The GOP has gone to POT

The aftermath of the 2020 election has proven to any skeptical American that the GOP has gone to POT—the Party of Trump. The party is being overrun by conspiracists of … Read More

How do you spell Genocide? Memo exposing the let it happen Covid spread. ” We want them infected”.

Joy Reid just showed a memo from the quack Trump picked and it is a bloody memo.   We need some folks going to Gitmo or International courts for human rights … Read More

Melania tries to turn story time at children's hospital into a Trumpian superspreader event

Johnny Virus-seed and his wife, Malaria, have done all they can to spread Christmas cheer and COVID in the past couple of months, and just because we’re about to shove … Read More

Trump: “2 + 2 = 5!” GOP: “Yes, sir!”

In 1984, George Orwell used the line “two plus two equals 5 . . . or sometimes 3. . . .” as one of his ways to show the effectiveness … Read More

A short explanation and warning regarding Republicans' efforts to undermine the election.

The myriad investigations and impeachment of President Bill Clinton could be explained as direct power politics, but there was always a larger motivation that explained events.  Bill Clinton broke through the … Read More

Trump's other loopy lawyer reportedly has COVID

How perfect is it that both of Trump’s dead-ender lawyers now have COVID? Axios: President Trump's lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she has coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West … Read More

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle gets real after her entire family got infected with COVID-19

Stephanie Ruhle did not hold back as she excoriated the government's response to COVID. Her empathy for the plight of most is unparalleled. Stephanie Ruhle gets it x x YouTube … Read More

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Lady Death, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Woody Guthrie

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 throwing pies at one another. … Read More

Fox News finally tells the truth after 270 000+ dead Americans caused by their lying complicity.

This should be grounds to take Fox News off of our airwaves for being an anti-mask promoting network that caused thousands of lives. Fox News comes clean x x YouTube … Read More

Trump & Georgia Senators slammed by Sec. of State official Gabriel Sterling – unanswered threats

Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling slammed Donald Trump and the two Georgia Senators for not calling out those threatening officials. Gabriel Sterling slams Trump & Georgia Senators See full … Read More

as Trump is my witness, I thought turkeys could gather “in homes and places of worship” today

Because “freedom” means having the right to kill the grans at Thanksgiving 1978 — WKRP in Cincinnati: The "turkey drop" episode. Forty live turkeys were dropped from a helicopter onto an … Read More

Oh no, she didn't.

This is remarkable. Ivanka tweets some gobbledygook about how daddy has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 10 percent last year.  This is a lie; the emissions drop she references is … Read More

Boycott Florida. PLEASE ! DeSantis is trying to kill us all for a dollar.

Ron Desantis makes Rick Scott look like a saint.  Seriously, who would have thought such a thing. He hasn’t done squat over Hurricane damage and in hiding.  He sends out … Read More

YouTube suspends OANN for violating COVID misinformation policy

OANN is Donald Trump’s new favorite teevee network, and that makes a ton of sense — because it’s basically Fox News on bath salts, chewing away at America’s jowly face … Read More

OANN loses its place on YouTube because of COVID-19 misinformation, not its disinformation

You’d think they’d be penalized for all that disinformation, but in regard to the Trump de-election campaign, that will continue. You take what you can get in the marginally deregulated media universe, … Read More

Remember that Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary can address some of the Trump sweetheart deals

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen will be nominated as Treasury Secretary. Remember that Trump though Mnuchin lifted some Russian sanctions during the Mueller investigation on one Russian oligarch in particular, … Read More

Brian Williams breaks sarcasm meter over suggestion that vaccine should be named for Trump

So yesterday, Geraldo Rivera, whose career has run the gamut from dreadfully embarrassing to off-the-charts mortifying, had a great idea. Let’s name the vaccine after Donald Trump, because, well … we want the … Read More

250,000 dead since “Trump's a tenant pouring cement down the toilets because his lease is expiring”

Trump doesn’t care whether he loses his security deposit. He just wants the chaos of dying meat processors, conspiracy-driven ICU trespassers, and a quarter-million dead Americans from COVID-19. And in … Read More

There will be matters still to be resolved related to Trump Russia beyond the pardons.

Like the counterintelligence limits of the Mueller report, there are still slender skeletons to be revealed in the corruption of US interests. Trump’s inquiry about a strike against Iran last … Read More

LOTUS! PA Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign's claim that GOP lacked access to Philly vote count

1-22 record in legal challenges as GOP loses again, this time on the watchers of vote counting in Philadelphia. x Breaking: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the Trump campaign's … Read More

2020 Loser Trump's now closer to becoming an OANNanist.

Regular Trump golf partner Chris Ruddy disclaims any NewsMax takeover by Trump who was only offered a weekly spot among the documentaries of “Hitler’s rise” programming. Trump seems now more … Read More

Michelle Obama takes on Trump's electoral obstinance with the kind of grace few mortals can muster

I have to hand it to Michelle Obama. She’s a better person than I am. (Not an especially high bar, but still.) Today, in the wake of Donald Trump’s one-manbaby … Read More

Whitmer orders shut down of oil pipeline that threatens the fresh water of the Great Lakes.

“Most importantly, Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of … Read More

More than 130 Secret Service members quarantining in wake of Trump superspreader rallies

Johnny Virus-seed has really done a number on this country. Not only has he dutifully ignored the now-resurgent pandemic, he’s done everything in his power to personally contribute to it. … Read More

Ivanka thinks it matters that her dad won Alaska. How adorable

Oh, look, Donald Trump won Alaska! Three electoral votes and 663,000 square miles of yummy red land! If only land voted. Sigh. x BREAKING: President Trump and Senate Republicans win Alaska, … Read More

GA-Sen A & B: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D. CA) Helps Get Joe Biden A Democratic Senate Majority

Received this e-mail from my Governor, Gavin Newsom (D. CA) in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & … Read More

Warning: C5 Hissy-Fit Brewing in DC

You’re Fired! Rings out from every room! Tin hats being issued to everyone in the White House! A sweaty naked orange blip hands twitching on a cell phone has been … Read More

#ByeDon From hate to healing. The networks call the campaign over. Cities erupt in celebration.

The road back will be long. What is troubling are the 70 million people who voted for hate and cruelty. It is time for healing, as America stops at the brink of … Read More

COVID has killed as many nurses as had died in WWI, nurse burnout, to be the next looming crisis.

As the pandemic continues on its unabated spread across the United States and a few other countries that refuse to act containing the virus, many nurses have lost their lives. The … Read More

Recount 2020: Contested states and their recount rules

So, as I’m writing this, it’s pretty clear that Biden is going to win enough states to be the next President. But that won’t be official for awhile. Some of … Read More

An eked-out Biden or Trump win in Election 2020 speaks poorly about us.

The rest of the world is watching Election 2020. And what they are seeing, unfortunately, shows an America many fail to realize that we are. How can a man who cages … Read More

The last stronghold of the African elephant to be smothered with oil wells; possible fracking.

Jo Biden had offered 20 billion to preserve the Amazon. It was ridiculed denied by the Trump of the Tropics, Jair Bolsonaro. Perhaps a similar offer to the nations involved … Read More

Take America to Greatness…

A bus, traveling from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana, was attacked by a white mob of Confederate flag-waving thugs and louts. The terrorist ran the bus off the road, … Read More

“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? 2

This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 11-14. Today’s supporting summary is at the very bottom, below the fold. Set against … Read More

The Daily Bucket–Small battlegrounds

For six years, tadpoles have morphed into tiny chorus frogs in my backyard ponds.  But once they’ve turned into frogs I seldom see them again. For the first few days … Read More

Equity firm forgave 130,000,000 Trump loan in exchange for LNG rail cars up the SE Coast of Florida.

“It would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb,” Jordan Luebkemann, a lawyer for Earth Justice. Florida Bulldog is an investigative news site. In … Read More

The 'Margin of Mischief', Trump's free media pass, and media profit in “blue shifts and red mirages”

The worry will be that post Election Day chaos will be widespread, and that town clerks and voting registrars might get all Dirty Harry on claiming partisan moral superiority. At some … Read More

The Trump fantasy projection machine: $250 million HHS COVID pep talk as planned propaganda

A presidency whose essence is publicity and public relations, because the most important thing before declaring the pandemic over, was to “defeat despair and inspire hope”. The most important thing … Read More

We wondered how bad it would get…Now we know. He wants to kill us all.

We wondered a few years back when we were saying Buckle up…what he would do.  We wondered what his enablers would continue to back.   Would he start a war?  Would … Read More

GA-Sen A & B: PPP Confirms Ossoff (D), Warnock (D) & Biden All Leading In Georgia

Some very good news today out of Georgia courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s newest Georgia poll finds Jon Ossoff right on the cusp of avoiding a runoff in his … Read More

Can Biden win one of these states: AZ/FL/GA/NC/PA… Yes we can! GOTV

The name of the anonymous author of op-eds criticizing the operation of the White House, is Former DHS chief of staff @MilesTaylorUSA ), but in the scheme of October Surprises this … Read More

“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 Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s … Read More

Trump Threatens Pennsylvania Governor

Trump really thinks like a mafia don, granting and withholding favors (and sometimes killing people) according to his whim and needs. He that the government is his personal business, that … Read More

TX-Sen: Data For Progress Poll Confirms A Toss Up Race Between MJ Hegar (D) & John Cornyn (R)

Some very encouraging news today out of Texas: x 🚨New Poll – TEXAS🚨Biden 49 / Trump 48Hegar 46 / Cornyn 48https://t.co/OCRMOhwGdJ— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) October 26, 2020 Click here … Read More

White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'; okay, then

Now this is a brilliant campaign strategy nine days before an election — give up! CNN: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is “not going … Read More

Add a climate change enhanced fungal threat to this season's flu and COVID outbreaks.

Candida Auris is an emerging fungal disease that COVID 19 is threatening to force with additional infections because it is common in hospital settings. It is difficult to control the … Read More

GOTV continues because post-Trump, we know “it will get better” even with 'Trump conversion therapy'

Trump and his supporters are such dupes that rather than taking a village, it may take a dominatrix to de-program Trumpists: But up until recently, there’s one group of potential … Read More

It’s sick, and it is evil: Chris Hayes & fmr. HHS Sec. on Trump’s herd immunity policy.

Chris Hayes gave a dire description of Trump's herd immunity policy that will send chills down the spine of most Americans. Elections matter. Herd immunity raises it's head again x x YouTube … Read More

MSNBC Hallie Jackson destroys Trump’s spokesman lying about voter fraud. This is how it is done.

MSNBC Hallie Jackson gives me hope. She decimated Trump's spokesman Hogan Gidley for continuing Trump's lies about voter fraud. Hallie Jackson decimates a lying Trump spokesman x x YouTube Video … Read More

MO-Gov: “Emails show Parson was warned about virus outbreak before visit to state office building”

From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Gov. Mike Parson proceeded with an event at a state office building last month after staff warned his office of a cluster of COVID-19 cases … Read More