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<p>Let history record that the leading climate change-denier and eco-exterminist, arch-authoritarian petro-capitalist United States President Donald Trump <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/23/president-trump-phoenix-rally-immigration-government-shutdown-border-wall-sot.cnn">threatened to shut-down the federal government</a> as the <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Anthropocene-or-Capitalocene-20151027-0020.html">capitalogenically</a> cooked waters in the Gulf of Mexico swirled on their path to an epic tropical storm that would epically flood Houston and much of southeast Texas in a matter of days.</p>
<p>The president’s moronic threat came at the peak of the hurricane season.  It was made at a white-nationalist campaign-style rally in Phoenix. There Trump heaped praise on a former and recently federally convicted county sheriff who tortured and murdered a moderate Mexican village’s worth of predominantly Latino jail inmates across a long reign of racist police-state terror in Arizona. At this noxious assembly, Trump <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/politics/joe-arpaio-sheriff/index.html">strongly hinted that he would soon pardon the fascist sheriff</a>.  The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-set-down-his-dog-whistle-for-racists-and-picked_us_5993f69be4b0a88ac1bc3856">Racist Dog Whistler-in-Chief</a> also doubled down on his sickening defense of the frenzied racists who oppose the tearing down of statues honoring “heroes” of the Southern Confederacy (1861-1865), which waged a war on Washington – a war that killed 750,000 Americans in order <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/lesson-slavery-white-america/">to defend the system of Black chattel slavery</a>. Meanwhile. high-tech storm troopers charged, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/phoenix-police-fire-tear-gas-anti-trump-protesters-170823040227695.html">shooting rubber bullets and “pepper balls”</a> at liberal and left protesters outside in the sweltering heat.</p>
<p>Trump’s threat to collapse the federal government is presumably on hold in&#8230;</p>
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