Tagged: principles

Dignity Be Damned

An article in The Hill outlines the negotiations taking place between Donald Trump’s campaign team and Mitch McConnell’s representatives, seeking to “lay the groundwork” for McConnell to officially endorse Trump’s presidential bid for the third time — Dr. Frankenstein debating over whether to support the bucket of innervated nuts and bolts that escaped from his own lunatic laboratory. The article quotes various unnamed...

Snark vs. Thought

I just saw this headline on my MSN homepage: “Leader of NC protests has coronavirus.” My first reaction upon reading this phrasing: So what? My second reaction was to imagine what I would think if the headline were about me: “Anti-hysteria writer tests positive for coronavirus.”  My hypothetical response to that second, imaginary headline was the same: So what? In other words, what...

Compromised

Ted Cruz saw his wife and father publicly attacked and ridiculed by Donald Trump and his surrogates, and his own reputation and character smeared in the National Enquirer on Trump’s behalf, in the most repulsive case of “winning ugly” in the history of presidential politics. He watched the Tea Party constitutionalist movement he claimed to represent being thwarted and annihilated by Trump in...