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"What a revolting development this is,” as Chester A. Riley once said. Trump has met his political nemesis and it turns out that she is a bigger liar than he is. YIKES AND EGADS! Kamala is, however, more adept at blowing smoke up her fellow citizens anal orifices without making it cause the severe flame-shooting flatulence induced by Trump’s clumsy antics. It’s clearly evident, well, maybe not so crystal clear to most folks, but at least some discerning voters do get the feeling that the people running the American oligarchy who are producing this election charade are monstrous, genocidal maniacs who would be glad to drop flesh-obliterating ordinance on the children of their own countrymen if they didn’t need all the warm slave bodies to man the corporate production lines and fill the ranks of the armed forces. The production you posted of Kamala on stage was the final straw for me. Watching this put me in the mood to vote for Trump’s good buddy Hannibal Lecter, and get the apocalypse over with once and for all.

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Excellent piece from the pen of Paul Street. He's always on the mark, but this offering sets a new bar - in calling out the BS we are severed on a daily basis, with the brilliant title - "The Art of Blowing Smoke Up the ASSES of the Masses." Thank you, Paul, for being there to clear the smokey air.

J D R - Santa Fe

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I'd love to see a modified Venezuelan electoral system where, in addition to elections for offices, there is a weekly election for policies. Then at least there would be some grounds for the community to better select representatives. One requirement- voting must be done in person at a place with a modem-less computer, some paper, and a cardboard box. Voting is M-Th, and counting is Friday. Self-evidently, confirmation is automatic at the end of the day, once the paper ballots are counted. (these aren't technically the ballots but a piece of paper with the voting results of a voter who dropped it into the cardboard box.) Then use a USB-C modem to upload results to the appropriate places. Weekly. Are you absent? Then you miss that vote. In the hospital? Voting can resume for you when you get out. Yes, there are the exceptions for helpless people (reality), which could be the topic of the first vote. This process is transparent because as an analog blockchain, anyone tampering with the results is already busted. It is not necessarily (sadly) the answer for ending neoliberal policies, but at least the people's mandate for change will be more visible, and 2-faced politicians will be more easily exposed and their access to the public trust shut down. A computer running an open source spreadsheet app, endless spools of cash register paper, and a cardboard box.

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Good ole anarchy: keep in small groups at first for growth and hopefully into well define goals. Yes even the neighborhoods get some kind of consensus. Then move it outward bordering into states . Why just one hierarchal presence how about voting two in, a better check and balance. Move into mixing borders to defined strong resistant domains. Yes I want to be a real true blue revolutionary, at going on 75 . Hell anyone join me in ground zero here in Iowa -OMFG Reynolds … Grassley… Ernst. Yes a triple threat . Let’s meet in my basement lol I am desperate to move into bigger pockets of real resistance. Mirror Mr Street- hell love( midwestern down to earth wakefulness )that he kinda lived in Iowa city?

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The same leftists who were calling here KopMalla 4 years ago suddenly are talking about "hope" and "vibes", especially with her choice of VP. It's the Obama effect all over again. Pure "inspirational" politics. Weird to see how fickle people are with the election cycle.

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All you need to always remember is what that hombre from the Upper West Side, George Carlin, put into simple Marxian terms: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy."

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