A dangerous blame game
We've all read it. Congresswoman Giffords shot while meeting with constituents. It is not the first attack on democracy and we all fear it won't be the last. The GOP – supported by large parts of...
View ArticleThe Execution of Fozzie Bear
The budget carnage in the House is truly appalling. Where to start?? Since I'm a filmmaker, I noticed the elimination of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which means PBS - ITVS and possibly...
View ArticleRomney and Big Bird: satiric art - caption contest
Here is my contribution to the Mitt Romney - Big Bird Rumble. I like the art I did, but I'm sure someone at dkos can think of a better caption for it than I have. Below is the art with a blank...
View ArticleWhat the hell is wrong with OFA?
There is something seriously wrong at OFA - Organizing for Action, President Obama's "grass-roots" support organization. The warning sign that all is not well is that Jim Messina is still co-chair of...
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50 Shades of Racism
It's time to close shop on the clown car metaphor for Republican Presidential candidates. I've enjoyed the joke as much as anyone, but the humor no longer works after the racist atrocity in...
View ArticleGreek debt s*** hits the Euro-fan this week . . .
It's been a big week for news. Terrorist atrocity in Charleston by a young white supremacist. Coordinated terror attack against France, Tunisia and Kuwait, carried out by ISIS. Supreme Court...
View ArticleGreek debt s*** hits the Euro-fan this week . . . Episode 2: The European...
Greece gave us democracy and now the European Union is trying hard to extinguish it. It really isn't any more complicated than that. This is the same EU that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 with...
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Trump, Nixon & American Fascism, part 1
Time to take Donald Trump seriously. Trump is winning the Republican nomination. Jeb! isn't even close. The most recent PPP New Hampshire poll puts Trump at 35%, three times what the next man gets. The...
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Trump, Nixon & American Fascism, part 2: why Trump worries me
I'll admit I'm worried about Trump. I'm worried by his hate. I'm worried by the violence that stalks America right now. I think he's a fascist. I think he's waking up something that we don't want to...
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don't look away from the death penalty
I've gotten emails from Susan Sarandon and MoveOn, saying that Oklahoma will execute Richard Glossip at 3pm central time.A civilized country wouldn't still be executing people, regardless of the crime....
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Donald Trump on a cold day in hell . . .
Some Super Tuesday food for thought . . . Stop saying Donald Trump can't win. The Republicans will choose 652 delgates today, and 428 of them come from Southern states where may win big. Hence the...
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Talking white liberal racism & diversity at Kos: some rules for the road.
We can do better than this at Daily Kos. There is a racial diversity deficit at Kos, I didn't need Marcos to point it out. It was already apparent from the many comments I've read where Kos and Shaun...
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Keep calm & carry on: Brexit does not mean Trump wins
Brexit is now reality and a lot of folks are panicking. Don't. If you are a Trump right-winger celebrating, don't. This has little to do with the U.S. and it isn’t a prelude to a Trump comeback and...
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How nazis see Donald Trump . . .
Nazis, neo-nazis, “patriots”, and southern nationalists — white supremacists all — have been promoting Donald Trump since last summer and there has been a strange and strong wink-wink alliance between...
View ArticleOne word - it starts with "T" - to describe Trump and his enablers
Democrats fighting to preserve our Constitution and our democracy from the likes of Trump should not get stuck thinking that facts and reason will win the day, because Trump makes up his own facts and...
View Article#TraitorTrump & Яussian Яepublicans
If you haven't read Putin’s Puppet by Franklin Foer in Slate, you should:If Putin wanted to concoct the ideal candidate to serve his purposes, his laboratory creation would look like Donald Trump. The...
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Donald Trump and the Alt-right – need to know background, re:Hillary's speech
As I write this, Hillary Clinton is speaking in Reno, Nevada about Donald Trump and the Alt-right. I'm watching a YouTube live feed and the chat bar to the right is filled with venom from...
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Lincoln's worst NIGHTMARE! How Republicans became the Trump party of hate
It may look like the Koch Brothers had nothing to do with the rise of Donald Trump, but one of their key funding partners, Robert Mercer, did — emerging as a backer of both the anti-immigrant scream of...
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The Alt-Right in pictures — was Hillary's “basket of deplorables” right or...
Let me show you some pictures of the alt-right and you decide if Hillary was right or wrong to call them a “basket of deplorables”. But first about me, so you know where I’m coming from and why Trump’s...
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Mike Pence wants to be civil to David Duke and the alt-right. Deplorable?
Trump VP running mate Mike Pence says he has no idea why he keeps getting asked to comment on Trump supporter David Duke. A closer look at Duke and a visit to his white supremacist Stormfront website...
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Trump's "Les Deplorables". A basket that created white supremacist &...
Trump continues to exploit Hillary Clinton’s supposed gaffe: “basket of deplorables”. But some of those deplorables are down-right dangerous. Especially the ones responsible for the the brain-washing...
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Hillary's polls are down, but panic is not acceptible when fighting fascism.
This headline on a recent Vanity Fair hit the Democratic panic button: TIME TO PANIC? NEW POLLS SHOW HILLARY CLINTON’S HUGE LEAD HAS MOSTLY EVAPORATED. But don’t fall for the despair and cynicism. It’s...
View Article"Dear Daddy" -- a response to Donald Trump & his vile language of sexual...
This is my response to Trump and the way he sees women – the video “Dear Daddy”. It's an unborn daughter's plea for her father to stand up to the likes of Donald Trump – and all their enablers.xYouTube...
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Integration didn't fail in the South, it never got a chance: Trumpism is why...
Oxford HS Principal H.D. Wade at the school office, 1971. He turned out to be one of the good guys during integration.It was 1971 and I was a newly elected Student Council President in a newly...
View ArticleRussian intelligence worked to elect Trump. Why?
Friday’s Washington Post revealed that two separate investigative teams of researchers have found evidence of Russian meddling in the U.S. Presidential campaign. Moscow mounted an intense online...
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Black Power in Mississippi: Movement lessons for the Trump era.
I come from Mississippi and the 60s. It shaped the way I see society and formed my political outlook. If you are born with even an ounce of empathy, Mississippi either breaks you body and spirit, or...
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"Alt-right" = neo-Nazi/KKK rebranded. Trump got their votes, now says he’s no...
Trump said he would “make America great again”. I know something about the kind of America Trump wants for everyone, since I grew up in a place like the one he describes as “great”. Back in the 60s it...
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Ten tactics for fighting the ultra-right ("alt-right")
We have to be efficient in fighting Trump and those behind him. Here are ten points built upon experience in other countries. Start with words.1. Words Matter.They call themselves alt-right. Do not...
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The threesome from hell. Putin, Trump & the neo-Nazi "alt-right"
New reporting in Business Insider reveals strong links between Putin and neo-Nazis in U.S. I can show that those neo-Nazis that are so close to Putin’s Russia are also strongly linked to Trump. The...
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Putin to Democrats: get over it! Our response?
Vladimir Putin had a press conference today, and he had a message for us, for the Democratic Party. You lost. Get over it. “Democrats are losing on every front and looking for people to blame...
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Trump proclaims new terror attack: "Look at what happened last night in...
During his rally yesterday in Melbourne, Florida, Donald Trump promised that a new Muslim travel ban is coming. He justified the ban by claiming there was a new terror attack in Sweden that shows why...
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Trump's islamophobic attack on Sweden.
President Trump has attacked Sweden for its welcoming stance toward immigrants and that’s no coincidence. Let me explain why and talk about the four islamophobes in his inner circle, and their...
View ArticleAlpha Bank, Putin, Trump and Betsy DeVos. Why the bizarre Russian-Trump...
A few questions:What was a Russian bank — Alpha Bank — sending to a Trump server during the 2016 election? Information? Back-channel voice communication? Some digital linkage in a scheme to transfer...
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This is Sweden: how a democracy responds to terror.
TERROR screamed the Expressen headline about the terror attack in the heart of Stockholm. The other national tabloid, Aftonbladet said 14.53 Sverige under Attack: 14.53 being Friday April 7, when a...
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This is fascism: the sorry story of how the extremist-right became the...
When I was a young boy I picked up some special insights about Donald Trump’s America; the result of growing up in a strange time and place for being an American. While the rest of the country enjoyed...
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Trump hits a homerun for #TeamPutin as allies say "We cannot trust the USA"!
In the eyes of Donald Trump and his fawning Russian/Right Wing press, his first overseas trip was a home run. Speaking to the troops at a U.S. naval air station in Italy, Trump said this: “. . .we have...
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AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE: Seven key Nazis and their links to Putin & Trump
The past bloody weekend in Charlottesville shows that Donald Trump’s “alt-right” supporters are — wait for it — actual Nazis. Anyone marching among Swastikas no longer gets a pass for worn-out...
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"Game On". The Republican approach to disaster.
A monster hurricane forms off the coast of Texas, churning toward a major coastal population center stretching from Corpus Cristi to Houston. It promises to be a big one, with significant loss of life...
View ArticleGun culture USA. Thanks to the NRA this American Carnage will not end.
Murder. Suicide. Accidental death. I know too many victims of a gun: Jeff. Randy. Willy. David. Anita. Steve. These are people that come to mind without even thinking hard. They were friends,...
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