1962 was no picnic either. 2020 is bad . The beat goes on.
The song written by Sonny Bono and was a hit for Sonny Cher had a song called The Beat Goes on. The song was released in 1967 but applies to … Read More
Category: Crisis
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and pseudoscience. Trump continues to see his numbers decline as his campaign put him on … Read More
GA-Sen A: CBS News Poll Has Jon Ossoff (D) & David Perdue (R) Statistically Tied
Here’s the latest news today out of Georgia courtesy of CBS News’ latest poll: The Georgia Senate race is nearly tied now, with Republican Senator David Perdue ahead of Democrat … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Living close to the 50%
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
Is the Real a road too far, a zone flooded by disinformation.
There is a critical reality beyond the waiting for the “next two weeks” in which Trump has promised multiple times over the four years a plan for health care and a … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: GOP Poll Has Ossoff (D) & Perdue (R) Tied, Warnock (D) & Biden Leading
Here’s the latest news out of Georgia: x GEORGIABiden 49% (+4)Trump 45%.#GAsen:Ossoff (D) 44%Perdue (R-inc) 44% Opinion Insight/@AAF (R), LV, 10/12-15https://t.co/aYPXpogmS8— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 23, 2020 x #GAsenWarnock (D) … Read More
MO-Gov: “Emails show Parson was warned about virus outbreak before visit to state office building”
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Gov. Mike Parson proceeded with an event at a state office building last month after staff warned his office of a cluster of COVID-19 cases … Read More
GA-Sen A: The Daily Beast, “David Perdue’s (R) Race Was Under the Radar. Then He Opened His Mouth”
From The Daily Beast: x An internal poll from Ossoff’s camp, conducted by Garin Hart Yang Research Group on Oct. 11-14 and shared with The Daily Beast, found that in … Read More
Trump once ordered milkshakes during a highly classified intel meeting
Spin the wheel of presidential absurdity! Where will it land today? Let’s see. Nukin’ hurricanes, border moat, injecting disinfectant, dry-humping the flag, windmill cancer, invisible planes … and today it’s … ordering … Read More
It's official. There will be no pre-election vaccine
If Donald Trump had his way, the government would be shipping cases of Mountain Dew Baja Blast — with “Acme COVID Vaccine” written on them — to clinics across the … Read More
Trump Admin Tells California We Can Just Burn
Trump administration rejects California's disaster assistance request for wildfires I’m just going to cut and paste a couple of ‘graphs and go hide under the covers. (CNN)The Trump administration has … Read More
Exurban sprawl libertarians become a tasty treat as Trump campaign tries to kill its own voters
Negligence is not a feature of libertarianism but it is a tasty bug as the Trump campaign ignores local ordinances and continues to spread the pandemic, mainly in smaller US cities … Read More
Trump goes to the land of DeathSantis today for SuperSpreader Rally
This evening at 7pm ET there will be another of the usual airport hangar events to pack Trumpists and spread contagion. We’ll see how long he lasts, considering his planned … Read More
The Biden/Harris climate plan just may buy us time to prevent the worst impacts.
If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze — Joe Biden Vice President … Read More
GA-Sen A: Perdue (R) Proposes Cuts To Social Security & Medicare As His Big Re-Election Pitch
Kudos to Josh Israel at The American Independent for catching this: In an interview with a local radio network, Perdue seemed to suggest that cutting funding to the popular entitlement … Read More
Steve Schmidt: Trump not FDR nor Churchill but a weak Mussolini
Steve Schmidt once again got it right in his excoriation of President Trump. This time it was his Mussolini type balcony act, which further showed his irresponsibility. Steve Schmidt remains … Read More
KS, MT, NC, IA, SC, GA-Sen A & B: Paul Simon Helps These Climate Hawks Flip The Senate Blue
Received this e-mail from sing-songwriter Paul Simon on behalf of the League of Conservation Voters: The upcoming election presents us with an opportunity to preserve and conserve a habitable planet. … Read More
Now, more COVID cases in White House than in all of New Zealand: Red Wedding/Red Death
“Literally Thursday night President Trump told people at a dinner: ‘The end of pandemic is in sight ‘“ It’s not a plot, he’s just that stupid, and he’s also that … Read More
Trump campaign reportedly worried that Brad Parscale will start squealing
Let me bury the lede for the moment to point out that Donald Trump almost certainly thinks he won last night’s debate. Why wouldn’t he? He was quintessentially Trump, and that … Read More
Even America's CEOs are dumping Trump like bad rubbish
Donald Trump is on quite a losing streak. He’s so desperate he wants to look in Joe Biden’s ear and make him take a drug test before tonight’s debate. Pretty rich, huh? I’m … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: Quinnipiac Poll Has Ossoff (D), Warnock (D) & Biden Leading In Georgia
Some very good news today out of Georgia courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll. First, the Senate races: x GEORGIABiden 50% (+3)Trump 47%.#GAsen:Ossoff (D) 49% (+1)Perdue (R-inc) 48%@QuinnipiacPoll, LV, 9/23-27https://t.co/T6wmSEbxXO— … Read More
Death, Distraction, and Resistance
Over the weekend, Americans were bombarded by press accounts with what we already know, Donald Trump is a liar, a tax cheat, and a possible felon. In case you think … Read More
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.” No. We still vote, GOTV, for democracy.
More Trump attention-seeking shtick has happened. He’s threatened to refuse to transfer power. That could really happen because he’s nuts and even if he only represents an anti-democratic 25% of the US … Read More
KS-Sen: KS News Site Calls On Medical Board To Suspend GOP Doctor's License For Campaigning Unmasked
The Kansas Reflector wrote an op-ed to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts asking them to suspend U.S. Senate candidate and U.S. Representative, Dr. Roger Marshall’s (R. KS) medical license … Read More
Antarctica's Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are tearing themselves apart, and it is horrifying.
It is no surprise to those who follow the deglaciation process in Antarctica and are aware of the real threat posed by these glacial behemoths to human civilization. Rapid sea-level rise … Read More
MT-Gov: HuffPost, “Greg Gianforte (R), Montana’s Pseudoscience Gubernatorial Candidate”
There’s a lot going on but I wanted to make sure the biggest toss-up Governor race of this cycle still gets some attention. The Huffington Post has a great piece … Read More
only GOTV ensures any “Biden Blowout” and God will remain if Biden wins
Only a Biden blowout will stop the impending doom for so many things. But not any ontological arguments, even if Trump promises that God will not exist if Biden wins. … Read More
PPP Shows Ohio Democrats Competitive In 7 State House Districts Potentially Ending GOP Supermajority
Here’s some very encouraging news today out of Ohio: New @ppppolls show Democrats surging state House districts across Ohio. Even in gerrymandered districts they’ve drawn for themselves, Ohio Republicans can’t … Read More
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
“'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing the planet over climate change, … Read More
Joe Biden Was Elected President – in 2016
Trump won in 2016 by running an insurgency campaign. Hillary was the epitome of the liberal elite who had taken over government and were using it to make us pay … Read More
What could the Trump Coup d'état look like without a Biden landslide
GOTV and get a Biden landslide. x The Coming Biden Landslide https://t.co/DB0UYBnxoU pic.twitter.com/ePYMFI9YNi — #TheResistance | Vote Early And Use A Ballot Box (@SocialPowerOne1) September 13, 2020 With a few … Read More
K. Sabeel Rahman, president of Demos talks creating an equitable Democracy
K. Sabeel Rahman, President of Demos, discusses some topics that afflict the working class in general and people of color in particular and solutions. He is the co-author of the … Read More
Oregon state senator sabotaged a state climate vote; now, his home was incinerated by climate change
“It will start getting cooler. You just watch”. — Donald Trump Eleven Oregon GOP state senators walked out of session in 2019, and some even ‘vanished,’ meaning they fled the … Read More
Trump promises “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch” (the planet cool when Hell froze over)
So many contradictions, so little time, as non-socially distanced followers are kept away from Trump by a thin white line. x What about everyone else? https://t.co/XExDwnbqOO — Abby D. Phillip … Read More
The front of Greenland's NE ice stream has shattered – it will funnel the interior ice to the ocean.
Bad bad news for you and me. Be kind to each other. Satellite imagery from the European Space Agencies Copernicus has revealed that the front of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in NE Greenland … Read More
Prosecutor looking into the origins of Russia probe resigns and DHS whistleblower adds evidence
Trump Russia continues, as IMPOTUS* covers for Russia, and DHS & DoJ defections continue in the assessment of 2016 and 2020 Russian actions. Will John Durham create an “interim” deliverable for Bill Barr’s ‘October … Read More
Pennsylvania is Key to Victory
538 has a new web page up, 2020 Election Forecast, which shows the current state of vote predictions state by state, and is updated daily. It starts with 24 maps … Read More
Trump: Biden 'happy' to endanger lives by doing what he thinks will help him politically
Low-Energy Don opened his lie-hole today and the grody innards of a Hieronymus Bosch painting spilled out. While his lies and misrepresentations weren’t as effervescent as usual, they were still pretty outrageous. … Read More
IA-Sen: Climate Denier Joni Ernst (R) Is About To Face A Reckoning With Iowa Farmers
Inside Climate News has been doing profiles on the major races this year and how climate change has been an issue in these races. One of the big races they’ve … Read More
KY-Sen: McGrath (D) Raised $8.7 Million In August, Highest Monthly Total In Bid To Oust Moscow Mitch
From Newsweek: Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath has set a new campaign record for fundraising in August, adding to her impressive war chest heading into the final weeks of her Senate … Read More
(dangerous, unfit) Trump lied, (195,000) Americans died, Why did he call it a hoax if he’s not lying
Trump’s flailing and the lies just keep on coming. x “Why did he call it a hoax if he’s not lying?” @PressSec NO ANSWER. pic.twitter.com/jlw7pc421v— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September … Read More
Woodward book: Trump privately admitted COVID was worse than flu even as he downplayed it
Trump is already a drowning otter trapped in a k-hole, and now this. According to Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, Trump knew all along just how deadly and dangerous the … Read More
Europe's largest refugee camp has burned to the ground while under COVID lockdown.
“What is Moria? It is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a safe haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference, and lack of political will. … Read More
Europe's largest refugee camp has burned to the ground amidst COVID lockdown.
“What is Moria? It is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a safe haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference, and lack of political will. … Read More
The Would-be King
Only kings or potentates, dictators, and despots believe the propaganda of their own words. The worst of them, impose it by force and murder. King Salman, President Erdogan, Supreme Leader Khamenei, … Read More
Here is a message that all sides of the faux debate on vote-by-mail can understand
Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman gave the most compelling message for deconstructing how we should message vote-by-mail and voting to all. Vote-By-Mail message to heed x x YouTube Video … Read More
bees stop murder hornets as a swarm, but can mass demonstrations stop another Trump coup
There will be a variety of responses to the impending Trump attempt to steal the election. Be prepared. x The Transition Integrity Project has run an interesting set of war-games … Read More
CO-Sen: Cory Gardner (R) Tries To Blame Public Health Experts Of Politicizing The Pandemic
Of course he would: In some of his most candid remarks to date about the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner told a conservative crowd that public health advice and science have been politicized … Read More
Capitalist power: bigger federal debt than entire US gross domestic product – first time since 1946
Trump’s constant pimping of the stock market numbers is not the same as a sign that the economy has returned to the level of “winning” even before Trump took office. … Read More
KS-Sen: Roger Marshall (R) Has Sad About Facebook Taking Down His COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Post
Cry me a river: U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall is accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media giant removed a post from his account that promoted a conspiracy theory about … Read More
