No wonder Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are best friends. No amount of gaslighting or tragic irony can trigger shame in either of them. The rampaging, “de-Nazifying” Russian army, which has spectacularly failed in its […]
Category: Holocaust
Death Culture
Now that Texas, Georgia, and Florida Republicans have left America by subverting the right of every American to vote, let us look at the rest of the southern Republicans, 66% of which favor secession. According […]
Supermarket mask dispute ends in one killed, three wounded
More conflict, more shootings, and over micro-aggressions. DECATUR, Ga. (NEXSTAR) – A triple shooting at a Georgia grocery store Monday afternoon started with a dispute over a mask and left a cashier dead and both […]
The Scary Prospect of ENABLING
It is usually a minefield of critical backlash, and what about(s), when you compare the oppression of Jews to the descendants of enslaved Africans in America, but I am going to wade onto the battlefield. […]
Anti-vaxx hatstore makes Star of David patches protesting a government that gave them PPP money
The owner of hatWRKS in Nashville did a Star of David with “not vaccinated” to protest the government on vaccinations. They also got $92K in PPP cash from the government and took part in the Jan […]
Rick Wilson: Marjorie Taylor Greene is 'the heart and soul of the Republican Party'
The devolution of the Republican Party has been a sight to behold—but it’s been a particularly fraught experience for ex-Republicans. I know if the Democrats had nominated Charlie Sheen for president in 2016 and then […]
Godwin’s Law, MTG and the GOP
The simplest explanation for lawyer Michael Godwin’s law is that the longer a debate or disagreement extends, it will eventually devolve into an unfounded comparison to Hitler and the Nazis. Godwin’s Law is a current […]
Charlie McCarthy's cousin Kevin is not “feckless” as Taylor Greene gets rebuked
Kevin McCarthy Just Tried To Blame Nancy Pelosi For Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust Remarks…. because he’s not feckless, but he’s still a blockhead. Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the […]
PA-Gov: Trump's Political Godfather Is Back & This Time He's Running For Governor
Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Lou Barletta, the Republican Party’s Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018, is running for governor of Pennsylvania. Barletta, 65, becomes the most prominent figure to […]
dead at 82, Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. “There is no innocent explanation.”
If anything a nightly rant by David Letterman about Madoff marked the 2000s, with $65 billion swindled. x T***p surprised some observers by not pardoning Madoff (through brokerage) & by not staging a Kent State […]
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: 432 Park and the Other Guys' parody as meta-criticism
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. Drop by to talk about […]
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
Turkish atrocities against Kurds begin: casualties reach hundreds, 70,000 displaced so far
The predicted bloodbath unfolds. Wapo does an excellent summary of the current situation. x Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation†to “neutralize†an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds […]
Obama responds to El Paso and Dayton like a real president should
President Obama just responded on Facebook to the weekend tragedies in El Paso and Dayton. This speaks for itself: Michelle and I grieve with all the families in El Paso and Dayton who endured these […]
NC-09: Bathroom Bill Author Compared Anti-LGBTQ Proposal To Saving Jews From Holocaust
Fuck this guy: The Republican candidate for an open House seat in North Carolina likened his efforts to undermine LGBTQ rights via religious exemptions to the work of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved […]
Jews and Japanese Agree: These ARE Concentration Camps.
I’m submitting this as a diary rather than a comment because I want to draw attention to a particular moment in moment in history that was examined in today’s WaPo: For Japanese Americans, the debate […]
Playing the Oldies
The wrong awaited announcement of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign kicked off in Orlando, Florida last night. As wrong as he was for announcing “the Wall” promised to be paid for by the Mexican government […]
Alabama: Abortion is worse than the Holocaust, Stalin's purges, and the killing fields put together
Always read the fine print. From section 2(i) of Alabama’s new “It’s Uter-us not Uter-you” law: (i) It is estimated that 6,000,000 Jewish people were murdered in German concentration camps during World War II; 3,000,000 […]
Hero Police Chief on child, fleeing violence, ordered back alone: Only Nazis follow orders blindly.
Normal, healthy people can all agree that you don’t torture children to punish adults. You don’t rip children from their parents to serve as a deterrent or warning to others. Yet Trump followers aren’t normal. Last […]
Hero police chief on deporting 11-year-old child alone: 'Nazis enforced their laws as well'
Most people can agree that you don’t torture children to punish adults. You don’t rip children from their parents to serve as a deterrent or warning to others. Yet Trump followers aren’t normal. Last year, government […]
Republicans’ message to Jewish Americans: Everything we hate is like the Holocaust
For Republicans, the gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has become an annual ritual in their hyperbolic effort to peel away Jewish Americans who overwhelmingly give their votes to Democrats. But the GOP […]
The Republicans' Jewish problem
Here are some friendly words of advice to my Republican friends eager to regurgitate Donald Trump’s talking point about the Democratic Party being “anti-Jewish.” Before you hold up Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar as the poster […]
Trump demands Omar resign over anti-Semitic tropes. Himself? Not so much
Never one to miss an opportunity to get his hate on, Donald Trump on Tuesday demanded Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) resign over her unfortunate “all about the Benjamins” comment. Calling her well-received apology “lame,” Trump […]
Lara Trump Says Border Wall Worth “A little bit of pain” for Fed Workers. Americans Disagree.
Lara Trump, wife of equally vapid and clueless second drumpf spawn, Eric, went on Bold TV’s Carrie Sheffield’s show to proclaim…. “We get that this is unfair to you, but this is so much bigger […]
Once the U.S. State Department Was Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Semitic Now, It Is “Soros-occupied.”
You can count on the FOX channel — not news to me — and Lou Dobbs to push more anti-immigrant phobia, but now, they are sticking with their love of anti-semitism in the form of George Soros […]
IA-04: DFA Goes All In To Help J.D. Scholten (D) Defeat White Supremacist Steve King (R)
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of J.D. Scholten’s (D. IA-04) congressional campaign: Steve King is the most openly racist and horrific Republican in Congress. He's used his position of power to […]
Behind Milo's meltdown: Alt-Right is suffering bigly, but we need to bring the final hammer
I was legitimately afraid that white supremacists would become an organized force in American politics after they put one of their own in the White House. For a time that seemed plausible, but now, going […]
PRIMARIES MATTER: Incumbent Dem candidate is a right-wing bigot who “Thanks God for slavery”
Stupid, stupid, Florida. Meet your Florida Democratic rep: Kim Daniels. She is the incumbent state representative for one of the bluest districts in all of Florida, Legislative District 14 in Jacksonville. The Florida GOP isn’t even bothering running a […]
CA-Gov: Trump's Candidate Compares DMV Wait To Surviving The Holocaust
Kudos to TPM for catching this: The Republican candidate for governor of California paid a visit to a DMV on Wednesday and casually compared standing in line at the notoriously sedate agency to surviving the […]
Zuckerberg: I'll Do Anything For a Buck.
Think Progress has this article about how Zuckerberg won’t really do anything about fake news, such as banning Holocaust deniers: “I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I […]
GOP Holocaust analogists furious over Nazi border policy comparisons
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac University poll showed only 27 percent […]
Syria tension (liveblog): Gen. Votel cancels appearance; May calls cabinet meeting for tomorrow
NOTE: If you’re a “ChemTruther”… if you disagree with Amnesty International, the OPCW, WHO, MSF, the UN (breakdown), and all public evidence about past attacks, and are here to do the same about the most […]
