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STATE OF THE TRUMP
Props to Paula Reid for standing firm in the face of: Trump’s ever-more frenetic hand and arm gestures, some now borrowed from Shirley Bassey. . . his scattershot attacks at every thing and everyone, in other words, his ever-widening paranoia. … Continue reading
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McCONNELL WIPES HIS HANDS OF AMERICA
Adjourns the Senate until April 20, as America reels trough one of the worst crises in our history. Enjoy playtime, Mitch.
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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AS BEN SASSE SEES IT
The smug, posturing little popinjay is outraged that unemployed Americans might be given adequate compensation. The 5000 billion windfall for our most irresponsible corporations doesn’t bother Sen. Sasse a bit. Nor does it bother his two accomplices, Sen. Scott, and … Continue reading
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OUR CEOs ARE SOCIOPATHIC AS A GENUS
and they’re stupid, ignorant and myopic in their obsession with short-term profit. This is what Reagan’s social engineering wrought: the return of the corporation as entity functioning in complete indifference to the public interest. Case in point: ex-Wells Fargo CEO … Continue reading
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SHOULD TRUMP BE CHARGED?
Seth Abramson tweets: “I’ll spend at least 15 minutes today wondering whether Trump ‘re-opening America’ at the moment it becomes the epicenter of a global pandemic the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century—explicitly sacrificing lives for the … Continue reading
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DON’T LET ZUCKERBERG NEAR THIS
Our oligarchic self-proclaimed saviors will utilize Trump and the administration’s failures to buttress their feudalistic takeover of democracy. If they want to donate needed supplies, that is a good thing. But we need to fix our democracy, not surrender it … Continue reading
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WHEN LACHLAN MURDOCH SAID HE WAS CLEANING UP FOX “NEWS”
He apparently meant doing no more than lining their cages with something other than the New York Post. Ben Smith at the New York Times tells us that the Murdochs knew how deadly coronavirus is and did everything to protect … Continue reading
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MERCHANT OF DEATH DONALD TRUMP
Trump is genocidal, let’s face it. In his maniacal pursuit of an illusory economic comeback, he is engineering this country’s downfall. We can only hope that out of the wreckage new paradigms will emerge.
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McCONNELL TRYING TO STAMPEDE THE SENATE
In the by now tried-and-true mode of right-wing hysteria, the Turtle is trying to coerce the Dems into falling on their swords and going along with his sham relief bill. McConnell’s pitching a fit should be ridiculed by the Dems … Continue reading
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THE STUPIDEST WHITE HOUSE OF ALL TIME
What do they think is going to happen to the economy when they send people back to work prematurely and those people come down en masse with coronavirus?
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