Category Archives: Presidents

Hillary must resist the temptation to Triangulate

Posted on May 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers More surprising is that there is a literature going back to 2010 urging that the Democratic party move past the linear model of political triangulation as a strategic messaging option. There are serious reasons why Hillary’s triangulating her … Continue reading →

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Trump Nationalism on the Links where pivots are divots

Posted on May 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Gonna be winning for The Donald, regardless of the 8 November outcome.   The Trump brand will benefit, and his global legacy has already been assured, even in its vulgarity. All Trump golf courses are branded … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Couch Commander

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From The White House:  “At his last White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama shares an inside look into his plans after the Presidency.” —oooOooo– … Continue reading →

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Revisionist Histories and a return of Glass-Steagell

Posted on May 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Perhaps Donald Trump has proven that it takes a village idiot to triangulate ten garlic bulbs and take puma mountain by strategy. Or despite hip-hop musicals about Alexander Hamilton, will the eventual POTUS think about central banking as part of … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the possibility of democracy or creating libertarianism warlordism

Posted on April 18, 2016 by ann li-summers

Sophie’s Hobson Choice on Maggies Bullet Farm: George Miller’s nearly aboriginal-free post-apocalypse vision or JJ Abrams’ non-LGBTQ utopian dystopia -— What a lovely day for Star War’s POC clone diversity already signalled   What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and … Continue reading →

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TrusTED as Antichrist…or does it Anti-Matter

Posted on April 10, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers detail…SIGNORELLI, Luca; Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist, Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto 1499-1502 And in the midst of all the chaos we see the Antichrist, pausing in the middle of a sermon to hear what … Continue reading →

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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

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‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh*t’ is not the Obama Doctrine because there is one

Posted on March 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   An important date in my lifetime was not an August 30 when I decided to blog regularly, but the red line moment for the Obama decision not to bomb the shit out of Syria over the use … Continue reading →

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From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas

Posted on March 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading →

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virtue signalling Trumpites don’t care if politics, like pro wrestling, is sport or entertainment

Posted on February 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Do voters subscribe easily to Personality Cults? And can one base entire political candidacies on them as signalling and identify them by their discourse? Are they examples of pro-/con- discourse games as the Democratic candidates spar towards Philly and opportunistic mischief-makers … Continue reading →

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