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this is a turf fight between atf and doj that's using this remarkably stupid idea as a way to happen. the audience for it---judging from the media outlets and spin that's being applied---are likely to misinterpret it. they're certainly being set up to do so. the game here is another round of the right's endgame strategy of anything that damages the obama administration is a priori good for them. the pathetic thing--and it really is pathetic---is that absent any coherent left opposition---which is richly deserved for a clinton-style centrist democrat in classic dlc mode---the right does stand maybe to benefit because they're talking in a vacuum. this explains my general despair about operating within the conventional soft-authoritarian american system that (too often i suspect) comes through in my posts. despair on the one hand combined with a "you have got to be shitting me" when i look at mobilized conservative factions.
i wish i had some idea of what to do. i live here too. and the right is a fucking disaster waiting to happen.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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