CIA Torture Victim Publicly Reveals Abuse Details For 1st Time, Officers BLAST Use Of Torment
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the CIA’s use of torture post-9/11.
Elite Greed On DISPLAY, Dems Pushing For SALT Repeal Could Score $75K In Tax Breaks
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, details ongoing negotiations to repeal, or amend, the SALT cap.
BOMBSHELL Report REVEALS 20% Believe Political Violence May Be NECESSARY, Who Is To Blame?
Team Rising reacts to shocking polling on whether Americans believe political violence may be justified, and/or necessary,
Josh Hawley CALLS OUT The Left For Attack On Masculinity, Panel DEBATES The War On Men
Team Rising reacts to Josh Hawley’s speech on, what he calls, “the Left’s attack on America – and American men.”
Working Mothers BURNT OUT Due To Pandemic, Nearly 1 In 4 Considering QUITTING Their Jobs
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen. and Robby Soave debate how the pandemic affected men and women differently.
Young Voters FRUSTRATED By Glacial Pace Of Congress. More Likely To REJECT Partisanship, Skip Voting
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss new polling on Gen Z’s political engagement.
Schumer FLIRTS With Nixing The Filibuster After GOP Blocks Voting Rights Advancement For FOURTH Time
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals 60 percent of voters want to see the filibuster reformed or ended.
An American and a Pakistani: Two paths to radicalization
I tend to agree with Caitlin Johnstone’s observation that the overlords of the empire are the real extremists. Idiots like these two are at best a quaternary problem. By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, KATHY GANNON and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press In the months before he was charged with storming the […]
Stephen Sweeney, N.J. Senate President, Loses to Republican Truck Driver
The main lesson I would take from recent elections is that normies dislike establishment politicians, and outsiders are guaranteed at least some kind of audience, but normies don’t like perceived extremists, either. By Nick Corasaniti and Tracey Tully Mr. Sweeney, the second most powerful lawmaker in New Jersey […]
Libertarian Strategy From The Jacksonians w/Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop
Just as I am for many different forms of libertarianism or anarchism, I am also for many different strategies. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
Food Prices Vault to Highest Level in a Decade
By Tom Ozimek Food prices across the world have risen to their highest levels in a decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO’s food price index, which measures world […]
Ann Coulter On Trump And Immigration
This interview with Ann Coulter seconds what I have often said about Trump, i.e. that he is simply a neo-Nixonian, a Rockefeller Republican who masquerades as a right-wing populist. Immigration was probably the issue that Trump was the furthest rightward on, and on that issue, he was way […]
Hell of Presidents
A reader offers an interesting description of this program: In the latter third or so of this episode from the “Hell of Presidents” podcast (by Matt Christman and Chris Wade of the Chapo Trap House gang), they talk about the current moment in American electoral politics and where […]
Sorel on Style and Vulgarity
By ProphetBattlestone I have begun reading Georges Sorel’s “Reflections on Violence”. Syndicalism interests me, and Sorel was referred to quite a bit by James Burnham in “The Machiavellians”. The section in quoting further down comes from the ‘Letter to Daniel Halevy’, which precedes the third edition of the […]
COVID hawks are fighting a losing war
By Noah Millman, The Week Our pandemic rules increasingly make no sense — and it’s hurting public health. I spent about a week in October at the Austin Film Festival and Writers’ Conference, attending panel discussions, round-tables, pitch competitions — and, of course, parties. Because there’s still a […]
Will moderate Democrats turn on Biden’s vaccine mandate?
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s never easy being the Democratic governor of a famously red state. Still, it was a surprise Friday morning when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) came out strongly against President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate. “While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a […]
Operatic disdain for white people is bad politics
Ryan Cooper, The Week Why liberals need to stop doing collective guilt over election results. Democrats whiffed the Virginia elections this week, and the dread “Karen” is to blame. So argues Wajahat Ali at The Daily Beast, pointing to exit polls finding that a 57 percent majority of […]
Democrats face the gathering storm
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Even if they can’t stop the flood, it would be crazy not to prepare, Imagine you didn’t know anything about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, critical race theory, Democrats’ stalled spending bill, or any of the other personalities or issues that […]
When You’re So ‘Woke’ That Rape Is OK
More Loundon County drama, apparently. By Peter R Quinones Look, you all know that I am very susceptible to getting emotional, especially when children are involved. But here goes. The backstory to this and how it started is crucial. It wasn’t even news until, Scott Smith, the father […]
The Woke Meet Their Match: Parents
My tentative assessment of the Virginia election is that, at least in some geographical areas, the essence of the culture war is shifting from the Right vs Left to the Center vs Left. The culture of the US has moved considerably leftward over the past decade, and elite […]
Fed Admits Failure on Price Stability, Doesn’t Care
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Precious metals markets reacted this week to news of the Federal Reserve’s tapering plans. The Fed didn’t deliver any real surprises, though. It left interest rates unchanged as expected and confirmed that it would gradually cut back on monthly asset […]
Did Critical Race Theory Lose Virginia?
By Joel Kotkin The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning point in American politics. It is less an affirmation of a resurgent Trumpism […]
Serfing the Planet
By Joel Kotkin Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually addressing the issue, than its predecessors, particularly as China, India and other developing […]
Biden Admin Sets Jan. 4 Deadline For Vax MANDATE, FDA At Fault For Costly & Delayed Covid Tests
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the President Biden’s new deadline for his federal vaccine mandate.
Why Americans Are MAD AS HELL At Democrats
The Democrats are now the party of the capitalist class generally and the upper-middle-class generally. The Republicans are the party of the right-wing of the ruling class, with their core “base” being a nursing home/trailer park coalition for whom politics is a WWE spectacle and their general electorate […]
Dems Plan MASSIVE TAX CUT For Millionaires, Billionaires
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff break down how the Dem plan to lift the SALT cap as part of the budget bill will lead to a huge tax cut for the wealthy, especially those in blue states
Matt Taibbi: Frustrated Parents DROVE Virginia’s Red-SWING, Voters Likely To TURN On Dems In 2022
Author of TK News and co-host of Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi, gives his take on why Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor failed, and what it means for Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
Biden, Media’s TOTAL MISREAD Of Their Actual Mandate
Guest host Marshall Kosloff goes over how the Biden administration and its backers in the media misunderstood the mandate given to them when Democrats took back power in 2020
Watchdog: Drone Strike That KILLED Afghan Family Was NOT Negligent, “Did Not VIOLATE Laws Of War”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to news that a Pentagon watchdog failed to find misconduct in the August drone strike that killed an Afghan family.
FEC To Allow Foreign Money In US Elections, Stop It NOW
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff cover the new decision by the Federal Election Commission to allow foreign money to be spent on ballot initiatives in the US and why that is a big problem
Congress Might FINALLY Pass Build Back Better, Does Dem’s CRUSHING VA Loss Change Things?
Team Rising debates whether the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package will really reach a vote this week.
Does VA Gov Race Show TRUMP Will Win In 2024?
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff look at the Virginia election results in the context of what the GOP’s future will be especially as Trump continues to loom large over the 2024 election
‘They See Climate Change As A Religion’: Kennedy Slams Green New Deal Supporters
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) went after proponents of the Green New Deal and the Biden administration during Wednesday’s press conference on American energy independence, the climate, and oil and gas.
MSNBC LOSES IT LIVE As GOP Wins In VA Gov Election
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff respond to the media reactions that took place during the live coverage of election night where narratives about why the GOP won already began to unfold
Resistance Dems Fell For Lincoln Project’s Tiki Torch Stunt, This Is The REAL Problem
Ryan Grim breaks down the story behind the tiki torch-touting ‘protestors’ at a Youngkin campaign event late last week.
TOP Takeaways From VA, NJ Dem Election Night SLAUGHTER
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff give their top takeaways from election night as Dems were slaughtered up and down the ballot in multiple states including in Virginia where Glenn Youngkin came out victorious.
Democrats And MSM Want To CRIMINALIZE “Let’s Go Brandon” Chants
Robby Soave details the origin of the “let’s go Brandon” chant by protestors.
The NEW Culture War Is Here And Its BAD For Dems
This analysis is right on the money and represents something I’ve been noticing for a while. The framework of the “culture war” has started to shift where it is no longer a matter of “liberals” vs the “religious right” but “wokesters” vs “normies.” The “Hidden Tribes” study published […]
NIH HELPED EcoHealth Evade Gain Of Function Restrictions, Fauci DOUBLES DOWN On School Closures
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Rahm Emanuel’s future as Ambassador to Japan, plus new reporting from The Intercept on the NIH’s role in helping Ecohealth Alliance police its own funding of risky bat coronavirus research.
Here’s What Workers REALLY Want From Unions
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by public policy expert Oren Cass to better understand what workers want from unions that they are currently not receiving
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
Some interesting economic analysis from Yanis Varoufakis. I think at least his basic argument is correct. The tech revolution, digital capitalism, the debt economy, financialization, globalization, the expansion of the professional-managerial class, and neoliberalism, along with other forces, have converged to create a new kind of economy.
Breaking Points: 11/4/21 Full UNCUT Show
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff talk about the election night takeaways, mainstream media melting down, GOP 2024 possibilities, Dems SALT tax cut for the rich, foreign money in elections, the new culture war, Biden’s mandate, what American workers want with Oren Cass, and more!
Revisiting Spanish Memory: George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
By Dolores Martín Moruno This article explores the way in which the Spanish Civil War has been traditionally shaped in the collective memory as a Manicheanconflict fought between two well-defined sides, the Republicans and the Nationalists, in order to demythologize this common representation in contemporary Spanish society. According to […]
Make it a Christian town’: the ultra-conservative church on the rise in Idaho
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has a stated goal to “make Moscow a Christian […]
Pentagon watchdog finds no misconduct in mistaken Afghan airstrike
The usual “we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” line. By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war […]
‘Defund the police’ is dead. Long live police reform.
By Joel Mathis, The Week Defund the police” is a dead idea. That’s actually been true for some months now, but any doubts about the notion’s viability should be ended entirely after Tuesday’s election results in Minneapolis, where voters rejected an opportunity to replace the police department with […]
America caught the presidential democracy disease
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Now the fate of American democracy depends on proving me wrong. On election night in 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney conceded defeat around 1 a.m. After calling then-President Barack Obama to offer his congratulations on re-election, Romney gave a speech to his supporters. […]
Are the Democrats doomed?
By David Faris, The Week Why poor showings in Virginia and New Jersey elections are a bad omen for 2022 Voters went to the polls Tuesday in off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey that have long served as the first reliable preview of the country’s political mood […]
The winners and losers of election night 2021
By Jeva Lange, The Week Tuesday was a night of upsets, shoo-ins, nailbiters, and way too many cats. Here’s our scorecard for the 2021 elections. Winner: New York City night owls The 110th mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, called it “almost silly” to suggest he shouldn’t have […]
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia
By Matt Taibbi Notes on a “realigning” election. The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or […]
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