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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Trump Transition Team 16

Trump Transition Team 16 (2016)

If fascism ever comes to the United States, it’ll be because the people voted it in.
--Irving Wallace, The R Document

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Trump Transition Team 12

Trump Transition Team 12 (2016)

There is no more painkiller.
--Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Trump seems to not be interested in fighting real battles or even engaging in genuine politics. It’s all a pageant to him, a fixed narrative, a rigged game in which he’s is supposed to be the big winner in the end, with the cheering and the booing just being all in good fun. But nobody’s having any fun, least of all him. And putting on a show is all he knows how to do.
--Digby (Heather Parton)

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Trump Transition Team 2 Remix

Trump Transition Team 2 Remix (2016)

[So long as] the proles can be distracted from their own despair by media-created pseudo-events, including the brief and bloody war, the super-rich will have little to fear.
--Richard Rorty

Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Saint Stool Pigeon

Saint Stool Pigeon (2017)

We turned down the lights and I had my team bring in some candles so Mike could show me how he speaks in tongues. I had seen this on TV before. He asked for the blood of a stool pigeon to dip his fingers in before we talked about the sanctity of life.
--Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof

Friday, February 03, 2017

Trump Press Conference

Trump Press Conference (2017)

You're attacking us. Can you give us a question?
--Jim Acosta, CNN

Don't be rude. No, I'm not going to call on you. You're fake news.
--Donald Trump