To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Observercast

Barr’s Misconduct Should Not Shield Trump

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In the days since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled his office’s 34-count indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, arguments about the likelihood of conviction have erupted on every cable news program, as the former president spews fusillades of lies and threats. Most of this noise is pointless and hardly worth engaging. The only […]

Donald Trump Is Not Our Type, Believe Me

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The Trump rally promoted by CNN [but paraded as a “town hall”] included the inevitable references to the former president’s piggish remarks about women. Kaitlan Collins dug in on the famous Access Hollywood videotape in which the former president claimed that a rich celebrity could grab a woman by her privates and get away with […]

Trump’s Extremism On Abortion Cannot Be Hid

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Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald Trump’s attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has done in Florida – virtually ban all access to abortion – Trump has come close to doing to the entire country. Trump is just better at playing all […]

Government For The Rich, The Poor Be Damned

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Donald Trump loooooves farmers. We know this because he says so. “Farmers, I LOVE YOU!” he declared in December. And we’ve learned that whenever The Donald says something, it’s true – even when it’s not. These days, he’s loving farmers to death. Trump has ignored the obvious need to get monopolistic price-fixing bankers, […]

There Will Be No Big Infrastructure Plan

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BY FROMA HARROP Democrats running for president are vowing to bring high-speed internet to rural America. President Donald Trump campaigned on the same promise. It was to be part of his big infrastructure plan. But no, there will be no big infrastructure plan. Responding to the Democratic candidates’ reminder of a broken pledge, Trump’s former […]