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Category Archives: 2016 Election
Trump, no country bump-stock… could kill the trifecta of the axis of evil, unless #TrumpRussia drops a couple of bombshells
By ann summers Desperate authoritarians do desperate things, and the time before the Trump administration is removed or removes itself from office will perhaps be the most challenging since the Cuban missile crisis. Recall that the real consequence in the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, CIA, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Politics, Propaganda, Uncategorized
Tagged dprk, Iran, Iran's Nuclear Program, Media, North Korea, Politics
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#TrumpRussia … Trump says he knows nothing about something except that it is a hoax
By ann summers Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. Generalization from fictional evidence: Using a fake story to make a general … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Corruption, Government, History, information Technology, Internet, Propaganda, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Russia, trumprussia
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Insane Clown posse comitatus and #MOAR Trump gathering nothing
By ann summers This headline should read: “Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans” https://t.co/OkS4nopaHM â Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 17, 2017 Martha Stewart is cute when she plays the ex-con gangsta meme, but … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Crime, Fascism, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, Media, Music, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Music, Politics
2 Comments
An hour we can’t get back: Steve Bannon on 60 Minutes
By ann summers We will be at the mercy of Bannon’s whiteboard roadmap for a Trump who primarily watches TV Charlie Rose interviewed Steve Bannon for CBS 60 Minutes, which was broadcast on Sunday, with an extended version available online. … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Fascism, Government, History, Industrial Revolution, Presidential Elections
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Politics, trump
9 Comments
What self-respecting Liberal talks about “zesty Internet memes”
By ann summers Coordination of a resistance must include being aware of how counter-resistance forces can manipulate and divide us, particularly in social media. America’s Number One Russophile, Lord Dampnut, has made us acutely aware of how clumsy such misdirection … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Big Brother, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Conspiracy, DHS, Fascism, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, War on "Terror"
Tagged Charlottesville, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, KKK, Maryland, Media, Politics, trump
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Pence deletes tweet because he looked too presidential
By ann summers Amid the Trumpian bluster of the Arpaio pardon and the ratings Trump wanted because of Hurricane Harvey, Mike Pence was doing his level-best to demonstrate his presidential ability. He suddenly realized that he was doing what others … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Fascists/Corporatists, Fundamentalism, Government, Presidents
Tagged Donald Trump, Mike Pence, trump, White House
1 Comment
Trump trapped by his own prevarications
By ann summers The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary removal are justified to eradicate the “… systematic propaganda campaign to advance the racial cause of the Confederacy”, despite Trump’s apparent and continued sympathy for it using false equivalence. … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Civil Rights, Fascism, Government, History, Immigrants, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Political Science, Politics, Presidents, Racism, Society, United States
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Realpolitik, Surrealpolitik: Steve Bannon talks to liberals
By ann summers More puzzling is the fact that Bannon would phone a writer and editor of a progressive publication (the cover lines on whose first two issues after Trump’s election were “Resisting Trump” and “Containing Trump”) and assume that … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, China, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Russia, Society, Ukraine, Uncategorized
Tagged assange, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Steve Bannon, trade war, trumprussia, US Trade Deals
6 Comments
The ‘many sides’, of the RWNJs’ phantom enemies
By ann summers YouTube Video The only reason for an American to hold a Nazi flag is if it has been captured in battle. pic.twitter.com/g44h8PSZyd — Senor O (@TKOastIsBack) August 12, 2017 Like Joe McCarthy’s ‘reds under your bed’, the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Anti-Semitism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Communism, Fascism, Free Speech, Government Propaganda, History, Holocaust, inequality, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, World War II
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Culture, KKK, Media, Politics, Racism, Racism in the United States, Racists
16 Comments
Trump’s nuclear threats are Nixonian junk-food ravings … maybe
By ann summers So the president’s own advisers are saying to discount his words, is where we are now https://t.co/PBdiHaQ6sT â Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 9, 2017 North Korea says considering missile strike near Guam The threat ratchets up tensions … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Media, North Korea, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Society, United States, US Military
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, nixon, Politics, trumprussia, White House
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