Category Archives: Politics

“… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror” – so begins the Trumpian Dark Age

Posted on November 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Four years of political and cultural retribution are coming as are the fruition of eight years of privileged obstruction with which it remains unclear how much the Democratic party will be able to mount a Congressional resistance. This … Continue reading →

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“Strategy of Tension” week almost over at the factory for Conspiracy-Theory Machines

Posted on November 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers They’ve broken out of mothballs or scraped the bottom of the barrel of favorite CTs, only this time it seems the FBI has decided, in their best J. Edgar finery, that tension at the polls needs a … Continue reading →

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Vote-trading is nothing like spouse swapping in key swing states

Posted on October 29, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers There are some thought experiments that arise each election cycle and the regularity of the question does raise other useful questions that would take far too long to resolve. For example, the issue of why an Electoral … Continue reading →

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Trumpism becomes a tense ethno-nationalist party of werewolves, There!

Posted on October 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Blame-gaming escalates as Election Day approaches and the Crème brûlée is about to crack. Brown, White, and Black Eggs matter to founders’ states of baker’s dozens. If all politics is local, all racism is localism. Expect a term … Continue reading →

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Fracking WikiLeaks’ “right circumstances”

Posted on October 26, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers WikiLeaks is continuing to publish more emails from the account of John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. One newly published email revealed that Clinton privately bashed environmentalists opposed to fracking and the Keystone XL … Continue reading →

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all this rigging comes from Trump’s Leninist: Smash State!

Posted on October 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers All elections are “rigged” considering the problems of decentralized pluralism, but given that reality, can we now move on to democracy. Reality TV is not really TV   Unlike other nations, we don’t schedule our elections as … Continue reading →

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Trump gets first major newspaper endorsement (sort of)

Posted on October 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The 2016 election demonstrates why newspaper editorial endorsements of candidates might not (ever) make any difference but at least Trump has one, finally; even if the paper is owned by Sheldon Adelson. Follow Jon Ralston @RalstonReports BREAKING: First … Continue reading →

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Send in the Trumpian overlords

Posted on October 17, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Will Trump turn the election into a snuff film — his bread is in the form of debt, but regardless, the GOP will be toast after the election.  Berlin, 1945 Trump flak tower for Alamo rent-a-wrecks   One might very well … Continue reading →

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After Trump’s defeat, a new American Warlordism

Posted on October 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump’s now inevitable loss will signal perhaps a Democratic age for at least two years until the residual misogyny gains yet another mid-term resurgence of reactionary fervor as they did in 1994 (class), 2010 (race), and 2018 (gender). … Continue reading →

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Now self-radicalized police act as official lone wolves to kill People of Color

Posted on September 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Apparently some police officers, each in their own jurisdictions and with disproportionate community representation and oversight have decided  to engage in their own stochastic terrorism, where random LEOs have taken it upon themselves to exceed authority and in some … Continue reading →

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