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PELOSI WORKING TO ENSURE TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION
The Democratic establishment, by which I mean most egregiously at the moment Nancy Pelosi, is repeating exactly the same scenario they performed in 2015-2016: insult your base, insult Congress members attempting to lead the party into the future while at … Continue reading
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THIS MAN IS ABSOLUTELY VILE
Is Speaker Pelosi going to condemn Trump’s filthy, unspeakable attack today on The Squad, instead of continuing her own retro, stupid, hippie-punching attacks on them? She does not seem to understand the the world and the Democratic Party have changed. … Continue reading
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PELOSI SOUNDS LIKE NORMA DESMOND
On the day her projector broke. The reports of Pelosi’s palaver with AOC behind closed doors at the caucus meeting do not enhance our opinion of the Speaker’s current frame of mind and behavior.
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TRUMP BOASTS ABOUT THE WAY HE CAN PLEASURE DICTATORS
They pat his head; he rolls over; they smile.
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AS BALANCHINE SAID TO TALLCHIEF
“Dear, we don’t need a museum piece in this company.” Company/Congress. Speaker Pelosi seems to be losing it. She’s making one gaffe after another. It’s shocking after her triumphant recapture of the gavel. You don’t let “moderate” members of your … Continue reading
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DOESN’T DISNEY HAVE ENOUGH FOOTPRINT IN NYC AS IT IS?
Not surprised that Disney’s Bob Iger is one of the sociopathically greedy oligarchs name-checked by Bernie Sanders, who cites their opposition to his campaign alongside an indictment of their economic crimes against this country. I’ve been trying to find more … Continue reading
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BARR’S LATEST TASK: SHUT DOWN THE EPSTEIN CASE TO PROTECT TRUMP
Travis Gettys at Raw Story chronicles Trump’s sex exploits with underage girls. Completing Trump’s wholesale corruption of American justice and American democracy, Trump has obviously tasked the Attorney General with obstructing the case against Epstein to protect Trump’s own involvement. … Continue reading
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TRUMP CLAIMS HE WON’T BE ABLE TO KEEP HIS MIND ON GOLFING IF HE’S NOT PLACED ABOVE THE LAW
His latest bid for dictator status comes in yet another attempt to shut down the Democrats’ lawsuit over his violation of the emoluments clause. We know he never does any actual work–he’s never actually done an honest day’s work in … Continue reading
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PELOSI IS BEGINNING TO SOUND DIVORCED FROM REALITY
Her petty attacks on the progressive freshmen in her caucus sound bitter and are counter-factual. It’s as if she’s thrown down the gauntlet against the future of the Democratic Party.
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NYC’S DESPERATE RELIANCE ON PROPERTY TAXES
is one of the reasons that developers run the city, de Blasio has disabled the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and why Manhattan (and Brooklyn is becoming) is so grotesquely overbuilt. Cem S. Kayatekin at The Conversation outlines a way out of … Continue reading
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