Opinion: Why the Pro-Life Party Thinks Death is the Only Answer
Let me start by saying no one—for or against—is in favor of abortion. Subjecting a woman and her partner to outside scrutiny from what is...
Silent Majority, Moral Majority, Silent Majority
From that moment in November of 1969, when former President Richard Nixon asked for a “silent majority” to support his ‘Vietnamization’ effort, utilizing the peace...
The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.
Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida's State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of an amendment banning the...
McCarthy's district benefits the most from the progressive bills he opposes. We can flip it!
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy represents one of the poorest districts in California, yet he opposes relief for his constituents. We must rid the House of...
Liz Cheney wants to “defeat socialism” without previous guy. Do it for America! More Gaslight!
We now return you to the continuing Big Lie and the punchable face of the GQP. “By deposing @Liz_Cheney they’ve only given her a bigger platform.”...
Bamboo, Watermelons, and Rainbows
Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled...
Krugman: If Biden passes the American Families Plan, Republicans are screwed
The raison d'être of the Republican Party for much of the past 100 years has been to slam the brakes on anything that would make the...
Minerva @ Midnight: tragedy versus cynicism because Tucker Carlson calls mask-wearing child abuse
Peak cynicism has arrived. Tucker Carlson pimps a version of the nanny-state with more police confrontations because he thinks cops should stop children from wearing...
Christie slammed on tax lie, Rye schools cognitive dissonant panel on rotten policing, USA genocide
Sen. @HeidiHeitkamp slammed Gov. @ChrisChristie tax lie. @Angela_Rye had to school a cognitive dissonant panel on rotten police. @FareedZakaria posits Turkey v. America genocide. Gov....
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...
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,...
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...
Postmaster General Louis Dejoy attempts to cripple the postal service likely for a specific reason
The attack on the postal service continues. Postmaster General Louis Dejoy is strategically crippling it for what I think is a specific reason. He wants...
Conservatives have some really dumb new reasons for opposing D.C. statehood
It always seemed absurd to me that hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens have no effective representation in Congress. And I’m not just talking about...
“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...
Racism is the Connective Tissue
In 2008 when former President Obama was thrust into one of the biggest financial messes since the depression of 1929, his stated goal was to...
“It’s much more fun to cosplay as Robespierre than a financial literacy teacher.” Žižek on GameStop
No one wants to hear about GameStop(gate) even if it’s not really a scandal or a flaw in capitalism. Slavoj "we must end capitalism but won't" Žižek...
“uber-capitalism” in a neoliberal market of revenant bears tiptoeing through tulips
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/1354805635787853825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MichaelHeide/status/1354511827607183373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Bear Raid is not an offensive formation now at Mississippi State, but rather capital formation of a fictitious nature. Killing one bear because...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – comparing Butte Montana and Chuqui Chile
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who...
Thomas Friedman’s recipe for Democrats would be fatal. He does not get it.
Thomas Friedman did a disservice with a false narrative recently on MSNBC as Democrats are about to take over the government. Thomas Friedman wrong again as...
A Reminder: Healthcare workers.
They are beyond tired, almost beyond human endurance, yet they still go to work. Please show that you care where you can: Don’t travel. Don’t...
Smiling Kelly Loeffler poses for a selfie with the head of the National Alliance and Hammerskins.
The Jewish Action group Twitter account, shared an image of Senator Kelly Loeffler with a former leader of the KKK. Chester Doles, a fourth-generation Klansman, now...
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“Do you believe the [presidential] election was rigged?” non-answer by Loeffler blames socialism
Loeffler-Warnock debate for US Senate seat from Georgia. xWatch Sen. Loeffler's non-answer to the question: "Do you believe the [presidential] election was rigged?" pic.twitter.com/rAc7iwMvhj— The...
The first bill in the new Congress should be an 'anti-socialism' bill that everyone can get behind
It’s hard to argue that any citizens have been more targeted under the Trump administration than those living in Democratic-led states, which was by Donald Trump’s own...
Question: Is D. Trump really any worse than R. Nixon R. Reagan, G.W.H. Bush or G. W. Bush?
This is a view from abroad as I have been an expat since the middle of the second term of W.J. Clinton. I am not...
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...
Trump: This was the most secure rigged election ever!
Yeah, don’t expect it to make sense. Trump is a quart of strawberries shy of a full Queeg right about now. xIn this tweet, the...
GA-Sen A & B: Paul Krugman, “A Republican Senate Would Be Bad for Business”
This has been a busy post-election week for me at work and I have a lot more diaries I want to write about this past...
Sleeping with the Enemy
Look, I get it—that half the Republican electorate is either unbalanced, selfish or so ill-informed that Trump looked like a reasonable pick; but why do...
I have Republican friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. Here is what they told me after Biden won.
As the headline says, I have Republican friends, co-workers, neighbors and so on. I got added to one of their message lists, and they had...
AOC slams back in defense of progressives against a centrist attack with the inconvenient truth
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) responsibly hit hard on the current attempt to blame Democratic underperformance on Progressives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) defends Progressives x x YouTube Video...
Reflections on this nation, and more
I have not gotten much work done this week. I have at least for now suspended work on my dissertation, and it was only yesterday...
The stupidest proposal I have heard….. so far today
Rick Santorum on CNN [paraphrasing mine] “If the Democrats want to bring the country together they should let the Republican senatorial candidates in Georgia win,...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part deux
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and pseudoscience. Trump continues to see his numbers decline...
I will never trust republicans of any “type”.
I try to keep out of American politics as I have been an expat for over half my life [passed that milestone last month] and...
Dire campaigner, Trump's no “dier”, but makes speech to astroturf crowd on the South Lawn
Trump probably created more “diers” today with a crowd who wanted to celebrate something probably not miraculous, but the product of magical thinking. xWASHINGTON (AP)...
mixed messaging: “unlikable communist monster” versus the fly on the lying guy
Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but...
a “bored” Typhoid Trump promenades, as Biden's net favorability improves to a steady polling lead
Trump still has it and is contagious. He did his contagion parade outside the hospital to wave to supporters because he was “bored” but wanted...
Trump, mass spreader gets COVID, Bernard Sampson of CPUSA, an existential message
Donald Trump has been a disguised COVID mass spreader for some time. Now he’s got it. CPUSA’s Bernard Sampson has an important message. The irresponsibility...
As the GOP deteriorates and bleeds support, fearmongering is relied on more than ever
Fear is a core psychological and biological emotion that often overrules logic. That’s according to Arash Javanbakht, a neuroscientist who specializes in trauma. Fear is...
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal
“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning...
RNC night three brings more lies, building Pirates of the Pancreas with Mike Pence
Marine props, naturalized citizen props, and tonight it featured a guy charged with insider trading, who also claims that Trump, unlike Bill Clinton, is “the...
Trump's suburban scares falling short: 'It's appealing to June Cleaver, when June Cleaver is dead'
At some point someone must have told Donald Trump that he needs suburban women to win reelection — and that he’s losing them, badly. If...
Trump 4-day telethon grift begins Monday: will you watch it?
Thematically there will be the same contradictory elements: freedom of religion only for specific religions, carnage is here because it’s been manufactured, the stock market...
In Formation: 70% of Trump followers could be “anakisks”
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” and Donald Trump’s creativity, however limited, remains confined to cowardly name-calling. “Slow Joe” and “Phony Kamala”...
If Trump Gets a Rose Garden Acceptance Speech, Shouldn't All 30+ Candidates Get the Same?
If Donald Trump is allowed to use the White House Rose Garden to accept the nomination of the Republican Party, should not Jo Jorgensen, candidate...
Trumpian disinterest: stock gains will 'disintegrate and disappear' under Biden (whatever's left)
Trump claims a Joe Biden presidency would cause stock gains to 'disintegrate and disappear'. We’re already there, no thanks to an incompetent pandemic policy, or lack...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”
This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is...
