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SOCIALISM IS THE BEDROCK OF THE GOP PLATFORM
A perverted, deformed socialism in which the poor and middle class are soaked to provide cradle-to-grave subsidy for the rich. Robert Reich underscores the absurdity of our current socialistic set up.
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MAXINE WATERS MADE SOMETHING PERFECTLY CLEAR
to Secretary Mnuchin. She was not his cleaning lady showing up late on the day he was hosting a Trump Tower do for some fellow nouveau-riche grifters. Mnuchin’s shrill, whiny, sexist, racist, condescending palaver told us nearly all we could … Continue reading
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GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING
The Progressive Congressional Caucus cries foul on the gargantuan, ever-expanding military budget, refusing to go along with the hustle. “You can’t oppose endless wars and then vote to fund them,” Rep. Khanna tweeted. “Our strategic competitor China has not been … Continue reading
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PUT IT IN A SYLLOGISM
Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. The white nationalists are anti-Semitic. Stephen Miller–not the people who correctly identify him as a white nationalist– is anti-Semitic. Or at the very least, he’s supporting anti-Semitism, as is Trump.
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NEO-NAZI APOLOGIST DONALD TRUMP
Has taken of late to calling people anti-Semitic.
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NUCLEAR POWER COULD END HUMANITY
Nuclear winter forever. The New York Times just published another fact-free propaganda Op/Ed about this incredibly toxic, expensive technology. Excuse me, just how many thousands of years does nuclear waste remain deadly for, again?
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ROBERT BARNETT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
will be published by McFarland Books.
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JUST ENOUGH WARHOL
That’s how I felt about the Whitney’s exhibit, which I saw last Saturday night, a day before it closed. I mean, he lacks the human touch, no? And, of course, that’s the entire point of the hard-edged, billboard-graphic Warhol and Pop … Continue reading
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WE CANNOT TRUST THE “MAINSTREAM” MEDIA TO PROTECT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Eric Boehlert at Daily Kos decries the latest monumentally gullible betise by the “mainstream” “news” media, who lapped up like caramel custard (salted) the latest Barr/Trump exoneration NOT obstruction of justice fiasco. Our “mainstream” “news” varsity need to undergo truth … Continue reading
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IF THE DEMS WERE BETTER AT TYING TOGETHER A NARRATIVE
They would connect Trump’s utter confusion over which relative of his was born on which side of the Atlantic with his egregious r ignorance of and indifference to the quiddities of American democracy and American history.
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