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If we subtract narcissism, the cult of celebrity and love of money, I would disagree that there is an ideology that can be labeled as “Trumpism,” beyond what he represents as a symbol of the inchoate anger of the vast majority of Americans who realize they have been betrayed by elites willing to decimate democratic institutions and their standards of living in slavish subservience to a transnational global corporate kleptocracy and permanent militarism, both in the process of eating the world and probably destined to bring about the collapse of the American empire.  The democrats are as guilty of it as the republicans.

“Removing Trump from office without confronting the anomie that defines the lives of tens of millions of Americans would do nothing to restore democracy.  In fact, it would probably consolidate the power of a Christianized fascism rapidly filling Trump’s ideological void.” – Chris Hedges tinyurl.com/y8sxew45

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We had high hopes for Occupy.  I am happy to see the French hit the streets. Not going to pin too many hopes on it. There were a lot of hopes during Paris 1968. The old powers have stamina....

Don't talk about the #Occupy like it's over.  It's not.  Look at he "homeless" people.  They're there.  Tents and all.  

as mist fills the valley, it is breaktime in Buckfastleigh, where there'll be questions and answers soon, about 5g

https://youtu.be/Rys42XYIblI

Escape from the duopoly.

POS Dianne Feinstein disses school kids over the "Green New Deal." Lesser evil? Yeah, OK. This blister on humanity is as evil as it gets.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/you-didnt-vote-for-me-watch-this-d...

The first time she ran for Senate I was in San Francisco so I was fully aware of what a piece of work she is. I tried to write-in Homer J. Simpson but the ballot only allowed pre-approved write-in candidates. Not sure how that worked - to be a write-in candidate you had to be on the ballot which makes the whole write-in process a bit moot.

Aha! We've not actually *seen* the birth certificate. 
But seriously, folks... ((rimshot)) everybody *knows* Dumpty is dirty. Where does the dirt come from and how much does it stink? Who cares. Everybody's got dirt in their nappies. 
Are the owners going to make an *issue* out of it? Who knows. Our brothers' blood cries to us from the ground. The biosphere will not wait. Green New Deal is underway. It's been a long time coming. AOC caught the Holy Fire from Standing Rock. 
She is one out of many. That was once our motto... remember? Solidarity. 
For the Union makes us strong.

"That the landscape is currently split into two different sets of wildebeest is not much of a comfort." 
And it's nothing new. Fort Sumter. Guns of August. Bolshevik Revolution. The Press has always been there. Now it's just as moribund as the Record Industry... for a lot of the same reasons. But it didn't kill the music. And it won't kill the truth. 
The system isn't broken. It's fixed.

Jesus left Chicago... and rolled outta Conestoga king tut on front of a place just like that.  He'd forgotten his hat.  But that shiny ring thing followed him everywhere and it glowed in the dark.  Everywhere he looked was a backdrop for a fucking Roadrunner cartoon.  Meatball bus went right through him and disappeared into the cardiovascular spike horizon.  Plip plap in flap Jesus shoes until he became a small dot among the sage and flapped his soul on the Daily Cage.  It read:  

I've dealt with you fascist climate trolls since before the internet. No one can predict the future. But we can calculate probability. Fresh data makes it better. Gaslighting trolls make it worse. And it's usually because they think they're fighting communism. Which has nothing to do with the data. 
There *is* economic data (Thomas Piketty)... but that's another topic. 
We have known about greenhouse effect for 100 years. We have known human activity exacerbates greenhouse effect for 50 years. There is no "debate." 
But you have no interest in "debate." You only care about "winning." It's standard issue with your bucket of authoritarian nationalism. They told you "compete in today's competitive environment," and you didn't laugh. Supply-side Jesus told you cruelty isn't a bug... it's a feature. Voodoo that you do is social darwin eggonomics. 
Nature bats last, Eggbert. Your flank is in the air. You win. cuk. 
 
That's what it said.  Piketty plaque clickety clock here comes the fucking railroad.  Golden Spike 1869 jacks the bear out there painting door on a rock and Jesus opens it (of course) and goes right in.  None of this knock knock shit.  There's a bright light guess where.  It's the fly gallery.  Iron Age Jew looks down on a 19th century opera.  Magic Flute or something.  
Now you know how Henry felt on Cemetery Hill... July of 1862.  Uh-oh is still there big as shit.  Father's first word.  What would Jew do? 

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