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ANNOUNCING THE 2023 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR It’s 2023, and the Social Justice Kittens are back! It’s a dark time for the kittens, who find themselves speaking truth not only to the formless, all-powerful nightmare of white supremacy, but growing “white-adjacent” forces who foolishly lash out in ill-considered disagreement. No matter what mask it wears,…

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The Tax returns are out

https://digbysblog.net/2022/12/30/the-tax-returns-are-out/

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Sat, 31/12/2022 - 04:30

The whining and handwringing from the right over the release of Trump’s tax returns is making me crazy. Seriously? The man who refused to release his returns as every other presidents for the past half century hve done, had foreign business entanglements, refused to divest his companies and was clearly still involved in the businesses throughout his term is running for president again! He officially announced it! As Noah Bookbinder in the Atlantic writes: Getting Trump’s tax returns should not have been this hard. Every president elected since Richard Nixon—with the exception of Trump—has publicly disclosed his tax returns. Tax returns can tell the American people, and Congress, whether a president is following the law and behaving honestly. Crucially for Trump, who uniquely and inappropriately retained ownership of a massive international business while president, they can provide information about conflicts of interest that may have swayed his decision making. They’re out.

Who saw Dark Brandon coming?

https://digbysblog.net/2022/12/30/who-saw-dark-brandon-coming/

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Sat, 31/12/2022 - 05:30

Not me When the 2020 presidential campaign was lurching into gear three years ago, former Vice President Joe Biden had led in the polls for months. Still, everyone kind of assumed he was a placeholder, a former office-holder with high name recognition whose campaign would nevertheless go the way of his two previous presidential bids, meaning nowhere. He was dull as dishwater compared to many of the others vying for the nomination, and nobody had ever really considered him presidential timber. As the campaign took off, other candidates were winning in the early states even as Biden still led in national polls. Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg looked like the major contenders after Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, states where Biden did poorly. Then he pulled off a sweeping victory in South Carolina and shortly thereafter the race was effectively over. He went on to win the rest of the primaries handily. America was reeling during the traumatic first year of the pandemic and there was a sense that Democrats were happy to have the race settled so they could concentrate on taking down Donald Trump, which was considered Job One by every faction of the Democratic coalition.

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