If there’s a dumb, totally asinine, and completely false idea floating about the blessed ether just waiting for a home, you can pretty much rest assured it will find purchase in at least one Republican’s yawning, mephitic brain-hole. And so in accordance with the immutable laws of the universe, this shit happened: Rodney Garcia, a member…
Category: Socialism
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: “Rail, mail, water, and energy into public ownership”-The UK Labour Manifesto
The BBC identified 12 key issues for the Labour party’s manifesto in preparation for the December General Election. Not wishing to take anything away from NY Brit Expat’s cogent analyses, I wanted to reflect on one item, the potential for re-nationalizing of key sectors in the US 2020 election context, since progressive Democratic candidates have…
Another biz news freakout over Elizabeth Warren's candidacy
On Tuesday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer noted that he’s been hearing a lot of doom and gloom from Wall Street executives over the possibility that Elizabeth Warren could — gasp! — actually win the presidency: “Look, I’ve got to tell you, when you get off the desk and you talk to executives, they’re more fearful of her…
Thoughts on debate topics – “socialism”
This is the third of three posts on topics coming from the last two nights of debates. The first two, on immigration and on Medicare for All, are available for your perusal and commenting through my user page. In economic terminology, Socialism is where the means of production are owned publicly through the government while…
Conservative columnist: GOP is doomed because young people see it as 'the dumb party'
George Will was on CNBC today plugging a book called … ah, who gives a shit what it’s called? I’ve never been able to get far enough through a George Will book to finish the title anyway. So after the usual old-guard conservative pablum about free markets reigning supreme — and after taking a few…
Roseanne unleashes insane attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Roseanne Barr’s downward death spiral continues unabated. Not content to simply lose her show and her mind, she’s now vacuuming away every last scrap of dignity from her blotchy couch cushions. The latest? She’s decided to take on the Zen master of social media, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In a recent YouTube video — amidst a trenchant…
Welcome back, Bernie; now please stop calling yourself a socialist
Let me get all my caveats out of the way as I hastily don my flak jacket. I like Bernie Sanders. After seriously considering Hillary Clinton, I voted for Sanders in the 2016 Oregon primary. When Hillary won the nomination, I enthusiastically backed her, and was just a bit peeved that Bernie refused to back…
Steve Mnuchin wins prize for dumbest post-SOTU response … maybe ever
Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Dwight David Eisenhower. One of these kids is doing his own thing. Or maybe not, if you’re Treasury Secretary Steve Mental Munchkin. After Donald Trump told us in his State of the Bizarro Union speech that we’ll never be a socialist country (like that could happen, and like anyone…
