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Are the hills really alive?

Every so often I come across political items of interest, send them to myself, and then delete them for lack of anything more interesting to say than has already been said--but it's dawned on me lately that even if my aging mind has nothing clever to add, it doesn't mean their cleverness shouldn't be shared:

1. A Canadian writer notes that he never thought he'd live long enough (he's 70) to see a time when Canadians would be "...wealthier, healthier, better educated, happier, and more secure than the average American..." but he has.  The culprit?  The republican dominated Supreme Court, which has declared open season on workers, and given their corporate overlords victory after victory.  Thanks guys!  And another reason to denounce the nomination of Brett Kavaugh, who will fit right into the corporately controlled Roberts court.
2. A tweet from Tay Zonday pretty much sums up being poor in America--poverty does indeed charge interest.  And one hell of a lot of the interest is poor health--up to and including death.  One of these days enough Americans will wake up and realize that the true tragedy of poverty is that it only begets even more poverty.
3. And speaking of poverty...the great Paul Krugman had a piece a short while ago in which he argues that Trump and republicans War on the Poor isn't a bug of their philosophy but a feature.  And that it's driven by simple cruelty.  Judging from what I've seen of Trump, republican politicians across the country, and many Trumpskis, I think his analysis is spot on.
4. While I usually think Dana Milbank is another in a long line of putz pundits who have absolutely no clue about the real world implications of republican policies, I do think he hit the nail on the head in this piece--republicans may have gotten what they wanted with their tax cuts and Supreme court nominees, but the backlash is likely to be ugly.  You can only shortchange the will of the people for so long before they give you a big old boot to the head (aka, payback is a motherfucker...).

There...now I don't feel so bad....

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee