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  08/30/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve tried finding an entry to tack this latest onto but can’t find anything recent that is appropriate: the showdown in Portland between protesters and (Continue Reading)

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Living on stereotypes

  08/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Republicans and conservatives (same thing these days) live on stereotypes. Stereotypes are the bedrock of the way they think, especially about people. Here is an (Continue Reading)

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One Trumper got it right

  08/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An administration official said that voting rights are a liberal left priority. He is right. The right has always gone along with efforts to keep (Continue Reading)

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To S & D

  08/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So long……. For the second to the last quarter of my life (I hope) I have been trying to get to just what conservatism is. (Continue Reading)

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Baa Baa White Sheep

  07/17/2020       Pat Barrett      4 Comments

Now who’s the sheep, doing whatever Trump says, including ditching your mask during a pandemic? Hilarious. That’s how to describe the real sheep after they (Continue Reading)

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As he unravels, so do his supporters…

  07/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Not long after Trump appeared on the campaign trail and certainly after he took office, I pushed the idea that Trump has a severe personality (Continue Reading)

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A very partial scandal list

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Rachel Maddow made a short list of Trump scandals to show how quickly we forget. One just nudges the last one out until we have (Continue Reading)

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The Perfect Storm aka cluster f***

  07/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

By the end of this summer, just during the party conventions and the election, we will see: continuing rise in virus cases, high unemployment, evictions, (Continue Reading)

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The Tale of Little Katie Miller

  07/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The excerpt Maddow published on the show quoted Miller as telling Soboroff: “My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think (Continue Reading)

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A few Trump goals met

  07/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A U.S. border sealed tight? Check. Canada no longer lets Americans cross over into their country. The Canadians are not worried we’ll rape their women (Continue Reading)

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Why did the DNC cede aggression against Trump to Republicans?

  06/28/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently we have seen a spate of highly effective and even vicious ads against Trump and Trumpers on the part of….. wait for it ……. (Continue Reading)

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Could COVID19 Do Trump In?

  05/20/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

COVID19, the Corona Virus, has seeped into our consciousness now in a big way. The virus has the potential of generating a pandemic in this (Continue Reading)

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Accountability and Reconciliation

  04/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Bishop Desmond Tutu led his country into an era he called Truth and Reconciliation. South Africa had been as bad as the American South; worse, (Continue Reading)

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States with no lockdown as of April 4

  04/04/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Four states, all Republican governors. Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Iowa really surprises me.

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Insults

  04/04/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Conservatives complain that liberals insult them, calling them uneducated, rubes, fly-over country residents, red-necks and say they vote against their own interests. This is supposed (Continue Reading)

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Vindication

  03/09/2020       Pat Barrett      8 Comments

This morning on Morning Joe I heard two statements vindicating what I’ve been saying for several years. Trump is seeing his prime device for dealing (Continue Reading)

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Why no Black love for Bernie?

  03/06/2020       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

It’ simple. Bernie wants to change the society Blacks have been trying to get into. March 6, 2020 Addendum on watching Rachel interview Bernie Sanders: (Continue Reading)

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Chilling memories prompted by Trump

  02/19/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sharp comparison given in article by George Packer on William Holbrooke quoting a woman who lived through the Balkan wars and was watching a Trump (Continue Reading)

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“They all think that.”

  02/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A journalist from Abuja, Nigeria, reporting on Trump’s popularity in Nigeria, when asked about his racism, said that Nigerians recognize that all Americans really think (Continue Reading)

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Just in case you wondered what happened to this category……….

  11/04/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Trump’s misdeeds, atrocities, and lies are simply too many to keep up with and they’re all well catalogued on MSNBC and other outlets. The lies (Continue Reading)

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Final final to the grouplet

  12/06/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“People that say that facts are facts — they’re not really facts . . . there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts. And so Mr. Trump’s (Continue Reading)

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Satire just might do the trick

  10/17/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We have a new knock-knock or how many Xs does it take to….. type of joke: Just how stupid is a Trump supporter? I’m afraid (Continue Reading)

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Looking for Mr. Trump

  10/16/2016       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

How bright is the line between Trump and the rest of us rude, crude and lewd guys? We’ve heard numerous men step out to say (Continue Reading)

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