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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

Agreed.

I was going to write about this but you beat me to it! I'll now have time for the afternoon nap. Thanks! Also Lucian Prescott IV did a terrific one as well. And even David French...

This story is too hot to go away. Americans are bored with immigration, tariffs, DOGE, anti-vaxx, bombing, slaughter in Gaza, drones destroying Ukraine, women denied healthcare, FEMA being kneecapped, NOAA and the NWS crippled, crashing planes....all getting old for the public that seems to watch all this as if in a Roman Coliseum.

Next up is the Ghislaine Maxwell story. Will she be found hanging like her boyfriend? Will she spill the beans out of spite (no pardon)?

FSM forbid that the headlines could be about progress in addressing the Climate Catastrophe, or better care for Veterans, or boosting research on cancer and kids diseases, or helping with the cost of college, or helping GenX find homes to get out of their parents basements, or housing the homeless, or finding pathways to legalize the immigrants that we NEED as workers....

Nope, national politics are now going to be salacious dribble. Nothing meaningful. Just juicy.

Pathetic.

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Mike Wicklein's avatar

This was "low hanging fruit". I debated writing anything, but I had to get it out of my head. Monica & Clinton became such a focus and this is so much bigger and broader. I guess I just love the fact that DJT wants this to go away so badly...and it's not going to. The sad fact is that none of the issues you listed are going away quickly...if we don't learn anything else from this time with Trump, it's that we need really serious people, doing the serious work of government, so we can sleep at night...not this sideshow.

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