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Mr. Transactional

By Justin T. Carreño

As great as it would be to have the first woman and black woman

President, we should not vote for a candidate based on their identity,

rather it should be based on who is best qualified. The following 

spells out some of the things going on with the

candidates.

If people support Trump, they are making so many negotiations --

everyone else lies and only Trump tells the truth. The reality is he's

had three wives and has cheated on every one of them, including with a

porn star he paid hush money to keep quiet about cheating with her.

His first wife had to have a gag order to have the divorce finalized,

and when she broke the gag order she said she was physically and

sexually assaulted by Trump. Additionally, he's been found twice

liable for defamation and sexual assault in civil court, and bragged

about sexually assaulting women. If a man can't be faithful to his

wife, how is supposed to be faithful to the country?

People who support Trump have to say those things aren't deal

breakers for me. In his business practices, he's filed bankruptcy

multiple times. He was found to have racist business practices back

into the 90s, so this wasn't political. He had fraudulent Trump

University, and has been convicted of multiple felony counts for

fraud. He is banned from operating charities in New York because he

Whose Worse?

JOHNSON OR TRUMP?

It's all here! Click below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/boris-johnson-party-scandal.html?smid=em-share

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Dialog

Evil is Never Banal.

Who Can Beat Trump? Who Knows?                  JL: Obama was right-Dems HAVE formed a circular firing squad but will march into the sea with Bernie and his fucking principals. RC Who Can Beat Trump? Who Knows Bush II was runner up. Trump trumps all of all of today’s evil doers. We have seen the enemy and he is us. Dems are new deplorables.  JL: You know what? I lost complete faith in the American electorate way back in 1972, when Nixon beat McGovern in a landslide.I still remember how depressed I was the day after the elections(and conversely  how ecstatic I was when Nixon went on TV and announced his resignation in order to avoid impeachment.) I never thought I could loathe a President more than Nixon.....until Trump came along.

GARBAGE IN ... GARBAGE OUT

PJ EXCLUSIVE: 'CRY-IN' AT MOMA FOLLOWING TRUMP VICTORY

BOO-HOO: DIRECTOR LOWRY 'DISMAYED 

The Museum of Modern Art | 11 West 53 Street | New York, NY 10019
(212) 333-1273

Glenn Lowry

From: Lowry, Glenn <glenn_lowry@moma.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 4:22 PM
Subject: Today

I know many of you, like me,  were dismayed by the results of the election last night. I will spend a long time trying to understand what happened and what it means for our future. But I take comfort in a note that I received from Marie-Josée Kravis, our president, first thing this morning who reminded me not to forget what we stand for, and to strive to be a beacon for the values we care about most. As I read her note, I thought about how fortunate we are to have trustees like her. I realized that our mission going forward suddenly had become clear: to be a model of an open, tolerant, and generous institution in everything we do.

Letter from Washington

THE WAY FORWARD

By Richard Carreno

[WC News Service]

Presidential Election 2016: An American Tragedy

Presidential Election 2016: An American Tragedy By David Remnick The electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and ...

WASHINGTON -- I read this in The New Yorker, in print, as well, and was equally impressed.  But for some reasons that might somewhat differ from your view. I thought at the time that the tone -- despite many good points in the article -- was too hysterical and crisis laden.  (I still hold this view upon re-reading). Understandable, I suppose, in that it was written just after the biggest presidential upset in history, and the grief at the unexpected was overwhelming for many. (Me included, except for the overwhelming part). Ergo the cry-ins and sensitivity sessions at many institutions of higher learning (Penn included) to calm the nerves of these poor dears.

I am in Washington at the moment, as I write this, and I just visited Trump's new International hotel in the Old Post Office Building. What a triumph in design -- all in bad taste, of course. The rooms run about $400 per night. Less, with discounts of course. Not quite the Georges V. It will serve the right-wing swamp lizards who are now descending on this capital in great numbers. These people from Des Moines and other nether parts who will of course be appropriately impressed. For the rest of us, it's time to boycott Trump properties. Here. Now.  (I was struck by the service of a bellhop who out of one eye noticed I had to relieve myself. You know, that twitchy dance number.  He caught my eye and pointed in the direction of the lavatory. Not a word was spoken. Well done! I also sort of liked the idea that my only activity in Trump-land was to pee on a part of it).

The point is, We really don't know how Trump will proceed -- despite what knowing, elite, establishment New York liberal David Remnick (The New Yorker's saviour and Sy Newhouse's house toady, by the way) might deduce. I think more reasoned thinking suggests that Trump will be at his worst in dealing with social policy(ie healthcare and the like, Supreme Court, etc.. , immigration). He might fare better in international matters (ISIS, Russia, Syria, etc). His administration will be replete with second-raters, with conflicts of interest up the wazoo. So there will be many nefarious compromises of course.

The reaction of the media and responsible corporate press (not Bernie incidentally) is to normalize Trump. (Pence and Nancy Pelosi had a hand-holding session yesterday here, wherein they and press lackeys blew kisses at each other). This is, Trump would say, a YUGE mistake.

Trump must be taken down. In my opinion, this can only happen if the opposition (and I'm not strictly speaking of the Democratic Party) reconstitutes itself to reflect the broad spectrum of the truly and honestly aggrieved and disaffected. All the talking heads of course are talking about Hillary's neglect of white men. But, oddly, they're not commenting on the white, brown, and black men and WOMEN who voted for The Donald. (Hello, Philly suburbs).

The Wall will NOT be built. The swamp will NOT be drained. I wonder how it will take before the White Man brigade realizes that it has been conned -- again!

Earlier today, I stopped at the new Museum of African-American History and Culture. I couldn't get in. No tickets are available, and won't be for months, I'm told. By all accounts that museum is stunning, a true wonder and celebration of America's black minority. (Interesting, Philly's African American Museum is failure. No one goes). These museums are identity keepsakes of course, and makes one wonder when the Museum of Latino History and Culture will open on the mall, celebrating a minority (my minority by the way) whose numbers are far greater than that of the black populace. The point is this: The Dems (viz Hillary) are too constricted by their links to identity groups -- the celebration of diversity, as opposed to unity, our true cause!

Some of us have been saying this for years. Finally we might have a chance to refashion a more progressive form of  neo-liberalism.

Sending you a copy of the article on this topic in today's New York Times.

Meantime, they're still blowing kisses. So I'm not optimistic.

Log In - New York Times

Log In - New York Times

RIZZO REDUX

A Lost Industrial Kingdom

Working-class anger and economic decline

could deliver Pennsylvania to Donald Trump

 

Resurgence of Updike's Rabbit Voter Could be Harbinger

 

 By CHARLES McELWEE

[WC News Service]

Pennsylvanians will be under close political, psychological, and anthropological observation during this election cycle. The state is home to a large white working class that resides in urban and rural pockets undergoing profound demographic and economic change. Although Pennsylvania has reliably trended Democratic since 1992, there are enough of these voters to imperil Hillary Clinton’s chances. The state is witnessing an emerging coalition of Republicans and Democrats who are devoid of ideological preferences, furious over the perceived failures of both parties, and believe the changes transforming the state threaten their future.

In April, Republican voters expressed enough anger and carried enough grudges to make Pennsylvania one of Donald Trump’s best performances in the GOP primary season. In the coming months, Hillary hopes to win over the right number of Democrats and disaffected suburban Republicans to eliminate Trump’s pathway to Pennsylvania’s twenty Electoral College votes. But a closer inspection of Pennsylvania’s primary results, combined with a historical and cultural understanding of the state’s working class, portend a much more difficult campaign for Hillary than Trump.

In the primary, Trump outperformed Hillary in the Lehigh Valley, the Harrisburg area, two suburban Philadelphia counties, and parts of northeastern and western Pennsylvania. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders won thirty of sixty-seven counties statewide, including the northern tier counties impacted by the natural gas industry and the Democratic strongholds of Cambria and Berks counties. Shortly before the primary, a New York Times reporter interviewed a retired steel worker at a Sanders rally in Reading, the Berks County seat and Pennsylvania’s fifth largest city. When asked who he would support in a Trump-Clinton matchup, he responded, “I would probably go for Donald Trump.”