Live-blogging the U.S. Election of 2020
I turn on the news radio. Trump is a point behind Biden in crucial Florida, but the conservative Panhandle has not been counted. Gonna be close, it looks like.
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Still Hooked on the Doors, and Mary Werbelow
What an illustration of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Toss the dude out of your house and two years later he goes iconic, and four years after he becomes a superstar he dies and becomes legendary.
‘The Hell’s Angels Letters’ – the Gonzo Today review
It is simply extraordinary to read these missives over a half century later. Take note of HST’s phrasing, which point the way to Fear and Loathing. Enjoy his outrage, which crackles off of the page like dry lightning in a tinder dry forest.
US Style Fascism Is A Bipartisan Effort: The more the US careens into depravity the more the nation remains the same.
[Leonard] Cohen was the anti-Trump. Any and all forms of (soul-resonate) poetry stand as a rebuke to the crass reality show con man’s narcissism. US capitalism works as reverse alchemy: it transforms gold into shit-dust.
U.S. Election 2020: Can Trump Hold the Rust Belt?
From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, and all the small towns in between, Pennsylvania is crucial to both campaigns, so much so that I’d go so far as to call Pennsylvania the new Florida on the 2020 Electoral College map.
Do you detect a pattern? The Democratic Party’s raison d’être is to co-opt, absorb, marginalize, and neutralize the Left.
Without a doubt, empire building via militarism is now a bipartisan agenda. The Democrats’ role: to marginalize leftist voices advocating anti-imperialism.
The Banality Of Evil Of The Evil Of Two Lessers: A collection of exchanges with Biden-Harris supporters
How does a “realist” come to believe the US — a dictatorship of money, with a sub-banana republic voting system — is a democratic republic?
The Awful Grace Of Nightmares In A Soulless Dayscape: Midnight Train To The End Of Empire
Dreams summon forth what has been buried for the sake of expedience and for the purpose of navigating the exigencies of the day without being engulfed by nighttime’s phantasms.
A story about a coyote
He’s an uncontainable mischief making native spirit. Truth be told, he doesn’t give a fuck how expensive the dog he just ate was at the upstate breeder. He defecates where he pleases, gives no shakes for the concerns of his neighbors and their judgement only serves to make him stronger.
Calling all Gonzos – Your country needs you, preferably sober and at a god-damned desk
Platforms free of any sort of legal accountability for the content they carry, monetise and promote have created an information ecosystem where anything can be news if enough people share it or pay for it.