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Trump’s neo-feudal minarchism: voting for the wrong lizard with a $#!+ load of dimes
“That must be Lord Farquaad’s castle… Do you think he’s maybe compensating for something?” By ann summers Profane male TV gasbag seems so much more appealing to that ethno-nationalist base than lifelong feminist policy wonk. And then there’s Trump’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Fascists/Corporatists, History, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Racism, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, minarchism, neofeudalism, Politics, Steve Bannon
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a Democratic Party minus triangulated power politics will win elections … #Recount2016
By ann summers The NYTimes’ Charles Blow tells Donald Trump to F*ck off, in no uncertain terms. https://t.co/yNSf8jbTsu pic.twitter.com/FiuXegbaEE â Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) November 24, 2016 $2.002 MILLION for #RECOUNT2016 #AUDITTHEVOTE! And it’s not even midnight!https://t.co/nyRV2cwdhY pic.twitter.com/9SK6SYaK28 â Anonymous … Continue reading
Orange Gasbag’s soft despotism: Emoluments Clause & Mrs. Claus
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.” â Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 So apparently Executive Privilege is simply a version of Absolute … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Celebrity, Constitutional Law, Corruption, Financial, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Politics, soft despotism, spoils system, U.S. Constitution
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There will be a Trumpian war, but will it win its Berlusconi time slot
By ann summers Truck Nutz Nation will get its war, what becomes important is that while there will be protest, resistance (and enlistment), and ultimately destruction and death regardless of outrage, the consequences and aftermath must be anticipated. After all, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Genocide, Government, History, Homeland Security, Italy, Media, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Terrorism, Uncategorized, United States, War, War on "Terror", World History
Tagged bannon, Berlusconi, Department of Defense, deplorables, Donald Trump, KKK, nihilism, Racism in the United States, War
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Hailing the Western Imperium, How Trump’s lingua quartii imperii defeated HRC’s quants
By ann summers We now know how the ruling class will rule: on the backs of middle-class folks and delivered like any media ratings audience where the Brexit-style message resonated to an ideologically stable population sub-group that had been data-mined because … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Anti-Semitism, History, Media, Polls, Presidential Elections, Sociology, Uncategorized
Tagged demography, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, statistics
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Dear Democratic Party, W.T.F. really … W.T.F. — were you in denial about the possibility of this defeat.
By ann summers President Ham Sandwich defeats a highly qualified woman in the US 2016 POTUS election. Many voters decided that voting against something was so much more important than the possibilities of voting for something. Now expect years and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Media, News, Political Science, Presidential Elections, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Journalism, Media, Politics, television
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Vote-trading is nothing like spouse swapping in key swing states
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
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Media, Ohio, Politics, Presidential Elections, Uncategorized
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Journalism, Media, swing states, vote swapping, vote trading, Voter Suppression, Voting, Voting Rights
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Trumpism becomes a tense ethno-nationalist party of werewolves, There!
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
Posted in 2016 Election, Fascism, History, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged apartheid, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, Politics, Segregation
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Fracking WikiLeaks’ “right circumstances”
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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