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02/11/2025

Adam Lynch in Sunday's Chimp: "MAGA supporters and influencers may be hammering out optimism over 2025 elections, but President Donald Trump does not appear to be feeling it, reports the Washington Post. 'President Donald Trump has done little public campaigning in marquee races where Democrats are running heavily against him, keeping a distance from some Republican candidates and signaling some pessimism about next Tuesday’s elections,' said the Post."

MAGA supporters and influencers may be hammering out optimism over 2025 elections, but President Donald Trump does not appear to be feeling it, reports the Washington Post.

02/11/2025

Robert Reich in Sunday's Chimp: "In every sphere of our lives, he is ramping up the stress. How should we cope with this Trump chaos? Not by ignoring the news. This only plays into Trump’s playbook: He figures he can cause even more mayhem if we’re not paying attention. Not by pretending that none of this matters. It does matter. Denial only weakens our resolve. Certainly not by falling into despair or hopelessness. That’s what Trump and his ilk want more than anything. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Then he wins it all. We cope by becoming stronger."

Case in point: After meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States — the largest and second-largest economies in the world — will de-escalate the trade war.

02/11/2025

César Chelala in Sunday's Chimp: "In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage. During Argentina’s 'Dirty War' (1976-1983), thousands of opponents to the military ruling the country were killed or 'made to disappear,' a euphemism for those whose fate was unknown but who were almost certainly killed. That probably hundreds of human remains are still to be identified, shows the persisting echoes of a tragic period in Argentina’s history."

In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.

02/11/2025

The Daily Chimp for Sunday, 2 November 2025: links to all of today's front page posts.

Adam Lynch | Dispirited Trump Knows Republicans Are ‘Going To Lose’ in 2025: Report MAGA supporters and influencers may be hammering out optimism over 2025 elections, but President Donald Trump does not appear to be feeling it, reports the Washington Post. “President Donald Trump has done litt...

01/11/2025

Adam Lynch in Saturday's Chimp: "Preeminent elections expert Rick Hasen assured Slate that Bondi’s observers 'are more bark than bite, likely intended to "trigger" Democrats during the lead-up to a critical vote.' However, this initial attempt to use federal officials to push unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud could lead to federal troops at polling places in the future."

On Tuesday, Slate writer Shirin Ali reports nearly half the country will head to the polls to cast ballots on a range of major questions and offices. However, “President Donald Trump just made a not-so-subtle power grab” to complicate that vote in some blue states.

01/11/2025

Robert Reich in Saturday's Chimp: "Trump cannot stop us. He cannot intimidate us. He cannot scare us. We will remain peaceful, non-violent, and civil. But we will not abide a dictator."

According to memos reported in recent days, Trump and his military top brass have ordered the National Guard in every state to develop a “quick reaction force” of troops trained to deal with civil disturbances and riots that can be ready to deploy with just hours’ notice, in order to respond t...

01/11/2025

Pierre Tristam in Saturday's Chimp: "It’s not just that Trump is deciding to deny 41 million people their food stamps while continuing to shell out billions for his paramilitary goons in ICE, for his lawless war in the Caribbean, and for his own junkets abroad and on his golf courses at home. But as with Social Security and Medicare which operate on separate, self-funded mechanisms, food stamps can still be issued. They have billions in emergency funds for situations just like this. Trump, illegally–imagine that–chooses not to release them, claiming technical difficulties."

Here are a few things you might want to know about food stamps: 42 million Americans receive them. 2.9 million of them are your Florida neighbors. In Flagler County, 10 percent of the population, about 13,000 people, is on food stamps.

01/11/2025

Laura Flanders in Saturday's Chimp: "The White House thumps on about stopping narcotics flow, but we’ve seen no interceptions, no arrests, no narcotics cargo—only executions."

A deadly force, intensifying as it goes, claiming lives and destabilizing nations. Hurricane Melissa’s assault on the Caribbean was devastating. So is President Donald Trump’s extrajudicial bombing campaign.

01/11/2025

Thom Hartmann in Saturday's Chimp: "Will the 2028 election even happen, or are we watching the slow-motion rehearsal for its cancellation? Every signal from Trump’s orbit points to a deliberate strategy to turn fear, chaos, and manufactured crisis into political weapons. History tells us how these stories end. From John Adams jailing his critics under the Alien and Sedition Acts to Nixon’s troops gunning down students at Kent State to crackdowns by Orbán and Putin, authoritarians have always wrapped repression in the language of patriotism."

Will the 2028 election even happen, or are we watching the slow-motion rehearsal for its cancellation? Every signal from Trump’s orbit points to a deliberate strategy to turn fear, chaos, and manufactured crisis into political weapons.

01/11/2025

Dean Baker in Saturday's Chimp: "Apparently, we are supposed to be relieved that people seeking favors from Trump are paying for the ballroom rather than taxpayer dollars. As David Dayen pointed out in a piece in The American Prospect, these contributions are likely to prove very costly to the American people."

Trump and his Republican sycophants have been busy telling us that we shouldn’t be bothered by Trump’s demolition of the East Wing and his plans for a now $350 million ballroom. (The price tag keeps rising, it had been $200 million.)

01/11/2025

The Daily Chimp for Saturday, 1 November 2025: links to all of today's front page posts.

Adam Lynch | ‘More Bark Than Bite’: Expert Reveals How To Dodge Trump DOJ’s ‘Election Observers’ On Tuesday, Slate writer Shirin Ali reports nearly half the country will head to the polls to cast ballots on a range of major questions and offices. However, “President Donald Trump just mad...

31/10/2025

Carl Gibson in Friday's Chimp: "Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is ignoring a request from one state official to give trick-or-treating families a break on Halloween."

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is ignoring a request from one state official to give trick-or-treating families a break on Halloween.

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