Category Archives: Immigrants

like Trotsky opening up a taco truck in front of Trump’s Walk of Fame star.

Posted on July 28, 2018 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers The millennials’ remake of “up from socialism” might be embodied in the call to “Abolish ICE”.  The question is for whose cause is it more effective. If one believed in the lessons of GOP marketing, “Abolish ICE” has … Continue reading →

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Trump’s southern border wall seems more like Nehemiah’s Dung Gate

Posted on April 1, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The travails of Prexy Nehemiah Dennison are many, but his minions certainly built enough roads to Moscow during the election, and his golf-day yesterday with Sean Hannity brought perhaps more advice about spinning more southern border wall … Continue reading →

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Stephen Miller: demography sans democracy

Posted on October 16, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Stephen “dont call me Space Cowboy Maurice” Miller has shrewdly used his time to feather his own WH nest by controlling immigration policy while his noisier counterpart Steve Bannon was fighting with everybody else. One can … Continue reading →

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Trump trapped by his own prevarications

Posted on August 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary removal are justified to eradicate the “… systematic propaganda campaign to advance the racial cause of the Confederacy”, despite Trump’s apparent and continued sympathy for it using false equivalence. … Continue reading →

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Today in Heightened Contradictions … McMaster bait

Posted on August 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, has removed three NSC aides loyal to Trump aide Steve Bannon in the last three weeks. Bannon allies inside and outside the administration have fired back, starting rumors that McMaster is … Continue reading →

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So many Trump mistakes, so little time left

Posted on July 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Joshua Green’s book Devils Bargain contains a hypothetical about Bannon’s failure to drive yet another wedge in the Democrats is a bit fantastic because the havoc aimed at immigration was always a much easier lift at the … Continue reading →

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Pilot Fish and Zombies: G20 and why Trumpian Mad Cows have eaten our brains

Posted on July 10, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The pilot fish is sometimes used as a metaphor or simile; “they are like the pilot fish to the shark, serving to lead him to his victim”. Pilot fish are also used as a metaphor or simile … Continue reading →

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Ann Coulter has Berkeley speech canceled and claims “censorship” but as always it’s about the money

Posted on April 25, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Crowd hisses at Ivanka Trump in Berlin after suggesting her father is “a tremendous champion of supporting families” https://t.co/S5zZYiS48epic.twitter.com/OzmQiuMk75 — CNN International (@cnni) April 25, 2017 Fascinating fascism in the society of the spectacle … Much … Continue reading →

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a Moat of their Own: Bannonism’s neo-reactionaries & other new-age fascists

Posted on March 4, 2017 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers Under Bannon’s influence, the Trump administration is shaping up to be much more ideologically extreme than many people were expecting. “[Bannon] has spectacularly grand ambitions, to transform our country and its place in the world,” … … Continue reading →

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Moron unwinding the administrative state (of travel, among other things)

Posted on March 2, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “During the first week of the Muslim-ban, foreign business travel dropped by an astounding 185 million dollars. European flight searches for the United States have dropped by 11.6%, “ @powellnyt “I did not have sex with that wo…, communication … Continue reading →

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