By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservative On January 6th, a mob of Trump supporters staged a coup—a PR coup for the Democratic Party. Liberals have been calling Republicans “fascists” for as long as anyone can remember. The trouble is, there’s never been any real proof. There was […]
By Alan J. Devine, Chronicles It is no longer news that 2020 saw a collapse of political discourse and public behavior in the United States. Trends that developed over many years intensified last year. One major political party had as its candidate for president a magnetic figure who […]
So maybe the “new normal” will be that the summer season is for baseball and left-wing riots, and the winter season is for basketball and right-wing riots. Fair enough. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
By Juan Dal Mosa and Warren Montag, Left Voices Some people argue that the far Right is small. Should we be reassured that “only” 45 percent of Republicans, that is, 30 million people, support the riot at the Capitol? We must reject facile economism to understand the Trump […]
From left: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey. by Don Fitz The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end economic and power divides, and replace […]
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Tulsi Gabbard (former Congresswoman) about the Big Tech social media purge, Trump being banned from Twitter, the censorship of Parler by Google, Apple and Amazon and shares an exclusive announcement with Rubin Report viewers. Tulsi Gabbard shares her concerns with […]
A panel of priests cry about the temple being desecrated. New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the rampage at the Capitol, President Trump’s potential impeachment, and the future of the Republican Party.
I don’t care whether Trump is impeached or 25thed or not, but January 6 had to be about the most jerk-off “insurrection” or “coup attempt” in history. Team Rising reacts to a clip of Senator James Clyburn saying that the House may wait until after Biden’s first 100 […]
“Rising” would be a much better program if it were co-hosted by an an-com and an-cap rather than a Berniesis and a Carlsonite. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti debate whether or not President Trump and other prominent Republican leaders who backed “Stop The Steal” should be impeached or […]
As I have been predicting for 20 years. Big Tech is becoming a dominant faction of the ruling class (along with Big Finance and the always present BLOB). The professional managerial class has become the new clergy with totalitarian humanism as its ideology. Tech industry managers are the […]
I think it’s pretty safe to say at this point that the Democratic Party is now the political arm of “Big Tech” and the major social media outlets are merely a division of the Democratic Party’s media complex, along with CNN, MSNBC, and the traditional networks. The same […]
The political class and their allies in the media seem to be taking all this a bit personally.
By Caitlin Dickson, Yahoo News The past 72 hours have been a rollercoaster of emotions for Trump supporters — especially the millions who have bought into the web of online conspiracies that fall under the umbrella of QAnon. Ever since a violent mob, including some with ties to […]
Wilson’s analysis of the future of the GOP seems likely enough. As rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s efforts to send in state police and the National Guard were blocked by the federal government for a full 90 minutes. Now, Hogan – a […]
It looks like the state is increasingly being delegitimized. At least this state, anyway. This outpouring of disrespect for political and legal authority is a wonderful sight to behold.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE – A group of supporters of President Trump confronted Senator Lindsey Graham at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. Police escorted Graham from the area.
By Kenya Evelyn, The Guardian Family members and law enforcement have confirmed more details on the now five people who died in an attempted insurrection against the United States on Wednesday, including a Capitol police officer who died from his injuries. The remaining four were among the supporters […]
Michael Malice is pretty interesting in this, and an on-the-ground reporter describes the riot.
Keith, Emma & RJ 01/09/21 – Mob assault on the Capital, 5 dead, nice photo op, police weren’t prepared, political assassinations, most were peaceful, two-party existential crisis, American Democracy, the Five Crises of the American Regime, “why the wealthiest Americans should prepare for revolt against unprecedented inequality,” Rothbard […]
The great Carey Wedler on the Beer Belly Putsch. Dear America, really. Pick your partisan poison, say your political prayers.
Crimethinc As a consequence of Donald Trump’s supporters occupying the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a rally promoting his baseless claims of election fraud, the Republican Party is fracturing, setting the stage for the consolidation of a new bipartisan political center—albeit much further to the right than […]
They’re not organized well-enough to “collapse.” To “collapse,” you need some kind of functionally organized infrastructure to start with. Right-wing extremists forum tell-all from inside the radical Trump cults. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
Former Kennedy girl turned Jacobin-wannabe wants to purge the Enrages. Who needs sports or movies when you’ve got this shit for entertainment? However, as politics in the US becomes more extreme and polarized,. calls for literal purges will be more common, which is why the state must always […]
Contra Krystal, I don’t consider the current “breaking point” to be “horrible.” I grew up in the United States when creeps like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan could get reelected with 49 of 50 states. That doesn’t mean I like Trump or Biden any more than Nixon or […]
Increasingly, the Trump diehards resemble something more like Scientology than a political movement. I started noticing back in the 90s that there was a cultural undercurrent that was combining anti-establishment politics with conspiracies, religion, the occult, pseudo-science, science fiction, pseudo-history, mythology, crank economic and legal theories, crank medicine, […]
By James Walker, Newsweek Almost half of Republicans support the pro-Trump protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, putting them at odds with Democrats who largely oppose the actions of the demonstrators, a poll has found. The survey released by YouGov on Thursday morning found that 45 […]
She has some fairly interesting stories about the inner-workings of Congress in this.
The analysis in this is fairly solid.
Some of these folks may want to rethink their aversion to masks. By Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz and Alex Moe, Yahoo! News WASHINGTON — A man photographed casually sitting with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at the U.S. Capitol while a […]
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresspeople from both parties condemned the attack on the Capitol that occurred Wednesday, pointing out that they’re the only criminals allowed in the building. Capitol police removed the unauthorized criminals from the Capitol Building, allowing the officially voted-in criminals to resume operations. “We would like […]
Not quite the same as shooting yourself in your bunker. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the temporary suspension of President Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts and discuss what kind of precedent this might set.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss who President Trump might pardon in his last days in office, including himself.
My tentative inclination is to think the significance of January 6 is being overestimated by many folks. It seems that what really happened is that an incumbent President and his supporters were simply using a parliamentary maneuver, however cynically, to overturn the results of an election which they […]
Trump certainly seems to have changed his attitude within the space of 24 hours. What a difference a day makes. In all probability, some mysterious never-before-seen figure probably suddenly walked into the Oval Office and very quietly and casually remarked, “Mr. President, you’re old enough to remember November […]
Uday calls for a purge of the Ba’ath Party.
By Andrew McCormick, The Nation It was 5 pm when the explosions started, one after another, washing the crowd of Donald Trump supporters in plumes of tear gas. For hours, these protesters had swarmed and stomped atop of the Capitol steps. They had torn down barricades and pushed […]
By Asawin Suebsaeng, Noah Shachtman, The Daily Beast Four people were dead. The Capitol was in shambles. Several members of his team had resigned. His allies were quickly abandoning him. Naturally, President Donald Trump was livid. About being locked out of his Twitter feed, that is. Twitter and […]
The Squad and company want to purge the Trumpist from Congress. By Alexander Sammon, The American Prospect Three days ago, the new Congress was sworn in. Among the razor-thin Democratic House majority was a crop of freshman progressive Democrats who received elevated attention throughout the 2020 election cycle: […]
I don’t like to see people get killed, but this should mark a permanent split between the Trumpists and the pigs. By Mike Baker, New York Times A United States Capitol Police officer died Thursday night from injuries sustained when he engaged with a pro-Trump mob that descended […]
By Declan Leary, The American Conservative It’s all but silent as I step out onto 17th Street just past noon, a small gaggle of flag-waving MAGA folk to my left the only other people in sight. It’s warm enough to walk, so I make off for the Capitol […]
More hilarious than heinous. Are we really supposed to be outraged that a bunch of yahoos managed to bust through a police line and do some petty vandalism, with one of them being shot by a frightened cop who had probably never dealt with a riot before, only […]
From today. In a Twitter video, President Donald Trump conceded to President-elect Joe Biden and condemned the violent supporters who stormed the Capitol Wednesday.
By Timothy Bella and Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post An impassioned speech from Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) nearly sparked an early morning fistfight between two other House lawmakers during the debate over Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. Lamb said the GOP objectors to Joe Biden’s presidential election win didn’t need to […]
Sky News As protesters stormed America’s home of democracy, the focus quickly turned to who they are – and why they were there. Among the sea of “Make America Great Again” red caps there were those dressed in elaborate costumes and others wearing what appeared to be full-on […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, The Garrison Center Munich Marienplatz during the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-1486 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 In a sign that 2021 may get even more darkly weird than 2020, a mob of Trump supporters pushed their way into the US Capitol on January […]
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Tulsi Gabbard (former Congresswoman) about the storming of the Capitol building, why she fears a civil war is brewing, and what we can do to de-escalate the political polarization of our country. Tulsi discusses what it means that Trump supporters […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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