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Link for Matt Taibbi article is HERE.

I suppose the reality has still to set in, but everything seems to be about Trump and nothing else.

State of Play:
President and Executive : Republican
Senate : Republican control
House: Republican control
Republican Governors: 33
Republicans have complete control [trifecta] of 25 States +2 where they can override a veto. Whereas Dems have 6+2.
SCOTUS: Tied but not for long

Voter Turnout around 58%

The Civil Liberties Defense Center, on the behalf of the water protectors, has filed a class action suit seeking an emergency restraining order against the cops and mercenaries.

The request [asks for] an order prohibiting Defendant law enforcement agencies from using excessive force in responding to the pipeline protests and prayer ceremonies and asks specifically for a prohibition on the use of SIM, explosive grenades, chemical agents, and water cannons or hoses, as means of crowd dispersal. The civil rights complaint seeks justice against the constitutional violations perpetuated against the mostly Native American water protectors, including claims of retaliation and police brutality by law enforcement, as well suing the Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, and City of Mandan Chief of Police Jason Ziegler for maintaining policies, customs, and practices that led to grave violations of Plaintiffs’ rights secured by the U.S. Constitution. This Court must decide whether the poorly trained defendant law enforcement agencies used SIM, freezing water, chemical agents, and explosive grenades to harm the Water Protectors and chill or deter them from their lawful exercise of the rights to free speech, association, and religion in violation of the First Amendment.

The lies that caused the disastrous invasion of Iraq didn't start on 9/11, and they've never ended.

What does it mean? Potentially it could dwarf Brexit.

So why should we create a new party if we've already got the Green Party?

Please take a look at the newest piece in Counterpunch, The Stein Campaign and the Fight for Green Party Independence by Brandy Baker. Please give this piece a solid read before commenting.

To match the Rebublican supremacy among white voters, the Democratic Party relies heavily on support from minorities, especially, African Americans, of whom 88% voted for Hillary Clinton in the recent election.

Irony of Ironies! Barack Obama is now the "great white father" of the Native Americans (aka First Nations). Laugh or cry, I can't decide which. Obama is neither great nor is he white. He is not a father but an obedient child of the elites. He is bereft of any sort of humanity--and humility as well. GWF Obama is of Kenyan descent and maybe Trump was right: not an American at all.

If you do nothing else today, watch this 10-minute video from Kash Jackson, a veteran who is on a righteous rant. As he says, there's a lot of profanity in this video, but he's angry. He also is connecting all the right dots.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqa5kHUr8_A&feature=youtu.be]