Nicole Wallace wins the Marie Antoinette–George H.W.Bush award for utter cluelessness.
Of course you have no idea what voters think about anymore, Nicole, because most voters in this country are, unlike you, living paycheck-to-paycheck. And that inconvenient little fact seems to have entirely eluded you.
American taxpayers want more for their filings than gargantuan socialist subsidies to Wall Street, to overpaid media flacks like you–let alone to the oligarchs–and to the military.
Reagan drastically cut taxes on the rich and cut all public spending except for military, which he goosed.
And where did that leave the arts?
Lynn Garafola tells us in Dance For a City:
NYC “was in the throes of major changes.. . . huge, postmodern boxes attesting to the triumph of Reaganomics and the globalization of capital. Real estate was booming, and up and down Broadway luxury housing for singles and high-priced health clubs were swallaong up dance studios. Audiences fell off and so did traditional gift-giving, as foundations poured money once earmarked for the arts into education and health, replacing government cutbacks. Public funding for the arts plummeted, and increasingly went to programs and institutions uncontaminated by the label of ‘high art.’”
That’s when Steve Willis and I introduce Love as Disorder, Feb. 25.
I’ll be moderating a discussion with Lydia Abarca, Debra Austin, Virginia Johnson, and Aesha Ashe at FIT on February 27–7:00 p.m.
Dr. Justin Frank tells Chauncy de Vega at Salon:
“Addiction is an anti-life phenomenon. It is an addiction to death. Addiction is a wish to become completely still, at peace, zoned out, stoned. This process of addiction as a death cult is taking place writ large at Trump’s rallies and through his followers.”
It’s clear that Trump’s incessant parade of grievances derive from knowing that he’s always been a loser:
“Trump’s parents couldn’t stand him. He didn’t have any friends. He was always being punished in school. I mean, he was an obnoxious person and he still is.”
All that money will come at the price of a winning platform and ticket: as Bloomberg insists that the party serve his photo-shopped campaign persona and his almost-entirely regressive, autocratic platform and personality.
Trump’s a clinical paranoid.
Everyone around him is out to get him, so he’s bringing back all the old, familiar incompetents to pilot his re-illegitimate-election campaign.
Now that the GOP has been completely vectored in to Trump’s assumption of dictatorial powers, it’s going full double-think with Orwellian projection.
Thus Kevin McCarthy’s proclamation of traitorous projection that firing Vindman for the crime of obeying a legal subpoena and telling the truth about a Republican president was needed to prevent America from becoming a banana republic.
Have you noticed that Ivanka wears even more make-up than the Donald?
