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WHAT GRASSLEY IS REALLY SIGNALLING TO TRUMP
Don’t worry, we’ll take care of it, we’ll sandbag Mueller’s investigation every way we can–but you don’t blow it by taking the fateful step of actually firing him.
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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR RECOGNIZES WHAT TRUMP IS DOING
Newsweek’s Shane Croucher interviews Stephen B. Jacobs, who was sent from a Polish ghetto to Buchenwald at age five. He recognizes Trump for the “sick, very disturbed individual” he is, and understands the parallels between Triump’s America and Germany on … Continue reading
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THAT BLEARY, BLUBBERY, BLOATED FACE SPOUTING HATE
It’s like the head in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmilla, but it’s our President, brutalizing us on a daily basis. Trump doesn’t have a humanitarian bone in his body; he sees Syria as another attempt to vanquish Mueller, and to inflict … Continue reading
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SAVE THE MERCHANT’S HOUSE
Plans are afoot to build a new hotel right next to the nineteenth-century, immaculately preserved home on East 4th Street. Construction of the hotel tower will, in all probability, cause the old home to collapse. Attend this hearing and speak … Continue reading
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“SYNCOPATE YOUR NERVES”
In 1927, Noel Coward heard and heeded and referenced the tom-toms that Stravinsky was pounding as he composed his Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. In “Dance Little Lady,” Coward channels the seemingly time-immemorial urge to seek some kind of ecstatic … Continue reading
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THE FACT THAT ZUCKERBERG HAS BEEN LIONIZED
by society and the “mainstream” media show how sick both institutions are. Every day we discover more about the bunkered, law-exempt fiefdom he’s got going out there, and of course the whole Facebook social engineering experiment is just a warm … Continue reading
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EVEN WHEN TRUMP DEFAMES RED-STATE DEMOCRATS
they still won’t counter punch; they can only cringe. The Red-state Democrats have become some sort of atrophied limb. Absolutely pitiful: Trump trashes Senator Manchin and Manchin won’t even dare to mention Trump’s name in response.
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MULVANEY SPENDS LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR
Self-styled “fiscal hawk” Mick Mulvaney starves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the money it needs to help prevent Americans from being rendered helpless marks by the financial services industry. But he lards lots and lots of surplus cash on … Continue reading
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EXACTLY
Shifty old traitor Mitch McConnell boasts about mugging the Constitution and stealing a Supreme Court seat. WHY did you let him do it, President Obama? I can truly say that if I had been advising the President, McConnell would not … Continue reading
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A MAN AFTER TRUMP’S OWN HEART
Scott Pruitt is dementedly megalamaniacal, utterly without honesty or integrity, and highly dangerous to the future survival of the United States and of humanity itself. Isn’t it convenient, btw, that every time Pruitt tells God he wants to do something, … Continue reading
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