearings

  06/10/2022       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Take aways: Videographer testified Proud Boys left the Ellipsis before Trump even arrived, clearly to reconnoiter the Capitol, depending on Trump to send the crowd (Continue Reading)

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Gohmert unleashed

  06/03/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Finally, we see the true face of the far right. Louie Gohmert tapped into his inner Jim Jordan on TV yesterday, 6-2-22, and spewed his (Continue Reading)

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One commentator’s take on our political situation

  05/13/2022       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC’s The Last Word began his show May 10th saying the world does not understand us, the U.S. Looking at the SCOTUS (Continue Reading)

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Speculation on leaked draft opinion re Roe

  05/13/2022       Pat Barrett      5 Comments

Pre-decision:The purpose of the release may have been to:elicit massive protests eliciting ‘adjustments’ in the opinion.force wavers, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, to firm up so as (Continue Reading)

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I find conservatism egregiously wrong

  05/08/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I find conservatism egregiously wrong from the start (unless you like living in a cave)………..and its reasoning exceptionally weak (no change unless it benefits me) (Continue Reading)

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All Snakes Have a Backbone

  04/25/2022       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

Our Arizona Representative, Ruben Gallego, thought through Mike Pence’s refusal to get into the car to whisk him away from danger and realize it was (Continue Reading)

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What is a statesman?

  04/22/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We have a contrast. When it became clear that Nixon had to go, it was Republicans, including, most famously, Barry Goldwater, who went to him (Continue Reading)

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Do you really doubt it………..?

  01/15/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When I saw the faces of the young people caught up in the police dragnet in Belarus, I saw the future of our children and (Continue Reading)

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Reason in, Reason out

  01/05/2022       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

Michael Steele, former RNC chair, said a friend asked him a good question concerning the Trump/Insurrection supporters: how do you reason someone out of a (Continue Reading)

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What I Am Most Proud Of

  12/10/2021       Pat Barrett      6 Comments

In his Atlantic article, “Are We Doomed?” George Packer has two lines that went to something I’ve been saying ever since the rise of Trump. (Continue Reading)

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The Fascists Among Us

  11/14/2021       Pat Barrett      6 Comments

Haven’t you met natural fascists? Don’t give me the salesman b.s. about “I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.” You know who they are, (Continue Reading)

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Oops!

  10/27/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Oops could be the name of a category. It is when a point or fact is evidenced as the product of another topic entirely. Here’s (Continue Reading)

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The Cicadas

  08/15/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We are not surprised when the cicadas emerge. Why are we when the Taliban emerge? What a shock! American troops start their precipitous withdrawal and (Continue Reading)

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My Wife, the Genius

  08/08/2021       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Somewhere in this blog there may be a mention of my wife’s uncanny ability to size up a room full of people and indicate if (Continue Reading)

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Two-tiered thinking

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Advanced Republicans (one step above Australopithecines) can speak on two tiers: one is to their base and the other comes from that one eye on (Continue Reading)

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Whence sprang Liz Cheney?

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Luke Skywalker sprang from the loins of Darth Vader; Liz Cheney sprang from the loins of Dr. Evil. How does one explain this?Cheney is a (Continue Reading)

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MSNBC DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE JULY 27, 2021

  07/27/2021       Pat Barrett      4 Comments

Nicolle Wallace, host, moderates as Matt Dowd and Eddie Glaude reflect on the testimony of Capitol Police Officer during the Jan. 6 Insurrection hearings. Nothing (Continue Reading)

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