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Trump is America's Enemy #1. Trump's lies have killed more Americans than the last 5 wars combined. Trump works for Putin.
This cunt is a cunt.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Noam Chomsky: At the time of writing, concern for the COVID-19 crisis is virtually all-consuming. That’s understandable. It is severe and is severely disrupting lives. But it will pass, though at horrendous cost, and there will be recovery. There will not be recovery from the melting of the arctic ice sheets and the other consequences of global warming.
Not everyone is ignoring the advancing existential crisis. The sociopaths dedicated to accelerating the disaster continue to pursue their efforts, relentlessly. As before, Trump and his courtiers take pride in leading the race to destruction. As the United States was becoming the epicenter of the pandemic, thanks in no small measure to their folly, the White House cabal released its budget proposals. As expected, the proposals call for even deeper cuts in healthcare support and environmental protection, instead favoring the bloated military and the building of Trump’s Great Wall. And to add an extra touch of sadism, “the budget promotes a fossil fuel ‘energy boom’ in the United States, including an increase in the production of natural gas and crude oil.”
Meanwhile, to drive another nail in the coffin that Trump and associates are preparing for the nation and the world, their corporate-run EPA weakened auto emission standards, thus enhancing environmental destruction and killing more people from pollution. As expected, fossil fuel companies are lining up in the forefront of the appeals of the corporate sector to the nanny state, pleading once again for the generous public to rescue them from the consequences of their misdeeds.
In brief, the criminal classes are relentless in their pursuit of power and profit, whatever the human consequences. And those consequences will be disastrous if their efforts are not countered, indeed overwhelmed, by those concerned for “the survival of humanity.” It is no time to mince words out of misplaced politeness. “The survival of humanity” is at risk on our present course, to quote a leaked internal memo from JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, referring specifically to the bank’s genocidal policy of funding fossil fuel production.
More at https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-global-justice/noam-chomsky-ro
bert-pollin-c-j-polychroniou-political-economy-saving
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The GOP’s Long March to Fascism Finally Arrives With Trump 2020
It turns out the most important anti-truth of recent vintage was the one about voter fraud. This is what Trump will use to steal the election if he can.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gops-long-march-to-fascism-finally-a
rrives-with-trump-2020
Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, though shocking, was no surprise. It's a dark, culminating step, although not the dark, culminating step, because that is still yet to come, of a long march, a step-by-step chipping away at democratic norms that long predates him.
At the heart of it: relentless attacks on the truth, large and small, year after year, decade after decade, until the point is reached where roughly 40 percent of the people still cling to truth, but another 40 percent have come to believe anti-truth, and the 20 percent in the middle don't know what to think. And that's how you put a knife in democracy's heart.
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"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” - David Frum
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Lincoln's approach to a tough election could teach Trump a few things
Since President Donald Trump loves describing himself as akin to the second coming of Abraham Lincoln, he might want to take a few lessons from Lincoln, not only on how to wage a campaign for re-election but how to deal with the possibility of defeat in a time of national tumult.
First, he refused to question the legitimacy of an election in the midst of chaos.
"We can not have free government without elections," he said in a November speech, "and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."
Second, Lincoln insisted on the fullest possible participation. Between 1862 and 1865, 20 northern states changed laws that required in-person voting to allow deployed soldiers to cast their ballots. True, as most historians agree, nearly 80% of the troops voted for Lincoln, but the President had no sure way of knowing in advance how much support they would provide. More importantly, never before had a candidate -- much less a president -- shown such confidence in the security of absentee ballots, or the right of voters to cast them.
In the midst of dire predictions about his own election chances, Lincoln patriotically planned for a peaceful transition of power. He went so far as to craft a memorandum that openly stated: "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards."
Oh yes, and finally, when a longtime member of the Supreme Court -- Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- died just a few weeks before Election Day, Lincoln deferred nominating a successor until after the people had decided on their next president. Could he have rammed a nominee through Congress earlier if so disposed? Yes. In fact, when he did ultimately forward the name of Salmon P. Chase as Taney's successor, the Senate consented on the very same day!
As it happened, fate -- and Union General William Sherman -- rendered the success of all these initiatives' efforts moot. When Sherman captured Atlanta in the first week of September, the political tide quickly shifted in concert with the military. And on November 8, Lincoln won nearly 55% of the popular vote.
More at www.cnn.com/2020/09/26/opinions/lincoln-reelection-lessons-for-trump-h
olzer/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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#MAGA
Easy win.
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Trump works for Putin.
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Trump works for Putin.
Putin got exactly what he wants from NATO this week, thanks to Trump
www.insider.com/putin-got-what-he-wants-from-nato-trump-2019-12
"One of the largest ways that foreign governments gain leverage — certainly in the case of the president — is through financial entanglements," Strzok said. "And I think when you take a look at the Trump financial enterprise, particularly its relationship with Russian monies and potentially those related to organized crime and other elements, that those interactions have placed them in a position where the Russians have leverage over him and are able to influence his actions."
www.businessinsider.com/former-fbi-agent-says-donald-trump-is-compromi
sed-by-russians-2020-9
If Trump had publicized his income tax returns, as he promised many times, we'd have the kind of proof that ends with either jail for a traitor or exoneration for a patriotic tax payer. Oddly enough, Trump has taken his case to the Supreme Court in order to not show he is a good tax payer.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Biden reflects shift on climate change politics
Joe Biden is calling for $2 trillion in federal spending over the next four years to get the United States on the path to eliminating carbon emissions by midcentury — likely requiring a massive shift away from oil and other fossil fuels.
Trump says climate change is a hoax.
More at www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/joe-biden-climate-cha
nge-covid-economy-green-deal-15595374.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Biden reflects shift on climate change politics
Joe Biden is calling for $2 trillion in federal spending over the next four years to get the United States on the path to eliminating carbon emissions by midcentury — likely requiring a massive shift away from oil and other fossil fuels.
Trump says climate change is a hoax.
Trumps goose is cooked.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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