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Nixon and Trump – There is a Difference

May 22, 2017May 21, 2017 B. John 802 Views 0 Comments Trump, Clinton, Watergate, Corruption, Russiagate, Nixon, Scandal

It’s impossible to not look at history as the Trump Administration seems to be crumbling under the weight of scandal after scandal. The ties to Russia appear to be growing and becoming more irrefutable. The President and his aids are certainly acting much like people in the Nixon White House leading up to the resignation. The Comey firing is akin to Nixon’s Saturday night massacre. It certainly looks like an attempt to cover it up us underway, and the idea of White House tapes of conversations have been thrown around. But there are differences between the Nixon and Trump Administrations, and that’s what I hope to analyze here.

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How Donald Trump Won-“I Don’t Care”

December 6, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 1577 Views 12 Comments Election, Christians, evangelicals, Trump, Pence, Bannon, House Speaker, Paul Ryan

This entry is in the series 2016 Elections

Let me be clear, I do care that Trump won, and I care about determining how this awful destructive force has been unleashed on our once great nation. And I think I have cracked the code. It’s because a lot of Trump supporters just said, “I don’t care.” Certainly people were motivated to vote for Trump for many reasons, but I believe it boils down to suspending their empathy to feed their fear.

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N.C. Governor Pat McCrory – Douchebag of the Day

October 17, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 1598 Views 1 Comment Pat McCrory, republicans, HB2, Hurricane Matthew

This entry is in the series Daily Douche-Bag

A couple of weeks ago, as Hurricane Matthew was churning it’s way up the east coast of Georgie and South Carolina, bearing down on North Carolina, where it ultimately did the most damage, McSquinty was doing what he does best, and whining at a party of bigots.

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Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh – Douchebags of the Day

August 24, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 2955 Views 5 Comments Lawrence S. Mayer, Paul R. McHugh, Mark Regnerus, The New Atlantis, Johns Hopkins, Anti-Equality

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It’s not a tie; they worked together to create some bullshit “research” to say that LGBT people aren’t really LGB or T. Ryan Anderson, the principal homocon at the right-wing Heritage Foundation is all atwitter about a study, “Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences,” published in the “New Atlantis Journal.” It is just another of those studies, like the Regnerus study of a few years ago, where anti-equality groups bought and paid for a particular result.

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N.C. Senator Phil Burger – Douche Bag of the Day

August 23, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 2334 Views 3 Comments General Assembly, republicans, NCGA, North Carolina, Phil Burger, UNC

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North Carolina Senate Majority Leader Phil Burger has his knickers in a bunch because he claims Democratic faculty members at the University of North Carolina out-number Republicans by 12:1. He claims it is because of discriminatory hiring practices. People in the real world know better, so Burger has earned our Douche Bag of The Day Award.

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Douche of the Day – Trump Supporters

August 14, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 1002 Views 0 Comments Donald Trump, Humayun Khan, Hate Speech

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I’m sure a lot of people are not going to like this, but it needs to be said. No amount of twisted justifications and logical gymnastics can justify supporting Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States. I’d like to say the man is just a joke, but there is nothing laughable about his disposition, nor the way he has managed his life and run his businesses.

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Why Increase the Minimum Wage?

August 8, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 855 Views 0 Comments Minimum Wage, School Supplies

School starts in Pinellas County this weekend where the nieces go to school. This was the shortened tax-free weekend, so continuing a long-standing tradition, me and Lay took the girls shopping for their school supplies. We’re not rich, but compared to many others, we’re certainly comfortable. However, on the way home we got into a discussion, when Lay asked, “How do people making at or near the minimum wage take care of kids?” I did some quick math in my head, and realized that a person making around $8.00/hour would have to work nearly four hours (half a work day), when you account for taxes, to pay for the school supplies for just one child.

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Cinemark and the Aurora Colorado Survivors

July 3, 2016 B. John 844 Views 3 Comments Legal Fees, Colorado, Aurora, Cinemark

There’s been a big brouhaha on Facebook about reports that Cinemark Theaters if seeking to recover nearly $700,000 dollars from the survivors and families of those injured or killed in the theater shooting there on July 12, 2012. Twelve people were killed, and over 70 wounded when James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the crowd during a midnight showing of the Dark Night Rises film in the Batman series.

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My Discussion of the 2nd Amendment

June 28, 2016October 29, 2022 B. John 5457 Views 1 Comment

This entry is in the series Guns

I’ve previously written about the debunking of the “Good Guy with a Gun” idea that ammosexuals are constantly advancing. In this article, I’d like to write about the other idea they lean on for their justification, the violent overthrow of the federal government. I hear this often accompanying the Facebook memes about gun control. There’s this idea that bubbles around with these folks that if they just have enough people with enough guns they can “take back our government.”

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Three Way Tie for Douche-bag of the Day

June 27, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 1955 Views 2 Comments Coward, LGBT, Bigot, Orlando Massacre, Hillsbobourgh County, Stacy White, David Garcia, County Commission, Pride Flag, Hostile Work Environment

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This one is interesting I know, but they are all three of the same situation…if it really is three. Let me explain. Last week, Hillsborough, FL, County Commissioner and conservative firebrand, Stacy White (who I will note claims to be a Methodist), supposedly got a report of an anonymous employee who found flying the Rainbow Flag in memory and honor of the victims in Orlando created a hostile work environment for her. White was quick to call the flag a, “divisive, politically-charged symbol.”

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How Much An LGBT Life is Worth to Marco Rubio

June 21, 2016March 10, 2018 B. John 1307 Views 8 Comments #Richard Burr, republicans, #Sellout, #Cheapskate, Gun Control, NRA, Marco Rubio

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We supposedly have a representative form of government, carrying out the will of the people. Nearly 90% of Americans are in favor of increased background checks and prohibiting terrorists from buying guns. But I guess 90% isn’t representative enough for Republicans. This being the result of votes on 4 gun control measures in the U.S. Senate last night.