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The Day After
So, we didn’t just lose the presidency, we lost the senate too. And chances are we will lose the house as well! 😟 Go project 2025. 😥 In his last term, he did what he promised (except for the wall): tax cuts for the wealthy (Reagan’s trickle-down economics) and overturning of Roe v. Wade (probably…
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The Election Night
With most polls indicating a very close presidential race -pretty much within their margins of error- I doubt anyone can confidently make a prediction about the outcome of the presidential election (please see How Reliable Are Election Polls for a more sinister view on the predictions made solely based on such polls in general). However,…
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Questions for Elon Musk
How much is a person’s dignity worth? or their pride and self-respect? in absolute terms, or relative to one’s current worth. What does it take for a well-educated, incredibly intelligent person to set aside all that intelligence and play dumb, pretending that they don’t understand or appreciate the absurdity of pretty much anything the former…
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Poetic Justice
On July 1st, the Supreme Court, or rather the conservative super-majority of the Supreme Court, handed down an opinion which arguably will go down as one of the most disgraceful rulings in the history of the Supreme Court. In the opinion written by the Chief Justice Roberts and joined by the rest of the conservative…
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A DEI Hire, or Someone I don’t Like?
Disclaimer: this is a fictional short story, with fictional characters. It examines potential consequences of the immunity the former president plans on extending to all police officers, after he was handed his own absolute immunity by the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas lives in a neighborhood where his neighbors are predominantly liberal. One of his next-door…
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Living a Contradiction
Warning: this post discusses some unpleasant and extremely sad thoughts; please return at a later time if you feel you do not currently have the emotional strength to handle such a discussion. Several of my friends have heard me talk about the following ad nauseam: “when a wolf eats a rabbit, the rabbit loses her…
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Be Careful, Mr President!
This is what Justice Gorsuch said during a recent interview with Fox News. To be precise, the following is a direct quote from the above NBC article, which includes the exact statements he made during the interview: Asked by Fox News’ Shannon Bream to respond to Biden’s proposal, Gorsuch told her, “You’re not going to…
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You won’t have to vote again
This is what the former president said in a recent speech at a Christian summit. In fact, the following are his exact words, hopefully with sufficient context to prevent drawing misleading or incorrect conclusions: Christians, get out and vote, just this time, you won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know…
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A Sad Day
Yesterday was a sad day for the United States. An innocent person attending former president’s rally in Pennsylvania was shot dead and another person was injured by the despicable and cowardice act of a shooter from a distance using an AR-15 rifle. At this point, the goal of the shooter seems to have been to…