Wolves in the Democratic Henhouse
In nineteen seventy-four, I reached three milestones in my life. In March of that year, I turned eighteen; ten days later, I registered with selective...
REALLY? Joe Manchin on switching Parties: “I don't know where the hell I belong.” We know where!
It seems Joe Manchin does not know where he belongs. Progressives know well what Manchin's values represent. Joe Manchin should know Watch Politics Done Right...
Republican Corruption
The Rotten Core of the Republican Party -Binyamin Appelbaum -NYT Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, recently took to social media to...
It'll be $3.5T, Big Pharma secrets revealed, Mandate argument neutered, Psaki tags GOP politicians
Bernie says it must be $3.5 Trillion. Big Pharma secret mRNA formula revealed. Jen Psaki laid waste to insurrectionist Republican politicians in answer. Big Pharma...
PROOF: Super rich people are not the makers but the parasites of our society. And we must say it!
They have self-defined as the makers. So they enrich themselves on what we make, our work, worth, and service like parasites. And here's proof. Super...
Former top Trump Org exec on company's longtime controller: 'He's going to talk'
Why isn’t this guy in prison yet? Is it because he’s rich and white? Or because he behaves like a drug-addled mob boss? Getting to...
Disagreements cancel Monday's main event commemorating the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
Critical Race Practice. Organizers have canceled plans for an afternoon of speeches and performances commemorating the centennial on Monday of the Tulsa massacre. This reminds us...
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...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for fleecing customers during the pandemic.
Senator Elizabeth Warren was not kind to Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for fleecing Americans with overdrafts during the pandemic. Elizabeth Warren took no prisoners https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNkq1ShWJs4...
A millennial’s plea to Boomers and older GenXers.
A few years ago, I wrote the piece titled "Boomers Must Take Some Blame And Help Fix Generation Y Unhappy Problem" without any malintent. I...
Minerva @ Midnight: the 1/6 commission must succeed because the insurrection was no “tourist visit”
It does seem clear that in the name of “bipartisanship, there may be pro-Trumpists chosen who will attempt to sabotage such a commission, because some...
A Tin Lizzie
The Tin Lizzie was a Ford Model T car that ushered in prefabricated manufacturing, thereby featuring profits over craftsmanship. Although for the first time, the...
MO-Sen: Lucas Kunce (D) Turns Up The Pressure On The Senate To Pass The PRO Act
Received this e-mail today from Marine Veteran Lucas Kunce’s (D. MO) U.S. Senate campaign: President Biden, labor activists, and everyday workers across the country are...
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...
CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson
Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was about 24 hours into the rollout of her California gubernatorial...
Heitkamp destroys Gov. Christie’s double taxation lie: Biggest scam in the history of forever!
Gov. Chris Christies thought he would get away with the socialism and double taxation trope. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp would have none of it. Christie did...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: prison break art and flat-earth theory
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...
Another piece of Arctic sea ice destruction confirmed; 'Heat Bombs' from the Pacific.
According to new findings from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, primarily in summer, unprecedented quantities of heat from the...
Stephanie Ruhle grills GOP Rep. objecting to taxing corporations for infrastructure. BIG FAIL!
I refute Rep. Kevin Brady's defense of GOP's objections to taxing corporations with a myriad of lies and misinformation in his Stephanie Ruhle interview. Stephanie...
Black man’s message before the verdict about the National Guard is more telling than most realize.
Upon listening to @AliVelshi's interview with this young black man's take on the National Guard protecting Minneapolis pre-verdict is more telling than most think. The...
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. xT***p surprised some observers by not pardoning Madoff...
'Gutfeld!' is hiring comedy writers for its atrociously unfunny train wreck of a show
Weed o’clock struck early today. Not sure why. Something to do with daylight saving time, I think. Or the Maya calendar? Fuck if I know. It...
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...
Stephanie Kelton: Biden can go bigger, but they must understand MMT & inflation.
I read "Biden Can Go Bigger and Not 'Pay for It' the Old Way" by Economics Professor and MMT advocate Stephanie Kelton. It is an important read...
Jake Tapper lets the Mississippi Governor spin infrastructure bill lies. We correct the record.
CNN's Jake Tapper allows Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves to spin and misrepresent the infrastructure bill. We correct the record. Jake Tapper was not on his...
WOW! Chuck Todd called out Republican failure on the infrastructure bill. The tax cut was a failure
Chuck Todd challenged Sen. Roger Wicker on Republican policy failures, including a tax cut that did not work, while GOP opposes the infrastructure bill. Chuck...
Biden dares Republicans, Jen Psaki truth-slaps reporter, Matt Gaetz sexcapades, Tax the rich
Joe Biden does not cower to GOP and Mitch McConnell. Jen Psaki did not allow a reporter to misinform. Matt Gaetz’s illegal hypocrisy exposed. We...
Tax The Rich! Buttigieg slams Texas, Jackson Lee for Court expansion, Medicare for All GOP fail
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Texas. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee supports Supreme Court Expansion. GOP ignores the M4A vote. It is time to tax the...
“Politics is downstream from culture”
Who knew, Big Tech is corporate communism, which may explain why there should be a Magnitsky law for the US. A Ghislaine Maxwell pardon could...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far...
Timing is Everything. To my surprise I agree with everything Biden is trying to do.
As many here know I am a Democratic Socialist and a long time Bernie supporter. I listened to Biden today and was impressed as he...
“Eat the Rich”, because they still tasty
Twitter is dragging Jonathan Turley because of attributing a Rousseau quote to the Reign of Terror, but more likely because they mistook him for Jeffrey Toobin. That’s...
the Grand Hotel Abyss defunded and canceled by Trump's GQP culture war on massage spas
The Atlanta spree killings are unfortunately a story with structural similarity to events elsewhere. How do we know that Robert Long wasn’t on his way to...
'A proctological exam of the highest order': Trump investigations really may be different this time
If you’re like me, you were continually frustrated by Donald Trump’s baffling ability to avoid real consequences for his serial perfidy over the past four...
“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup
Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beef & Broccoli, Asian Blackness, and a Trappist Monk Gap
“The universe has been to them.” (Resident Alien) Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table...
The same folks who declared 'Freedom Fries' demand their Pepe Le Pew because of a “3-line whip”
Everybody’s favorite cultural caricatures came out from beneath their rocks because they have nothing to contribute while we wait for the final chapter in the...
Congressman exposes Republican fraud by their objection to COVID Relief Bill laying out the good.
Congressman Richard Neal destroyed the hypocrisy of Republicans with two charts after explaining how COVID Relief Bill will make a difference in their lives. Republican...
One chart shows the dramatic difference between Biden's American Rescue Plan and the Trump tax scam
I still remember when Donald Trump got up in front of a throng of masochistic fools and said, of his plutocrat-friendly 2017 tax cut bill,...
Minimum Rage
Last night, I happily threw out any notion of nutrition and ordered dinner from a fast-food restaurant. I am far from being a foodie or...
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...
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GOP Sen. says COVID relief bill's a Trojan Horse. [LOL] Who always has to clean up their mess again?
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy appeared on a gaslighting mission claiming the COVID Relief bill is a Trojan Horse. He wants Democrats to listen to the...
A 'second gilded age'? Maybe, but only because recycling ideas is an academic genre
Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse by all those folks who knew they were in that...
The Blame Game
Democrats look for solutions, and Republicans look for blame. I am not sure where I heard that phrase and I probably rejected it as just...
Dana Bash rips Texas Rep: Texas begging for federal help when it's in a mess for its “independence.”
CNN's Dana Bash ripped Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) for begging for federal assistance when they wanted independence from the national grid. CNN’s Dana Bash perfect...
STRIKE 3 for Texas Conservatism. Economist Richard Wolff discusses The Sickness is the System
We must make the Texas Electric grid failure strike 3. Economist & Professor Dr. Richard Wolff discusses his new eBook, The Sickness System. Dr. Richard...
STRIKE 3: Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, failed Texas Electric grid Nail in coffin for Texas CONSERVATISM.
The combination of Cancun Ted Cruz, lying Greg Abbott, and Texas Electric Collapse will be Strike 3 for Texas Conservatism if we make the case....
![The Disparity of Climate Change [I get somewhat snarky.]](https://i1.wp.com/thepoliticus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MGMBRMMA2ZHFVOI6MQSEBAQU3Q.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1)
The Disparity of Climate Change [I get somewhat snarky.]
Sen Ted Cruz [Q-Texas] fleeing with his family to Cancún gave us a fine example of this, two thumbs up Ted, well done. This show...
time for '14th Amendment solutions' because containing COVID was yet another Trump disaster in 2020
Ron Johnson didn’t see an ‘armed insurrection’ because who could have foreseen that Trump would threaten violence. In August 2016, Trump called for "second amendment...
I don't need lectures from Billionaires about climate change.
In particular Bill Gates pontifications under his label of the “Good Billionaire”. Yes he does keep to the science in a way, but please stop...