Comment Without Context…Not Really.
Grievance is the hardest language to master. And for the average Joe, even more so. Tongue tied and shoegazing, stepped on by neocon globe-trotting storm trooping, and neo-liberal economic globalism, most were left forever inarticulate when home-grown high finance instrumentality played us all-individuals and institutions- as chumps… and then champs like Obama and The Peoples…
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The boot of “the basket of deplorables,”
Again with the baseball on the Smart TV. Watching the Cubs while gathering my thoughts on Hillary’s “basket of deplorables.” This feels like an obvious attempt at high heat, I just don’t know who the hell the Clinton camp is throwing at. If it’s chin music at the corporate press, they’ll just turn the other…
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Busted Flush
Between you, me and Travis McGee, I discovered culture cop MacDonald via John D. Which leads to my “Busted Flush” theory of Trump’s pull with his mass cult. If Donald can right the ship and it’s booty call time, then it’s all’s good. But if he’s but bluster, then he’s just the crazy bastard needed…
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Xenophobic From The Zeitgeist.
OOh my goodness. After all these years of reading your post, and then often re-reading aloud to share with the better half how succinctly you just nailed it, I find myself, having to push back. Respectfully. I’ll wager my GED against your PhD, and up the ante by including my 110 pound puppy dog, that…
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The Red, White, and I Have The Blues.
Truthful Hyperbole demands I cop to a general election depression. That’s not unusual, but moving to melancholia before a first debate hangover suggest this cycle is to take a toll. The reactionaries are ruining my health. And finite be that fine fettle, with one’s constitution under hourly attack. “Revolutionaries imagine time as a stream flowing…
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Tidbits That Cover The Toe Taps
Having been born post blitzkrieg into a postpartum bipartisan nostrum of nuclear duck and cover I began to desk jockey a conservative understanding of politics early on. If an ideology could birth the bureaucratic butcherism of Auschwitz-Birkenau, what would prevent some charismatic political wunderkind, cresting a current cultural wave, to suggest that one-upping some Nazi…
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