MDePolo
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MDePolo
@mikedp.bsky.social
Unabashed liberal. Recovered lawyer. Politics. Books. Music. Wine.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I get the "politics" of it. What I don't get is the lack of humanity.
July 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
He had better keep his phone off mute. That call can come in at any time.
December 5, 2024 at 5:09 PM
That's because it doesn't have to be true; it just has to register. That's a feature, not a bug.
December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Headlines are all that matter to the greatest swath of American voters. To ask them to actually read past those headlines invokes the time-tested political adage "Once you're explaining, you're losing."
November 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Yes, but enough backlash to make a difference? A lot of it will be howling into the wind, and most of the nation either wants the extreme agenda or will become numb to it. This also happens to be how we got here in the first place.
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I don't know that the Senate has the fortitude to deny Trump anything; they certainly have little history of doing so.
November 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A sit-com "Simpson's" showrunner & writer Al Jean wrote and produced in the mid-'90s called "Teen Angel." It was canceled in its first year, but I recall it because the main character was, in part, named after my brother.
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM