Category Archives: Presidential Elections

whether POTUS45* lasts six months or more, there remain ‘alternative facts’

Posted on January 22, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers One betting shop lost five million dollars on HRC winning the White House in 2016, so unpredictability rules still about the construction of facts. And then there’s probabilty and the machinery of government, perhaps compelling POTUS45* to … Continue reading →

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POTUS45* an inaugural speech forgettable

Posted on January 21, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   They gaslit CNN with the “Fake News” lede that POTUS45* wrote his own speech. Maybe he or the Mar-a-lago concierge really did it in the lobby. There were mostly tweetable moments cribbed from campaign moments in … Continue reading →

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POTUS45* – Creative Destruction & Heritage Foundation will finally kill National Endowments for Arts & Humanities

Posted on January 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers A spoils system also accommodates those GOP shibboleths that represent LBJ’s Great Society beyond their usual attack on civil rights, so anything else remotely undermining the US ruling class becomes fair game. Maybe this time around … Continue reading →

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what is to be done, now and for the next four years of resistance

Posted on January 14, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers This Theda Skocpol article is worth adding to the discourse since it addresses the issues most important for the coming resistance to Orange GazBag, a.k.a. Prezident Kozyr. Mooby the Golden Calf is a fictional children’s television … Continue reading →

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€urophilic Trumpian Trickle-Down … in Russia, gold showers you!

Posted on January 11, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers   “Urolagnia is a form of salirophilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination”  TrUmp makes it rain! €urophila So apparently, contrary to dribs and drabs on napkins, … Continue reading →

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Trumpian theory: Reagan’s just prematurely orange.

Posted on January 9, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Ronnie doesn’t dye his hair; he’s just prematurely orange.” – Gerald Ford, on Ronald Reagan, Who knew that Trumpism has theoreticians … much like deplorableness might have its swamp and isn’t theory just an “inside joke”. The … Continue reading →

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Trump has ended Performance Art forever

Posted on December 28, 2016 by ann li-summers

  “Aktion artist Hermann Nitsch, for example, was arrested and imprisoned numerous times for breaking Austrian indecency laws by masturbating and enacting violent sexual scenes in his performances” … (“(Art) History, it’s reputable” – John Smith in Mr. & Mrs. … 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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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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