Gnash, Rinse, Repeat
The right-wing has spent the last few weeks gnashing and grinding their teeth to the gum line, trying hard to compare the Afghan evacuation to Ho Chi Minh City, (Saigon). … Read More
Category: Cooperation
Being a Nice Liberal is Getting Harder
After being assailed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, strictly for political trolling points, Dr. Anthony Fauci made it a point to praise the new attitudes of some Republicans endorsing the … Read More
The Man who Killed Republican Politicking
Once Senator Mitch McConnell staked out the politically uncompromising GOP opposition to ‘everything’ Democrats proffered, during the Obama administration, the redline was drawn. Slowly but surely, the so-called moderate Republicans … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: a Trump indictment has Florida officials preparing extradition plans
A Trump indictment moves closer with McGahn agreement to testify to Congress, as with a variety of other possible witness cooperation and NY DA activity. The Manhattan DA is signaling such possible … Read More
where did Heavenly Harmony's booster land, because Space Force
The sky is falling, because 22 metric tons before re-entry might still have some mass remaining. An inch is as good as a mile. BEIJING — China’s government defended its handling … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Hawks and Doves on Mars, complete with trolls
“A GIANT PULSATING MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE” Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers … Read More
Punish Republicans with this part of the Biden speech every time they object to his agenda.
I have heard Democrats touch trickle-down economics on the edges. But they always seem to fear hitting it not only head-on but for decimation. Biden takes trickle-down economics to the … Read More
“…active-duty law enforcement…are helping to train us.” Oath Keeper seditionists
A band of brothers that needs to be broken up. On 1/6 there was a plan to bring a substantial firearms cache to the Capitol occupation. x It's a rolling … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: Venmo receipts and an enemy at the Gaetz
Is Matt Gaetz a stalking horse for the even more extensive crimes of the previous guy, whose silence so far is staggering. A plea deal of an associate is going … Read More
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show … Read More
Poll: majority want Trump convicted in 2nd impeachment, despite 'GQP'
A majority of people polled want Trump convicted in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, as pressure is being applied to GOP senators. A Republican group plans to run ads in … Read More
Donald J. Trump: Russian intelligence's 'confidential contact' for 40 years
It seems clear that Trump will continue to be a Russian asset, with the bonus of classified information transferred even beyond his presidency. A new book by Craig Unger features … Read More
Speaker Pelosi meets with Retired General Honore and the security of Congress.
I have wondered where General Honore is with his investigation on security. I believe there is going to be a clean up because I believe Honore takes this job seriously. … Read More
Trump Vetoed the NDAA to Protect His Shell Companies
Taggan Goddard of Political Wire has an interesting theory about why Trump decided to veto the National Defense Appropriation Act (NDAA): Buried in its 4500+ pages is something called the … Read More
Trump declares Twitter a national security threat because it's more important than Iran for 53 days
Trump’s doing nothing about the continuing rise in Covid cases, and is spending his time at golf and continuing to sow chaos on the path to the bunker. Meanwhile the … Read More
Trump skips G20 pandemic-preparedness event to … uh, you know where he went
This fucking guy. I mean, really. CNN: It does not appear President Trump will participate in a side-event at the G20 virtual summit focused on pandemic preparedness. The event — … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 4
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 15 and 16. Chapter 15 describes more closely the production … Read More
“It’s so sad that we are at the 'Whew! It might only be a coverup” stage…'”
Delaying the transition seems now to be more sinister, even as the eventual discovery of Trumpian crimes could extend into his “second” term. Mike Pompeo is workshopping stand-up material for his 2024 … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? part 3
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 14, 15, 16. Chapter 14 will provide further evidence of alienation in the … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? 2
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 11-14. Today’s supporting summary is at the very bottom, below the fold. Set against … Read More
Lincoln Project: “Cruel”
hitting Trump again on the issue other than COVID which has the most impact, especially with educated women — the family separations: x YouTube Video and note well — done … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part deux
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s … Read More
Climate fires have tipped us into a new era – the age of embers.
Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic in summer in the coming … Read More
90 minute debate in six parts, Trump will fail because bluster and bull aren't a October Surprise
The toast is not yet burnt. Trump will need to win all three events. Won’t happen because all Trump has are bizarre lies and falsehoods. x One week from today, … Read More
Nothing but zest this week. Trump's all peel, no orange, and Kellyanne jumps ship
Even the pandemic and Kushner’s role in the connections to Russia demonstrate how much the Kremlin remains operative in WH decision-making. If nothing else, the GOP platform is attracted to … Read More
Interesting poll – Rural Voters and USPS
A donor offered to fund a poll of this topic (that provides a link to download a PDF) in for the Niskanen Center. Rachel Bitecofer offered to administer it, and … Read More
Russia, Facebook, and Trump: Facebook still eased fact-checking rules for conservative pages
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x “Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies about mail-in fraud? Yes. Can he … Read More
Joe Biden, “Trump’s failure to lead is responsible for historic economic slump”
I’m liking that Biden is hammering Trump hard on the economy: “The depth of economic devastation our nation is experiencing is not an act of God, it’s a failure of … Read More
Another Trump campaign speech, this time in Georgia because it's infrastructure week again in 1952
Trump went to another COVID “hotspot” and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to broadcast it. Trump wore no … Read More
Trump's own Iran-Contra: blurting a Reaganesque “I didn't know anything” over 15 months
Russia Bounty (gate) now has some receipts as both parties in Congress have gotten their security briefings. Trump still maintains ignorance which is not hard to imagine because of his … Read More
MA-Sen: Oscar Winner Michael Douglas Helps Climate Hawk Sen. Ed Markey (D) Stay In The Senate
Received this e-mail yesterday from Academy Award winner, Michael Douglas, in support of U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: Sen. Ed Markey (D. MA) I need to ask … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – egg coffee(s)
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. … Read More
Trump did another campaign speech that wasn't a press conference because he took no questions
More Trump lies and spin, and again he took no questions because it’s a pageant. It had the usual earmarks of such speeches, including a “sir” remark and the confabulation … Read More
Bodacious Tata “If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any”
Third-ranking SecDef nominee General Tata, a Fox News regular, apparently believes that PBO was a Manchurian Candidate and Trump not a Kremlin puppet (CNN) Several Democrats on the Senate Armed … Read More
CO-Sen: “Cory Gardner’s political relationship with the president reads like a tawdry romance novel”
The Atlantic has a great piece about how U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s (R. CO) loyalty to Trump is going to cost him big time this year: These days, Trump’s hold … Read More
Anti-Shelter-in-Place Nuts are Also Anti-Vaxxers
The stupid, it burns! A Washington Post reporter has found a correlation between the people protesting shelter-in-place orders and people who refuse to get vaccinated or refuse to vaccinate their … Read More
Moscow Mitch Willing To Kill His Fellow Senators To Get Political Toadie On Court Of Appeals.
Moscow Mitch is willing to risk the lives of his fellow senators in order to force a vote on one of his political toadies to the Court of Appeals to … Read More
The WHO is Trump's Current Scapegoat, and He's Out to Sacrifice It
Trump has been desperately casting around for a scapegoat, anyone to blame for his delays and dismissals of the novel coronavirus. Since early April, one of his victims has been … Read More
Swing-State Sinophobia: Trump superPAC ads tout #BeijingBiden to “see what sticks”
Escape (to) Wisconsin (and Michigan and Pennsylvania): Trump campaign hypes sinophobic anti-Biden ads because that’s what 2020 in the swing states will be about. Because a squinting Biden with this … Read More
Trump, WHO, and China: A Timeline
I often find, in history as well as in current events, that having a timeline can be very useful in sorting out just what happened and when, and for judging … Read More
Newsom Hints at California Independence
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was on TRMS last night. Rachel highlighted some news he made: California has signed its own contracts with Asian manufacturers to provide 200 million N95 … Read More
Joe Biden Warned Us Back In January That Trump Would Fail On Responding To The Coronavirus Outbreak
Just going to leave this here: President Trump, having stopped dismissing the threat of the coronavirus and calling criticism of his laggard response “their new hoax,” has begun insisting everybody … Read More
Pyrrhic-time battle for the 'wartime president' The Senate Relief bill is also a heist
This is a robbery in progress,” wrote David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect. “And it's not a bailout for the coronavirus. It's a bailout for 12 years of … Read More
WHY Won't Trump Use the DPA?
Greg Sargent has this column up in today’s WaPo: The big question looming over Trump’s coronavirus disaster Why is it falling to Democrats to beg, cajole and try to force … Read More
With America under siege, Trump picks the absolute worst time to suck up to North Korea
Yes, we are seriously going back to this again. I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in … Read More
“Take 2 Tax-Cuts, Rollback Regulations & Call Me In The Morning!” COVID-19 as excuse for profit
“We are in the midst of a crisis where people are literally having to skip work and may miss paychecks or face medical debt” because of coronavirus, said Robert Hockett, … Read More
global markets shudder as COVID-19 adds to oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia
Trump’s incompetence is making the COVID19 response worse with some lack of confidence in financial demand. Recession looms. Invest in Chicken Nuggets. x The world’s output could fall during the first … Read More
'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague, East Africa.
If you're asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you're really asking when's it going to happen to “me,” because it's already happened to many other people. Eric Roston … Read More
'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague East Africa.
If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston … Read More
You Give Me Yovanovitch and I'll Give You Biden
This story’s been up for over 3 hours now; I’m surprised no one has picked up on it: Ukraine prosecutor offered information related to Biden in exchange for ambassador’s ouster, … Read More
