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Month: November 2016

Speak up — stop apologizing

Speak up — stop apologizing

It is time to stop apologizing. This is not a time for Kumbaya.  Think it can’t happen here?  “We’ll just wait and see.”  “Get over it.”  Like a deer frozen in the headlights of an onrushing 18 wheeler. Yikes!!! The show has not even begun yet. Trump has perfected the new media.   Marshall McLuhan warned us.  “The medium is the message.” he said, it’s the media that have changed our patterns of thought and behaviour. Now, in a world…

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Trump Turning the White House into a Cash Machine

Trump Turning the White House into a Cash Machine

A somnambulistic public watches without much obvious resistance.  This is our president elect. Before he takes office, he is already impeachable.  The emoluments clause. So many good people have raised alarm bells.  No one listens.  “Just entertain me.”   It’s all Roman Circus. Trump turning the White House into a cash machine is a quick video.  A must watch.  Cha Ching!  Shades of Pink Floyd Money. The Press Christiane Amanpour, who knows something of state repression growing up in Iran, recoils in…

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This is Not Normal

This is Not Normal

This is not normal.  Keep repeating.  This is not normal.  We are in a fog.   Every day is a “whatever.”   Trump is incompetent and dangerous.   Can you say that.   Surrounding himself with a rogues gallery.    Or is this the ultimate plan.   See … government really is incompetent, so we must replace it with “something new.”   Drain the swamp.  Hardly.   You have mucked it up more. In 1932 this is how it quickly…

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Trumpism in a Post Truth World

Trumpism in a Post Truth World

We live in a post-truth world. By all objective measures Trump is a pathological liar — an inveterate sociopath of the 1st order. There is no doubt about this. And his greatest detractors are not Democrats or “left-leaning newspapers.” Whatever that means. Listen to the original comments by Ted Cruz, David Frumm, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, Bill Kristol. Hardly left-leaning. The list is endless. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He…

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