Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Trump’s Losers’ Curse

Posted on September 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Donald Trump’s Losers’ Curse comes from the GOP essentially overpaying or overvaluing its POTUS candidates — raising campaign money that seems not yet to have been spent, even as there seems to be a rising need to avert a … Continue reading →

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Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing prescription

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So we now have heard from an orange realtor pitching the US a Southern Wall timeshare that Mexico will pay for. And being Latino is not illegal, nor is being Muslim, yet that is what is now … Continue reading →

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Step away from the #2 pencil — you failed the ideological screening test!

Posted on August 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for a system of ‘extreme vetting’ for immigrants that would include an ideological test” “‘In the cold war we had an ideological screening test … The time is overdue for a … Continue reading →

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More Mediated than Stochastic Terrorism: Trump as the dog whistler

Posted on August 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   In Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish—essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people—maybe … Continue reading →

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On the Cover of the Rolling Stochastic Terrorism

Posted on August 10, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers So whenever threats come up and/or actual events, this term gets tossed around: stochastic terrorism is an imprecise idea that while easily uttered and sounding scientistic, does not contain sufficient objectivity in a democracy that demands actionable expectation … Continue reading →

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got Constitution? got cold dead hands?

Posted on August 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Protesters at a Donald Trump rally in Maine held up pocket copies of the Constitution, echoing a dramatic moment from the Democratic national convention. The Republican nominee briefly stopped his speech as protesters were escorted from … Continue reading →

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purge those free radicals – eight years is not enough

Posted on July 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Family resemblance in language is like relative autonomy in philosophy, because academic ideologies’ democracy is the Other to anti-intellectual reactionaries across the political spectrum, but are they the same as those of low-information voters (LIV), and more importantly, … Continue reading →

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Political Correctness & how plagiarism goes off the light rails at the RNC

Posted on July 20, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Apparently the revolution will be televised, but the counter-revolution comes from a “series of tubes”. And it will be led by a pernicious Political Correctness (PC) that can only be eradicated by a strong, fearless, leader for the genuinely uninformed. … Continue reading →

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America, “a divided crime scene”, terminated with extreme vetting

Posted on July 18, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers   The GOP seeks a perfect storm to excite their base by scheduling an opportunity for Open Carry idiots to confront Cleveland protestors outside the secure zone in a surreal 8th grade reenactors’  version of Kent State. And … Continue reading →

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all Trump has left is Islamophobia and Sinophobia in the swing-states

Posted on July 3, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   tehDumpster fire that is the Trump campaign is now trolling the LIVs in swing states with the usual xenophobia and GOP talking points. Trump’s disinformation campaign could even favor TPP because HRC is against it. Recall … Continue reading →

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