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Who wraps his greed-contorted message of hatred for Americans, his determination to do as much harm as possible to the American people, within an ersatz invocation of Christian values. It is time for the Democrats to unmask the pharisees.

It looks like the GOP is postponing its phaseout of Medicare until later next year. And of course  we need an all-hands-on-deck effort to stop them. But Medicaid is much more vulnerable, since not enough of the poor vote and … Continue reading →

Trump’s “victory” tour–paid for us by those who, unlike Trump, do pay taxes–is another sideshow of distraction, attempting to overshadow the election irregularities and the Stein recount. Why doesn’t he instead pay some attention to intelligence briefings?

At The Guardian, Rebecca Solnit describes the recount as a last-ditch effort to avert catastrophe. “We are in a national emergency as an alarmingly incompetent and utterly amoral gang prepares to destroy the climate, human rights, the foreign policy positions … Continue reading →

Now that Trump has appointed Tom Price to take Obamacare apart, is the crrent President still going to be holding Beloved Leader’s hand and explaining to him what the duties of the Presidency are?

If it really believed it won fair and square, it would be urging on the recount. Their coercive, bluffing, defensive language tells us something quite different.

Yesterday a friend and I talked about starting a messaging company–something that would, for example, help the Democrats finally talk clearly and confidently to the American people, would show them how to make a concerted and overarching attack on the … Continue reading →

Why does the “mainstream” “news” media continue to call him a populist?

Not having been there in two decades,  I just cannot accept what it has become — A friend back from nine months there tells me that the relatively clement weather spurs huge outdoor encampments of the homeless — People pay … Continue reading →

He is lacing the right-wing’s standard-issue blend of deflection and projection with his own pathological megalomania–claiming that his mega popular vote loss was due to voter fraud. An effective exercise in distraction as the recounts begin.