Category Archives: 2016 Election

whether POTUS45* lasts six months or more, there remain ‘alternative facts’

Posted on January 22, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers One betting shop lost five million dollars on HRC winning the White House in 2016, so unpredictability rules still about the construction of facts. And then there’s probabilty and the machinery of government, perhaps compelling POTUS45* to … Continue reading →

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POTUS45* an inaugural speech forgettable

Posted on January 21, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   They gaslit CNN with the “Fake News” lede that POTUS45* wrote his own speech. Maybe he or the Mar-a-lago concierge really did it in the lobby. There were mostly tweetable moments cribbed from campaign moments in … Continue reading →

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POTUS45* – Creative Destruction & Heritage Foundation will finally kill National Endowments for Arts & Humanities

Posted on January 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers A spoils system also accommodates those GOP shibboleths that represent LBJ’s Great Society beyond their usual attack on civil rights, so anything else remotely undermining the US ruling class becomes fair game. Maybe this time around … Continue reading →

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Prezident Kozyr’s diplomacy as reality-TV genre

Posted on January 18, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann sunmers   Reality-TV rather than Realism … Nikolai Volkoff is known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and also with Boris Zukhov as The … Continue reading →

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Prezident GazBag Kozyr is a tiny, non-politically incorrect, member of the Republic party

Posted on January 17, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The premise of the recent HBS article suggests that the election has encouraged a successful national strategy of misanthropy in the executive branch and that political correctness has greater clarity relative to race, gender, class, among other indicators … Continue reading →

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Fake Art in the age of Fake News “… there are more Republicans buying art than are making it.”

Posted on January 15, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The Art of the Deal: The Movie is funny, and it’s scary, and it’s well-made. http://www.google.com/…   What does it mean to own artwork when for some, its worth is only in terms of its material costs … Continue reading →

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what is to be done, now and for the next four years of resistance

Posted on January 14, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers This Theda Skocpol article is worth adding to the discourse since it addresses the issues most important for the coming resistance to Orange GazBag, a.k.a. Prezident Kozyr. Mooby the Golden Calf is a fictional children’s television … Continue reading →

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a Nixon for the Milennials … when will TrUmp resign to focus on his business interests

Posted on January 12, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Miss Arizona in 2001, said she was subjected to Trump’s voyeurism.www.google.com/… One doesn’t need Bebe Rebozo or Berlusconi’s Bunga-Bunga parties to believe that TrUmp is, among many things, an archetypal opto-phallocrat — voyeurism and power gets him … Continue reading →

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€urophilic Trumpian Trickle-Down … in Russia, gold showers you!

Posted on January 11, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers   “Urolagnia is a form of salirophilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination”  TrUmp makes it rain! €urophila So apparently, contrary to dribs and drabs on napkins, … Continue reading →

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Buddhism and violence

Posted on January 10, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers “All problems must be solved through dialogue, through talk. The use of violence is outdated, and never solves problems.”[61][62] http://www.lionsroar.com/… Many Asian Buddhists may hold views that clash with Western visions of religious pluralism. For many … Continue reading →

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