In a closely contested TV football game, viewers let out a relieved sigh, take a bathroom break, maybe grab a sandwich or a hand full of chips and take a deep breath, anticipating a conclusion. I find myself unable to inhale cleanly after taking in the polluted brand of Republican justice. Representative Jim Jordan was…
Category: Narrative
About Trump's “Strategy?” Stop Laughing, It Worked.
We’ve all seen, heard of, or read about it. A well dressed, well off, PhD who gets skinned down to his skivvies by a 16 y.o. high school dropout with a 3 card monte table on a street corner. And no matter how often we see, hear, or read about it, it’s Donald Trump who…
Do-nothings, Know-nothings and Trump-nothings…
It has been widely accepted that the “Third Rail” of politics is tampering with Social Security benefits. Similarly, the third rail of conversation is religion. Buried beneath the press but giving oxygen to the likes of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY.) and White House adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday talk shows attempting to defend racism, a…
Let's end the media charade that Trump's a master communicator
Has any recent president snatched political defeat from the jaws of victory quite the way Donald Trump has done over the last few days? Watching the Democratic Party become ensnared in a nasty civil war being fought among House leaders and insurgent freshman congresswoman, Trump inexplicably entered the fray over the weekend by posting blatantly…
The Democratic party's leftward move is just a correction of fraud on Americans
Many Americans are buying into the idea that the Democratic Party is moving too far to the left. The thing is, movement is relative. Is the party moving left or is the status quo, in reality, edging right? It does not matter. What exactly does moving to the left mean? If one listens to the mainstream media,…
Donald Trump has become Dennis Rodman
Actually, the sickening fawning that Trump lathers onto Kim Jong Un after the alleged murder of an American citizen, while continuing to develop nuclear weapons, is far more disgraceful than anything Dennis Rodman has ever done in North Korea. Rodman became a sniveling sycophant to Kim, but he was just considered a joke by the Obama…
It's Not Just Capitol Hill Democrats Who Are Still Traumatized By The 2016 Election.
It may be a bit extreme to agree with the statement that Capitol Hill Democrats are suffering from some form of PTSD over Election 2016 (I think John Heleimann who said that), but I’m seeing things in the comments section here on Daily Kos that have me seriously concerned about some Democratic voters or even…
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 over what counts as a ‘concentration camp’ is familiar. In 1998, there was an exhibit at Ellis Island titled “America’s…
FEMA fesses up they are 'short a few thousand employees' as Atlantic Hurricane Season begins.
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Donald J. Trump The country is currently facing unprecedented rainfall, flooding, and tornadoes in the mid-west and Southeastern states while fire season has erupted in the Western states. Alarmingly, the ever-increasing power and horror of hurricane season beginc for the Caribbean, the Eastern seaboard…
A black, beautiful billionaire? If only she was white and Kardashian, she could make the cover.
To be perfectly blunt, I think Kylie and Kendall Jenner are simply awful people. Both are the personification of privilege, and act the part as well. Neither are particularly gifted in any way, and it’s extremely unlikely they would ever have made it in the industry without their famous last name, vast family wealth, and pre-established contacts. This is…
The Primary Primer – June 4, 2019
This isn’t going to be a daily feature, it’s too early for that, and too jumbled. Rather, it’s going to be more of a weekly or bi-weekly digest of things that happened in the primaries that may have flown under the radar, or you might want to bookmark to look back on later. The Media…
More from Wolff's latest: Trump calls Pence 'religious nut,' thinks Kavanaugh was probably molested
I read Fire & Fury. I don’t know if I can read Siege, Michael Wolff’s sequel to his mega best-selling book on our long national nightmare. After all, there are so many things I could be doing with my time. Get high and watch H.R. Pufnstuf. Inject psychedelic reindeer urine into my eyeballs. Smoke a pound…
Hannity, et al., are freaking out over Mueller press conference
When you live 24/7 inside a giant acrylic hamster ball full of unicorn glitter farts and faerie dreams, reality can really chafe you when it finally rears its head. Sean Hannity and some Fox regulars are finding that out now. Today, in the wake of the Robert Mueller press conference — in which he stated in…
Deprogramming the Trump lover in a family.. I think I found something worth trying…
Do you have family members who are blinded by orange chaos? I think I found an antidote until you find something better. I tried it this weekend and so far, it seems to be working. Do you have a Mother, sister, brother, Father, daughter, son, grandchild, or close friend who was sane until an escalator…
Media Narrative on Democrats: You Are Screwed!
Because I’m at home, I get to see a lot of MSNBC living with my elderly Mom, and I have had this “emerging” Media narrative of Democrats are so politically screwed shoved into every orifice of my body. Has anyone else noticed this? Here are some of the elements of the Media narrative I have seen…
Guess Who Is The 1st Candidate To Sign The Pledge To Immediately Rally Behind The 2020 Dem Nominee
My picture gave it away but I am a big advocate for early calls for unity and The Daily Beast has a piece out that made me happy: x Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the modern history of our country and he must be defeated; therefore I am proud to take the #WeAreIndivisiblePledge. Let's…
Evidence the media and some dems are creating a false narrative to protect Trump: Why?
In looking for recent polls on impeachment I found this discussion from fivethirtyeight on whether the American people Trump to be impeached from March 13 (between the Barr report which the media ate up and the Mueller report). It is an interesting discussion but here is the key exchange for Trump impeachment. nrakich: Yeah, the Mueller…
Evidence the media and some dems are creating a false narrative to protect Trump: Why?
In looking for recent polls on impeachment I found this discussion from fivethirtyeight on whether the American people Trump to be impeached from March 13 (between the Barr report which the media ate up and the Mueller report). It is an interesting discussion but here is the key exchange for Trump impeachment. nrakich: Yeah, the Mueller…
The Democrats “In a Bind” Narrative.
I do not know about the rest of the media, but some on MSNBC — Andrea Mitchell out with her pomp pomps — are really pushing the narrative that it is Democrats who are in a political bind with the Mueller Report. According to the narrative, people like me are howling at Democrats like hounds from Hell…
House transcript: Two Cabinet members were willing to invoke 25th Amendment
Only two? Seriously, if Donald Trump had been an assistant cruller fryer at Dunkin’ Donuts, he’d have long been fired and put under observation by now, but because he’s only president of the United States, he gets a pass. Do we have to wait until he appoints his horse — or, worse, Jared Kushner — to the…
About Tulsi's paranoid claim that a Trump indictment will lead to civil war…
Generally, I stay away from bashing Democratic presidential candidates. Yet there’s one exception I’ll gladly make, because I don’t know what the hell Tulsi Gabbard is, but she’s no Democrat. I soured on her long ago, after she went on Fox News to parrot GOP talking points to bash Obama. Later, after this David Duke-endorsed candidate…
Trump describes non-white immigrants as 'invaders,' echoing NZ shooter
It’s clear that the New Zealand mosque killer was a big fan of Donald Trump’s efforts to stand “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” and now his motivations are coming into even sharper focus. And they're eerily similar to the twisted values that animate our pr*sident. In fact, as the world was still…
Rush Limbaugh suggests New Zealand attack was a leftist false flag
Because of course he did. Via Media Matters: RUSH LIMBAUGH: The idea that there is far more crazed right-wing terrorism in America than there is any other kind is nothing more than a media narrative manufactured out of whole cloth, and it's just waiting for events like this to take place, and this is what…
Support Tomorrow’s Climate Strike Mobilization
Photo: Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13 year old climate justice activist and aCo-Founder/Co-Director U.S. Youth Climate Strike (youthclimatestrikeus.org) With gratitude in my heart and the future in mind, Russell Greene, PDA Board Member, for Alan, Deb, Mike F., Mike H., Dr. Bill, Dan, Janis, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team The Climate Narrative Is Shifting…
New Jarvanka book: Couple views Air Force as their own personal travel service
A new book on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, titled Kushner Inc., is due out next week, and excerpts are starting to leak like the cranial fluid from Donald Trump’s head. The book, by journalist Vicki Ward, includes several revelations, including that “Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner wanted to control who could travel on trips…
The Analysts Failed Badly In 2016, They Look Like They’re Going To Fail Again In 2020
In a 1991 James Fallows wrote a piece in the Atlantic trying to explain what exactly he found so obnoxious about the magazine, the Economist. To do this he related an anecdote about a government official going on to him about about he’d just read on Japan’s economic miracle. This book, he told Fallows, extensively proved that…
Black man takes over leadership of neo-Nazi group, seeks to destroy it from within
How dumb are white supremacists? Well, dumb enough to let a person of color take over as president of one of their most popular organizations. It sounds like a narrative pulled from BlacKkKlansman (or even Blazing Saddles), and it’s, frankly, pretty unbelievable. I wouldn’t believe it myself if it weren’t on the website of FAKE NEWS!…
The Great Trump “Unraveling” Begins.
Hey, what smells in here? Stick a pin in this week. In years to come, when we look back on the sad and sordid history of the Trump Presidency, this will be the week when we realize that the whole damn thing started to come apart at the seams. And to realize that Glorious Tweeter…
CNN's new 'political editor' tied to the shameful Seth Rich conspiracy story
This is craven. Because Donald Trump twiddles his tweeter thumbs at CNN 24/7, the network has apparently bowed to the “pressure,” hiring a former Trump DOJ official and Republican operative, Sarah Isgur Flores, to oversee its 2020 election coverage. That’s not a typo. It’s not meant to say “to oversee its quarterly urinal cake acquisition”…
Greg Sargent Details How Pelosi Had to Overcome Charges of Bothsiderism to Make Trump Cave.
Greg Sargent, Washington Post reporter and principal writer for the Post’s influential Plum Line Blog, today tweeted out an interesting thread on how the MSM tried for all its worth to equate drumpf’s damaging to the nation as a whole, spiteful, and ultimately futile government shutdown with Speaker Pelosi’s principled and ultimately harmful to nothing but drumpf’s fragile…
Can we quickly get an intelligent discussion going on Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax
Elizabeth Warren is about to announce a new wealth tax supported by (imho) two excellent economists. The right wing is already out claiming it is unconstitutional. I see right wing and traditional media do this constantly to set the narrative. Kevin Drum who never met a tax he thought was fair is already on the…
About that upcoming Mueller report.
I’d like to take a minute to draw a couple of distinctions about the upcoming Mueller report, and the soon to begin congressional committee hearings. The Mueller investigation is not necessarily These two investigations do not necessarily dovetail with each other, in fact, in some ways they are diametrically opposed. Robert Mueller’s mandate from the…
Hey MSNBC! McConnell, McConnell, McConnell Could Reopen the Government Tomorrow!
Hallie Jackson, Andrea Mitchell, Katy Tur, and Tweety Bird Matthews were all singing from the same hymnal today about the government shutdown: “Give in you heartless Democrats!” Anyway, MSNBC is pushing the narrative that if this government shutdown goes on much longer that Democrats should cave and spare the government workers. Reminder to MSNBC: Trump “owns” this…
In this battle of wits, only one side is competing.
The President is a counter puncher. When he’s hit, he hits back twice as hard Sarah Huckabee Sanders Thus us a primo example of the bullshit that I like to call the Trump mythology. In boxing, a counter puncher deflects or accepts a minor blow in order to be in position to deliver a more…
An update to yesterdays article about Trump underestimating the American people.
Wipe that smirk off of your face right now. I am not denying, refuting, or admitting anything. I am simply enriching the texture of my previous narrative. I like the way that rolls off of the tongue, it sounds so much better than “I’m putting in some shit that I forgot yesterday.” Hey, both things can be true…
Will Having Political Power in the House Shift the Media Narrative With Regards False Equivalency?
I do not have the transcript, but I was listening to AM Joy this morning. And she and her panel brought up the false equivalency the Media finds between Republican scandals and Democratic “scandals.” In other words, the Hillary Clinton emails. I think most here can agree that the Media obsession with the Clinton emails…
Sun Rises in the East: Media Narrative that Democrats Have to Change and Be Moderates.
NPR was doing it’s damndest to get newly elected Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger to trash her fellow Democrats and the Democratic Party. The questions by the NPR inteviewer were centered around if the Democratic Party needed to change. And in case anyone missed what the interviewer meant by change, it wasn’t just that they needed to…
Healthcare. Healthcare. Healthcare.
OK Democrats, in another two months it’s going to be time to put up or shut up. We got the House over the finish line, and we did it the old fashioned way, we worked our collective ass off for it. We won like any political party does, by making promises. But this time is…
CO-Sen: Cory Gardner (R) Is Now The Dean Heller Of 2020
I’ll have a full election analysis results diary once the recounts and runoffs are over and the remaining congressional races are called. But in the meantime, I’m going to get an early start on the 2020 races. Since it will be a Presidential election, the Senate will be a big focus. It’s potentially another tough…
The GOP lost more than the House on Tuesday night. They lost their favorite talking point too.
The thrill is gone baby, the thrill is gone away BB King Just because I haven’t been writing for the last three days doesn’t mean that I have been idle. Far from it. I’ve been laying on the sofa, kicking my feet in the air, giggling like a two year old being tickled, and…
TX-Sen: Ted Cruz's (R) Lead Over Beto O'Rourke (D) Is Shrinking Fast One Week Before Election Day
So here’s some big news today out of Texas: Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz leads challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, by 3.6 percentage points among likely voters in a new University of Texas at Tyler poll released Wednesday. According to the poll, which is the first one released by the university, 47 percent of the…
Is This True What I Hear About Latino Voters?
True or False: Latino voters are not going to show up in the midterm election and throw several Congressional and Senate contests to the Republicans? I ask this because I have no insider knowledge on Latinos, but I’m hearing, seeing, and reading about the collective shrug from Latinos from the like of NPR, MSNBC, and…
How Dems lose FL in 2018: 1) Ignore our red tide expert candidates 2) Campaign for GOP
First, let me deal with #2 (FL Democrats campaigning for GOP candidates), because this one really pisses me off. If anyone wants to know why I beat my head against the wall in this stupid state, it’s because of crap like this: Kathy Lewis (D-FL Senate Dis 20) Democratic state Senate candidate Kathy Lewis says it…
Tell Me Some Good News Folks or at Least Lie to Me.
I’m a Democrat, so I am prone to panic. Yeah, redundant. But I have been depressed lately because of multiple things going on in my personal life (health issue of a loved one for starters). Therefore, here I am asking for some good news or lies from my Daily Kossacks about the state of the…
Postcards from the front. Battlefield Nevada.
This is your intrepid reporter Murfster35, coming to you live from Vegas beach. The media missiles are flying overhead with increasing frequency, the battle is in doubt, but the body count won’t be known until November 6th. Here we are, 27 days from D-Day. I thought it might be both interesting, as well as informative,…
US Senate. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) is riding the wave. Let's keep her in “the curl.”
You want to hang onto the dream of retaking the Senate this year? Well, that road runs directly through Nevada. And right now, Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen is hitting every note that a political Beethoven could have written pitch perfectly. Jacky Rosen has had the chance to run a dream campaign. She had no competition in the…
The Week That Was
Photos: The United States Supreme Court Building, by Joe Ravi • CC BY-SA 3.0 and Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing in 2004, CSPAN • Public domain By Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike F., Mike H., Dr. Bill, Janis, Dan, Kimberly, Bryan, Donna, Judy, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Contact Both Of Your Senators With A Click…
Everybody knows we live in a democracy…and the information age, right?
What is the purpose of Dr. Ford giving testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee? Basically to get her story out to the American public. She is not going to change one vote on the committee. Jeff Flake has already been exposed as a charlatan whose main function in the Republican party is ratf*cking. The Republicans…
Progressive Democrats of America and Our Revolution Announce Strategic Partnership
By Mike Hersh for Progressive Democrats of America The two organizations most responsible for building on the Bernie Sanders-inspired political revolution announce plans to work together on Medicare for All and Midterm Elections. Our Revolution (OR) and the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) are excited to announce a formal partnership established by both organizations’ national…
Reading the MSM on Kavanaugh: Maybe He Really IS in Trouble?
It’s only MSNBC — Hardball and All In with Chris Hayes mind you, but I’m seeing a shift in how the MSM is viewing Kavanaugh. And it ain’t good news for Kavanaugh. Maybe the Kavanaugh nomination to the SCOTUS is in real trouble? First up, I tuned in to the last 30 minutes of Hardball with…
