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ARE WE GOING TO LAUGH ORRIN HATCH OUT OF TOWN?
According to the contorted illogic of the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Medicare must be cut to make Trump’s policies fiscally sound. Those policies, of course, couldn’t possibly be the tax cuts Fearless Leader promised the patrons of 21 the other … Continue reading
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WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICANS?
That’s the question that the Democrats should pose to Trump and the GOP. They clearly hate American poor, American students, American sick, American elderly, American African-Americans, American Asian-Americans, American Hispanic-Americans, American immigrants and immigrants in America, American Jews, American LGBT, … Continue reading
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REMEMBER THIS
Paranoid, nationalist ravings, like what comes out of Trump advisor Frank Gaffney, serve to mask the real sedition of Gaffney and the people around him with whom Trump has hunkered down. Just as Trump’s wailing about a rigged election let … Continue reading
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STICK TO ACTING, TOM
You’re no Tallulah. At his MOMA tribute, Hanks delivers inane happy talk about the state of the US after a week in which Trump has fulfilled every one of the worst fears generated by his hate-mongering campaign. Beware of those … Continue reading
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TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON HITLERISM
Joanathan Freedland writes in The Guardian that “The US Will No Longer Feel Like a Haven for Jews Under Trump.”
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TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN PROMISES WERE BULLSHIT
Yes, his government website now supports Paul Ryan’s bill to end Medicare. Medicaid, too, will be shredded. Read Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young at the Huffington Post. We’re seeing the Trump monster perpetuate the hate plank of his campaign platform, … Continue reading
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ALL IN THE FAMILY
Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, writes Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo, “has zero knowledge or experience with anything to do with national security or foreign policy.” So who, of course, is making our NATIONAL SECURITY hires??? You guessed it. Has there been … Continue reading
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THE TRUMP FAMILY SEES AMERICA AS ITS OWN EMERGING MARKET
Or what I should really say–sees the White House that way. One of the sleaziest, most opportunistic first families ever–now Ivanka’s company is selling copies of her 60 Minutes bracelet.
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DID TRUMP REALLY WIN?
As in 2004, there are alarming disparities between exit polls and official count. Steven Rosenfeld at Alternet surveys a stinking result.
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GIULIANI THINKS AMERICANS ARE GOONS AND THUGS
His remarks demonstrate the level of contempt that Trump and the monsters around him entertain for the U.S. population, especially when we dare rise up and challenge their pitched battle against democracy. Of course it’s all projection–I mean, who are … Continue reading
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