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Trump is America's biggest loser. But will anyone care?
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“The sad fact is that we have, at this point, very little reason to think this is ever going to change.”
Way back in February 2016, with Donald Trump in the early stages of his hostile takeover of the Republican Party, Robert Kagan, the sharpest of the neoconservative intellectuals, took to the pages of The Washington Post to denounce the mogul from Manhattan as "the most successful...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/08/how-accurate-are-the-us-jobs-numbers/
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“The much hyped 3.6% unemployment (U-3) rate for April refers only to full time jobs (35 hrs. or more worked in a week). And these jobs are...”
Facebo Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The recently released report on April jobs on first appearance, heavily reported by the media, shows a record low 3.6% unemployment rate and another month of 263,000 new jobs created. But there are two official US Labor dept. jobs reports, and the...
Escape from the Trump-cult
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Escape From the Cult of Trump Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it?”
On December 20, 1954, some 62 years before Donald Trump would be sworn in as president of the United States, Dorothy Martin and dozens of her followers crowded into her home in Chicago to await the apocalypse. The group believed that Martin, a housewife, had received a message from a...
The GOP’s 2018 Autopsy: Democracy Is Our Enemy
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“The GOP does not have a plan for remaining electorally competitive in a democratic United States. But it doesn’t necessarily need one.”
The GOP’s 2018 Autopsy: Democracy Is Our Enemy B@EricLevitz Laboratories of oligarchy. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Republican Party entered this year’s battle for House control with 22 seats to spare, a map gerrymandered in its favor to a historic...
‘Excusing the most blatant assault on the rule of law since Watergate’: Conservative columnist explains why so many Republicans have succumbed to Trumpism
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 98 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Conservative Washington Post journalist Max Boot has made no secret of the fact that he considers Donald Trump’s presidency to be one of the worst...”
Conservative Washington Post journalist Max Boot has made no secret of the fact that he considers Donald Trump’s presidency to be one of the worst things that has happened to the Republican Party in recent years. The 49-year-old Boot’s disdain for President Trump is so vehement that he left the...
https://thenewstalkers.com/community/discussion/45674/lawyer-who-represented-nixon-says-trumps-retaliation-could-land-him-in-prison-for-ten-years#cm1061369
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“For Charger”
The comment I made was not a violation you just didn't like and you didn't bother with the person who it was aimed at try reading all of what's going
Trump Did What Nixon Did, but Today’s GOP Won’t Convict
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“With the assistance of Fox News and its ilk, Republicans have cocooned themselves against all evidence.”
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik President Donald Trump departs after speaking at a White House event in Washington. The story is told of the 19th-century Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster, who was also a noted trial lawyer, that he once represented a plaintiff in a...
Donald Trump Is the Clickbait of American Politics
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Despite Trump’s boorish, misogynistic and casually racist rhetoric, the most recent New York Times/CBS poll reveals he leads the Republican polls...”
Despite Trump’s boorish, misogynistic and casually racist rhetoric, the most recent New York Times/CBS poll reveals he leads the Republican polls at 27 percent. Trump’s inflammatory remarks have produced a flamboyant media spectacle, abundant with entertaining sound bites. In order to...
How to deal with Trump, trolls and aggressively emotive untruths online
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“The less time we waste on headlines and hand waving, the more we can focus on what’s actually going on”
Tom Chatfield The less time we waste on headlines and hand waving, the more we can focus on what’s actually going on In the end, bullshit itself is bullshit – someone else’s wishes for your thoughts. Photograph: Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images As the past few...