Tag: Donald Trump
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Left wing laments the East Wing
Which was (once) attached to the White House. The Dan Quayle Reading Room here at Stately Blaska Manor holds a most wonderful coffee table book, The White House; an illustrated history.” Published in 2003 “in cooperation with the White House Historical Assn.” Many photos, fold-outs, cutaway schematics. Pictures of John-John peering out from under JFK’s…
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Donald Trump demeans Charlie Kirk
An angry man betrays a great man’s memorial service! The speech by Donald Trump tonight at the memorial for Charlie Kirk was about the worst thing we have ever heard. Angry, vindictive, paranoid, egotistical, discordant, and too gawddamned long, as always (43 minutes). But then, 5 minutes of his insincere rant would have been too…
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Resistance takes many forms
Many of them, counter-productive! Encountered an anti-Trump demonstration massing at James Madison Park on the shores of Lake Mendota, Saturday 04-19-25. Likely headed for Wisconsin’s beautiful state capitol a few blocks away. We kept driving. Good on the city’s daily newspaper for devoting not one pica of soybean-based ink to the rally, protest demonstrations being more…
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Trump/Musk’s chainsaw had no bite
Souls are being searched today! Wasn’t even close, was it! Brad Schimel, hero of American youth, lost 55.0% to 45.0%, to a liberal Dane County judge, Susan Crawford! Ten percentage points is a landslide on any tote board. This pig has no lipstick. Ben Wikler and Rachel Maddow are popping corks. Anyone still think more…
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Audit all of the University of Wisconsin
Except Greg Gard’s basketball team! The wine cellar at the Stately Manor was down to its last few bottles of screw-top plonk, necessitating a trip to HyVee supermarket for reinforcements. Right next door, a couple dozen (mostly) women of a certain age were chanting and waving signs at the Tesla charging station. Turns out these…
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is not the leadership America wants right now! If the Werkes has any consistent principles (and it might! It just might!) there are two: • Job One of government is to protect its citizens.• Our freedoms are best guaranteed by rule of law rather than rule by autocrat. Probably better ways of expressing it (and Hamilton…