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The Mooch: "I'm Not Steve Bannon, I'm Not Trying to Suck My Own Cock."

Here are the best quotes from Anthony Scaramucci's New Yorker interview.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of articles pushing back against the idea of the Democratic Party changing their focus for reasons of race.
Some of the articles come from a place obviously motivated by fear, such as this one.

You don't get prosecuted if you rip off the Middle/Lower classes. Ask Blankfein, Dimon, and Fuld if you don't believe me.

The Strange Case of Martin Shkreli Is Wrapping Up

Forces seem to think that the presence of transgender troops is disruptive and medical treatment of transgender troops is too costly.

It doesn't get much attention in the U.S. press, but Iraq has managed to solve their prison population problem - they don't take prisoners.

Arrested DNC Staffer Awan Retains Long-Time Clinton Associate For Legal Help

Chris Gowen, a founding partner at Gowen, Rhoades, Winograd and Silva, apparently did a little bit of everything for the Clintons over the course of multiple years including working in the Clinton White House, helping President Bill Clinton write his book, "My Life", and serving on Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign. Per Gowen's bio:

As we celebrated this July the severing of ties to the royal house of Great Britain in 1776, the truth is that we have come full circle and have since 1945 been living under a far more dangerous and absolute system than anything King George III could have contemplated in his wildest dreams, what author Elaine Scarry calls, “the Thermonuclear Monarchy.”

The Tribal Trump Twitterer In Chief has hitched a ride on the GOP Extremism Express and There Ain't No Brakeman On This Train:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=royU089cdxg

I don't get up early enough to get a jump on the Bigot-in-Chief. That would not happen even if I lived on the East Coast instead of here in Southern California.

I am prepared for outrage promulgated by this essay. Let it come--but do so in a rational fashion, which may be considered rationally. Now this subject may be a bit more intricate in practice than in theory, as I will explain.

We have a Constitution of the United States which forbids the mingling of Church and State (beware of Cruz and Pence). This essay is not anti-religious. After all, I am a devout pastafarian, wishing no one harm.

Millennials are the absolute worst! Amirite?

I wasn't certain of this fact until I looked around the web. It turns out that there is no shortage of Baby Boomers who can prove beyond a doubt that millennials are lazy, entitled brats.
Allow me to list a sampling.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT staffer, Imran Awan was arrested this afternoon at the Dulles Airport while trying to flee the country. Awan, his two brothers along with two wives and another Pakistani, have been under investigation by the Capitol Police since February. The Awans worked for twenty Democrats in the House since 2008 or thereabouts. Most House Reps fired them upon learning of the investigation, but Wasserman Schultz kep Imran Awan on her payroll until now.

Two weeks ago, with the Battle of Mosul coming to an end, the NY Times darkly warned about Iran's dominance in Iraq.
Well, yesterday Iraq made it official.

Stephanie Martinez is a transgender activist in Austin, TX. She met Rayshad Deloach in an online chat room. Deloach said he was interested in learning about transgender people/issues.

This is not unusual by itself. We must educate our fellow citizens about who we are in order to establish our niche in society. That's pretty much why I do what I do.

As I outlined in a previous post (https://caucus99percent.com/content/what%E2%80%99s-left-russiagate-%E2%8...), forensic analyses of the DNC material posted by "Guccifer 2.0", conducted by Adam Carter and an anonymous entity calling itself "the Forensicator", have indicated that "Guccifer 2.0" downloaded his subsequently leaked material via USB drive or local connection to t

Gah. We have been doing our usual deal camping in Africa for a couple of months etc since April and only checking in from time to time, but when we do we are astounded at the attacks on all we hold dear by the current gov, the duopoly, and Mr. Trump.

This afternoon, instead of being out getting in some exercise further exploring old Venetia we got roped into reading C99 and other news.

The lead story over at Salon, right at the top of the page:

It's Time To Decide: Trump's Presidency Is The Fault Of The American People.

Because the Democratic Party can never fail. They can only be failed.

The tens of millions Americans who stayed home on Election Day and chose to not vote against Donald Trump made this national calamity possible.

No self-respecting member of the left would sound like Trump, right?. So, if Trump expresses a sentiment that those on the left have been expressing, members of the left must cease expressing that sentiment in order to (a) not sound like Trump and (b) mock Trump for saying things members of the left have been saying for years, maybe for decades.

Seems like whizz kid Macron 1er isn't so much of a whizz at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/24/housing-benefit-cuts-add-t...

than a hickey on a hemmoroid?

Answer: The Alliance For Securing Democracy:
http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/about-securing-democracy

The Minnesota Department of Education has created a toolkit to support transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

is not that Will Menaker told the Clintonites they had to "bend the knee." It's the idea that we could ever work with those people again. Those people being the ones who *run* the neoliberal side of the party: politicians, pundits and their donors/employers. The people who did this:

and then this:

A recent poll showed that two-thirds of Americans think the Democrats are out of touch — including nearly half of Democrats.

Democratic Senators Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, and Charles Schumer look on as the
Senate Judiciary Committee issues new subpoenas in the Russian election meddling investigation.

Chuck Schumer had a public eleventh-hour epiphany:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a thinly veiled message to Hillary Clinton, saying that “you blame yourself” if you “lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity.” Schumer never explicitly mentioned Clinton but there was little doubt who he was talking about while discussing the broad effort by the Democratic Party to come up with a new messaging strategy ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Schumer said in an interview with the Washington Post.

I don't listen to podcasts, but I do keep a lookout for those who stick their fingers in the eyes of the political establishment. That's why this article denouncing Chapo Trap House brought them to my attention.

On Friday New Jersey's waning Gov. Chris Christie signed two bills protecting transgender residents of the Garden State.

A4652 prevents school districts from forcing transgender students to use facilities that correspond to their birth sex rather than gender identity.