The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Woking Dead vs. the People Dead and still winning Donald Jeffries The Right- both “awake” and in conservative slumber- are still rejoicing over Donald Trump’s glorious election to a second term as president. He won  every  swing state, we are told repeatedly. Or is it battleground state? I get confused. I guess either one works. Think Hamas and Hezbollah. Trump certainly seemed like a winner at first, bull rushing around with autopen in hand, writing executive orders and breaking the china. But what exactly has changed? Well, the stock market has collapsed. This is almost exclusively due to Trump’s ass backwards policy of implementing- or constantly threatening to implement- tariffs on other countries. That would be fine, and a good way to protect American industry. Except that our industry is gone. Shipped offshore. Outsourced for cheaper foreign labor, under NAFTA and other disastrous trade deals. You have to build new factories, and start actually making products...

  The Death of Free Speech in America? You can thank Israel and its many friends There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which now despises America’s corrupt political system and its increasing bizarre and out of touch leadership. There were  even reports  this past week that Washington and Tel Aviv have been discussing shipping upwards of two million Palestinians to Sudan and Somalia, two of the most violent places on earth, to permit the development of Trump Gaza resort and the annexation of the rest of historic Palestine by Israel. To be sure, the cancer at the heart of the Israel-US relationship, if one might even call it that, has been in place for a long time as Amer...