On July 13th, 2024, just a few days before the Republication National Convention, at a campaign rally near Butler, Penn., a gunman allegedly shot at Donald Trump, then candidate for president of the United States.
In the ensuing moments, a rally attendee and the alleged shooter were killed.
One year later, so many questions remain.
So much of the actual incident makes little sense.
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Not a hoax.
Not an imposter.
Not an AI nightmare.
The president of the United States, the commander in chief, the leader of the free world, is hawking perfume.
Trump has launched his own fragrances for men and women, Victory 45-47, for “patriots who never back down.”
Yes, you, too, can emit the musky odor of days-old Depends.
Oh, don’t take my word for it.
Continue reading “Here It Is. The Most Pathetic Thing You Will Ever See in Your Entire Life*”
For the last several months, as background for a novel I am working on, I have been researching the French Revolution.
The question that fascinates to this day, historians and lay people alike, is just how it happened: How did the state justify sending so many thousands of people to their deaths?
King Louis and Marie Antoinette were seen as living symbols of despotic rule, and so they were beheaded. Some nobles and clergy also met their ends at the guillotine.
But hundreds and hundreds of average people, from soldiers to journalists to actors to farmers, also were swept up in the Terror and destroyed.
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There’s a lot to celebrate this week.
For starters, the country is still here. The United States is still a democratic republic.
There seemed to be some doubt that might continue when an angry mob invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, only the second time it has been breached in 200 years.
Then, it was the British; this time, our fellow Americans.
These white supremacists, incited by the president, tried to overturn a lawful election.
They were halted. We got lucky.
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NBC’s decision to grant Donald Trump airtime after he refused to debate Democratic rival Joe Biden is another example of how the peacock network has consistently betrayed America to enable an unfit narcissist.
Trump has such a stranglehold over the nation’s attention, it’s hard to remember that back in 2004, he was a marginal figure outside of New York. Then “Survivor” creator Mark Burnett tapped him to host “The Apprentice,” the reality series that presented Trump as a canny, successful businessman.
That image had nothing to do with Trump’s broken reality and his multiple bankruptcies.
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Mark Perigard 