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How do you solve a problem like The Donald?

Reality free he does TV And they put it on the air He dances through the interviews And no one seems to care And underneath his fortune Is that it’s written on thin air I even heard his hair piece is a puppy He’s always wrong ’bout everything But hey, it’s what he feels He …

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The Daily Late Nightly Show (Like My Coffee)

The New Guy I Like Legos Oh, ok Boo! You guys are complete suckers. There is no such thing as as the Wasilla Were… Trevor’s last guest this week is Marlon Wayans who will be on to talk about Fifty Shades of Black. C’mon, you know what it’s about- “you never go back?” Mr. Continuity …

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The Desperation of the Elites

The Neolib Establishment is hemorrhaging both notional wealth and political power. These twin developments are not unrelated, but I think for the moment I’ll skip my Modern Monetarist economic critique for the sake of clarity and conciseness. In both cases it is lack of institutional control of the populace, the proletariat or 99.9% if you …

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More of the Same or Real Reform?

“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street by Robert Reich Monday, January 11, 2016 Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to break up the big banks or resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act, as Bernie does Instead, she’d charge the big banks a bit more for carrying lots of debt and to oversee them more …

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The Daily Late Nightly Show (February 17th)

The New Guy Fantasy Politics Jess Glynne Trevor’s guests this week- Wednesday 1/20: Gael Garcia Bernal Thursday 1/21: Marlon Wayans Gael Garcia Bernal will probably want to talk about Desierto– What begins as a hopeful journey by Mexican migrant workers looking to seek a better life by crossing the US border quickly becomes a fight …

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The Limits of Bubbles

Well over 90% of all International Commerce is carried on ships. People are afraid these ‘zombie ships’ are the first sign of global economic collapse John Ficenec, The Telegraph 1/20/16 Fears about the global economy have seen the Baltic Dry Index fall by more than 20% this year, to 369 — its lowest level since …

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Not even ‘that’ good a deal.

If you’ve been following the economic analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership (as opposed to the political, ecological, intellectual property, and human rights analyses which are uniformly more horrible than even the strongest detractors were warning) you’ll have noticed that even the World Trade Organization, a fanatically pro-trade group as you might imagine from the …

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The Daily Late Nightly Show (Is It Always Sunny?)

The New Guy Debates Trevor’s guests this week- Tuesday 1/19: Jess Glynne Wednesday 1/20: Gael Garcia Bernal Thursday 1/21: Marlon Wayans Mr. Continuity Rebranding Larry’s panelists this week- Monday 1/18: Rembert Browne Tuesday 1/19: Romany Malco Wednesday 1/20: Dan Savage Thursday 1/21: Jemele Hill Mr. Mainstream MLK Day Stephen Colbert’s radical vulnerability: Talking frankly about …

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Democratic Party Failure

Who Lost the White Working Class? by Robert Reich Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ardently pushed for free trade agreements, for example, but didn’t provide the millions of blue-collar workers who thereby lost their jobs means of getting new ones that paid at least as well. They also stood by …

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Today in Debbie Wasserman Schultz Must Go!

Or, tell us what you really think Glenn Meet Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s First-Ever Primary Challenger: Tim Canova by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept Jan. 19 2016, 1:17 p.m. In general, Wasserman Schultz is the living, breathing embodiment of everything rotted and corrupt about the Democratic Party: a corporatist who overwhelmingly relies on corporate money to keep …

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