Black People Politics : What America sees...

[ogoun]

Living the USA..........
Somebody give me a cheese burger

"+ You have to give Trump this much, he paid more in federal income taxes than many of the biggest corporations did in 2018:

Amazon: $0
Chevron: $0
Delta: $0
Deere: $0
Eli Lilly: $0
GM: $0
Goodyear: $0
Halliburton: $0
IBM: $0
JetBlue: $0
Molson Coors: $0
Netflix: $0 ........................."

Roaming Charges 10/2/20

Roaming Charges: Crosstalk Hurricane

Donald Trump was just one of 43,000 other Americans who tested positive for COVID today. While nearly all of them paid more in taxes than he did, few will have his resources to fight the ravages of the disease and recover from its financial aftershocks.

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[ogoun]

"+ A return to normalcy, you say? Normalcy brought us the Iraq War, torture, assassination by drone, 607 billionaires & 600k homeless, the gutting of welfare, warrantless wiretaps, militarized police, the war on drugs, globalized fracking, the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and an atmospheric C02 level of 416 ppm and rising. Screw normalcy."

This weeks roaming charges......

Roaming Charges: A Fly in the Anointment

A return to normalcy, you say? Normalcy brought us the Iraq War, torture, assassination by drone, 607 billionaires & 600k homeless, the gutting of welfare, warrantless wiretaps, militarized police, the war on drugs, globalized fracking, the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico & an atmospheric C02...

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[ogoun]

"+ This week’s Supreme Court ruling will come as welcome news to the AUM Shinrikyo (Aleph) religious movement, whose adherents released Sarin gas in Tokyo’s subway system in 1995, killing 13 people and poisoning 5000 others."

Roaming Charges:

Roaming Charges: Dumb All Over, Again

So we have the same "originalists" who used to argue that the "Constitution isn't a suicide pact" to justify torture, rendition and extrajudicial killings have now ruled that the Constitution is a murder-suicide pact when it comes to religious services during a killer pandemic.

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[ogoun]

Remember Sarah Palin? Doesn't she seem rather quaint now.

"+ The Democrats’ move to strip the Mistress of Q of her committee assignments isn’t exactly corporal punishment. In fact, it will probably only enhance her Q Rating. Congressional committees are largely for grandstanding on CSPAN. Greene can get media coverage whenever she wants by saying something provocative, racist or just bat-**** crazy.

+ Unfortunately for Greene, her mewling defense of herself on the floor of the House didn’t exude the steely resolve one might expect from a backwoods Boadicea.



+ Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true.” Allowed by whom?"

Roaming Charges for the week of 2/5/21:

Roaming Charges: Xenophobia With a Human Face

+ As the Biden administration announced its intention to leave in place Trump's border rules "for now," it might be worth recalling when Biden's campaign

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[ogoun]

'Then there’s King’s third triplet, hidden in plain sight: the “extreme materialism” of a people intent on satisfying appetites that are quite literally limitless in a society that has become ever more economically unequal. Americans have always been the people of more. Enough is never enough. True in 1776, this remains true today.'

Beyond Donald Trump

When Martin Luther King preached his famous sermon "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside Church in New York City in April 1967, I don’t recall giving his words a second thought. Although at the time I was

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