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SHARE Saturday, January 2, 2021 Manhattan district attorney escalates Trump financial probe
The Washington Post cites "people familiar with the matter" to report that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has now hired a forensic accounting firm to help in its long-running investigation of Donald Trump's past and present business dealings....
SHARE Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Trump's 'new trade deal' with Mexico isn't new: It's NAFTA wedded to the TPP
Though there's no deal. Negotiations actually appear to be only a bit further along than Trump's "deal" for North Korea to denuclearlize, and most of what's in the proposal is a thin coat of paint over the NAFTA agreement that Trump has railed about for years.
SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2018 John Dean to White House staffers: 'Get out!'
John Dean knows a little something about awful, criminal, paranoid presidents with berserk rage boners for the popular Democratic presidents who preceded them.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 16, 2017 Republican voters turn against book learning as the party's enstupiding accelerates
A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, up from 45% last year. By contrast, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (72%) say colleges and universities have a positive effect, which is little changed
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Don't look now, but Democrats just flipped two more seats from red to blue Tuesday night
Tuesday night Democrats flipped two historically Republican legislative districts in Oklahoma -- House District 75 and Senate District 44. Both seats had been in GOP hands since before they were both redrawn in the last round of redistricting in a state that Trump won last fall with 65 percent of the vote
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 10, 2017 Australia's ABC Excoriating Reporting on Trump & the G20
We've learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a Global Leader
He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies and to diminish America
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 20, 2017 Preet Bharara's Russian Money Laundering Case Abruptly Settled, Raising Eyebrows
This is the case that Preet Bharara as the Manhattan US Attorney was working on when he was abruptly fired by Donald Trump back in March.
The trial was supposed to start tomorrow and witness testimony was expected to shed light on how Russian dirty money gets laundered. Through real estate. Expensive Manhattan real estate. Now that avenue of information gathering has been shut down.
Two lawyers also died.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 30, 2015 In wake of terrorism in Colorado Springs, Carly Fiorina proves herself a psychopath
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is a psychopath. This isn't new or surprising information; she has been a psychopath for apparently her entire professional life, and she is running for president behind numerous other psychopaths who would be hard-pressed to collectively summon enough basic human decency to fill a coffee tin. But it is something that needs again to be said
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 5, 2015 25 Unfounded Myths Being Spread About Bernie
As the political revolution continues to build steam, increasingly some Clintonites are really getting aggressive and deliberately spreading myths that need to be debunked. We have hit stage 3 of Gandhi's progression: First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win. Here are the most common myths and why they are wrong.
(44 comments) SHARE Monday, October 19, 2015 Why I no longer support Candidate Sanders
...when your blind loyalties to one candidate over another can affect the quality of life and well-being of not just this nation's citizens, but also people all over the world, it starts to become a frightening spectacle of word wrangling and rationalizing that's so insane, it's surreal at times.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 26, 2015 Four Reasons to Anticipate PostCapitalism
You know, postcapitalism -- the coming period of existence after the capitalist system has run its course, after Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" has outstripped Sanders' current promises, and brought us to a world in which we can actually do something about our situation without dragging around the profits system like a giant millstone?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 24, 2015 Now that Bernie Sanders is taken seriously, supporters must get real
A recent article at OpEdNews titled Loving Bernie, But Getting Real is a must-read for all Bernie Sanders supporters. In the many posts I've written on Sanders, at one time or another I have alluded to the issues James Quandy brings up in his article.
The article will make the most ardent supporters of Bernie Sanders really upset.