Quotable
Year: 2018
Uncategorized
Krugman: “A de facto foreign agent sits in the Oval Office”
Paul Krugman: “This is not a column about whether Donald Trump is a quisling — a politician who serves the interests of foreign masters at his own country’s expense. Any reasonable doubts about that reality […]
World
Kim Jong Un Plays Trump Like a Fiddle
CNN: “Kim Jong Un couldn’t have scripted his Singapore sojourn any better himself. As he toured the streets on a night-time walkabout and posed for selfies with the Singaporean foreign minister, he was treated more […]
Election Fraud
Supreme Court Upholds Republican Effort to Purge Voters
Reuters: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived Ohio’s contentious policy of purging infrequent voters from registration rolls in a ruling powered by the five conservative justices and denounced by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor as […]
Wrecking Ball
It’s Official: America No Longer A World Leader
“GOP strategist Steve Schmidt railed against President Donald Trump‘s actions at the G7 summit, berating everything from his behavior to his appearance,” Mediaite reports. TRUMP disgraced the Presidency and the United States at the G-7 summit. […]
Russia
Trump Continues to Do Putin’s Bidding; Calls For Russia’s Reinstatement to G8
The Washington Post: “President Trump on Friday said Russia should be readmitted to the Group of Seven leading economies, breaking with other world leaders who have insisted that Moscow remain ostracized after its 2014 annexation […]
Democrats
Dems Put Forward Antidote and Alternatives to Trump
The New Yorker: “Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have been aggressively rolling back regulations of all kinds. The effects of some of these changes may not be directly felt by the voting public for […]
Incompetence
Don’t Know Much About History…
Zack Beauchamp: “The Trump administration is currently mired in two separate controversies involving insults to American allies. And both of them revolve around awkward historical references.” “The first controversy was ignited by a phone call […]
Shameful
Federal Commission on School Safety to Ignore Guns
“U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday appeared to back away from studying guns’ impact on school violence, telling a Senate panel that the topic was not a priority of the Federal Commission on School […]
History
June 5, 1968
History.com: “Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its […]