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Review: “The Apprentice” 2024
Film Review: The Apprentice When “The Apprentice” 2024, from director Ali Abbasi, opens with film of Richard Nixon resigning the presidency, it is clear that the theme of the film will be how power corrupts. The title is not to be confused with the television show of the same name. In the film, released this…
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Reason # 100: Donald Trump is Unfit for President and Represents a Clear and Present Danger to our Democracy
Reason # 100: Donald Trump is unfit for president and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy. Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? By a few months ago, it had become apparent that our legal institutions had failed to bring Donald Trump…
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Reason # 99: Lack of Majority Nightmare
Reason 99: Lack of Majority Nightmare: Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? In the past 98 reasons, I have tried very hard to convince you to protect our democracy, our children, our elderly and our national pride and decency by not voting for Donald…
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Reason # 98: Et cetera
Reason # 98; Et cetera: Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? As we get to the end of 100 reasons not to vote for Donald Trump, we need to cover some miscellaneous reasons. Emoluments: Let’s start with Donald Trump’s willful and flagrant violation of…
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Reason # 97: Global Warming
Reason # 97: Global Warming Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? Republicans persist in denying that mankind, specifically industrial activity is causing rapidly increasing global warming that threatens our future. There is no excuse for this willful ignorance. The concepts are not terribly complicated.…
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Reason # 96: COVID Redux
Reason # 96: COVID Redux Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? When I was a child our primary defense against new infectious disease was four blocks from my home. Stretching between Bay Street on Staten Island and the Narrows, entering New York Harbor, the…
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Reason # 95: Assault Weapons
Reason #95: Assault weapons Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? Have you ever seen what a bullet from a military grade weapon will do to the human body? I am sorry to say that I have. Although I never practiced medicine in a foreign…
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Reason # 94: Women’s Health
Reason # 94: Women’s HealthWhy do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?Two days ago, I related how Donald Trump and his altar boy J.D. Vance had blithely told the American public how Trump had “saved” the Affordable Care Act, a great example of “the big lie”.…
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Reason # 93 Tariff Lies
Reason # 93: Tariff Lies Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? Donald Trump has not just been lying about his tax reduction plans, he is also telling enormous whoppers about tariffs. He is pretty safe here, since few of us clearly understand what a…
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Reason # 92: Tax Promises
Reason # 92: Tax Promises Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? Despite existential changes in the GOP, the core essentials remain the same – at least theoretically. First, fiscal conservancy – the budget must balance – is the keystone. This carries important implications. Since…
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Reason # 91: Medical Care
Reason # 91: Medical Care Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? Medical care in the Unites States is very advanced but it is also very complicated to access and very, very expensive. As a consequence, access to affordable medical insurance may not just represent…
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Reason # 90: Nightmare Scenario
Reason # 90: Nightmare scenario Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? As we finished yesterday, I promised that we would change tack and start looking forward into the abyss yawning before us, in the tragic event that Donald Trump is elected President of the…
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Sign Up
Sign Up!We recently returned from a long drive around the US and Canada, passing through the states of CA NV AZ UT CO NB IA IL IN OH PA NY Quebec, VT NY NJ DE MA DC VA TN AR OK TX NM AZ CA. 7700 miles in 32 days. We polled the election by…
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Reason # 89: Cowardly Lions
Reason # 89: Cowardly Lions Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? During Donald Trump’s tenure in office, he was investigated by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That must have been scary; now the rough and tough G-men were on…
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Reason # 88: Second Impeachment
Reason # 88: Second Impeachment Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? On January 13, 2021, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for the second time on a charge of incitement for insurrection, based upon the glaringly obvious video and other evidence showing how he…
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Reason # 87: First Impeachment
Reason # 87: First Impeachment Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? It says much for the awful character and manifold crimes of Donald John Trump, that we have posted 86 reasons not to vote for him and haven’t even mentioned impeachment yet! The U.S.…
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Reason # 86: Conspiracy to Overthrow a Democratic Election
Reason # 86: Conspiracy to overthrow a democratic election. Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? In the last three posts we have seen three outlandishly bungled criminal conspiracies prosecuted. Each was so badly plotted that prosecutors were able to quickly draw up many felony…
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Reason # 85: National Security
Reason # 85: National Security Why do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House? One of the most important and serious obligations of the POTUS is to receive daily intelligence briefings from the U.S. military, diplomatic corps and intelligence services and to maintain the security of secret…
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Reason # 84: Business Fraud
Reason # 84: Business FraudWhy do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?The May 31 guilty felony verdicts on 34 counts of falsified business records was not Donald Trump’s only day in court in New York City this year. At issue was the unsurprising fact that Trump…
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Reason # 83: Donald Trump Felon
Reason # 83: Donald Trump – FelonWhy do we need to defeat Donald Trump and ensure that a Democrat occupies the White House?Republicans have repeatedly, over many years, supported policies that prevent persons convicted of committing felonies i.e. felons, from being allowed to vote.https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/1130622918/felon-voting-state-laws-disenfranchisement-rates#:~:text=Why%20can’t%20felons%20vote?%20An%20estimated%202%%20of%20the%20U.S..That all changed in an instant on May 31, 2024, when a…