Category Archives: Politics

Twitter capitalism: a waterfall of cockroaches

Posted on December 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Wall of zombies in World War Z (2013) … The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic. … Continue reading →

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The present you don’t want to unwrap in front of your nuclear family because Trump is Vlad’s Stepford Wife

Posted on December 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

    By ann summers Trump as Russian dupe… It’s not 1987, and state-sponsored terrorist is not an epitaph or an Xmas wish… This is how kleptocracy works and the GOP is complicit, even at the level of TV (b)romance. … Continue reading →

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The Trump Presidential Library: an unpresidented(sic) and premature monument

Posted on December 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

  (2015) http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/donald-trump-presidential-library-and-museum By ann summers So many were in denial up to now. It’s time to anticipate the site for the Trump Presidential Library … will it be Mar-a-Lago, Las Vegas, Queens, Long Island, maybe in Scotland or Russia … … Continue reading →

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All the Orangina Berlusconi’s press corps

Posted on December 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Are these main-stream-media “journalists” blinking-out hostage messages in Morse code while having off-the-record drinks with Orange Gasbag? All part of the battered spouse syndrome: the more he abuses the press, the more they try to curry favor … Continue reading →

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Trump’s unpresidented overreaction after a next terrorist attack

Posted on December 18, 2016 by ann li-summers

Trump says he doesn’t need daily intelligence briefing because he’s “smart” https://t.co/x6EsLJeElR pic.twitter.com/xiFymeNJRu — HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) December 18, 2016 By ann summers Lacking any precedent for appreciating intelligence and relying on negotiating based on posture and force, Trump will for … 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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It all began with “Thank you for your service”

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Terry Welshans

My wife and are are now home from the events at the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. It was a long trip, about twelve flying hours in a coach seat, thankfully overnight for half of the trip. We … 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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General Trump’s pizzeria uno chickenhawk policy

Posted on December 10, 2016 by ann li-summers

Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio elaborated, “Stop overestimating him — he’s a cross between a junkie and a hungry chicken.”  By ann summers Look, maybe fighting a war with China is a good idea. But it should be for a better … Continue reading →

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The story of 2017: first as tragedy, second as farce

Posted on December 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Narrativity gets to take it in the neck next year as the electoral shock wears off, only to continue the strategy of tension necessary for the current state of nonlinear political warfare. Donald Trump’s presidency is shaping … Continue reading →

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