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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 17, 2025, 05:25 PM Mar 17

Be Outraged with Me: The Trump List so Far

Mort Kondracke

Niccolo Machiavelli, that cynical (or maybe just politically realistic) counselor to a medieval Prince, advised that he inflict “injuries all at one time so that, being tasted less, they offend less.”

I doubt that Donald Trump, no reader, has studied Machiavelli, but he’s filled the first two months of his second term with one outrage after another, sometimes several a day, so that his subjects (us) can’t keep up with them.

I intend to keep up with them and conduct a regular Outrage Watch so I can “taste them” and, if you’re of a mind to, get offended with me.

So far, the worst of them by far are:

https://www.postalley.org/2025/03/17/be-outraged-with-me-the-trump-list-so-far/

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