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A New Low for Joy Ann Reid

A New Low for Joy Ann Reid

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Over the course of the past few months in the wake of the disastrous 2016 election, the democratic party and it’s friends in the media have been dishing out take after take after take about the perils of progressive voters and, worse still, the insidious “alt-left” (a term lifted from the far right and applied mostly to leftists generally) as a means of disparaging and discouraging anyone who…

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Single Payer Now

While the republican party is feverishly trying to deliver on a promise they made out of both sides of their mouth (one to the healthcare industry and one to the public) the democrats are hard at work developing great one-liners to demonstrate their benevolent ACA relative to the nightmare Ted Cruz/Paul Ryan Cinderellaesque rags-stitched-together ballgown that is the ACHA. There’s just one…

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Democrats are Unwittingly Killing Themselves and Want To Take You With Them

Democrats are Unwittingly Killing Themselves and Want To Take You With Them

The democratic party keeps knocking back hemlock in spite of repeated warnings of its lethal potency. Unfortunately the party suffers from severe memory loss and insist it is the GOP, or leftists, or progressives who drank from the poisoned cup, now tapping their feet, impatiently checking their watches, wondering why in the hell is it taking so long to kill off their rivals. Presently the…

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The 2016 presidential election is essentially still being fought by both Trump and his supporters and Hillary and hers. Trump has taken great pains to prove he was a legitimate candidate who won by being a masterful strategist and only lost the popular vote because millions of “illegals” voted in droves for HRC.  Meanwhile, the HRC crew continue to demand an investigation into allegations of…

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The Nightmares that Keep Coming True

The Nightmares that Keep Coming True

It began as early as August of 2015, a mere two months after Donald Trump had announced he would run for the republican nomination for president of the United States on what was almost immediately clear would be a racist platform, Latino children were expressing anxiety and fear of the man who would, astoundingly, become the 45th president of the United States. Beside the invective Donald Trump…

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The Upper West Side Is the Latest Battleground for School Integration in New York 

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One P.S. 452 parent speaking out against the move is comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, who’s married to Samantha Bee. “To portray any opposition as classist or racist is as bad as it can get,” Jones told WNYC. And elsewhere: “We are not divided,” he said at a public hearing about the proposal, “we are absolutely united in wanting what’s best for our children,” then encouraged fellow parents not to talk to the press about the controversy.

“How dare people think us not wanting more lower income and non-white children in our school makes us racist or classist, don’t they know I was on the Daily Show?”

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