So I just read a perfect description of punditry in the United States. Talking in an authoritative manner about things you know nothing about, and really have not even thought through superficially. Everybody should get the vaccine to save their own lives and to save our health care system. Basically...
This really is not taking a position, but just recognition of what is going to happen tomorrow (maybe) and how this is going to impact market investments going forward. I am sure many of you have heard about the GameStop phenomenon, but it is not being that well explained in...
The historian George Santayana wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Understanding this phrase is not so much in the words as in the context. Santayana was a historian but he was also a pragmatist. He believed the role of history was in solving current...
The historian George Santayana wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Understanding this phrase is not so much in the words as in the context. Santayana was a historian but he was also a pragmatist. He believed the role of history was in solving current...
I am sure others have put this together, but I think it is something that needs to be out there. Two things are happening simultaneously. The United States is suffering its worst cyber attack, possibly in history. Trump and his minions are raising the temperature on a military coup. Even...
This will be short because the story (I am hoping very much) will be evolving throughout the day and the next week. Josh Marshall at Talking Points memo points to blatant Republican voter fraud on the Georgia-Florida border (probably beyond). The Republican party in Florida is encouraging people in Florida...
I know democrats are addicted to doom. And now that it is beginning to look safe for Biden we need another anxiety target. We did not do as well in the Senate as many would have liked, that is true. But we need to recognize there is still a path....
OK, I know this is going to get CT’d to death, but Trump is the ultimate huckster and I think this is a possibility. Some will say that suggesting this breaks norms, but if we have learned anything is that Trump’s one great advantage is that he will break any...
I don’t know how many people are old enough to understand the Michael Dukakis in a tank wearing a helmet commercial. The important thing was the visual. Dukakis did not look good. It was the start of the rule candidates must never wear a hat. Well there is also another...
This is really bad and I have no idea why this is not being covered in the media or the front page of Dailykos (really, how many times can you write Breaking: Trump an a**hole). I tried to find what happened with the shootings in Kenosha last night and it...
This may not be as crazy as it sounds. Republicans are boycotting mask wearing because of Trump. They are taking hydroxichloroquine because Trump told them to. If they think the elections are unfair they just may decided to own the libs by boycotting the election. They might proudly walk around...
There is all this reporting on a recent early Phase I trial success with eight, EIGHT, human subjects. I have not read any released reports on trials with Macaque monkeys, which might question its efficacy. Because the United States has refused to be part of the international consortium we have...
I am watching our country slowly deteriorate, humiliated and unable to deal with the pandemic on any level and can’t help thinking that the major reason for this is, “but her emails.” There were other reasons. There was Putin, but really that is just an excuse. Anyone who knows anything...
Do you want to know why the Chinese government survives. Because they do thing slike during the crisis in Wuhan the government tracked down and punished price gougers severely. Legend has it that many of them were shot (may not be true but I think many Chinese people believe it)....
The screams and demands to shut everything down to stop CVID-19 can have a bitter echo to the young. Right now data suggests those under 50 and especially those under 30 are at little risk beyond a moderate case of the flu. The risk falls disproportionately on those 65 or...
I am not a fan of Biden. I believe he may relieve Trump as a symptom but he will not stop our society’s slide into oblivion. That said I believe he has one more test and it is by far his biggest one. He must emerge from the March 15...
The bum’s rush to Biden after he won a SINGLE primary (in his entire career) that he was expected to win, with every possible institutional advantage, in a conservative state may be incredibly dangerous. Let me offer a few “what happens if” scenarios that I think are very plausible. 1)...
The pundits and establishment democrats are insisting this is now a two person race and everybody not named Biden and Sanders MUST drop out. I believe Klobacher (because she sees herself as a good soldier), Buttigieg (because he is looking to the future) and Bloomberg (because his ego can’t handle...
The establishment media is so user to controlling the Internet that they still have no idea that people can search for information….and make their own decisions….really pretty easily. The whole thing with the establishment media trying to bring down Bernie Sanders because he said Fidel Castro did something good (he...
I am ashamed to say, though I never use the term, that I did not recognize this earlier. I had the realization from a comment on another thread in which the individual said their adult children became angry and hurt when they heard this term. The same thing is true...
I am sure many of you know the fable to the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion needs to get across a stream. The scorpion approaches a frog and says, “If you will take me across the river on your back I will do you a favor later. This is...
Nobody has been writing about ACRONYM and SHADOW on this site but it is about to bring a reckoning to the Democratic party at the worst possible time. I will do a little bit of a recap, but if you can read this article by David Dayen in The American...
Everybody is really upset they are not getting the results right away. There will be about a sixteen hour lag. Let’s see what good is coming from this. 1. A direct illustration of the importance of having a paper trail. This is something we desperately need for all elections, right...
It is the greatest movie on politics ever made. Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington pre-dates Trump and Murdoch and modern Washington but it also predicts it. A Senator suddenly dies. Important decisions are already in the works. The political party decides to recruit a naive fool named Jeff...
Years ago I worked as an organizer in Iowa. I went to college there but it was a bubble and did not understand the state. I worked inside the caucus room twice and was a miserable failure both times. Some things to remember and why second choice polling is not...
I have to admit, as somebody who is in my sixth decade of life, I was easily convinced by discussions of Biden’s debate performance saying he was never a good debater, he has a lifelong history of stuttering, to criticize him on the cognitive qualities of his performance is ageism....
So I keep reading that Elizabeth Warren is going through a terrible drop. Maybe something she can’t recover from. To the point where even I was beginning to believe some of it (I am a Warren supporter and fan). Then I read this article from fivethirtyeight. She is essentially tied...
I am not a Biden fan by any stretch of the imagination. He falls ahead of Tulsi Gabbard in terms of who I would vote for in a primary, but that’s about it. But I can’t help feel sorry for the guy. It feels like his natural allies have knives...
There is currently a great diary on dailykos that was on the recommended list for a few seconds. I really, really hope it makes its way back. It asks intelligent and difficult questions about a Medicare for those who want it plan. There are at least as many questions as...
So for those of you who might have missed it Bill Gates publicly pouted that Elizabeth Warren was taking away all his money and that she would never even sit down with billionaires. Liz Warren responded, hey Bill nothing could be further from the truth. Let's sit down and talk. Well...
Just when I thought the punditry could not scrape the bottom of the barrel any deeper they have pooled their resources and, well, it is something to behold. We (the punditry) have decided Elizabeth Warren’s healthcare plan is a failure. Why? Because we said so. How do you know? Well...
So Elizabeth Warren came out with the most comprehensive plan for paying for Medicare for All in History. The most important question in the 2020 election!! I mean we have impeachment, sure, but this is going to determine our future right? The pundits are going to be all over this...
This claim that Warren must talk about raising taxes for Medicare for All is not going to stop. This is the discourse and the media is not going to veer from it. This is what I think she needs to do. Warren should carry a 5 dollar bill and a...
There is absolutely no doubt that there was pregnancy discrimination in 1971. There was pregnancy discrimination in 1991 when my wife was harassed out of here position at six months. There is pregnancy discrimination today. There are absolutely no grounds for challenging Elizabeth Warren’s story. This includes the information “uncovered”...
There is absolutely no doubt that there was pregnancy discrimination in 1971. There was pregnancy discrimination in 1991 when my wife was harassed out of here position at six months. There is pregnancy discrimination today. There are absolutely no grounds for challenging Elizabeth Warren’s story. This includes the information “uncovered”...
I have just been reading too many diaries about how great and wonderful and brilliant Nancy Pelosi is. Oh she knew exactly when to bring impeachment proceedings. She played the Orange charlatan perfectly. She has “got this.” (the new Obama). I just saw a new diary about what a wonderful...
I have just been reading too many diaries about how great and wonderful and brilliant Nancy Pelosi is. Oh she knew exactly when to bring impeachment proceedings. She played the Orange charlatan perfectly. She has “got this.” (the new Obama). I just saw a new diary about what a wonderful...
So Trump is trying to turn the Ukraine story on Joe Biden. I am sorry but this should have been obvious to anybody with half a brain. I was actually thinking about writing a diary yesterday saying this is what we should expect. I guess I was too late. As...
So Trump is trying to turn the Ukraine story on Joe Biden. I am sorry but this should have been obvious to anybody with half a brain. I was actually thinking about writing a diary yesterday saying this is what we should expect. I guess I was too late. As...
We have reached the point of absurdity. Joe Scarborough, who is no friend of mine, tweets out that Epstein’s suicide murder might have a Russian connection, because like you know this is the type of thing Putin does over and over again for — well he would do it for...
We have reached the point of absurdity. Joe Scarborough, who is no friend of mine, tweets out that Epstein’s suicide murder might have a Russian connection, because like you know this is the type of thing Putin does over and over again for — well he would do it for...
This poll by Perry Undem communication and strategies is really interesting. Here is an analysis from vox. There is a caveat. While I believe the poll is very good (their questions are excellent) they do not usually poll presidential elections. I did some research and they seem to do very...
This poll by Perry Undem communication and strategies is really interesting. Here is an analysis from vox. There is a caveat. While I believe the poll is very good (their questions are excellent) they do not usually poll presidential elections. I did some research and they seem to do very...
Actually it is not really a mystery at all. There has been a thirty point or more swing in approval of Medicare for All in just a few months. That type of stuff really does not happen. How do you explain it. Well the journalists throw up their hands and...
Actually it is not really a mystery at all. There has been a thirty point or more swing in approval of Medicare for All in just a few months. That type of stuff really does not happen. How do you explain it. Well the journalists throw up their hands and...
So I am watching the last episode of season two of Veronica Mars. I am doing it so I understand the new Hulu continuation which is supposed to be great. At the end of the second season (which was in 2006) Veronica’s father is about to take her to New...
So I am watching the last episode of season two of Veronica Mars. I am doing it so I understand the new Hulu continuation which is supposed to be great. At the end of the second season (which was in 2006) Veronica’s father is about to take her to New...
AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar are dealing with Trump as a group and individually better than any male in politics (does anybody remember the Republican primary?) or the media (stop that giggling Chuck Todd). I think this should put to bed once and for all the claim...
AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar are dealing with Trump as a group and individually better than any male in politics (does anybody remember the Republican primary?) or the media (stop that giggling Chuck Todd). I think this should put to bed once and for all the claim...
There is currently a diary on top of the dailykos that I find troublesome. I worry it is one of the issues,if allowed to fester, that may keep Trump in office in2020. issues, if allowed to fester, that may keep Trump in office in 2020. The diary takes a tweet by...
