Monthly Archives: July 2016

Is Trump Putin or Hitler?

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Sobering reading. The pieces of the puzzle are falling together. Trump is Putin. And that’s if we’re lucky. He might be Hitler. And if he is, the likelihood of stopping him after he takes the oath of office is small. … Continue reading →

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Trump Attacks the Mother of a Slain American Soldier

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

First, Donald Trump attacked John McCain, a Vietnam POW. Today, Trump attacked the mother of a slain soldier. A slain soldier. A mother. Think about that. And Trump didn’t even serve in the military himself when he was of the … Continue reading →

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Good Polling News for Clinton

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Did Clinton get a fifteen point bounce out of the Democratic Convention? The first poll, post-convention, suggests so: Clinton 46%; Trump 31%. Clinton Takes the Lead in First Post-DNC Poll Somewhere in Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton smiles a … Continue reading →

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Imagine Trump As Dangerous–Because He Is

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Let’s do a little imagining together. Imagine a man with an authoritarian, conspiratorial, and mercurial temperament who praises Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-un, and Vladimir Putin; tweets quotes from Mussolini and images from antisemitic message boards; invites the demagogic and un-American … Continue reading →

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Someday Donald Trump Will Be PRESIDENT?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

In 1995, citing it as offensive to “family values,” Walmart banned a t-shirt that shows Margaret from Dennis the Menace saying optimistically, “Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!” Fast-forward to 2016, and here’s a Walmart spokesperson: “Wow, it still pains … Continue reading →

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Would You Have Resisted Hitler? Are You Resisting Trump?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Freud’s id has landed. David Brooks nails it. If Trump still wins after this week, then obviously there’s something going on in the psyche of the majority of Americans that craves vengeance, authoritarianism, harshness, and Nietzschean indifference toward the weak. … Continue reading →

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Be Afraid. Ezra Klein Is.

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Ezra Klein is starting to panic: “I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid.” In a recent article, he rehearses numerous reasons Donald Trump’s nomination is now an enormous dilemma for the country as … Continue reading →

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Trump Is Hitler–Or Will Lead To Hitler

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Right now, lawyers do his bidding, then it will be generals. Trump is Hitler. Yes, that Hitler. Or rather, he is in danger of becoming that Hitler–or of bringing us to that Hitler. Take his use of lawyers. Has Trump ever … Continue reading →

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Is Trump-Pence Cult Behavior–or a Winning Ticket?

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Crackpots to the future. Trump picked for VP, not just a man who can’t say whether he thinks the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and that plants and animals have changed over time, or whether global warming is occurring, … Continue reading →

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Was It Right for Turkey’s Military to Have Tried to Remove Erdogan by Force?

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

I wouldn’t want to make an invidious comparison, but I think of how Hitler came into ever greater power (via democratic election and joining his party into an alliance with conservative parties), and then, when he became chancellor, how he … Continue reading →

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A Christian Critique of Trump: Norman Vincent Peale Meets Nietzsche, Then Nietzsche Meets Mike Pence

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

A genuinely troubling piece by Matthew Schmitz appears at the Catholic magazine First Things (August/September 2016) on Donald Trump’s “faith,” which, it turns out, is in the positive thinking philosophy of Norman Vincent Peale, someone Trump interacted with personally when he … Continue reading →

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Did Trump Rape a Thirteen Year Old in the 1990s?

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Donald Trump may have a Bill Cosby problem brewing. A recent court filing in New York alleges that Trump raped a thirteen year old in the 1990s. Alternet reviews the allegations contained in the filing, and judges them plausible. Money quote: … Continue reading →

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Trump’s VP Pick Mike Pence a Homophobe

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Trump’s likely VP pick is homophobe Mike Pence. Here he is hemming and hawing on whether it should be legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in Indiana. Lovely man.  

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With Pence, Trump Is About To Go Full Jesus

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

This is how Trump plans to win: evoke nostalgia for when 1950s white American Christians (Protestant and Catholic) roamed and ruled the Earth. It’s his non-retreat strategy. Call it Jurassic Park 5: Return of the McCarthy Era. In place of … Continue reading →

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Checkmate

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

I know it’s going to take time to sink in, but today’s news on the FBI not recommending Hillary Clinton’s prosecution is big. Really big. Benghazi and the emails are now off the table. The Fox News crowd took its … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Hillary and Nietzsche’s “Whatever doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger”

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

Nietzsche famously wrote, “Whatever doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” How does this apply to Hillary? Well, the Fox News crowd has tried to destroy Hillary for literally decades, but it has now reached a culminating and catastrophic failure today … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Antisemitic Hillary Tweet

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

71 years ago, the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, and, aghast in the knowledge of what had transpired in them, there seemed to be a fresh collective resolve globally to “never again” generate the sorts of conditions that might … Continue reading →

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Hillary, Iago, the FBI–and Wittgenstein

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

This is where it gets real. It’s now the FBI’s call, and the investigators will probably make it before the Republican convention starts on July 25th. Sometime over the next two weeks Hillary either reaches orbit on her way to … Continue reading →

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Trump Used Charity Money To Buy Himself A $12,000 Helmet

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Santi Tafarella

This is really, really bad behavior. The Washington Post has traced down an image of Trump posing with a $12,000 helmet that he purchased with money explicitly raised for charity: Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, … Continue reading →

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