57 Unpatriotic Ways the Corp/Dems Have Enthroned Trumputin

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04 July 18

 

s we celebrate our nation’s birth, and organize to once again overthrow an illegitimate tyrant, we might pity Trump’s classic liberal enabler, Al Dershowitz.

The pitiful self-promoting professor is being horribly snubbed by his fellow liberal neighbors on Martha’s Vineyard because he now supports Trump.

The ordeal must be every bit as painful as being separated from one’s children at the Mexican border.

But all whining aside, it should be clear that The Donald’s primary enablers (alongside his mob boss, Vladimir Putin) have been self-proclaimed “liberals” far more important than Dershowitz – namely Nancy Pelosi and her Corporate Democrats.

Their corruption and incompetence got him into the White House in the first place. And he can’t continue to rule without them.

Let’s count a mere 57 of the ways:

MMT Economics: Key to Funding a New Economy and a Green, Progressive Agenda

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The problems we face today can seem insurmountable. Who can even count all the good causes that require funding in order to address poverty, climate change, terrorism, money in politics, environmental degradation, species extinction, renewable energy, prison reform, health care, child care, on and on. Yet we are told by the economic establishment that at worst there is no money available, and at best we are constrained by the sheer volume of causes demanding our attention. It is tempting to despair or become cynical at prospects for the bold, transformational changes we need.

Enter MMT, or Modern Money Theory. It’s the new economics. With support from progressives, it could change everything.

Ohioans Resist Fascism:

President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose fascism exploded to the surface with the realization that his war on non-white people has escalated with his version of the Nazi SS –  the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – separating children from their parents. Trump’s government has created “Tender Age” detention centers, in other words, prisons. The government has released video of the caged warehouses housing male children, but they have not, as of this writing, released pictures or definitively confirmed the location of the female children. Imagine turning over your teenage daughter over to ICE.

Amazingly, many Americans still support Trump and his racist policies. It appears that the American citizenry is experiencing the same creeping fascism as did Germany in the pre-war years. Children in prison. But not white children. Are gas chambers in our future?

The public outcry, possibly with a little help from the two women in his life, caused Trump to sign an unnecessary executive order to undo what did not require an executive order to create. However, he retained the right to hold immigrant families indefinitely.

Film pays tribute to everyone’s favorite neighbor

Older white man with dark and gray hair wearing a suit with his head resting on his hand

In June, when the Trump administration was using kids as bargaining chips in its push for stricter immigration laws, we could have used a child advocate like Fred Rogers. In fact, we could still use someone like the wise and loving “Mr. Rogers” to counteract a toxic atmosphere in which ethnic fears are mined for political power.

After watching the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, you realize just how much we lost when Rogers died in 2003. Director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) has put together a loving homage to the minister-turned-TV star and the unique show he created, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Rejecting the pie-in-the-face slapstick of children’s shows hosted by Soupy Sales and others, Rogers concentrated on giving his young viewers a friend who liked them just the way they were. With the help of various puppets (all voiced by him) and human co-stars, he also offered little vignettes designed to help them deal with everyday challenges such as anger, loss and disappointment.

Album Review – Sussman Can’t Sleep

Dark blue themed art with a guy sitting up in bed and the words Sussman Can't Sleep and We don't dream, we worry

There is a restaurant in Las Vegas called the Lotus of Siam. It’s a pretty unassuming place, and until recently was actually located in a strip mall. Despite this, people in the know tell me that it has the best Thai food anywhere in the world except (maybe) Thailand. I was lucky enough to be taken there recently by a friend who happens to have a lot more money than I do.

Although I’m not really a connoisseur, the food was certainly good. In particular, they had a crispy rice appetizer which was an explosion of flavor – sweet, sour, spicy and licorice all coming at you at once. The phrase “it’s like a party in my mouth” is probably overused, but it was totally like a party in my mouth.

Which brings me to “We Don’t Dream We Worry,” the new EP from the band Sussman Can’t Sleep. Sussman, which bills itself as “dark rock for the masses,” serves up a wide swath of everything from punk to Britpop with a generous helping of mid-70’s Neil Young and even some surf rock. Sometimes it throws all of these at you in the same song or even at the same time. Somehow they make it work, embracing variety but avoiding cacophony.

Bob Bites Back: Why does Jon Husted hate democracy?

Character of man with pointing stick pointing at a map of the US on a board and the words above "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down

The US Supreme Court (by the usual 5-4 vote) has certified Ohio’s Jim Crow stripping of more than a million mostly black and Hispanic citizens from the 2018 voter registration rolls.

In an age of computerized registration books and extensive ID requirements, there's no real reason to strip people’s names from voter rolls. In the European Union, governments are required to register voters.

Unless the Democrats effectively respond, a GOP victory in the 2018 mid-term election may be a done deal.

The decision approves Ohio’s race-based assault on the right to vote. Secretary of State Jon Husted has been stripping citizens who don’t vote in consecutive federal elections. His office mailed some 1.5 million queries to registered voters. He got back fewer than 300,000 responses – and then stripped some 1.2 million voters from the computer files.

Husted (now running for lieutenant governor) says he’s sent voters a notice after they skip a single federal election. If they don’t vote or respond in the next four years, they lose their ballot.

Ohioans Resist Fascism: First, they came for the immigrants…

Young dark haired man with glasses holding a large red sign that says Abolish ICE with a DSA symbol of fist and rose

President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose fascism exploded to the surface with the realization that his war on non-white people has escalated with his version of the Nazi SS –  the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – separating children from their parents. Trump’s government has created “Tender Age” detention centers, in other words, prisons. The government has released video of the caged warehouses housing male children, but they have not, as of this writing, released pictures or definitively confirmed the location of the female children. Imagine turning over your teenage daughter over to ICE.

Amazingly, many Americans still support Trump and his racist policies. It appears that the American citizenry is experiencing the same creeping fascism as did Germany in the pre-war years. Children in prison. But not white children. Are gas chambers in our future?

The public outcry, possibly with a little help from the two women in his life, caused Trump to sign an unnecessary executive order to undo what did not require an executive order to create. However, he retained the right to hold immigrant families indefinitely.

Doo Dah Parade

Decorated car and people sitting in front of houses watching
 

Wednesday, July 4, 1pm, beginning at Goodale Park [Park St. side], 120 W. Goodale St.

Celebrate Liberty and Lunacy and the freedom of speech, through humor with a range of off-the-wall mischiefs, grounded super-heroes, political debacles, homegrown satirists, and the other bohemian frolickers winding through the Short North. Political Satire at Its Worst!

See you on July 4. The Parade will start immediately after everyone stands and belts out the National Anthem at 1pm. Set your clock’s reminders now.

Parade route: north on Park St. to Buttles Ave.; west on Buttles Ave. to Dennison Ave.; south on Dennison Ave. to Collins Ave.; west on Collins Ave. to Neil Ave.; north on Neil Ave. to W. Second Ave.; east on W. Second Ave. to N. High St.; south on N. High St. to Russell St. Parade ends at N. High St. and Russell St.

Line-up begins somewhere around 12noon.

Rain date: July 3.

Block Party: 10am-7pm, Buttles Ave. between N. High St. and Park St.

   

COPWATCH: White, Blue and Boom! Does Anybody have any C-4?

Head shot of black woman with short black hair smiling wearing a police uniform

What’s a black female police officer to do when her fellow white male police officer talks about blowing up Black Lives Matter protestors? Any words of caution may be interpreted as anti-police rhetoric. This is the case of Police Lieutenant Melissa McFadden.

Racial discrimination

Police Lieutenant Melissa McFadden filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Columbus June 4. McFadden charges, among other things, that she was “retaliated and discriminated against” for “assisting a fellow officer in drafting and filing a claim of race based discrimination….” McFadden and one other female lieutenant are the highest-ranking minority women on the Columbus police force.

The charges in McFadden’s complaint are explosive. She alleges that after accompanying an “African-American female officer” to the city’s Human Resources department to file a complaint she was targeted by the white officers at the highest level of the department.

Institutionalized racism

Ban Tear Gas

Tear gas is among the least of the problems facing those who care about the murder and destruction of war. But it is a major element in the militarization of local policing. In fact, it is widely deemed illegal in war, but legal in non-war (although what written law actually creates that loophole is unclear).

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