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Kanye and Trump celebrating their urban bro-ness. SNL calls
Interesting cartoon from a cretin who is a devoted watcher of the most biased and fake media outlet in the nation.
Privetstvuyu Pobedy!
So, if we’re snowflakes, I guess that makes you a snowblower….
In typical Trumpspeak, our cowardly little chickenshit who hides behind his curtain has it upside-down: the special snowflakes are the Fossilonians who demand access to public lands for free, treat our water and air as a free dumping ground and hide their profits offshore. Gluttons at the public trough. You'll notice the Heritage Foundation is silent on the fossil subsidies in their latest news release while calling for an end to federal 'green programs'.
A refreshingly astute letter published today in the Denver Post:
Putin's Poodles (Trump and his cabinet picks) will see how much money they can get for selling out our country.
Well done, Felice Sage!
People need to connect the dots between the pro-democracy, anti-Putin movement in Russia, and Trump's fawning attempt to recreate Russian autocracy here. In the long run, it won't work in either place, although we are definitely in for a bumpy ride the next few years.
is it over yet?
It will never be over, Zappy.
V. is right, Zap. This started a long time ago and will not soon be resolved…if ever.
It is as basic as survival itself….
Long ago, the first "republican" pushed some poor, weak brother away from the tribal campfire and forced him to do without, or cast him out entirely. Then he took the brothers' share for his own. By repeating this process, he became powerful enough to control his tribe, thereby permanently securing the most and best for him and his family.
He taught his children they were superior to the ones cast out, taught them to scorn those "others" and set up a regime to perpetuate his families' dominance and privilege forever. He taught them to esteem money, status, and control.
To hell with those "others", he said, often enslaving them to provide him with ever more money…
Not far away, the first "democrat" said to one of those who either escaped from or was cast out by the first republican, " welcome..let us feed you and warm you and help you become a useful part of our tribe…"
This oversimplified scenario is fundamental to understanding the difference between the modern political parties. Those parties are much more complicated than my illustration indicates, but my point is about exclusion versus inclusion.
One of the things my late mother told me repeatedly over the years was, "whenever the Republicans are in office, the wealthy do better and when the Democrats are in control, the average working person and the poor do better." Impossible to dispute.
The elevation of Donald Trump by the white working class was a natural reaction to the displacement of two generations of workers, who blame their woes on the new neighbors with the dark skin and the name they can't really pronounce. They believe it was their families and their ancestors that made this country great because their history books have always been full of white men "making America great". Their heritage has been stolen from them. But not by the "thief" they suspect.
That angry demographic has once again come to the rescue of the Robber Barons who would rejoin the world aristocracy by creating the great American age of corporate fulfillment. Welcome back to the fabulous Industrial age when industry can run unfettered through the American landscape, snatching wealth and leaving destruction at every turn.
"Our wages are too high"….
Donald J. Trump, Dec. 2016
Not our Pyrus. Nosiree…Trump is going to make him rich I tell ya. RICH!! More richer than he's ever been in his life!! Now Duke, don't you go listening to those words that fall out of Donald's mouth saying wages are too high. Them's just words. Not to be taken literally.
jeezus h. kanye west, Dems:
Granted, Bennet did send out a few fundraising emails on this one. He is, after all, a great fundraiser. But I actually got more live phone calls from Trump volunteers asking me to vote for Trump than communications from Hillary, Bennet, and the rest this year. Sad and unacceptable and incompetent about sums it up.