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I'm a software technologist with a political bent. My views tend toward the contrarian and slightly curmudgeonly end of the spectrum.

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Month: September 2016

Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy (Wash Post)

I think this article from the Washington Post pretty much sums it up for me:

Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together. His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.

Author Ben SladePosted on September 7, 2016Categories politics

RSS Posts on Reddit I’ve liked (click here to view)

  • Joe Biden May Have Only Two Years to Get Things Done. Democrats must kill the filibuster and make the Senate great again.
  • The Lincoln Project co-founder says post-Trump he's going after Cruz
  • QAnon Supporter Asked Authorities If He Was Being ‘Duped’ After Expecting Pence Arrest at Insurrection: Testimony
  • Jen Psaki’s Debut: No Attacks, No Lectures, No Crowd Size Fixation
  • Trump Fails to Ascend as God Emperor, Leaving Diehard Fans Adrift
  • Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse
  • The Sheer Relief of a President Who Takes COVID Seriously
  • Poet Amanda Gorman reads 'The Hill We Climb'
  • Fox News’ Chris Wallace Says Biden’s Was The ‘Best Inaugural Address I Ever Heard’
  • Jen Psaki Is Praised for “Not Crazy” First Press Conference

RSS My All Time Favorite Reddit Posts (click here to view)

  • The President Deliberately Withheld Aid to Combat the Insurrection
  • The boss is really riding me today
  • Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself. Trump Is Not an Aberration.
  • A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath — America will have to contend with that fact.
  • All states prohibit 'militia extremists' and paramilitary activities. So why aren't they stopped?
  • I don’t mean to brag, but I just put a puzzle together in 1 day...
  • Pre- means before. Post- means after. To use both prefixes together,
  • A bullet train pulls into Yurakucho station, Tokyo, Japan
  • My mother was wondering why flowers were growing only in half the pot.
  • sue me

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