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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
If Donald Trump Is the Symptom...
Then What’s the Disease?
By Tom Engelhardt
Don’t try to deny it! The political...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 04:38 PM PDT
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Pew-Pew...
Increased general distrust of Trump.
Distrust in Trump compared with other presidents has increased since April of 2017, when a somewhat smaller share (51%) said they trusted what Trump says less than previous presidents.
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by annieli
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on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 03:01 PM PDT
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Will Steve Bannon provide the campaign some phony documents like he did for his Italian Eagles Nest for super patriots. At least this time he’s not replacing Paul Manafort, but with a pardon, who knows. The band will be back together as new data...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 11:31 AM PDT
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On May 29th the possibility of adding the names—to a deadly list that includes Eric Garner and Sandra Bland, among many others, was the addition of Dravon Ames and family. Stopped by police in a nearby parking lot after leaving a Family Dollar store,...
by ReasonaBill
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on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 12:59 PM PDT
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The recent Trump interview on ABC with George Stephanopoulos is simply more of the same weirdness. Hopefully some who have not paid attention will see how deluded Trump has become since he thinks he can do interviews with people less inclined to...
by annieli
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on Sun Jun 16, 2019 at 09:52 PM PDT
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#DerangedDonald cannot stay off the twitter machine today, tweeting while he watches US Open golf on television. More idiotic was Trump trying to imply that impeachment is illegal by misquoting AOC. And then there’s the unedited transcript of George...
by annieli
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on Sun Jun 16, 2019 at 05:54 PM PDT
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Inidvidual-1 “trolls the libs” again by trying to keep his base excited.
Over $106 million spent on 196 days of golf. perhaps he got Father’s Day cards from his kids.
by annieli
15 comments
on Sun Jun 16, 2019 at 12:10 PM PDT
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When the Stanley Cup games come to town, one can but pity those entertainment happenings which have the unintended and totally unplanned misfortune to go against those games. Arts organizations ...
by chingchongchinaman
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on Sat Jun 15, 2019 at 07:15 PM PDT
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impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org
#ImpeachTrump: Act to Defend Democracy June 15
by annieli
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on Sat Jun 15, 2019 at 04:30 PM PDT
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“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.” — Tacitus
“Now Russia has disappeared...”
All kinds of tacit agreements have yet to be...
by annieli
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on Sat Jun 15, 2019 at 11:14 AM PDT
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O(N)AN — is a purely pro-Trump media outlet, and with the entertainment segments of Fox News supporting him more than the news side, Individual-1 is scraping the bottom of that barrel. Compounding lies.
OANN is...
by annieli
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on Sat Jun 15, 2019 at 09:14 AM PDT
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The continuing saga of the bad salesman and his stunts.
The problem is that Mexico denied any secret deal and today released the letter that Trump waved around as “secret”. Fortunately the media was persistent, up to and including a visual...
by annieli
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on Fri Jun 14, 2019 at 05:38 PM PDT
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This article by Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone is worth your time if only because the discourse reveals the degree of dehumanizing oppression that has been institutionalized in CBP. Considering the 100 mile enforcement zone, the lexicon is worth...
by annieli
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on Fri Jun 14, 2019 at 06:39 PM PDT
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33 pages of rationalization by the Department of Justice. Apparently the DoJ thinks Trump is free of “corrupt intent” much like his finances. Because he claims he’s “the most transparent president in US history”. Delaying actions continue.
"While...
by annieli
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on Fri Jun 14, 2019 at 02:30 PM PDT
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With so many instances of trying to become American royalty, Trump has tried to manipulate his brand, hoping that his post-presidency will mythologically be identified as Kennedyesque. Mar-a-Lago is not Hyannis Port, and the new laundered money of...
by annieli
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on Fri Jun 14, 2019 at 12:15 PM PDT
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The new lawlessness: ignore the rule of constitutional law.
Trump says he'll accept foreign election help.
The Federal Election Commission says it's illegal.
The Trump campaign responds by saying both can happen, maybe.
Trump will...
by annieli
40 comments
on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 11:29 PM PDT
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impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org
#ImpeachTrump: Act to Defend Democracy June ...
by annieli
8 comments
on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Did someone make money from today’s rise in oil prices. Is it within the realm of possibility that Iranians are attaching devices to tankers. More troubling is that Pompeo has no evidence (yet), much like the lack of evidence for the prior attacks. If...
by annieli
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on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 12:08 PM PDT
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This gaffe does seem deliberate, if only because yesterday’s comment on accepting any and all foreign support to win an election should be devastating, even for the amount of outrage tolerated from 45*.
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by annieli
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on Thu Jun 13, 2019 at 10:31 AM PDT
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It’s time to begin an official inquiry.
Remember the need to have an official process, even if the outcome of an impeachment bill seems futile because of the prospect of a GOP acquittal in the Senate.
The world just watched the President of the...
by annieli
78 comments
on Wed Jun 12, 2019 at 10:14 PM PDT
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