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kpete's JournalTrump: Nixon failed b/c people didn't like him // Woodward: And also that whole crime thing
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the rest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/02/transcript-donald-trump-interview-with-bob-woodward-and-robert-costa/
The NC legislators should show us their genitalia before they can use the restrooms.
https://twitter.com/bennydiego/status/716325674244440064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Sure, Canada, okay, but can your guy do THIS?
Sure, Canada, okay,
but can your guy do THIS?
https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/715641676954411008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"Let me put it another way: this is not an election."
Is a New Informal Constitution Being Written in Washington?In these first years of the 21st century, we may be witnessing a new world being born inside the hollowed-out shell of the American system.
BY TOM ENGELHARDT | MARCH 28, 2016
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.......... this is not an election. I know the word “election” is being used every five seconds and somewhere along the line significant numbers of Americans (particularly, this season, Republicans) continue to enter voting booths or in the case of primary caucuses, school gyms and the like, to choose among various candidates, so it’s all still election-like. But take my word for it as a 71-year-old guy who’s been watching our politics for decades: this is not an election of the kind the textbooks once taught us was so crucial to American democracy. If, however, you’re sitting there waiting for me to tell you what it is, take a breath and don’t be too disappointed. I have no idea, though it’s certainly part bread-and-circuses spectacle, part celebrity obsession and part media money machine.
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This is not war as we knew it, nor government as we once understood it, nor are these elections as we once imagined them, nor is this democracy as it used to be conceived of, nor is this journalism of a kind ever taught in a journalism school. This is the definition of uncharted territory. It’s a genuine American terra incognita and yet in some fashion that unknown landscape is already part of our sense of ourselves and our world. In this “election” season, many remain shocked that a leading candidate for the presidency is a demagogue with a visible authoritarian side and what looks like an autocratic bent. All such labels are pinned on Donald Trump, but the new American system that’s been emerging from its chrysalis in these years already has just those tendencies. So don’t blame it all on Donald Trump. He should be far less of a shock to this country than he continues to be. After all, a Trumpian world-in-formation has paved the way for him.
Who knows? Perhaps what we’re watching is the new iteration of a very old story: a 21st-century version of an ancient tale of a great imperial power,perhaps the greatest ever — the “lone superpower” — sinking into decline. It’s a tale humanity has experienced often enough in the course of our long history. But lest you think once again that there’s nothing new under the sun, the context for all of this, for everything now happening in our world, is so new as to be quite literally outside of thousands of years of human experience. As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, ona planet in decline. And if that isn’t uncharted territory, what is?
MORE:
http://billmoyers.com/story/entering-uncharted-territory-in-washington/
Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’
Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’
“I grew up learning one thing: it’s way easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man,” he says. “White people – for the most part – have always had their anger heard. When white people complain shit gets done, it gets changed. Black people have learned you need to find subtle ways to get your point across. It’s very easy to say, ‘Why aren’t you angry about it?’ Oh, an angry black man? You want me to fall into that?”
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“You realise that there are people who want you to feel and articulate for them,” he says. “There are people who believe it is your duty to express their point of view or their anger. I didn’t know that before I got on the show. I just thought people were watching it and enjoying it. People – to a certain extent – have become couch protestors. They want to tweet about the thing and see someone say something and feel like they did something. I come from a world where you get up and you go do something about it.
“In South Africa the youth rose up, the people rose up,” he adds. “You didn’t tweet about the thing, you didn’t watch TV shows about the thing, you made something happen yourself. Satire was seen as an additional tool or a weapon in that arsenal.”
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/02/trevor-noah-on-replacing-jon-stewart-and-changing-the-daily-show
RNC official: Republican voters should be aware that it's Republican policy to steal elections
RNC official: Republican voters should be well aware that it's Republican policy to steal an election when necessary
RNC official: Primaries are 'preliminary,' delegates determine nominee
By RYAN LOVELACE (@LOVELACERYAND) • 4/1/16 6:32 PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rnc-official-primaries-are-preliminary-delegates-determine-nominee/article/2587470?custom_click=rss
Bull breaks loose in NYC, rescued by Jon Stewart
Best Headline EVER?
Bull on the run from NYC slaughterhouse rescued by comedian Jon Stewart
NEW YORK - A bull busted loose from a New York City slaughterhouse, briefly tasted college life and ended up being rescued by an iconic comedian.
The runaway bovine's unlikely journey started as it was being taken off a truck at a slaughterhouse in Queens. After getting free, the animal made its way onto the campus of York College, where it startled a group of students there on a tour.
"As we turned the corner, one kid yelled out 'cow.' I'm thinking it was an April Fool's joke, and lo and behold, it was a cow," chaperone Tyrone Sellers said.
Students snapped photos and took video before the steer was eventually wrangled and taken to an animal control facility, where it was dubbed Frank Lee after a prisoner who escaped from Alcatraz.
The black and white Angus concocted a well-devised plan and escaped from a Queens Slaughter house around 10:15 a.m
Video, pics & More:
a win for us vegetarians:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bull-breaks-loose-in-nyc-rescued-by-jon-stewart/?linkId=22990888
http://abc7ny.com/pets/jon-stewart-and-wife-come-to-rescue-of-bull-captured-after-running-around-queens-/1272034/
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