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TRUMP (AND THE GOP) DON’T WANT PEOPLE VOTING
That’s why their suing in Nevada, to prevent polling places from doing what they’re legally enjoined with doing: staying open until everyone who arrived before closing time gets a chance to vote. Be prepared for weeks of GOP election-contesting.
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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED
As you’re standing in line (and standing in line) at the polls, and presuming you have some interest in the art and interpersonals at New York City Ballet in the 1960s, turn to the current Fall 2016 Ballet Review and … Continue reading
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EVER-REMARKABLE HARRY BELAFONTE
At age eighty-nine, Harry Belafonte in The New York Times sums up the Trump dystopia in a uniquely imaginative way. And it’s interesting, in a debased American political scene in which art and aesthetics must never be mentioned lest it … Continue reading
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PREDICTABLE
The Trump non-assassination-attempt charade is another stunt lifted from the Fascist playbook and a preview of how he would end democracy in this country. Stage one provocative incident after other, then declare martial law because of the alleged threat to … Continue reading
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FOX IS LEMMING LAND
As I was mentioning earlier re: Martha Raddatz, there are a very small number of thoroughly predictable physical stances, facial expressions,and reportorial attitudes evinced by the journalist-simulators who populate our TV “news” programs. What’s striking is that on Fox there’s … Continue reading
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FASCIST SHILL TUCKER CARLSON
Carlson is not a complete idiot. He knows what Donald Trump is and what he represents. And yet this prevaricating fatuity of a news personality, dismisses Martin O’Malley’s tell-it-like-it-is characterization of Trump. “Fascist, that’s silly.” That tells you what Tucker … Continue reading
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THE FBI IS “TRUMPLANDIA”
Comey presides over a politicized cesspool, in which agents will go to any length to smear Hillary and boost Trump. Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian went to the horse’s mouth.
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COMMENDABLE
It was the GOP’s March 2016 success in completely trashing decades of judicial precedent over Supreme Court nominees that must have emboldened Comey’s increasingly insubordinate, autocratic, and brazen behavior, accelerating in audacity since July. Riley Roberts at Politico charts Comey’s … Continue reading
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THE REAL JAMES COMEY
His integrity turns out to be another long bill of good sold us by the “mainstream” media. Hiding in plain sight was an appalling record, detailed by Brett Arends at Market Watch. Comey’s collusion with Chaffetz to throw the election … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S BROWN SHIRTS
This is what Trump and equally vile people like Chaffetz would like this country to turn into: a tragic, grotesque travesty of a country founded on democratic principles. Trump’s endless incitement to violence, the vicious, infantile tantrums launched by him … Continue reading
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