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Donald Drumpf, the “blue collar billionaire”: He loves men in hard hats, who he thinks are all white guys. He hates Muslims, who he thinks are all terrorists. He hates undocumented immigrants, who he thinks are all rapists & criminals.

Hillary Clinton loves them all. But she’ll send them to war, bomb the hell out of them, & deport them anyway.

Tell me again there’s a lesser evil in this race.

Spare yourself the drama & vote for me:

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“Describe everything you have ever heard about the anti-Christ and tell me Donald does not fit the profile.”

From Robert Alvarez, the master of pithy put-downs.

What’s important to note is that speakers at the Republican convention are the crazy-pants, fundamentalist wing of the organization. The elite old guard like Bush, Colin Powell, Mitt Romney, Henry Kissinger are noticeably absent. The only exception is Bob Dole who appears to be in late stage decay.

It isn’t a generational thing since most of the delegates & all of the musicians look older than Methuselah.

I’m no Nostradamus, but I think the extreme violence of this siege against Kashmiris & the lockdown on media (including Facebook) has met its match in Kashmiri activism on social media.

This may well be a turning point in building an anti-occupation movement in India, which is essential to ending the occupation, & to building international solidarity among activists who previously didn’t even know where Kashmir was or that there was a freedom struggle.

Long live Kashmiri Intifada. End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.

CBS news reports about occupation of Kashmir

Pellet xrays

This report about Kashmir in CBS news is noteworthy for a few reasons, not the least of which is the previous long-time news blackout about the Indian occupation. It shows the barbarism of pellet munitions used by the Indian army; it shows Kashmiri resistance to the occupation; & it quotes Khurram Parvez, a leading human rights activist in Kashmir.

This photo from the article is x-rays of pellet gun injuries on a 14-year-old Kashmiri girl in the ICU of a Srinagar hospital.

http://www.cbsnews.com/…/kashmir-india-protests-killed-cla…/

(Photo from Getty)

The Republican convention dragged out the long-discredited Newt Gingrich–who most of us thought was already dead since he reeks like a corpse–to deliver a rabid, vicious, dangerous attack on Muslims.

One of his most pernicious comments was that only a small percentage of Muslims are a threat to “western values” but the small percentage numbers in the millions.

The assembled Republicans dressed in American flags, with pompoms on their heads, all looking half in the wrapper cheered every rancid word he said. Everything about the convention is orchestrated & canned, even the enthusiasm. But the fact that the Republican party intends to fortify its crumbling edifice by Muslim-hating must be taken very seriously.

You can’t fight social hatred & war mongering with multicultural sermonizing. You fight it with political power. That means organizing & publicly opposing every single war & intervention using Muslim-hating as justification. And that political mission is more imperative than ever.

When those awful Drumpf kids are what salvage the Republican convention from a petulant hate-fest by turning it into hero worship of a dipshit, you know the US oligarchy has a crisis on its hands.

A CBS analyst said the Republican party is clearly dissolving right before our eyes. What’s the downside to that? One stinking corpse of a party down; one more to go.

On the death of Garry Marshall: some say we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But excoriation over graves is what some of us do best.

He seemed like a swell guy & valued niceness. But just how nice is his film “Pretty Woman” which sentimentalized & glorified prostitution? The Women in Film organization gave him an award for the film in 1996, claiming he enhanced the image & perception of women through film. They didn’t explain how the presentation of woman as street walker enhances perceptions rather than justifies woman as cheap commodity.

Should he RIP or fry in hell? Giving him merit for niceness, he should at least barbecue a while.