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...

  This is the Playbook, Primitive and Vicious, Chapter, Verse and SCOTUS filing This is How They Disenfranchise All of Us ELIZABETH NICKSON You could see it operating yesterday. The once hopeful, now useless Dan Crenshaw, used it against his own party, “terrorists”, “seditionists”. It’s so basic as to be nauseating, insulting to your intelligence. Political enemy? “Terrorist”. “Insurrectionist”. “Saboteur”. They all use the process I am about to describe. Invented in some behaviourist hell-hole at a multinational and consecrated by Klaus and Justin and all the evil little Ivy League demons in government, it is used against their bosses, their employers, the people. This is how it happened. I was born in Montreal, but grew up in the country. When we moved back, I was 17, and immediately entranced. The city is old, reaching back to the 1500s and it had a distinct culture, Anglo and French, sophisticated, layered, with many rituals and pleasures that had been perfected over more than ...