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We have a president that gives cover to the worst of those that gathered at Charlottesville: the Klan, neo-nazis, neo-confederates, and white supremacists. For the somewhat less extreme, white nationalists and the alt-right, he provides jobs in the White House as his advisors. This is America...

Calling his post art is just babe's way of saying he's in on his own joke, that the propaganda and nonsense he writes is more performance art than serious discussion.

I’d be interested in informed estimates on the percentage of Trump supporters that identify as white nationalists, neo-nazis, and Klan members. I suspect it’s a small fraction of what gets called his base. Knowing Trump supporters, who they are and what they believe, and even more importantly...

It’s a sad time for patriots. Babe’s doppelgänger, Rich Higgins, has been forced to resign from his position at the NSC. "Fired White House staffer argued "deep state" attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers."...

We’re most likely still a generation away from single payer. A more politically possible intermediate step is to lower Medicare eligibility to age fifty-five. Easing this group of older folks onto medicare makes for a much healthier risk pool for those who would still get their insurance through...

The handful of hyper-critical posters are trolls or so insecure in their beliefs they can’t stand an informed point of view opposed to their own. It would be a shame if you allowed them to limit or change how and what you want to post in any way. Think like Meursault, that the “howls of...

It’s hysterical to think Brennan was calling for a coup. Mueller was appointed by the DOJ and Brennan was saying if Trump orders DOJ officials to fire him they should refuse and instead resign. The context is clear to anyone with any sense of history. In the midst of the Watergate scandal...

The current season is the 7th and has 7 episodes, 5 more to go. Season 8, the final season, will air next year and have 6 episodes. http://www.newsweek.com/game-thrones-final-season-may-have-all-feature-length-episodes-631062

Research on panhanders indicates most (over 90 percent) are indeed homeless or displaced and make from $20 to $50 per day. The first spending priority is food, then, depending on the individual, smokes, alcohol, and/or drugs.

I'd guess Hayward has had a slow burn for Boston since he was a Bird fan growing up in Indiana and the flame was just turned up when Stevens became their coach. Problem is, Hayward is so circumspect, so non-confrontational, that he was unable to express himself truthfully to Jazz management when...

Mainstream leftist media is an oxymoron. By large measure the mainstream media is corporate, traditional, centrist, and in some cases, neoliberal. Examples of mainstream media would be The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NBC and ABC. Examples of leftist media would be The Nation...

I agree that the Scandinavian countries are more accurately called social democracies. Still, Bernie does self-identify as a democratic socialist. He catered to and was supported by the Democratic Socialists of America which is an activist organization to the left of what are commonly called...

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A few thoughts on trolls and trolling. Imagine spending years creating an alternative identity, all to amuse yourself and a small handful of barely interested others. It’s takes an unhealthy dose of both dedication and delusion. Vonnegut said we become what we pretend to be. If you pretend to be...

It might be helpful to differentiate between the influence of progressives on social policy and on economic policy. Progressive social movements have been embraced by the Democratic Party but progressives haven’t had anything close to a controlling influence on economic policy since the collapse...

Agreeing on a definition of terms is the most basic condition for a good faith argument or even just a civil conversation. Instead of simply asking for clarification, all too often past slights and petty grievances run everything off the rails with insults. Anyway, my understanding is that a...

Never read Scum of the Earth. I did read Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar for a class in high school and they had a definitive impact on my thinking at the time. Koestler's reputation seems to be much diminished now and I haven’t thought about him or gone back to read anything...

He screams hate at people he takes to be Muslim and murders those who try to intervene. But that’s not nearly enough. Apparently he voted for Bernie, wanted Clinton to be killed, may or may not have supported Trump, posted racist rants, and gave the Sieg Heil salute on occasion. Now the...

I did read where he has a nice house on the Gallatin River (where some of the fly fishing scenes from “A River Runs Through It” were filmed), but assumed his campaign headquarters would be separate. It is commendable the Fox reporter retracted the choking portion of her statement since she was...

Where is the source that the alleged assault took place at his house? I can’t find it. All the press reports I've read, every one of them, including local reports from Montana papers and the eyewitness account by the Fox News reporter who was invited to interview Gianforte, said the incident...