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One thing for sure, this is weird.

This is way beyond what could be explained by all the Russians lurking in shadows, in corners.

It can’t be Martians either, because all the fantasies about canals and lost cities have been proven false.

I hate to say it, but the signs suggest that this is inter-galactic election interference.  The US should…[Read more]

Donald Trump is reality TV rich, with Trump hotels and resorts.

You betcha Trump is rich in $ too.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and his son, the one with the beard I think, is an avatar of compassion caring deeply for Russian orphans.  OK, maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned apples.

Trump’s whole family, and his cabinet and his senior…[Read more]

I got an app to fix that!

Not only that, but I’m giving away the app for free!

Everyone is using it so if you don’t, you’ll just be missing person.

So download the app today!

Wouldn’t that be disruptive to supporters of all candidates?

This doesn’t make sense if there’re more than two candidates, the fixer and the loser.  But there are more than two candidates so it makes sense only if there’s a ridiculously impossible conspiracy between all the others, their campaigns, their supporters, against one.  Which is a far f…[Read more]

Google owns.

Facebook owns.

Microsoft and Apple own.

The five eyes own.

But I’m worried about Huawei, in case I might be surveilled.  That’s because I believe everything I last read, or heard, so don’t suffer from contradictions.

Polls are used to lead public opinion.  It hasn’t always been this way, but it sure is this way now.

You can no more trust the persons/corporations conducting the polls than the persons/corporations presenting the polls as definitive statements of political reality.  Unfortunately, its all bought.  Intended to produce a result.  Even more unf…[Read more]

Hopefully this’ll nab her a couple more appearances on Tucker.

For which purposes, let’s continue to pretend that Tucker isn’t actually Tucker.

mush

I don’t think what is “progressive” is defined by a “path”.  There may be many paths.

To take an obvious example, Bernie Sanders is widely praised for his consistency – and derided for it by those on the right – and this consistency is in advocating for the same “progressive” or “leftist” or “communist” or however labeled ideas over decades, up…[Read more]

I believe that that the US authorities in this prosecution have agreed with the Palace not to demand compliance.

Am I wrong?  If so, then any cooperation is gratis, and there’s no ground for complaint if no cooperation is forthcoming.

The Epstein murder is an especially interesting thing, considering the stratospheric lifestyle of already known…[Read more]

In a back corner of my mind I wish he hadn’t, but in truth it’s a long time since Neil Young ceased to be Canadian and embraced the USA.

Can’t really blame him, the USA made a creative heaven for the business he’s in.  One thing nobody can take away is the USA’s contribution to music.  As for his vote, it might cancel out Kanye West’s in a o…[Read more]

Well, there are always official records of words spoken, votes taken and so on.

“Centrists” don’t have much to cover their backs in that regard, because as “centrist bi-partisan moderates” their only purpose has ever been to supply the needed votes for the right wing oligarchs to win, time after time, whatever Rep/Dem provided the fig leaf on the…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

I was talking about conditions where racist demagoguery works, not about denying any conditions however widespread including exceptions that lead to individuals becoming outright explicit tiki-torch brandishing racists.

Trump is a white nationalist racist, recognized world over as leader of a white nationalist movement,…[Read more]

Racist demagoguery works, when it works, because the people it targets have been taught to be racists from their earliest years, from their immediate and surrounding culture – such that their racism is a normal condition and not considered ‘racism’, or to exist at all.   Given that these conditions exist, racist demagoguery can still only work o…[Read more]

Boris Johnson has yet to show that he could even approach the vulgar monstrousness of Donald Trump.

He could be at best an acolyte – almost by definition – and he’d be just another hungry mouth waiting on his master, salivating just as all the rest.

eta: with Bolsonaro Trump may well have met with an equal in monstrousness.  Beholden to the…[Read more]

This is the guy who tried to oust Obama by saying he was a Kenyan Muslim infiltrator, not really an American at all, and who was a core instigator in the incendiary racist “birther conspiracy”.  This is the guy who’s wife got on national TV and proclaimed that Trump was spot on in his accusations.  But she really doesn’t care.  Do you?

One place you can’t go for answers is the IMF.  The one and only purpose of the IMF is to stabilize the international capitalist system.

That’s way too narrow a purview.  In the world today are other, and larger and qualitatively more important concerns, such as basic human rights to an affordable single payer health care plan, and to clean w…[Read more]

If Bernie Sanders is to unite Democrats, the time is now or never.  He will never have another chance like this.

Unity comes with love with them, not hate against them.

Trump would never understand.