Election 2016 – CALL ME MAGGIE

October 19, 2016

More clickbait about Clinton

Not really sure how the Trumpistas can keep yelling that the media is bending over backwards to elect Clinton at all costs when every paper and news channel, even “friendly” and “supportive” ones like the WaPo keep creating these clickbait… Continue reading

October 16, 2016

Trump supporters are not the wretched of the earth

It’s about race, culture, and identity — not economics. …The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is,… Continue reading

October 13, 2016

Hacked WikiLeaks show nothing we don’t already know

I’m really not sure what the purpose of these emails leaks is supposed to be. They are not showing anything that most voters don’t already know. In fact, I would almost go far so far as to say the WikiLeaks… Continue reading

August 12, 2016

How American Politics Became So Ineffective – The Atlantic

This article at the Atlantic is much, much more in-depth thoughtful piece than what I’ve covered with a few quick gestures over the last couple of weeks on FB and here at my blog. The more intrinsic hazard with middlemen… Continue reading

August 3, 2016

Commissioner of Sanitation

July 28, 2016

can we move on and keep faith?

We have to keep in mind how being careful can evolve our thinking and how carelessness can devolve it. Committing ourselves to a course rarely happens as a straight line. This is unfortunate, primarily because folks get discouraged. But we have… Continue reading

March 10, 2016

#Trumpdacity

I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity… Continue reading

January 20, 2016

Trump and American #authoritarianism

Take activated authoritarians from across the partisan spectrum and the growing cadre of threatened non-authoritarians, then add them to the base of Republican general election voters, and the potential electoral path to a Trump presidency becomes clearer. Source: Donald Trump… Continue reading

January 13, 2016

@tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump

The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley… Continue reading

July 31, 2015

How Uber and the Gig Economy Are Making Voters as Disposable as Temp Workers

Temp politics is an outgrowth of the sweeping transformation of economic, social and political life over the past 35 years to fit the demands of global capital for “flexible,” nonunion labor markets that fuel growth in monopoly profits, irrespective of… Continue reading