Seems Sarah "half term governor of Alaska" Palin is not too happy with Donald Trump and Mike Pence's deal with Carrier to have Indian cough up $7 million in tax cuts to keep 800 of 1400 manufacturing jobs being shipped off to Mexico.
Quick hit.
This is all over the internet and being discussed. I'll give it the Big Al angle.
This is just one person in one place, but it's interesting how it played out and how it's being played in the media. Most are calling it a racist rant and siding with the black employees while some are defending the white woman.
It’s a funny thing about fraud. It’s a bit like poisoning a well. Once you’ve done it, there’s not really any going back, either for the water or for you. I guess people wanting to use the well could conceivably purify the water after the fact, but that would take both an honest assessment of the poisoning, and expert knowledge of how to get poison out of water. Lacking either of those elements, the water is poisoned—that’s that.
This will make heads explode on TOP.
Once upon a time we had Jesse Jackson running for President with the slogan "Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive!"
Don't underestimate the power of the think tanks, institutions and lobbies in Washington to influence government policies and programs. Remember that Obamacare was partly a takeoff from a right wing Heritage Foundation plan.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a conservative, right wing think tank established in Washington in 1938 located on Think Tank Row. This is a scumbag organization made up of greedy, power hungry bastards.
Last week we learned about Palast's new documentary,
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In the days to come, there will be many discussions of how Donald J. Trump ascended to the presidency. Just at a glance, many factors come to mind: the economic straits faced by much of America and the Washington elites' failure to address such problems, the Democrats' nomination of the one candidate Trump could actually beat, and lingering resentment among some white people of the presidency of Barack Obama.
Daily Kos front pager Denise Oliver Velez, however, has a simpler explanation for what happened: racism. People did not vote for Hillary Clinton because they hated African Americans and Hispanics. That simple.
For those who have the temerity to suggest that if the DNC had nominated a different candidate for president, they might have won, Oliver Velez has this to say:
This movement of ugly angry white people and their deluded not-white lackeys should be a wake up call to you all.
You can keep on posting diary after diary on how this loss is Hillary’s fault, Obama’s fault, Markos’ fault, black people’s fault, latinos fault — but in the end it ain’t gonna change things.
You can keep fantasizing about Bernie woulda... coulda.
Nothing will change till the white left decides to embrace anti-racism and anti-misogyny.
Got a message for you.
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
My Gut Reaction: Wake up, Denise. This past election was the Toilet Bowl, and you backed the turd that sank.
Analysis below the fold....
