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April 2025 Blog Posts (4)

MSN should not categorize as "news" far-right hit-pieces, such as Bryan Chai's, unless MSN seeks a Goebbels vibe

MSN’s web portal [FN1] placed under “news” an item w/a stark header that a 1996 video of Rep Nancy Pelosi “Crushes Democrats’ Narrative on Tariffs.” [FN2] This was a popular bit for several voices of the far right. [FN3] Mr Chai also slams Sen Bernie Sanders 1/11

as seeking, in 2008, the same goals as trump’s tariffs today. [FN4] Mr Chai’s is a hit piece based on mischaracterizations. [FN5] A Fox header is accurate: “30 years ago, Nancy Pelosi demanded Congress confront Chinese…

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Added by Mark Small on April 5, 2025 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Removal of trump from office is not enough

Tomorrow, nation-wide, people will protest are against forces that have plunged this country into crisis of a type & force not seen since 1860. What I am about to write will bum some people out, but this all must be said. [FN1] It will not be enough to remove trump from office. 1/10

Elements of what is called the Republican Party (“GOP”) began to use the mechanism of electors in a cynical grab for control of the Oval Office in 2000. [FN2] The Framers never intended Art II of the…

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Added by Mark Small on April 4, 2025 at 10:16am — No Comments

"Special kind of stupid" should bestowed upon the source of "before & after" memes

At Western High School, [FN1] our math teacher [FN2] distinguished “dumb” (no brains) from “stupid” (brains present, but willfully shut off). Fast-forward: former classmates fr WHS re-post memes on FB. People read the memes & might accept them as true, even though 1/10

the memes’ content is, totally or mostly, false & stated in offensive terms, such as on 4/2/25. A meme was re-posted under the header “Net worth before running for President” & had profile head shots of…

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Added by Mark Small on April 3, 2025 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Greenland: too smart & won't lube up for a trump "deal"

trump wants Greenland and refused to rule out military force to take it. [FN1] Such an action by the USA would violate Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, ratified by the Senate in 1945. [FN2] The UN Charter is binding on our country as a treaty. [FN3] But wait! There’s more! 1/9

A basic premise in The Declaration of Independence is governments derive “their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” The people of Greenland are a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. [FN4] Denmark is…

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Added by Mark Small on April 2, 2025 at 3:05pm — No Comments

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