Tag Archives: Donald Trump

An hour we can’t get back: Steve Bannon on 60 Minutes

Posted on September 12, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers We will be at the mercy of Bannon’s whiteboard roadmap for a Trump who primarily watches TV Charlie Rose interviewed Steve Bannon for CBS 60 Minutes, which was broadcast on Sunday, with an extended version available online. … Continue reading →

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What self-respecting Liberal talks about “zesty Internet memes”

Posted on September 3, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Coordination of a resistance must include being aware of how counter-resistance forces can manipulate and divide us, particularly in social media. America’s Number One Russophile, Lord Dampnut, has made us acutely aware of how clumsy such misdirection … Continue reading →

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Pence deletes tweet because he looked too presidential

Posted on August 30, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Amid the Trumpian bluster of the Arpaio pardon and the ratings Trump wanted because of Hurricane Harvey, Mike Pence was doing his level-best to demonstrate his presidential ability. He suddenly realized that he was doing what others … Continue reading →

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Realpolitik, Surrealpolitik: Steve Bannon talks to liberals

Posted on August 17, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers More puzzling is the fact that Bannon would phone a writer and editor of a progressive publication (the cover lines on whose first two issues after Trump’s election were “Resisting Trump” and “Containing Trump”) and assume that … Continue reading →

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Trump’s nuclear threats are Nixonian junk-food ravings … maybe

Posted on August 9, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers So the president’s own advisers are saying to discount his words, is where we are now https://t.co/PBdiHaQ6sT — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 9, 2017 North Korea says considering missile strike near Guam The threat ratchets up tensions … Continue reading →

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Victorians’ Secret: Trump, god-emperor of Afghanistan and Erik Prince (of thieves) as Viceroy

Posted on August 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Moscow (CNN) Money, the saying goes, can’t buy love. But $10,000 will buy you the perfect Donald Trump inauguration keepsake — a coin with the words “In Trump we trust.” It’s the handiwork of a Russian mining … 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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James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce… Donald Trump – Worst.Presidents.Ever

Posted on August 2, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Who make up the Top 10 presidents on the Presidential Historians Survey? They are, in descending order: Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Reagan, and … Continue reading →

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President Bait and Vice President Switch

Posted on July 22, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers we may be seeing the rise of a particular strategy on the right—sometimes gripping part of the GOP, and sometimes all of it—that can be traced back to that noted conservative Vladimir Lenin. I speak of “heightening … Continue reading →

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The Trumpian Hollymoon is over … now the Russian appeasement grows.

Posted on July 20, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Much like the GOP and Trump have peddled the meme that PBO/HRC “created” ISIS, now DJT* has decided to capitulate (bend over backward, Ben Dover) to Putin, where the Syrian conflict will generate new memes for 45*, … Continue reading →

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