This is from when the orange man was preparing himself to be king of the world, long before anyone in their right mind would consider him for president of the US.

Assad & Putin supporters are among the most ardent Trump supporters because hating on Hillary is the breadth of their political vision but not the depth of their confusions & in some cases their malignancies.

They like him because of his grandstanding, fatuous denunciations of fake news & mainstream media. They like him best because they think Pepe Escobar speaks in the oracular voice when he says the US Pentagon is transitioning from the war on terror to a new cold war. They believe Trump poses a threat to the “neoliberal & neoconservative interventionist foreign policy establishment.” Whatever the hell that is.

This surreal break with reality can be explained by what they all cite as their top news sources: RT, Global Research, Counterpunch, Sputnik news.

Outgoing CIA director John Brennan has cautioned Trump about his intemperate, reckless accusations including against the CIA. If he won’t be controlled, Trump will be silenced. One way or another.

Britain’s Stop the War coalition has become politically unhinged; one could even say politically bankrupt. It just issued a statement condemning NATO military exercises in Poland which they claim reflect US aggressive & expansionist policies toward Russia.

Last October, Russian bombers had been engaged in carpet bombing Syria for over a year. A fleet of Russian warships were headed to the Mediterranean to launch air strikes from an aircraft carrier. Stop the War coalition issued statements opposing protests against Russian bombing because “We do not want to contribute to the jingoism & hysteria that is being whipped up against Russia.”

There’s only one explanation for refusing to oppose Russian military intervention in Syria: Stop the War coalition supports Assad’s dictatorship & Russian bombing on Assad’s behalf.

When an antiwar coalition gets so politically lost that it abandons basic principles, it is so far beyond post-truth truthiness that it can take its place in that overfilled landfill called the dust bin of history.

Go ahead. Liberate her from her hijab. She’ll kick your ass.

The Minneapolis school district must have made the kids remove the video of a Muslim girl whaling on a kid who tugged on her hijab. The Minneapolis paper reported that after the video went viral on social media school officials contacted the families of the kids involved & learned it was a fake fight.

The paper asked if the kids faced discipline & the district spokesperson refused to say. Discipline for playing a prank on social media?

Now this would be an example of overkill in the interests of fighting fake news. Since when did a damn good high school prank become the subject of such moral outrage from a school board? Do kids now have to issue prank warnings or get clearance from the principal every time they post something on social media? Call it Bill of Rights purism if you like, but if Assadists can post their rubbish so should high school students be allowed to post their pranks.

Fake fight or not, that young girl was an inspiration to us all.