Tag: trump
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HOUSE OF CARDS
‘Is this a joke?’ Indignant ’til the end, even while being led away in handcuffs. Ex-Prime Minister arrested. Sat in a jail cell next to an indicted ex-President. A pair of jokers. Guilty of lies so obvious only the blinkered can’t see them. Like a House of Cards, the weight of so much corruption and…
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TIME LOOP
Tennessee, 1865: Mary-Louise folded the newspaper in half and laid it down and looked at her husband. ‘We should at least give President Johnson a chance. He’s sayin’ he wants to bring the country together. You don’t think that’s a good idea?’ Tennessee, 2020: Roddy turned off the television and looked at his wife. ‘You…
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SURMISE
Surmise: noun, to suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.”he surmised that something must be wrong.” See also: guess, conjecture, suspect. I surmise that there is intelligent life form other than ourselves somewhere out there in the universe. I surmise that there is a God, or some God or all the…
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REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME
I’m breaking my own rule for once and writing something overtly political: an opinion piece, and it’s just my opinion, so feel free to disagree. Regardless of the eventual outcome of the US Presidential election, more Americans have voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016. Let that sink in. Half of…
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INSATIABLE
He couldn’t control it. He needed it. He wanted it. His desire was insatiable. He could not live without it. It was what he needed more than sex. More than money. More than power. He had to have it. In the middle of the night. At dawn. At dinner. At work. On the golf course.…