Category: trumpsterfire

The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times

When people start throwing Nazi salutes in public, it has a way of clarifying where everybody stands. (via The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times) … Some white nationalists themselves have a term for the split: the alt-right versus the “alt-lite.” Yep.

Paul Krugman: 5.5 million Trump voters could lose health care — because they voted for him

Paul Krugman: 5.5 million Trump voters could lose health care — because they voted for him

As Krugman notes, 6 million non-Hispanic whites gained insurance between 2013 and 2015; considering 66 percent of white people without a college degree (and therefore likely uninsured before Obamacare) voted for Trump, Krugman reasons at least 3.96 million non-college educated Trump voters will lose their insurance.

Sure you’ll lose your healthcare, but think of the tax cuts coastal elites will get.

Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy – The New York Times

In a post on Twitter, he said he would “terminate” the pact President Obama made if Cuba is unwilling to make “a better deal for the Cuban people.” (via Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy – The New York Times) I’m going to guess that the “better deal for the Cuban people” he… Continue reading Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy – The New York Times

Noam Chomsky Drops Truth Bomb on Trump’s Election

Noam Chomsky Drops Truth Bomb on Trump’s Election

If Clinton had won – she had some progressive programs,” he continued. “The left could have been organized to keeping her feet to the fire and pushing them through. What it will be doing now is protecting rights that have already been achieved from being destroyed. That’s completely regressive.

Americans keep looking away from the election’s most alarming story

Americans keep looking away from the election’s most alarming story

U.S. intelligence agencies determined that the Russian government actively interfered in our elections. Russian state propaganda gave little doubt that this was done to support Republican nominee Trump, who repeatedly praised Vladimir Putin and excused the Russian president’s foreign aggression and domestic repression. Most significantly, U.S. intelligence agencies have affirmed that the Russian government directed the illegal hacking of private email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and prominent individuals. The emails were then released by WikiLeaks, which has benefited financially from a Russian state propaganda arm, used Russian operatives for security and made clear an intent to harm the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

This is so much worse than any of the Clinton email or Clinton Foundation stories. It should be investigated.

Stop Being Trump’s Twitter Fool – POLITICO Magazine

Haven’t any of these people raised children? Don’t they know about bait and switch? Have none of them been paying attention to Trump’s Twitter strategy for the past 17 months? For anybody who has read a half-dozen of Trump’s tweets, the pattern is obvious. He compiles these tweets precisely in order to elicit strident protest.… Continue reading Stop Being Trump’s Twitter Fool – POLITICO Magazine