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Corporate GOP loves factory farms  Food production becomes a cut-throat market (Globalization)  Independent farmers and farmer cooperatives viewed as competition by corporations  Independent farmers sustained by USDA subsidies  GOP orders USDA to move to Kansas  Most USDA employees refuse to move  USDA effectively shut down as federal agency  Subsidies for independent farmers ends  Independent farmers stop farming; farming cooperatives forced out  Corporate factory farms can't keep up with the demand  Imported food is banned by high tariffs  Food prices skyrocket (at this point the process has spiraled out of control)  Most Americans face death by starvation  GOP rides the horse of Famine into greater power  Processed faux food cheaper than real food  Factory farms use slave labor  Major grocery chains stores torched by starving protesters...

Fascinating how wealth and class privilege still act to protect Epstein from his crimes. People are wondering how Epstein got all his money, floating the idea of elaborate blackmail schemes. Epstein seems to float in a isolated pool of turpitude, the solitary villain, fiendishly luring innocent men into his whiles. Dear gods: the pimp on the street doesn't get his money from blackmail--blackmail would get that pimp killed or ratted out on. Epstein made his money pimping children to his clients, period. And who were his clients? The 1%. The wealthy elite who consider themselves above the law; the REPEAT clients who hired Epstein to find MORE female minors for their extravagant orgies, their clandestine meetings, the rich and powerful who would not hesitate to have Epstein killed if he threatened to tell anyone of their "business" dealings. Epstein made a fortune selling children as sex slaves to the soulless monsters who could afford to sate their lusts without fear. I am ...

Hopefully, with the experience he's just gained, Trump will be able to open a hot-dog stand next July 4th.

The part sickens me about the atrocities at our border with Mexico, engineered by Stephen Miller, is Miller doesn't operate in a vacuum. And Miller goes to all these parties, where, out of the public eye, away from revealing cameras, the wealthy and powerful gather around him, slap him on the back and shake his hand, saying, "Good work, Stevie-boy--keep it up. We're with you all the way!"

Now I know America is being run like a business: 45's admin wants our soldiers to die for nothing--and no benefits.

45 is doing such an excellent job of estranging the USA from our former allies and making common cause with tyrants, you'd think it was deliberate....

The consequence of a stratified hierarchy--beloved by conservatives--is we, the people, all die, be it a military death, a religious death, a medical death, or an economic death; we die slowly and painfully, and our deaths are usually meaningless.

One problem with having lived for over 60 years is when I see something advertised as a bargain, I remember when it was much, much cheaper. Nothing is too petty for the 45 administration: Crooks and Liars : Red Painter: 'The White House was so worried about upsetting Donald Trump during his trip to Japan that they placed a TARP over the name of the USS McCain, the ship was "relocated" to obscure it from sight and the ship's sailors were given the day off.' A step forward is a step forward: Daily Kos: Laura Clawson:  New Hampshire abolishes death penalty, as state Senate overrides Gov. Sununu's veto .  Daily Kos : Gabe Ortiz: Maine has become the latest state to ban harmful, so-called “conversion therapy” for LBGTQ minors. “By signing this bill into law today,” said Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, “we send an unequivocal message to young LGBTQ people in Maine and across the country: We stand with you, we support you, and we will always defend your right to...

I had to turn on the heat pump last night. [Marshals crane backing up while hoisting Summer] "Okay, back a little more ... little more.... Right there! Okay, set 'er down easy--" BATHUMP. "Awesome; there's Summer right it belongs, just after Spring." Thank the gods: can we now kindly drive a wooden stake through the heart of Game of Thrones as an act of mercy? Why do we keep thinking bad fiction makes for good media? Think GoT is good fiction ? Read Mark Twain's Seventeen Rules for Writing . Made biscuits today since I'm not paying $$$ for a loaf of bread. I like how Trump is multi-tasking all the different levels of Dante's Inferno  Trump will occupy after he dies. Satan will need to install a light rail system just to shuttle Trump around to meet his just punishments. At least Trump will improve Hell's infrastructure.... Mock Paper Scissors : Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac: tengrain: ' And then   Fox News had a nutty...

I've had it with Facebook. Invasive monitoring, nurturing neo-fascist hate speech to increase their revenue, selling our personal data to obviously Russian think tanks, who then put Trump into the Oval Office--I'm done with Facebook. Yes, Google has its problems as well, but seems a better choice to me for now. Let's see how this works out....

We somehow seem to expect our children in school to be smart and stupid at the same time. Smart enough to pass all the merit-based testing, yet stupid enough not to notice our dead-end economy. What are our students learning?  They are learning that for every problem, there is an ineffective solution. These ineffective solutions are based on the (ancient) idea that less money will solve everything. How do you motivate students to learn?  Give them a future. Our students are not stupid. They can look ahead and see what our economic injustice--all of our money flowing upwards and never coming back down--will do to them. And yet the solution seems to be learning cursive writing? Seriously?

Conservatives complain about "anti-business government"--so how is taking away all our civil rights going to fix that?

Do people oppose immigration into the USA because deep down they realize our economy has been trashed--thoroughly and completely--and most of our jobs have disappeared into the all-consuming bottom lines of soulless corporations who have transported the work stations to be filled by low-paid wage slaves in another land ... but those who oppose immigration are conservative, and conservatives never-ever-ever cross-hearts-hope-to-die admit their mistakes?

YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL by Barbara Ras But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back. You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look of the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would bite every sorrow until it fled, and when it is August, you can have it August and abundantly so. You can have love, though often it will be mysterious, like the white foam that bubbles up at the top of the bean pot over the red kidneys until you realize foam’s twin is blood. You can have the skin at the center between a man’s legs, so solid, so doll-like. You can have the life of the mind, glowing occasionally in priestly vestments, never admitting pettiness, never stooping to bribe the sullen guard who’ll tell you all roads narrow at the border. You can speak a foreign language, sometimes, and it can mean something...