Trump Wins! How To Cope With Your Grief
Note: this post was written initially on 22 October and added to as new helpful hints came to me. And a reminder that we predicted a Trump victory on 1…
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There Is No Such Thing As The GOP — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
There is no such thing as the GOP, in the sense of an opposite party to Democrats. And there hasn't been since Ronald Reagan left office. Reagan himself never was…
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The Elites Are Coming For Us Online
Twitter, as all know, is outright- and shadow-banning influential members of the right. Facebook was caught doing the same with people and posts, though because Facebook is much larger and…
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On The Cubs’ & Trump’s Victories, Nate Silver’s Predictions & All That
https://twitter.com/ThaRightStuff/status/794045050753794048 Some crow is presumably being eaten by Nate Silver and the folks at FiveThirtyEight.com this fine morning. I recommend they bake it into a pie (which I learnt from…
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Media Lying With Polls? Is The Pope…Er…Ah, Never Mind
Today's post is at The Stream: Be Skeptical of the Polls: Is the media lying to boost Hillary? Note: I'm putting the Summary Against Modern Thought Sunday series on hiatus…
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We Interrupt Our Regular Post—To Bring You Trump Roasting Hillary At The Al Smith Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQzQbJ82jM Dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKFP6JS8qQ Notable for the difference in applause. Poor Timothy Cardinal Dolan looks as if he ate day-old oysters. And don't we feel sorry for the fellow to the…
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Nature: The Scientists Who Support Trump — I’m Quoted
Sara Reardon from Nature magazine, the most widely read science journal in the world, put the word out: what working scientist would admit publicly to supporting Trump? Why wouldn't any…
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Global Thermonuclear War: A Small Price To Pay To Stop Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zcv93nsi7M I'm interrupting my e-holiday to write about prospect of global thermonuclear war (which is on the same scale as alien invasion) with Russia. What is it that Russia has…