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Tin-Pot Chrome: Trump’s tweets as insider trading under 2012 STOCK act … SAD!

Posted on December 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers PEOTUS Trump is now no better than CNBC/FBN/Bloomberg stock touts, whose ranks have given us the ‘bagger party as well as Cramer-clones. High-frequency Trading or just high. Darn that asymmetric information. How many crony millionaires could be created … Continue reading →

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General Trump’s pizzeria uno chickenhawk policy

Posted on December 10, 2016 by ann li-summers

Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio elaborated, “Stop overestimating him — he’s a cross between a junkie and a hungry chicken.”  By ann summers Look, maybe fighting a war with China is a good idea. But it should be for a better … Continue reading →

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The story of 2017: first as tragedy, second as farce

Posted on December 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Narrativity gets to take it in the neck next year as the electoral shock wears off, only to continue the strategy of tension necessary for the current state of nonlinear political warfare. Donald Trump’s presidency is shaping … Continue reading →

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The Orange Gasbag’s post-truth Transparency of Dunces can help us reveal kleptocracy

Posted on November 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Truth, even pre-truth, may be more instructive, without privileging the narcissistic self-demolition that drives the hateful yam, because it does lay bare the naked avarice of modern capitalism. The building of wealth both a class inheritance and … Continue reading →

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Trump’s neo-feudal minarchism: voting for the wrong lizard with a $#!+ load of dimes

Posted on November 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

“That must be Lord Farquaad’s castle… Do you think he’s maybe compensating for something?” By ann summers   Profane male TV gasbag seems so much more appealing to that ethno-nationalist base than lifelong feminist policy wonk. And then there’s Trump’s … Continue reading →

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Orange Gasbag’s soft despotism: Emoluments Clause & Mrs. Claus

Posted on November 23, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Trump on his businesses/conflict q’s: “The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 So apparently Executive Privilege is simply a version of Absolute … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism’s death rattle cult … it still moves, come and grab … its truth

Posted on November 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “We can’t be sure how many people really support Trump, Edsall reports, since there’s considerable evidence that they aren’t telling pollsters the truth. Voting for Trump, it appears, is something white people do in the shadows. It’s … Continue reading →

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Dear Democratic Party, W.T.F. really … W.T.F. — were you in denial about the possibility of this defeat.

Posted on November 9, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers President Ham Sandwich defeats a highly qualified woman in the US 2016 POTUS election. Many voters decided that voting against something was so much more important than the possibilities of voting for something. Now expect years and … Continue reading →

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“Strategy of Tension” week almost over at the factory for Conspiracy-Theory Machines

Posted on November 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers They’ve broken out of mothballs or scraped the bottom of the barrel of favorite CTs, only this time it seems the FBI has decided, in their best J. Edgar finery, that tension at the polls needs a … Continue reading →

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Vote-trading is nothing like spouse swapping in key swing states

Posted on October 29, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers There are some thought experiments that arise each election cycle and the regularity of the question does raise other useful questions that would take far too long to resolve. For example, the issue of why an Electoral … Continue reading →

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