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The Borowitz Report – Putin Says He Has No Intention of Reinstating Trump<\/a> MSNBC – The GOP’s base is preparing for a holy war \u2014 and Democrats need to pay attention<\/a> The New Yorker – How Nasty Was Nero, Really?<\/a> Food for Thought: My mechanic and I (I say “my mechanic,” but it’s actually a team) are in consensus that a new battery was needed, so I am calling and emailing around to find one that can be delivered. I’m ot committed as yet, but it’s still a relief to feel that I know what I need to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3708,3712,3946,3711,3734,3751,3721,4268,3706],"class_list":["post-44000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-lies","tag-insurrection","tag-satire","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)\u2014Calling recent speculation \u201cabsurd,\u201d Vladimir Putin said that he has \u201cno intention whatsoever\u201d of reinstating Donald J. Trump as President of the United States.
\nSpeaking to reporters, the Russian President bristled at the suggestion that he would reinstall Trump in the White House \u201cthis August or any other month, for that matter.\u201d
\nClick through for details<\/a>. I certainly hope this is straight news!<\/p>\n
\nYes, another opinion piece – one which it’s hard to disagree with if one is paying attention and is honest. Quote:
\nThe sentiments that these Republicans share differ at times in the particulars \u2014 not all believe, for example, that the Democratic Party is a front for blood-drinking, Satanic pedophilia, but many do…. If one believes a priori that one\u2019s opponents are thieves, would-be totalitarians, drinkers of children\u2019s blood, wresting back power becomes in and of itself a moral imperative, regardless of the means.
\nClick through for the full piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFake news is not news. It’s been around forever. I’ve been defending Nero for a while now – along with Marie Antoinette, Richard III, and Hillary Clinton. Not one of them was guilty of the arson, murder, incest, or miscellaneous crimes he or she was accused of. Can we hope that Hillary’s reputation will fare any better than that of the other three? Here’s a quote:
\nOpper told me, \u201cThey had a term for it\u2014vituperatio<\/em>, or \u2018vituperation,\u2019 which meant that you could say anything about your opponent. You can really invent all manner of things just to malign that character. And that is exactly the kind of language and stereotypes we find in the source accounts.\u201d
\nClick through for details<\/a>. Why is it relevant now? Well, look what Qpublicans are saying about us.<\/p>\n
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