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It’s better to terrorize a 5 year old than restrict a psychopath from getting a firearm.

 

Family quarrel.

 

A breakdown of all the arguments Trump and his people have made against the Mueller probe.

Read the 191 Arguments President Trump Has Made Against the Mueller Investigation

 

Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin
of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions,
argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point. The oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly expanding police powers “to control the resultant popular anger.” The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s aggressive use of state power.

Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented immigrants? They could, and have. Might they engineer a retirement crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? Done.Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign forced arbitration agreements? Check. Gut public education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? Getting it done.

Would they even refuse children clean water? Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like poisoned water. ...

“The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s,” writes MacLean. “To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation’s governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form.”

 

This has been happening for quite awhile. Be nice nice if the media hadn’t been working part-time for the past 30 years.

 

Duhhhhh ...

 

It's not a war, it's a police action.

 

Trump’s presidency has lowered the overall American IQ by 20 points, with liberals the biggest individual losers.

 

Link, or are you just making up shit again?