Donald, you've done a terrific job.

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Tuesday May 16, 2017 · 10:17 AM PDT

2017/05/16 · 10:17

I have to admit it. I’m tired of all the winning. & it feels like America is great again.

Anybody who wants one has a good paying job. The streets of the nation are free of crime.

We all now have terrific health care at a fraction of the price — boy, that was a tough one, huh? Who knew?

Our military that was run down & dilapidated is now the premier fighting force on the planet.

The air is sweeter & the water cleaner. Only you could have done it & it’s only you that deserves all the credit for fixing everything.

& you did it all in, like, four months. Amazing!

You’ve really done enough. We can’t express our gratitude enough. Nobody ever deserved retirement more than you.

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yes yes yes, please make it stop!

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When, exactly, was Hillary Clinton not the presumptive nominee?

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Tuesday June 07, 2016 · 8:54 AM PDT

2016/06/07 · 08:54

Just asking.

NCAA Women's Championship at the half.

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Tuesday April 05, 2016 · 6:38 PM PDT

2016/04/05 · 18:38

At halftime in Indianapolis: UConn — 50, Syracuse — 23

Some day Geno Auriemma will get proper respect for what he has done. Should break John Wooden’s record for national championships tonight. UConn ladies going for back to back to back to back championships tonight.

Back to the primary.

Where in the world could Trump speak?

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Saturday March 12, 2016 · 5:35 PM PST

2016/03/12 · 17:35

Watching DJ Trump do his shtick on msnbc, because that’s what msnbc seems to have now as a reason to exist & wondering where on the planet could the DJ do his routine without setting off riots?

Presidents do travel, right? Presidents are the face of the nation we present to the rest of the world, where could president Trump go & be welcomed or engender any respect for us?

How will his dramatic reading of Al Wilson’s, The Snake, play to the UN?

Is there a place, anywhere we could send this guy where he won’t do damage to our status?

Doesn't free college pay for itself?

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Wednesday August 19, 2015 · 4:43 PM PDT

2015/08/19 · 16:43

I've been told for decades that a college diploma is worth a million dollars more in income over a working lifetime compared with not having a degree. I have no idea if that applies today, or which way the number may have moved over the years. Paying at say, 25% on that income would net the government an extra $250,000 over their lifetime, no?
So it seems to me that free state tuition pays for itself at least if not pays with interest. & as a bonus, you get an educated citizenry - which has no downside as far as I'm concerned.
Free state school college is not a giveaway. It is the best investment we can make in our future & pays for itself.

Hey what do I know? I voted for Kucinich. Twice.

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Friday July 31, 2015 · 1:00 PM PDT

2015/07/31 · 13:00

It's not like I wasn't told his campaign was unviable. Too, you know, unattractive physically. & too vegan. Too outspoken against the war & stuff like single-payer health care. He didn't equivocate on the question of gay marriage.
Oh yeah, he broke into song, too. Sang, "Sixteen tons." That used to be a disqualifier, before Obama made it kinda cool. Thanks Obama. No really, thanks.
I supported the little guy from Cleveland because he was giving voice to issues & policy that mattered to me & he had a history of being on my side of things.
I support Bernie Sanders for the same reason.
Isn't primary season the time we get to really put our wish list out there? I thought we were supposed to fall in line after we have a candidate.
I hope Senator Sanders keeps talking about policy that makes sense to me & it is heartening to me to see I'm not the only one.

Something that's not mentioned

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Thursday December 04, 2014 · 9:05 PM PST

2014/12/04 · 21:05

My first recollection of the Eric Garner tragedy is a brief story, a diary here on DKos I think, about a guy who was arrested after breaking up a fight. If you listen to the video, you will hear someone, I assume the guy doing the recording, saying something to the effect of, "the guy breaks up a fight & look how the cops are treating him."
I'm curious why this is never mentioned since it would have preceded, maybe precipitated what we've all seen. I'm also very curious how there appear to be a dozen police on the scene. For a guy who may have sold a cigarette?
Anybody else remember this diary? My recollection is it was about the arrest, that his death wasn't known at the time.
Yeah, not much of a diary, I know. It's just something that's been bugging me.

On Todd v. Grimes

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Wednesday October 15, 2014 · 11:59 AM PDT

2014/10/15 · 11:59

It occurs to me that Ms Grimes could pivot on this & use it as a slap at "the corporate media" & the corporate big money people who think they can tell everyone who is "qualified" to get your vote & hold public office. Tie McConnell to it because,well, he's already tied himself to it by using it in an ad which I believed he approved. & why would the corporate media be helping make Mitch McConnell's campaign commercials? Because Mitch McConnell is the biggest corporate whore on the Hill.
Probably not enough here to actually merit a diary, or enough of an idea to make a meal out of, but it could be a side dish, or maybe a tasty relish.
If Obama is unpopular in Kentucky, wonder what MSNBCs numbers are like?

How about making gun manufacturers indemnify their product?

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Monday December 17, 2012 · 7:27 PM PST

2012/12/17 · 19:27

Suppose firearms makers had to get insurance on every weapon they put on the market & any time that weapon was used to facilitate a wrongful death, the company which engineered, manufactured, advertised & sold it was held financially responsible.
Well, they'd have to get insurance on every gun they made. Insurance companies would come up with the appropriate fiduciary metric, they'll insure pretty much anything. Then, through the magic of the free market, the actual price to society will be reflected in the price of the armament. Then the onus on stopping gun violence falls on the manufacturers, not on the government.
A gunmaker who deals with a shop in Virginia & keeps getting sued for deaths in New York will make an adjustment when it starts costing them money. I think you'd be surprised at how innovative they could be with suggestions for legislation when it hits them in the wallet. They might be just a little less innovative with the kill power of their product, too. If it hits them in the pocket.
Now I know that the firearms makers would say, "Hey, we just design, manufacture & market these machines. Sure, we do it with the purpose of making the easiest to operate & most lethal tool for killing people we can, but we don't know who's going to end up with it, or what they will do with it."
To which I'd reply, "Yeah. I know."

Trump to host G.O.P. Debate?

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Friday December 02, 2011 · 11:01 AM PST

2011/12/02 · 11:01

Just heard Tamron Hall announce this. The Republican party is officially a reality show.

consider buying the new ry cooder cd

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Thursday September 01, 2011 · 1:52 AM PDT

2011/09/01 · 01:52

ry cooder has a new cd just out, pull up some dust & sit down. like his last, my name is buddy, it has very political themes. where buddy had a 30s union organizing, working man feel, the new one deals with wall street/banker criminals & immigrants. i just got it today & have only listened to it once, but it is great as are pretty much all ry cooder albums.
heres what i've found posted on youtube from the new album.

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Monday August 29, 2011 · 3:09 PM PDT

2011/08/29 · 15:09

Chris Hedges does not write feel good articles. He is unrelentingly realistic. His latest post The Election March of the Trolls has the same feel, to me, as the opening of William S. Burroughs' Nova Express. That we are past the time for trivial tinkering with the system. That it has been thoroughly & completely corrupted.

We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until the final inanity—the 2012 presidential election. Journalists, whose role has been reduced to purveyors of court gossip, whether on Fox or MSNBC, descend in swarms to report pseudo-events such as the Ames straw poll, where it costs $30 to cast a ballot. And then, almost immediately, they blithely inform us that the Iowa poll is meaningless now that Rick Perry has entered the race. The liberal trolls, as they do in every election cycle, are beating their little chests about the perfidiousness of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. It is a gesture performed not to effect change but to burnish their credentials as moralists. They know, as do we, that they will trot obediently into the voting booth in 2012 to do as they are told. And everywhere the pulse of the nation is being assiduously monitored through polls and focus groups, not because our opinions matter, but because our troll candidates understand that by parroting back to us our own viewpoints they can continue to spend their days lapping up corporate money with other trolls in the two houses of Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court and television studios where they chat with troll celebrity journalists.

Hedges believes "the corporate coup is over. We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment."

All conventional forms of dissent, from electoral politics to open debates, have been denied us. We cannot rely on the institutions that once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible. The only route left is to disconnect as thoroughly as possible from the consumer society and engage in acts of civil disobedience and obstruction. The more we sever ourselves from the addictions of fossil fuel and the consumer society, the more we begin to create a new paradigm for community. The more we engage in physical acts of defiance—as Bill McKibben and others did recently in front of the White House to protest the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would increase the flow of “dirty” tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico—the more we can keep alive a new, better way of relating to each other and the ecosystem.
Most important, we must stop being afraid. We have to turn our backs for good on the Democrats, no matter what ghoulish candidate the Republicans offer up for president. We have to defy all formal systems of power. We have to listen closely to the moral voices in our society, from McKibben to Noam Chomsky to Wendell Berry to Ralph Nader, and ignore feckless liberals who have been one of the most effective tools of our disempowerment. We have to create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive. The corporate coup is over. We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment.

This reminds me very much of

Hate to be such a bummer so I'll put something cheerful below the scribble.

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