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PROOF: Super rich people are not the makers but the parasites of our society. And we must say it!

A further example of rich people being parasites even as they would deny those who work

They have self-defined as the makers. So they enrich themselves on what we make, our work, worth, and service like parasites. And here’s proof. Super rich people define parasites See full episodes here. The title of the article was simple enough and to the fact. Unfortunately, that is too antiseptic....

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June 11, 2021

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Charlie McCarthy's cousin Kevin is not “feckless” as Taylor Greene gets rebuked

Kevin McCarthy Just Tried To Blame Nancy Pelosi For Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust Remarks…. because he’s not feckless, but he’s still a blockhead. Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history....

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May 25, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: insurrection deniers are like Charlottesville Truthers because previous guy

Normal tourists to the Capitol don’t cheer ‘hang the VP’ as they enter, but disinformation and delusion are the coin of the Trumpist realm. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), a gun dealer, is Doug Collins’s successor in the House of Representatives. Turns out it was four months, and "pro-Trump media" was Congress....

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May 13, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: after previous guy's indictment, a trumpist jail-break in the offing?

Previous guy colluded with Russia, led a Capitol insurrection, and is not rotting in a prison cell. But if it happens, could there be enough secessionist nut-logs ready and willing to bust him out. “I think this blending of the far-right militia movement with overt secessionism is something I think we’re...

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April 14, 2021

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Conservatism is greed and bigotry dressed up as moralistic “principles” like individualistic liberty

Steve Bannon’s path to a pardon included appeals to a range of RWNJ groups including some dangerous proto-fascist cults. “The Fourth Turning” by Strauss & Howe returns to our attention, because of Bannon. But are we shifting to a more liberal era or are we on the brink of a greater series of disasters....

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March 15, 2021

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“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup

Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs in the US military, including some QAnon-influenced former National Security and ex-DoD/Military. The hint at the misuse of federal personnel was foreshadowed in the Summer...

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March 13, 2021

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FBI Director Wray to be questioned by Senate Judiciary Committee – look for GQP disinformation

Today will feature questioning of Christopher Wray about the intelligence on the Insurrection of 1/6. It’s true that not ACAB, but an armed bunch of them showed up to foment sedition on 1/6. Accordingly, some GOP members of the judiciary committee will likely proclaim that they were shocked, shocked that anyone would...

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March 2, 2021

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nothing to see here: Trump lawyers claim that his big lie gives him 'special' First Amendment rights

Insurrection, per dictionary: “an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.” Trump's lawyer says he's innocent because 'clearly there was no insurrection' x Here are the four questions Raskin left off with last night. Trump's team answered none of them....

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February 12, 2021

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Biden to Acquire 200 Million Additional Vaccine Doses

The Washington Post is reporting that the Biden Administration is acquiring an additional 200 million vaccine doses bringing the total to 600 million, enough to vaccine 300 million. This was an option in the origin contracts with Pfizer and Moderna but, by itself, won’t immediately increase supplies though it should secure them...

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February 11, 2021

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Trump insurrectionists' economic anxiety resembled his brand of royalty, a “king of debt”

The Washington Post did a version of the NY Times profiles of Trumpists, albeit those who were involved in the 6 January insurrection, and there does seem to be a class struggle, not quite like one would expect. The participation of people with middle- and upper-middle-class positions fits with research...

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February 10, 2021

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization

As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier ACM story showed how Steve Keen’s critique of Nordhaus’s use of discounting climate change demonstrates that orthodox economics is incapable of accelerating innovation especially in...

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January 31, 2021

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1/6 evidence destruction as the Internet is forever

“Lies of a feather flock together” “I think there is a very fair question here whether moderators of The Donald destroyed evidence that would aid law enforcement investigation." https://t.co/bLXNZ8fXvt — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 29, 2021 In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings, but...

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January 30, 2021

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a QAnon supporter, a white supremacist, an Islamophobe, and an anti-Semite walk into a bar…

Hello, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was Twitter-suspended because of the “borderline monopolistic stranglehold of Big Tech”. Whatever that is. “The radicalization of the Republican Party has altered the world of conservative media, which is, in turn, accelerating that radicalization.” x Marjorie Taylor Greene – one of the most...

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January 18, 2021

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on national TV, POTUS* told people to come to the Capitol and stop ballot counting. Follow the money

Further investigation coming as the reality emerges. The Capitol police officer was killed because he was beaten to death, not a heart attack as originally reported. Foreign money supported at least one figure involved in the 1/6 insurrection, suggesting that a 1/6 Commission be created. x The Jan 6 siege at...

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January 14, 2021

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doomscrolling can be bad for your health and actions haz consequences

Overcoming the tragedy of 6 January and the coming crises of inauguration week require attention to how it is less about calls for unity and more about Constitutional justice. Pay attention to your doomscrolling; take care of your self. Doomscrolling is the act of consuming a large quantity of negative online news...

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January 11, 2021

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits

The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on surviving an impending climate crisis catastrophe, because “the rents are too high”. Existential threats have a critical reality, about which ruthless criticism is entailed. Even...

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December 27, 2020

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the Flynn Pardon and a “Rudy Special” today as Trump wants firing squad executions back

“Imputation of Guilt”, Flynn’s loss of a 5th Amendment exception could figure in the subsequent, yet unfulfilled prosecution of justice obstruction by the Mueller investigation. Abuse of power continues, as his pardoning spree further hardens his de facto concession. Trump personally benefits from pardoning Flynn, so the pardon is an abuse of power. Abusing...

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November 25, 2020

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Never mind COVID: Trump is focused on bringing back firing squads

Donald Trump has frequently referred to COVID-19 as an “invisible enemy” — which may be why he’s pretending he doesn’t see it. The coronavirus outbreak is worse than it’s ever been in this country, but as the lame duck à l'orange flops about for the next two months like an...

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November 25, 2020

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ME-Sen: “How my former boss Susan Collins (R) broke my heart – and lost my support”

A former member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ (R. ME) staff released a very compelling op-ed piece in the Press Herald where she talks about how she was date raped by her boyfriend and another man. She explains how getting her job working Collins helped her cope and move on...

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October 30, 2020

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GOTV continues because post-Trump, we know “it will get better” even with 'Trump conversion therapy'

Trump and his supporters are such dupes that rather than taking a village, it may take a dominatrix to de-program Trumpists: But up until recently, there’s one group of potential Biden voters who have not been the subject of voter outreach: kinky, submissive male Trump supporters with humiliation fetishes. Now,...

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October 24, 2020

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a chickenized economy, gigging work everywhere

Industry concentration and monopolization have become boring and technical so the exploitation of labor now gets a meme-term from Zephyr Teachout that sounds more like a QAnon conspiracy: chickenization. COVID-19 does have something to do with it considering the acceleration of the pandemic in meat production centers. It involves something more akin...

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October 7, 2020

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“Vote him out” Ginsburg death compels renunciation of faith

x WOW!!! The dictator went to the Supreme Court just now. Listen to the response as they shout. VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! pic.twitter.com/9AIcu4IcHg — Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 24, 2020 x President Trump on boos at Supreme Court: “That was just a political chant —...

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September 25, 2020

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The “Build The Wall” Contractor's Odious Record.

Trump has proclaimed Fisher Sand & Gravel, subsidiary of Fisher Industries, his favorite contractor for the wall against Mexico. http://www.cnn.com/…www.enr.com/… Wow, a presidential endorsement! They must be really special! In fact, I found a whole web page at “Good Jobs First” dedicated to how cool they are. The company has...

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August 22, 2020

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will Trump be hoist from the rigging with his own petard

Desperate measures, manipulating the process, the results, anything that can result in staying in power. April Ryan on CNN stated that Trump “looks like he’s in decline, not just mentally but physically.” Donald Trump is not only the most improbable, confounding president America has ever produced; he is also clearly the...

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August 15, 2020

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'Sort of hilariously unconstitutional': Arrested protesters told they can no longer attend protests

I’ve spent most of the afternoon watching clips of the U.S. attorney general flouting standards of fairness and the rule of law, so this was a real pick-me-up. It seems some detained Portland protesters are being told, as a condition of their release, that they can no longer attend protests...

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July 28, 2020

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Covid-19: Trump continues to kill the US with his lies and Arizona now considers 'death panels'

Contradictions heightened this past week, as Trump/Pence continued to disinform the American public. 126,000 people have died. Troubling is a Pew poll that indicates that 40% of Americans think the “worst is behind us” for the pandemic. x President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the...

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June 30, 2020

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Slender Man at warp speed: Kushner now in charge of vaccines

There’s only six months left in ‘Trump Time’, so the continuum is still safe, so far. Profiteering and looting might be less safe in the interim. Already under fire for his role atop a shadow task force aiding the administration’s response to the coronavirus, senior White House aide Jared Kushner is now being handed...

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May 7, 2020

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Bone-Spur Trump's Vietnam has arrived: COVID-19 kills more Americans in 10 weeks than 10 year war

Some facts never change. The deaths are still deaths, as COVID-19 has killed more Americans than Vietnam. Oct 14, 2016 x x YouTube Video In a previously unreported 1998 interview with Howard Stern, Donald Trump compared sex to going to battle in Vietnam and joked he should be getting the...

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April 28, 2020

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AOC & Tucker Carlson Agree On One Thing: Sen. Richard Burr (R. NC) Needs To Resign

So I’m sure you’re all caught up to speed but just in case: Three weeks ago, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee privately warned dozens of donors about the harrowing impact the coronavirus would have on the United States, while keeping the general public in the dark. In...

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March 20, 2020

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GOP Senate Intelligence chair dumped up to $1.6 million in stock just before market started crashing

Daily Kos’ Kerry Eleveld reported on Part I of this outrage earlier today. In sum, Republican Sen. Richard Burr, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned a group of wealthy insiders that the coronavirus would be a big, serious deal — even as Donald Trump was downplaying the danger at every...

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March 19, 2020

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Trump gaslight: blames someone else for COVID-19 delay in testing… Thanks Obama

More GOP stunts rather than action. Trump continues to emit a cloud of disinformation about the lag in testing which because of a lag in data is causing public anxiety. Example: CDC says there are 80 cases (there are 158). (CNN) President Donald Trump sought to lay blame on the Obama administration for slowing down...

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March 5, 2020

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96% of Iowa caucus results has Buttigieg ahead of Sanders by 0.3% in state delegate equivalents

IDP Caucus 2020 Results 96% reporting (1686 of 1765 precincts) Candidate SDE National Delegates Bennet 0 – Biden 327.578 – Bloomberg 0.21 – Buttigieg 549.074 – Delaney 0 – Gabbard 0.114 – Klobuchar 253.854 – Patrick 0 – Sanders 533.105 – Steyer 6.505 – Warren 380.045 – Yang 21.368 – Other...

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February 6, 2020

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So Economist Austan Goolsbee Is For Buttigieg? Here Is a Little Story About Goolsbee.

Sometimes you can tell something about a politician by their supporters. Oh, I am not necessarily talking about the every day voter but the big time movers and shakers. Take for instance economist and former Obama Administration official Austan Goolsbee. It appears that Goolsbee is a Pete Buttigieg supporter. Why...

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December 8, 2019

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Fail: the barbarism of #beckywiththebadgrades lawyer exploiting Asian-American students' claims

x A federal judge just ruled that Harvard's admissions policy doesn't discriminate against Asian American students https://t.co/3EcdGOKybz — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 1, 2019 Today’s ruling represents a cynical use of white-privilege for a “model minority” to recuperate the mission that failed in the case of Abigail Fisher. The charges that de facto...

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October 12, 2019

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more Arms for Dirt: Giuliani associates arrested while trying to leave the country

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were nabbed at Dulles airport (perhaps) “trying to flee the country” and have been indicted for financial violations but more importantly in connection to Rudy Giuliani’s role in the Arms for Dirt scandal. Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is mentioned as ‘Congressman-1’, one of their...

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October 10, 2019

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Indonesian oligarchs took advantage of a US law and created a climate calamity of global consequence

“We’ve created a situation that is so contrary to what we had hoped for. We’re doing more harm to the environment. It was a mistake.” Former Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). Heartbreaking and horrific recent images of the severity of wildfire that have burned out of control in the Amazon rainforest....

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September 24, 2019

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Many people are saying Jared Kushner is a Baltimore slumlord

Jared Kushner is a lot of things: addlepated titmouse; bemused silver-spoon-asshole-enabler; failing real estate investor; poor man’s Count Chocula; quasi-sentient ambulatory sperm whale placenta in Little Lord Fauntleroy finery; Ivanka Trump’s third-favorite dildo. But don’t ever call him a decent landlord. Because apparently, he’s a slumlord. In — wait for it! —...

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July 28, 2019

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Alternate Theory On Governor Matt Bevin's ProPublica Rant: Auditioning for Job with Trump.

According to Joseph Gerth of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin’s rant against ProPublica’s partnership with the Courier-Journal is more about his auditioning for a job with Trump than further investigations into his own corrupt dealings here in KY. It appears that ProPublica has a podcast that is...

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December 16, 2018

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Cut and gut: How Republicans helped the rich raid the U.S. Treasury

And now for today’s thought exercise. Imagine you are a member of Congress. Recent assessments from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warn that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2018, which ended on Sept. 30, jumped to $779 billion and annual trillion-dollar shortfalls will return beginning in FY 2020. But then...

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December 16, 2018

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Inauguration planner expressed concern about inflated Trump hotel charges 'when this is audited'

Hope you’re enjoying your Trump Corruption Advent calendar. Sometimes I wish they’d space the scandals out a bit more so I can really savor each one. I like Christmas cookies and Trump legal peril as much as anyone, but I can’t gorge on them like this nonstop without getting a...

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December 14, 2018

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Openly corrupt Trump asked Japanese PM to give top GOP donor a casino license

Donald Trump’s corruption is so brazen and ubiquitous, it’s almost not worth mentioning anymore. But a new report claiming that Trump openly lobbied Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on behalf of casino magnate and top GOP donor Sheldon Adelson is nevertheless alarming. That is, if you’re Pollyannish enough to still believe these...

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October 10, 2018

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Why No Plea Deal for Manafort? Because Manafort is a Blockhead.

I’m convinced that Manafort is just a blockhead. Tierney Sneed of TPM is reporting that Manafort’s attempts to negotiate with Mueller about avoiding a D.C. trial have proven “unsuccessful.” Now, this is from an article in the Wall Street Journal, but they vaguely claim that the talks feel through because...

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August 27, 2018

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Kansas City Star/ProPublica report details how Kris Kobach swindled municipalities

You have to read this entire joint report by the Kansas City Star and ProPublica to fully understand the story. I will attempt to summarize the report in less than 50 words: Kansas Secretary of State and Donald Trump crony Kris Kobach convinced multiple U.S. municipalities to adopt anti-immigrant policies,...

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August 1, 2018