Following the 2016 election, many supporters of Bernie Sanders spawned a meme: “Bernie would have won.” Notwithstanding the merits of the argument itself—of which much has already been said—the meme itself is significant: An indictment of the Democratic party establishment. And, just as in the general election, the centrist Democratic Party establishment has failed to grasp the essence of the meme.
The ramp up of a program of extreme deportation ( to accompany the extreme vetting regime....) inevitably brings to mind that Cheech Marin tour de force, Born in East LA.
The plot depended, of course, upon the "unlikely" device of a native born American being rounded up mistakenly and dropped in Mexico.
Holy Shit! Bannon went up against the security professionals head to head and lost....
When Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly set out to exempt green card holders from President Donald Trump's order barring visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries, White House adviser Steve Bannon ordered Kelly not to, according to a Saturday report in the Washington Post.
Just this week in the Supreme Court was argued what may well become, in terms of practical impact on millions of lives over a very short period of time, the most consequential decision of the century, (if not back to Dred Scott).
I liked my comment from Natasha's post so much, I came over here to re post and wtf?? so here's his column, and then I'll post my clever godfather reference comment, m'kay?
Beset as they are both by Big Pharma sanctions and ongoing challenges under the cruel and unusual prohibitions of the Eighth Amendment occasioned by the failure of second line sedatives to prevent what looks to observers like excruciating pain, the advocates of capital punishment are entertaining a creative solution.
Even as he settles one RICO action, paying 25 million dollars, by insisting, (pace Richard Nixon) that since he is King President there can be no conflict between his interests and those of the state Donald Trump has declared it his intention to at least potentiate if not reify a shakedown scheme that dwarfs any since Rome monetized the Pax Romanum
Good news, bad news, good news: Rudy Guiliani will NOT be Attorney General, Rudy Guiliani WILL be Secretary of State, we will no longer be in doubt as to "why they hate us..."
It is hard to conjure up a more toxic collection of misfiring neural networks than Giuliani. He combines sumg incompetence (he ignored years of urgent suggestions too move his NYC security hub out of the World Trade Center) a megalomaniacal zeal for power, a vindictive pettiness that is legendary, and an almost autistic inability to imagine how he is seen by others.
Josh highlights one of the day's attrocities, in this case the NYT analysis of Trump's "lock her up" threat versus the question pondered after 2009 of how to treat US employees who inflicted torture.
We are defining deviance down at the speed of light.
As we are now obliged to parse with renewed urgency the ravings generated over 16 months by Queens' favorite son, of early and impactful note is his call for the revenge murder of the children of terrorists.
Can there be anymore delicious finale to Deadbeat Donald's ill-advised adventure into politics than the resounding repudiation publicly being even now delivered by the world's captains of finance assembled/
That, more or less, is what is underway as the "Trump relief rally" is on it's second day snapping a whip-wave around the world.
It began in Asia at 8 pm EST, probably as the punditry pondered and pronounced re: "Comey stands down".
Ever since Deadbeat Donald advanced his demonstrably bullshit evasions around his "Megan was on the rag" tweet I have puzzled over how to understand his followers willingness eagerness to believe palpable, flaming, lies.
In a recent instance where a Trump follower emulates the maestro, purporting to ask us to believe that "Jew-Ess-A "chanted with vigorous hostility at a Trump rally press pen was NOT meant in any way to refer to Jewish people. You really must read the article to fully appreciate his chutzpah.
A heroic angel who permits us one of those occasional moments of pride in the species is currently charged with criminal mischief in Canada because she provided water to thirsty animals on the way to slaughter.
