Tag Archives: electoral vote

Same Playbook

The 2024 presidential campaign is hardly in its infancy but it is already both terrorizing and telling. Donald Trump has been making what passes for promises from him (the worth of which I will explore below). Juxtapose that with recent history and it’s not pretty.

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Nerdy Observations And Their Results

The American Constitution is an amazing yet imperfect document. The men – and perhaps the exclusion of women was one of the problems – who drew it up were brilliant and had anything but an easy task before them. We reluctantly still teach that among other things it contained what was at that time deemed several best possible compromises. In my nerdy way I’d like to explore a few of those provisions today and the results of them over two centuries  later.

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Going Down With Trump

Despite the fact that to any knowledgeable political operative he is a terrible candidate Donald Trump appears to be destined to get the 2024 GOP presidential nod; at this early point anyway and barring his demised I don’t see that changing. Continue reading Going Down With Trump

Three State Solution

It may not have been the biggest story of last week but Trump’s gyrations in an attempt to tarnish democracy and steal the election sucked up much of political oxygen last week. Sometime after noon on January 20, 2021 Joe Biden will be the President of the United States and Kamala Harris will be the Vice President.  Getting there will give us plenty of conversation material.  Let’s explore the latest aspect of it.  Continue reading Three State Solution

Four Years Later

The following is a work of fiction but the events discussed are 100% fact.

Setting: August 10, 2020 a hospital room in America. Continue reading Four Years Later