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About a1skeptic

A disturbed citizen and skeptic. I should stop reading the newspaper. Or watching TV. I should turn off NPR and disconnect from the Internet. We’d all be better off.

President Trump’s New Low

After what he posted in the wake of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle by their very own son, our Cryto-pedohile piece of excrement of a President really has hit a new low. Rob Reiner and his … Continue reading

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Final Dismissal in Georgia

You might have missed it, but a sad event took place last week in the legal cases against Donald Trump. It was the final dismissal of the case in Georgia. The one where they had Trump on tape, saying, “All … Continue reading

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Why the Fuss about the Epstien Files?

As we wait for the release of the Epstein files, a question arises as to how and why these particular files became so important. We have to set some context for all of this. Epstein wasn’t the first and won’t … Continue reading

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Trump’s $230 Million Tort Claim

Since the Supreme Court liberated Trump from criminal liability in Trump v. United States, the Donald’s assault on legality has been non-stop and unrelenting. There are so many examples that we could examine, but I want to examine one particular … Continue reading

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Are the Moderate Democrats Wrong?

Well, the Senate voted last night to re-open the government after 41 days of getting nowhere. The seven Democrats who voted to re-open are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen (NV), … Continue reading

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Trump is literally Losing his Mind

So President Trump, and a few of his acolytes (I’m looking at you Karoline Leavitt) are literally losing their minds.  Let’s start with Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s official spokesperson. She said this last week before “No Kings” day: So that’s literally, … Continue reading

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These are our Young Repubicans

So, this story about the Young Republican National Federation is really quite astounding, and should reverberate throughout our news cycle for a while to come. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or just tuned out our relentlessly frustrating news … Continue reading

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Should Trump be Eligible for the Nobel?

Should President Trump be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to procure a lasting peace plan between Israel and Hamas? The question is no longer quite the joke that it would have been a few months … Continue reading

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For this Shutdown you can thank Newt Gingrich

For this latest shutdown you can thank Newt Gingrich. He was the guy who invented the “who will blink first” game of chicken back in 1995 in the pair of shutdowns against Bill Clinton. That’s when Gingrich wanted significant cuts … Continue reading

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What do these Terms Actually Mean?

On September 22, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Trump filed an executive order intended to designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Like so many of Trump’s other executive orders, this one is likely to be … Continue reading

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