The Local Crank
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Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan
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A Reading List to explain how we got into this mess Dreamland by Sam Quinones The Most Dangerous Branch by David A. Kaplan The Death of Expertise
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Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
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over 1 year ago
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Ken Paxton is the true heir to Trumpism (crass authoritarianism, shameless immorality, blatant corruption).
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Bloated syphilitic old fraud rants for 30 minutes. Nation yawns
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 12 hours ago
Whoopsie daisy. š¤£šš¤£š
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Really? Then what was it when they refused to air speeches by Biden, Obama & Clinton?
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about 14 hours ago
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This is all part & parcel of Trump's malignant narcissism. Deep within the dark recesses of his syphilis-riddled pea brain, he is convinced beyond any doubt that he is a universally-beloved figure & a public speaker to rival the greats of history. Lose an election? Impossible! It would break reality
about 14 hours ago
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Go outside and breathe deeply, prove them woke Canadians wrong
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about 19 hours ago
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Trump only hires the best people
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about 19 hours ago
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Democrats: We favor incremental change in order to improve the lives of a majority of the population. Republicans: We will hunt the poor for sport Trump Voters: Democrats are commies! Leftists: Both parties are the same
about 19 hours ago
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Noting again that it is incredibly easy for a president to legally appoint US Attorneys. There's no reason for Trump to keep insisting on interim appointments...unless he insists on picking incompetent buffoons who couldn't even make it through his prostrate senate.
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about 20 hours ago
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Man, who couldāve seen that coming?
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about 21 hours ago
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America is going to need a de-Nazification process when all this is over
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about 22 hours ago
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Mark Copelovitch
about 24 hours ago
Again, thereās just no comparison. The thing that wasnāt a total authoritarian failure was treated as a combo of Watergate & Waterloo, & the actual total authoritarian failure has been normalized & treated like just another run of the mill šŗšø military op. The double standard is impossible to ignore.
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Man, who would've thought continuing to prop up a raving lunatic might be stressful?
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Trumpās Primetime Speech Has Republicans āScared S***lessā
The prospect of an unpredictable Donald Trump making a live, primetime address to the nation on Thursday night has many Republicans rattled. The 80-year-old president has hyped the speech as the annou...
https://thedailysight.com/2026/07/16/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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He's gonna start a service-wide dick measuring contest next
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Given that the majority of the Democratic caucus voted with Massie it seems likely Jeffries put out his statement to provide cover for the ones who felt they couldnāt.
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Of all the issues Iām concerned about right now Iād have to say daylight savings time is at the bottom of the goddam list
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The most depressing thing about Trump 2.0 Electric Bugaloo is that it condemns us all. He was propelled back into the White House by a combination of ignorance, hate, self-righteousness & apathy. We The People failed ourselves.
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Apropos of nothing, but I once spoke to a Cherokee elder who told me his grandfather used to keep a $20 bill taped to his toilet so he could start every day by pissing on Andrew Jackson
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2 days ago
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Well, sure, but what if Peter Magyar wasn't right on 100% of the issues? I mean, what's his position on Gaza?
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2 days ago
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George Conway āļøšŗšø
3 days ago
@ejeancarroll.bsky.social
: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complainsā
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Fucking toddler
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3 days ago
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I can't even understand the political logic here. It's not going to pass; why not vote for it? Why make a big deal of announcing your opposition to something that's popular with the American people in general?
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Leftists: "I keep protesting and nothing ever changes!" Me: Did you vote? Leftists: "Hell no! Corporate Dems, AIPAC, Kamala is cop!"
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Ape's Exasperated Eye Roll
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The fascisti are getting desperate
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3 days ago
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Fucking toddler
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Trumpās few remaining brain cells not yet ravaged by syphilis managed to retain the knowledge that most people arenāt reflexively terrified of āsocialismā anymore, which is why he & his trained poodle party have shifted to ācommunismā. All the more hilarious given that none of the Democratic
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Fat crooked syphilitic old pedophile has some thoughts
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4 days ago
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So incoherence, combined with narcolepsy and flatulence.
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4 days ago
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I watched the Challenger explode. In high school
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4 days ago
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And Talarico is already wasting precious time & resources campaigning in places like fucking Marfa (pop 1,788). Did we learn nothing from Beto?
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It takes a whole lot of work to have less dignity than Ted Cruz but damned if Graham didnāt manage it
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Also all of yāall mocking him for being a closeted gay man are fucking assholes
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Lindsay Grahamās is the depressing story of a moderately decent politician who sold his conscience, his dignity & ultimately his soul to Trump
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If Platner hadnāt turned out to be a rapist (& a mercenary & Nazi fanboy) we couldāve seen if a leftist economic populist message can win a competitive race. But now we wonāt know b/c Leftists generally only run in D+25 districts so they can attack the real enemy: liberals
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Man, liberal white folks sure get angry if you call them out on how they talk about POCā¦
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Mark Joseph Stern
6 days ago
Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning Americaās projected population decline by a guy whoās massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to āNazi eugenics.ā The āpronatalistsā only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.
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What a fucking toddler
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7 days ago
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Amazing how this was somehow all Chuck Schumer's fault for not finding the magical candidate who wasn't Janet Mills who would've, I don't know, scared Platner off, or somehow defeated him when he was widely backed by progressive money
7 days ago
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Okay, starting to feel a little reassured about
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after her latest interview. Have to remember, it took AOC awhile to get her bearings, too
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7 days ago
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We really donāt deserve dogs
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7 days ago
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Until or unless we see actual evidence
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8 days ago
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Elizabeth
8 days ago
āPart of the problem is that Platner has never held down a real job since he stopped being a professional killer, and more of is is that he and too many of his core supporters cared a lot more about intraparty factional struggles than beating Collins and Trump.ā
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The Volatile Mermaid
8 days ago
āWhile I donāt agree with his politics and heās a filthy Dumocrat, I do agree that all women who accuse white men of sexual assault are lying whores.ā
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The DSA can never fail; it can only be failed
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Racism is so deeply ingrained in America that SCOTUS has now redefined the very word. Now the only racism is any action taken to correct racism.
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Graham Platner & Ryan Grim are why women choose the bear
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We're still not voting for you, Rahm
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Benn Jordan
9 days ago
Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.
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Republicans want you to die
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Malaclypse the Middle
9 days ago
Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:
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