America

 

Jesus, what a mess!!

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Debate? What Fucking Debate?

Biden will babble and Trump will lie.

What more need you know; that this show

Is put upon us by the lowest of the low?

BTW, if you can stand listening to these 

Rat fuckers, you are a  better person than I.

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Brilliant

 

Source: Common Dreams

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What's Going On?

Listen to this, listen hard.

I know people personally who ideologically despise Assange.  Liberals mainly.  I do understand why they're such goofs, but I refuse to take them seriously.

There is no excuse for what is happening to Assange other than a full embrace of American fascism.

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Triple Whammy

This bit of silliness from the Onion is a welcomed respite from the damned real world of fascist politicians, forest fires and plagues.

The latter two could hardly exist without the corrupt ineptness of the first grouping.

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9/11

TOPEKA, KS—Feeling helpless in the wake of the horrible Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands, Christine Pearson baked a cake and decorated it like an American flag Monday.--the Onion

Nineteen years and a sinking-boatload of wars later, America remains befuddled.

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Happy Family

There has been much reluctance on the American “left” to discuss Trump’s electioneering efforts, and his politics more generally, with reference to the threat of fascist politics. Most Americans assume “It Can’t Happen Here,” drawing on the famous title of Sinclair Lewis’s seminal novel about the rise of fascism in a country that historically prides itself in democratic politics. U.S. media discourse routinely downplays talk of fascism, preferring terms like “authoritarianism,” or the more innocuous sounding “populism” to describe Trump’s anti-democratic tendencies. For example, in the first six months of 2020, a search of the Nexis Uni database reveals that the New York Times included the terms “fascist” or “fascism” alongside references to the Trump administration in 56 articles, compared to 161 articles referring to the Trump administration within the context of “authoritarian” politics or “authoritarianism,” and 193 articles referencing Trump alongside discussions of “populism” or “populist” politics. [1] Similarly, my review of the iPoll database, which is a clearinghouse for national polling data, finds that, for the professional polling organizations operating in the U.S., not a single group or poll bothered to ask Americans between 2016 and 2020 about their opinions of the “fascist” or “fascism” question, at all or in relation to the Trump presidency.--AD

The rest of DiMaggio's story.

The whole enchilada.


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Brutal

(Rachel Peters for the Oregonian)

So stunning, yet so tragic.  This is outside Canby, Oregon, near Portland.

My good friend RP Thomas lost his house as another fire roared through his subdivision in Talent, Oregon near the Cali border.

Talent and nearby Phoenix were both burned out.  Closer to Portland again, Molalla, with 8,000 folks, has been evacuated and may end up like the two southern Oregon towns.


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Update:  How Molalla was saved.  Read it.

Pilger on Assange

I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way. Assange believes that journalists are the agents of people, not power: that we, the people, have a right to know about the darkest secrets of those who claim to act in our name.

If the powerful lie to us, we have the right to know. If they say one thing in private and the opposite in public, we have the right to know. If they conspire against us, as Bush and Blair did over Iraq, then pretend to be democrats, we have the right to know.

It is this morality of purpose that so threatens the collusion of powers that want to plunge much of the world into war and wants to bury Julian alive in Trump's fascist America--JP

The great Aussie journalist defends one of his own.



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The Angels of Anarchy

“Anarchist Jurisdiction” is one of the great oxymorons in the Age of Great Oxymorons…

Anarchist Jurisdiction is the best band name since Suicidal Tendencies and they will probably cover many of the same songs, though each band member will play in a personal time signature and  in a key of their own choosing…--JSC

So much for anarchy!


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Into the Streets...Again

It doesn’t look great for Slow Joe Biden, belatedly rising from his basement while the Orange Malignancy takes its white nationalist hate show on the road.

Donald Trump is in fighting shape, throwing out one fascistic jab and neo-McCarthyite hook after another. The Orange Menace looks cocky. He’s relishing the fight. He’s mangling truth and distorting reality with reckless abandon. He’s ready to rumble.

He’s calling Biden names like a towel-snapping locker-room bully boy. “He doesn’t know what day it is,” Trump says. “He doesn’t know what state he’s in,” Trump snorts, planting another towel snap on Biden’s basement-softened buttocks. Take that, “Sleepy Joe,” you “Trojan Horse of Socialism.”

Trump knows what he’s doing and where he is. This is what he’s about. This is where he excels.--PS


Street implores us to play the game...then get the fuck out, and into the streets.  As usual, he makes good sense.

This time you should vote the "lesser-of-two-evils," obviously.  Cast aside one stooge, then go after the corporate clown in time.


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