Charlie McCarthy's cousin Kevin bailed on colleague during the Insurrection
Armed with a civil war sword, Bruce Westerman (R-AR) crouched on a commode, ready for a last stand because the lost cause insurrectionists were crashing and...
Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism
"As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward,...
Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate...
The last guy literally caused hundreds of thousands of people to die in a single year…
In Thursday night’s Biden speech, it was simply good not to listen to the narcissistic blather which we have had to endure for four years. “I promise...
ex-POTUS* now put into a position to lose in places not even related to elections
Insurrection part Deux may be coming, but it’s a distraction from an emerging Raw Story report about Russian mobsters and Trump that includes money laundering in...
minutes after voting acquittal, Mitch McConnell said Trump is 'responsible' for US Capitol attack
"What we saw in that Senate today was a cowardly group of Republicans who apparently have no options, because they were afraid to defend their...
As Trump's own impeachment lawyer (accidentally) pointed out, the DOJ can indict him NOW
43 GQP co-conspirators have ensured their place in US political history. They allowed Trump to turn the US into a banana republic. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1360718711821266946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1360734136227401730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw “Our...
geeks, creators, mops, sociopaths on 1/6
“Can anyone honestly say that if some of those in the mob with zip ties, stun guns and other weapons actually came upon a member...
Donald Trump faces possible expulsion from SAG-AFTRA as 1/3 of Americans believe in election fraud
Trump losing his SAG card probably will make little difference to him, although that puts him one rung below Reagan. The falsehood of 2020 election...
“…it's up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.”
Probably the last official deal crafted by Trump will be his pardon, whether of himself or by Mike Pence after Trump’s resignation with hours or...
can the presidency be Trump-proofed despite his ravings after 1 AM about Georgia on his mind
Trump’s up late again, fantasizing things about Georgia’s Secretary of State. Trump is obviously unhappy with Brad R. xThe person, Ron Raffensperger, exists. But he...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
Unhingery: “No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot!”
Why bother counting the votes after Dixville Notch weighs in. Dick Nixon won both Ohio and Florida in 1960 and lost to Kennedy. But you do you Donald,...
A “kraken of biblical proportions” ain't happening as Trump hopes his turkey pardon spreads
Trump celebrated a month and 26 days of asshat amateurism left by having a one minute briefing and taking no questions at the White House, but...
Trump's end-game prompts a ruling class survivalism, worrying us looters about possible end-times
Trumpist anti-certifying efforts for the remaining states seem a fools’ errand but Trump and Giuliani seem to be the best fools for it. Regardless, they are chasing...
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...
pre-symptomatic 'President Trump's debate performance was degrading and sinister in equal measure.'
Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure...
pre-symptomatic 'Trump's debate performance was degrading and sinister in equal measure.'
Did Trump truly believe that he could avoid catching the virus, as so much contact tracing must be done for the several days of exposure...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday 25 September – Tube steak and Brasshouse in the middle
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...
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...
'anyone supporting Trump is ignorant or deeply cynical & willfully destroying our democracy'
We need a more hinged POTUS, as Trump is now mongering actual violence rather than fear from the White House. Scorched earth on the path...
Trump meltdown 55+ tweets. And Michelle Bachmann says, 'commies gonna collapse the US economy!'
We in big trouble. Trump says there’ll be more “pro-crime judges”. Michele Bachmann claims that Transgender Marxists Want To Elect Biden, Turn US Communist, And Create...
unhinged Trump now claims you'll get infected by ballot boxes
Trump did more fear-mongering and ranted enough to cause his second official violation of Twitter rules. This happened as Trump tried another pre-RNC stunt regarding an...
today's Trump distractions: TikTok and Covid. Because Manhattan DA now moving forward
Trump is running out of distractions, as he recycles hydroxycholoroquine “cures” again and criticizes Birx. Backpedaling on TikTok has also some implications for US companies...
ACAB comes with the territory – can policing (ever) change
Community policing can happen even if it’s been talked about for half a century against a backdrop of paramilitary enforcement and military intelligence. Sadly, the change...
IMPOTUS* endnote: “Mitch better have my money” as the pandemic distances us all
The land of flaming nitwits. More federal government shakedowns, courtesy of the GOP, complete with payoffs to try to get re-elected. xThis may be the...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: The second year after Anthony Bourdain's death
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...
Trump's '1917' COVID references – it couldn't be brain damage for the umpteenth time
His continuing inability to correctly reference the 1918 flu pandemic only tells us a few things best diagnosed by professionals because he “aced” the mistake yet...
Mary Trump freed from Gag Order: expect more dirt to be dished
A judge has freed Mary Trump from a gag order, allowing the president’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her book. Lots...
How Trump launders $$ through his golf courses
Adam Davidson of The New Yorker is a superb reporter who does his research, and is prepared to dig hard to get the information. He...
#WaterGait – because minorities needed
The retreat to the bunker continues, with the hope that it doesn’t have long, steep ramps leading to it. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1272242418264334336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1272206280837533697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MrsNDpendent/status/1272389236919017473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Even though Trump or...
Trump lied, a hundred thousand died – US still number one in an imperfect storm of COVID-19
Mistakes were made, and the numbers shot up. They will continue to do that as one projection has another 100,000 deaths by September. And yet...
Trump's cosplay fascism continues as Dems fight back, because #BunkerBoy's “bums” battlespace
While national polling continues against Trump, trailing Biden by 17%, his frantic fascist cosplay is playing out in ways reminiscent to Nixon’s reaction to antiwar protests....
12 airliners crashing every day for two months as Trump deconstructs national grief
Deconstructing the Administrative State. David E. Lewis. The Journal of Politics 2019 81:3, 767-789 ”the steady state in current U.S. politics has been a common...
Family fraud, false advertising, and unfair competition: a 2018 IMPOTUS* Ponzi-scheme case proceeds
Like opposition-information for political campaigns, real products of value often have ambiguous, intangible content. See Trump University. While there’s no RICO violation, the recruitment of...
2020 is Trump's “Year of Tremendous Death”
Trump claimed cases would go from fifteen to zero on 28 February. Cases are over a million and he keeps raising his prideful death total now...
196 days until election day, more Pyrrhic victories ahead.
As Trump ridicules social distancing as “politically correct” he reveals how little he respects his “own” guidelines, and continues to believe that his path to...
Trump lost a month and may have killed more people because he may still believe in 'herd immunity'
The Trumpian disinformation machine lost a month and now recalibrates death toll expectations in the last two pressers. President Tiger King’s reelection can only happen...
Fury Road drive-ins: $50 bottle of Purell to $10 for a toilet roll PLUS $50 Billion to airlines
It has seemed from the start that Trump’s incompetence comes from understanding that he’s incapable of self-awareness or self-governance, especially when he defaults to his usual...
Trump remains part of the problem of US COVID-19 testing failure.
The usual “anti-government” dismantling of the state preached by Trumpists rationalized their inability to contingency plan for testing failure. It started even before they took...
Trump as underpants gnome is no better in the German: “Trumpregierungsschlamasselschmerz.”
The NewYorker’s Susan Glasser finds a single word to describe the Trump era that really isn’t about underpants gnomes, even if it applies to most...
Trump won't pardon Erdoğan, even if he pardons Turkey
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1199114203732357120? https://twitter.com/KateBennett_DC/status/1198811646761803777? WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a startling break with Thanksgiving tradition, Donald J. Trump refused to pardon the White House turkey after claiming that...
Turkey’s Former Ambassador to the U.S., Namik Tan, Openly Mocks Our Idiot *resident.
Proving yet again how much disdain the rest of the world has for the Oval Office occupant, former Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Namik Tan tweeted...
New polling: WaPo – almost half support removal of Trump and 58% support impeachment inquiry
Apparently Trump’s absurd bleating is falling flat about how he’s against corruption in Ukraine in light of being caught trying to shake down that same...
'The Taliban gave me toothpaste and soap'
David Rohde is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of newyorker.com. In November 2008 he was captured by the Taliban while in Afghanistan. In June...
UPDATE: w/ story — Ronan Farrow just dropped another Kavanaugh bombshell
UPDATE: And BOOM goes the dynamite. The story is here: www.newyorker.com/... And here’s an excerpt: Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to...
