Category Archives: Capitalism

If the GOP could only stop being gutless about #RussiaGate …

Posted on March 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Unfortunately, those blissfully naive Americans who need to be swayed from their support or even tacit tolerance of Lord Dampnut may need the rhetorical message of a xenophobic CT to get to the discourse space where he must … Continue reading →

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POTUS45* a useful idiot … полезные дураки (polezniye duraki)

Posted on January 29, 2017 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers In political jargon, a useful idiot is a In the Russian language, the equivalent term “useful fools” (Russian: полезные дураки, tr. polezniye duraki) was already in use in 1941. It was mockingly used against Russian “nihilists” of … Continue reading →

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Trump’s new clothes … Larry Kudlow: “Wealthy folks have no need to steal or engage in corruption.”

Posted on December 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

  “…Better than smoothly. Confidently. More than confidently. Transcendently” By ann summers If we ate the rich we’d soon become vegetarians … because Malthus.   Donald Trump’s government has not yet taken power, but its epitaph may have already been … Continue reading →

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Larry Kudlow: CEA chair or Batman villain

Posted on December 17, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Trump ‘Mulling’ Larry Kudlow for CEA Chair https://t.co/Kahv2aWJsy — The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) December 16, 2016 It seems normalizing that someone unfit for POTUS would float the name of someone equally unqualified for chair of the … Continue reading →

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Tin-Pot Chrome: Trump’s tweets as insider trading under 2012 STOCK act … SAD!

Posted on December 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers PEOTUS Trump is now no better than CNBC/FBN/Bloomberg stock touts, whose ranks have given us the ‘bagger party as well as Cramer-clones. High-frequency Trading or just high. Darn that asymmetric information. How many crony millionaires could be created … Continue reading →

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Your home heating prices will go up because Giant Yam won’t bring back coal jobs

Posted on December 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers Clueless natural Gasbag’s “post-truth” promises to cull votes with more coal jobs will now make your home heating prices go up with little effect on returning coal jobs to the US coal belt. But that was … Continue reading →

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Orange Gasbag’s soft despotism: Emoluments Clause & Mrs. Claus

Posted on November 23, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Trump on his businesses/conflict q’s: “The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 So apparently Executive Privilege is simply a version of Absolute … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism’s death rattle cult … it still moves, come and grab … its truth

Posted on November 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “We can’t be sure how many people really support Trump, Edsall reports, since there’s considerable evidence that they aren’t telling pollsters the truth. Voting for Trump, it appears, is something white people do in the shadows. It’s … Continue reading →

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Political-Media Complex: the factory sites for Conspiracy-Theory Machines

Posted on September 17, 2016 by ann li-summers

Hillary Clinton (6 September 2016): “I believe I have created so many jobs in the conspiracy theory machine factory, because honestly, they never quit. They keep coming back.” By ann summers While an elaboration of the “vast RW conspiracy” that … Continue reading →

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Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing prescription

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So we now have heard from an orange realtor pitching the US a Southern Wall timeshare that Mexico will pay for. And being Latino is not illegal, nor is being Muslim, yet that is what is now … Continue reading →

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