No yellow bricks to guide Our semi-precious way Littered with the goodluck stones That once served our purpose. But don’t be fooled By the shining of Our semi-precious way; Our luck has run out. No more magic for us On this path of beauty No spells (or curses) No protections from Oz From the suits …
Insurrection. Impeachment. Inauguration.
Three Wednesdays in January
Donald Trump is, in fact, the first president since Herbert Hoover to lead his party to losing the presidency, the House, and the Senate all in a single term. – Kevin D. Williamson, The National Review It wlll go down in history as a remarkable two-week period. It began on Wednesday, January 6th with an …
Let's all make 'trump' a dirty word and restore the Old English term 'trumpery' to modern vernacular
We’re Tired of This T***p! End the White House Trumpery!
Trump is gone, but not forgotten. The damage he’s done, the 25,000 or more lies he spewed out that led so many people to begin living in an alternative fact-free universe for the last five years, will stay with us for years unless his legacy is trashed and his millions of deluded followers wake …
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Don't share secrets with Trump, share them with the people:
Enough with the Goddamned Secrets! Open Up the Government Joe!
The incoming Biden administration is considering breaking with a long-standing tradition of new presidents sharing national secrets with prior presidents. Instead, in the case of his future predecessor Trump, Biden says he wants to hear the advice of key national security figures in the new government regarding whether or not to brief the impeached …
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A million names yet a total failure at preventing fascist insurrection:
Time to Trash the Terrorist Watch List, a Police-State Frankenstein Gone Off the Rails
I have something in common with some of the brownshirt thugs who assaulted the Capitol, some reportedly intent on kidnapping and/or killing congressional leaders and members like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader and presumptive Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vice President Mike Pence. No, I’m not a brownshirt fascist. I’m …
American arrogance exposed
Africans See U.S. Ugly That AmeriKKKa Ignores
Like many across the African continent and around the world, noted author Patrick Gathara had “an epiphany” about America after President Donald Trump delivered an incendiary speech on January 6, 2021 that incited a violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. When that mob invaded the Capitol building members of the Congress, the Senate and …
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Selective Enforcement and the Struggle For Justice
Redirect Enforcement Against the Right
“Mac, who in hell are these vigilantes, anyway? What kind of guys are they?” “Why, they’re the dirtiest guys in any town. They’re the same ones that burned the houses of the old German people during the war. They’re the same ones that lynched Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, …
Imagine Black People Storming Capitol Hill
January 6: What a Day!
Vanessa Baraister may enter the English Book of Guinness for illogic, inconsistency, incompetence, and bootlicking. What a day! For me, it started with waiting for my model of honest journalism being released from a torture chamber hellhole at Bellmarsh solitary confinement prison. Julian Assange is imprisoned for showing the world, with 100% factual information …
Pence calling the shots when it comes to the Pentagon:
Has Trump Already been Removed as Commander in Chief?
Little noticed during yesterday’s bizarre storming of the Capitol building by armed and violent Trump-incited American “brownshirts,” was the fact that National Guard troops, called for by Washington’s mayor, but not authorized by President Trump, were finally authorized by Vice President Pence. The significance of this chain of authority cannot be understated, as the Trump presidency begins …
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The Sad Story of How a Once Progressive Nation Became an Outpost of the American Empire
Committing War Crimes to Please U.S. Politicians: The Case of Denmark
Royal Danish army in Afghanistan. [Source: reddit.com] “We perceive it as natural that once again we are on the way to war, part of our every day,” explained Vibeke Schou Tjalve, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. “People believe that if the USA says that it is wise, so it is wise …
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