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2017-04-29T06:43:34-06:00

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Did Trump Organize the Fyre Festival — A Disastrous Failed Luxury “Music Event” — or did the Event’s “Organizer” Billy Mcfarland Become President of the USA?

Last updated on: April 29, 2017 at 6:43 am By Frank Schaeffer

Take the Fyre Festival — the disastrous failed luxury “Music Event” story about disappointed rich brat music festival goers — and the “presidency” of rich brat Donald Trump… and merge them. Here’s an oddly entertaining — and scary — thought experiment The Trump/Fyre Festival merger (below) is a parable of American decline, hubris and fake “values” that wove money, greed, and a lack of tactile connection to reality, into one bizarre apocalyptic tapestry. I’ve taken excerpts from a story in... Read more

2017-04-28T12:07:25-06:00

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100 DAYS OF TRUMP (It’s Been More Like 100 Awful Years)

Last updated on: April 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm By Frank Schaeffer

“His Presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the vitality of the natural world, the national health, constitutionalism, civil rights, criminal justice, a free press, science, public education, and the distinction between fact and its opposite.” So writes writes David Remnick in the New Yorker. Remnick notes that Trump has, set fire to the integrity of his office… Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he has been... Read more

2017-04-27T10:27:07-06:00

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Trump’s “Tax Plan” is A Saudi-Style Family Heist by the Most Corrupt Ruling Clan in the World

Last updated on: April 27, 2017 at 10:27 am By Frank Schaeffer

In his first 100 days Trump has failed at everything but one initiative: he’s been very successful at finding more corrupt ways to make money off the American presidency for his family members and pals than any American president- ever. Trump is corrupt to his core. Trump is following the pattern set by third rate dictators like the late Saddam Husein, and Fidel Castro. Trump’s mantra like theirs seems to be: I’m in power to make a buck. “I like... Read more

2017-04-26T05:22:26-06:00

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Trump Voters Were Fact-Free and Now It Looks As If They Are Also Willingly Even Proudly Stupid: A New Poll Shows They’d Elect Trump– Again!

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 5:22 am By Frank Schaeffer

Trump voters have changed the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” to “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice– just fine by me!” A new ABC News/Washington Post poll taken as Trump approaches his 100th day in office (with the lowest approval rating at this point of any president since 1945) shows that 96 percent of those who supported him in November say they’d do so again today. Are tens... Read more

2017-04-26T03:05:10-06:00

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Trump and the ‘Left Behind’ Evangelicals: How They Were Prepared To Vote for a Fool and (Maybe) Destroy the World

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 3:05 am By Frank Schaeffer

Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series of sixteen novels represents everything that is most deranged about American religion. To understand why Trump became president — with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote — you have to understand the importance of these novels and all they represent. Trump didn’t just fall from the sky to become the nominee. White evangelicals made him president. And they have a lot in common with Trump. It’s no accident he wound... Read more

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2017-04-25T10:46:28-06:00

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Free: Read a sample chapter from my new forthcoming book “Letters to Lucy”

Last updated on: April 25, 2017 at 10:46 am By Frank Schaeffer

“Letters to Lucy” is a multimedia project I’ve worked on for 3 years. Now I’ve teamed up with EJ, a great designer to bring it out as an iBook. We’ve chosen to publish the book this way because it allows us to show and experience the art, movies, TV and music I speak of. Why the book? Because someone has to try and rebuild our civilization! Look for “Letters to Lucy” in the next few months and click the... Read more

2017-04-24T12:09:03-06:00

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Is Trump (Literally) A Madman?

Last updated on: April 24, 2017 at 12:09 pm By Frank Schaeffer

As Trump melds TV-watching with Tweeting, in his warped flow of media-addled consciousness, he is the perfect example how our TV-addicted culture has now morphed into the tech-addicted culture of alt-“facts.” Mental health experts have claimed the President is ‘paranoid and delusional’ and say it’s their ‘ethical responsibility’ to warn the American public. If he’s crazy, what drove him nuts? I think several things may have: money, nasty racist parents, his warped genetic template… but in my opinion TV finished... Read more

2017-04-21T06:50:39-06:00

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What’s The “Conservative” Response Been to the Rash of Fox News-Sexual Predators? Silence.

Last updated on: April 21, 2017 at 6:50 am By Frank Schaeffer

When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were the gold standard of both my evangelical upbringing and our ideas about what it meant to be a conservative. The thought that abuse of women, and sexually predatory antics would be defended by conservatives would have been as unthinkable as imagining Russian Communist leaders extoling the virtues of capitalism. Had a 1950s or 1960s version of Bill O’Reilly or Roger Ailes (the former Fox News... Read more

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2017-04-18T13:24:11-06:00

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Trump’s “Government” Is a Dark Corrupt For-Profit Corporate Grifter Mutation

Last updated on: April 18, 2017 at 1:24 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Trump has spent his lifetime defining the word grifter as synonymous with his last name. Here’s how the dictionary defines it: grifter noun, Slang. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like. We’ve been taken over by a family of grifters. Literally. For anyone who bought into Trump’s populist talk about taking on a “rigged system,” it’s time to admit you’ve been conned. The Trump... Read more

2017-04-17T05:37:34-06:00

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Trump and the Republican Party Are Selling Your Internet Privacy at a Corrupt Level That Stuns

Last updated on: April 17, 2017 at 5:37 am By Frank Schaeffer

When it comes to Internet privacy Trump, and the GOP are adopting the corporate-authoritarian model of China – where the state can not only watch everything you do on the Internet, but can also censor it. And Trump and the GOP add insult to civil rights injury: They want to strip Americans of privacy rights while also letting private companies make money off our loss of rights. Call this the United-Airlines-Mug-A-Paying-Passenger philosophy of consumer “rights”… on a national “legalized” scale…... Read more

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