One Law for the Overlords, Another for the Peasants
Governments Will Be Governments, Ruling Classes Will Be Ruling Classes
Culturally Right But Economically Left?
Bill Lind argues that a successful populism would be culturally conservative and economically liberal. It’s true that research shows that Republican voters lean to the left of their elites on economics and that Democratic voters lean to the right of their elites on social questions. But this ignores […]
What can Progressives do better in 2024?
The statist-centrist-centralist-reformist-electoralist “populism” of Krystal and Saager is interesting and insightful in some ways, but lame as hell in other ways. Gotta get over that “social contract” mythology, Saager. Four suggestions: 1. Renounce the state and become anarchists. The state is the enemy of all mankind. 2. Abandon […]
Ben Burgis Debunks Critics Of His “Reopen America” Piece
The basic arguments that these guys make are spot-on: If you don’t want more anti-lockdown protests (and more), then a debt moratorium is essential. Ben Burgis Debunks Critics Of His “Reopen America” Piece
The Left Can’t Just Dismiss the Anti-Lockdown Protests
By Ben Burgis Jacobin The anti-lockdown protests may currently represent a Trumpian minority — but that could easily change if the choice becomes going hungry or going back to work. We need a real alternative that refuses to accept the false trade-off between economic security and public health. […]
The new intellectuals of the American right
I don’t really see these guys becoming popular in the US. American-style right-wing populism is the Know-Nothing tradition, not Throne and Altar. The problem with the US right in all its forms is that it is swimming against the demographic, cultural, generation, economic, and technological tides. The future […]
Anarchists for the White Coat Priesthood?
Deference to credentialed and experienced experts is generally a good plan barring compelling evidence to the contrary, but “experts” are not divine oracles, and science and medicine can become corrupted, abusive, or incompetent as much as any other kind of institution. One thing that I have found interesting […]
U.S. court dismisses New York nurses’ plea for COVID-19 protection
From “Let them eat cake!” to “Let them breathe coronavirus!” (Reuters) – A U.S. District Court on Friday dismissed a nurse association’s plea against New York state and two hospitals to provide safety equipment and adopt measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 among its members, asking the […]
With rent due, millions of Americans can’t — or won’t — pay
“Hell, no, we won’t pay!” ABC News It’s the first of the month — the time when so many start counting their dollars, making sure they have enough to pay rent. © Will Carr/ABC News An L.A. Tenants Union rent strike in front of City Hall in Los […]
Bernie Secretly Agreed To Take Billionaire Money Says Former Staffer
The social democrats proved their untrustworthiness in 1914. They’ve been fucking up ever since.
Don’t let establishment gaslight you into thinking Biden is our only choice
Revolution is the only solution. Krystal Ball discusses the partisan handling of Tara Reade and makes the case that the Democratic party doesn’t have to move forward with Joe Biden as the presidential nominee.
David Sirota reveals how Amazon quashed worker protection initiative
Journalist David Sirota shares his reporting that Amazon attorneys persuaded the Trump administration to quash shareholder initiatives that could safeguard employees, as essential workers from Amazon, Walmart, FedEx and more are set to protest for better working conditions and higher pay this May Day.
May Day protester’s epic rant about rich CEOs and Congress
Krystal and Saagar watch and discuss essential workers’ May Day strikes to push for safer working conditions and higher pay, as the crisis exposes their importance to our infrastructure.
Rent is due, 14% of voters aren’t confident they can pay it
Worse than 2008. On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 14% of voters say they are not confident they can pay housing costs in May. Hill Reporter, Niv Elis, breaks down the latest on this growing concern among progressives and housing advocates. Vice President of […]
Super-Rich Are Getting Richer During The Pandemic
Trump will lose if he bows to big business on China
Trump is a con man whose populism is a ruse. But look for a more explicitly anti-corporatist right to emerge as an insurgency within the GOP in the future (like the present social democratic insurgency among the Democrats). Saagar Enjeti discusses infighting within the Trump administration over an […]
Diddy’s SHOCKING message to Biden on behalf of Black Voters: ‘I will hold vote HOSTAGE’
Good man. Take lessons, Bernie, AOC, Chomsky…. Krystal and Saagar watch P. Diddy, also known as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, state on Naomi Campbell’s ‘No Filter With Naomi,’ that the black vote needs to be earned not given to a default candidate declaring he will, “hold the vote hostage […]
Workers plan unprecedented national strike at Amazon, Walmart, and more
Hell, yeah. Do it! I’ve been wanting to see this for decades.
Musk vs. Zuck: A tale of two CEOs acting much differently during a pandemic
Modern-day robber barons representing the techno-oligarchy, the rising ruling class, and the left-wing of capitalism. Fuck ’em all. By Therese Poletti Market Watch Mark Zuckerberg has spent much of the past two years facing widespread vitriol about Facebook Inc.’s huge privacy lapses, while Elon Musk has bathed in […]
GOP lawmakers slam proposals for guaranteed income amid pandemic
The throne and altar party says let them eat cake. During the industrial revolution, there were actually what Marx derided as “feudal socialists,” i.e. royalists, aristocrats, and clerics who recognized the need to address the dislocations caused by industrialization (kind of like our present-day Tucker Carlsons, Saager Enjetis, […]
Tucker: Our leaders are making a mockery of their own quarantines
One law for the royals, another for everyone else.
Argentina Is Showing the World What a Humane Covid-19 Response Looks Like
The Peronists come through? Viva Christina? By Jacob Sugarman The Nation The cheers in Buenos Aires began at 9 pm toward the middle of March, around the time the novel coronavirus brought much of the world to an abrupt and unsettling halt. Like the residents of New York, […]
Study: 71 percent of jobless Americans did not receive their March unemployment benefits
By Anya van Wagtendonk Vox The majority of unemployed Americans did not receive unemployment benefits in March — a month that shattered US records for job loss claims — according to a new study. The Pew Research Center has found that, although more than 11 million Americans filed […]
1 million US COVID cases, study finds virus lingers in air, GDP falls 4.8%
It’s interesting that the USA has 5% of the world’s population and 30% of the COVID-19 cases. The data is probably skewed by China and some other nations downplaying their own infection rates but still… It’s now 1918 and 1929 rolled into one. But at least the government […]
Jeff Flake is not the future of the right, but could be future of Biden left
They cite an interesting study in this which claims that the Republican “donor class” and the “base” largely align on social and cultural issues, but that the base is to the left of the donor class on economic issues. Meanwhile, the study shows that Democratic elites and the […]
Will workers strike back after Trump bows to corporate masters?
Krystal Ball discusses President Trump’s corporate motives to invoke the Defense Production Act and keep meat-processing plants operating, despite some meatpacking plants becoming coronavirus hotspots, as employees work side-by-side in dangerous conditions. Twenty meatpacking and processing workers have died from coronavirus, and at least 6,500 have been affected, […]
Saagar Enjeti Calls Out GOP Leadership For Trying to Recreate Herbert Hoover loss
Is the throne and altar party sealing its historical fate? It’s like this, GOPunks: Go populist or fade from history. Saagar Enjeti discusses where the GOP is headed as the party’s leadership butts heads over coronavirus spending, and argues that the GOP’s commitment to economic orthodoxy takes precedence […]
Nancy Pelosi Can’t Explain Why The People Got Crumbs In Covid Bailouts
Once again, the Democrapic leadership is revealed to be the true “conservative” party in the US. If the Democraps wanted to make it happen, we would already have an emergency UBI and debt cancellation in place right now. It’s not that they can’t do it, they just don’t […]
Tucker: Some lockdown lawmakers want to stamp out dissent
Tucker Carlson is a de facto spokesman for the petite bourgeoise and “small capitalist” sectors of the commercial economy, the post-bourgeois proletariat, the “sinking middle,” the dying WASP culture, political traditionalists and constitutional fundamentalists of the kind found on the paleo/populist-right, etc. Many of those interests have been […]
Is it only about Money over lives? Does it cost more lives? Coronavirus Covid-19 Lockdowns Pandemic
Glad to see some left-wing folks questioning the official ruling class party line.
Big Tech censors dissent over coronavirus lockdowns
The tech oligarchy is a principal faction of the rising left-wing of the capitalist class, for whom scientism and the therapeutic state are a core component of their self-legitimating ideology, which is in turn disseminated by the new clerisy whose ranks include the white coat priesthood.
What’s Next, Trillion-Dollar Coins?
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The massive set of stimulus measures rolled out last month by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve has left many Americans wanting more… and politicians scheming for new ways to dole out additional trillions in cash. Most taxpayers have already received their […]
AOC slams New York Democrats, demands rent cancellation
It’s interesting how Alexandria and the other “Squad” ladies vacillate between actual radicalism or at least decent-quality reformism (for example, on Palestine or rent cancellation) on one hand, and “woke” neoliberal brownnosing on the other.
What Ben Shapiro’s bad take on bailouts exposes about the Republican Party
No, Saager, Ben Shapiro is not a “nice guy.” He’s a Likudnik who favors the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Fortunately, Bennie’s unrepentant Reaganism and neoconservatism is finished. In order to survive the GOP will have to reinvent itself in the image of France’s National Rally (i.e. […]
Woketivists who decried Joe Rogan endorsement silent on Howard Stern backing Biden
Like most cults, the Democratic Party has both an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. “Wokeness” is the exoteric doctrine that is intended for the purpose of manipulating and motivating the rank and file of true believers (the progressive liberal/social democratic/SJW/Antifa/anarcho-progressive axis) while neoliberalism is the esoteric doctrine of the […]
Violence flares in tense Paris suburbs as heavy-handed lockdown stirs ‘explosive cocktail’
From the land of the Yellow Vests. Sometimes the French know how to get things done. By Benjamin Dodman France 24 Three nights of unrest in the French capital’s northern suburbs have stoked fears of a major flare-up in deprived neighbourhoods where weeks of lockdown have exacerbated the […]
‘Heads we win, tails you lose’: how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit
The current situation involves a state-ordered freeze on the economy, followed by a ruling class looting spree in the form of a “stimulus” and massive profiteering by the plutocracy, which means there should be a parallel freeze on economic obligations. What we need is a massive public uprising […]
The Periphery and the Core: All Under Imperialist Occupation
By Troy Southgate Having watched a YouTube video in which an American leftist provides a personal critique of the H.G. Wells novel, The Time Machine (1895), I feel that I should use his analysis to highlight at least one of the difficulties presented by class-based thinking. Outlining the […]
Let the Class War Begin
We could face food supply shortage because of Congress’ failure
I’ve been thinking that if this situation continues a food shortage may be on the way. The current economic crisis is a government-ordered depression. It may not be the government’s fault that there is an epidemic, and it may be that there is a legitimate or necessary purpose […]
Debating AnCap (and Libertarian Presidential Candidate) Adam Kokesh
An anarcho-capitalist and a libertarian socialist debate. Ancapitstan for the an-caps. Bakuninland for the libsocs.
The Ignored Questions of COVID-19
Tom Woods takes on the white coat priesthood. Excellent. Listen here. In this episode I cover a lot of ground, albeit a bit haphazardly: the unintended consequences of “lockdown,” the superstitious reverence for “scientists” (who, contrary to popular belief, are not in fact qualified to answer all questions), […]
Anarcho-Monarchism: A Collection of Essays from Insula Qui
Available at Amazon.Com This collection of essays strives to answer libertarian questions using authoritarian answers. It critiques libertarian assumptions and offers unintuitive solutions that are fully compatible with non-aggression, private property, and free markets. This book is a much-needed world-view adjustment for any libertarian who has grown intellectually […]
Fear and Loathing in Coronaville Volume 6: Rage Against the Quarantine or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Swear About It On the Internet
Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley You motherfucker! You goddamn, cocksucking, clitlicking, shiteating, dickless, cuntless, gutless, motherfucking piece of fucking shit!! Ahem, sorry about that, dearest motherfuckers, but apparently on day […]
Who Wins Or Loses When Global Order Breaks Down?
As the US Empire recedes due to overextension and internal implosion, it seems the emerging multipolar world order will look something like this: In North America, the US will obviously be the hegemon with Canada and Mexico as its satellites. In South America, the richest country, Argentina, will […]
How Bernie & Squad Actually Support Corporate State. w/Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is way too much of a sanctimonious lefto-moralist for my tastes (he is a Presbyterian minister after all), but he’s good on imperialism and corporatism. It’s great the way Chris calls out Sanders as a Schumer-lackey in this.
Back to Normal? No!
By Vince Rinehart I am inherently distrustful of the government, but that doesn’t mean that global pandemics do not exist. My understanding is that we do not know enough about the Coronavirus, so we should be taking precautions. Early studies suggest that it as at least twice as […]
When will Republicans face demographic reality?
The Republicans have two very serious strategic problems: First, their only reliable constituency (middle-aged to elderly white folks in the South, Midwest, rural areas, and small towns) is shrinking in size. Second, this constituency is sinking fast economically (which will be dramatically accelerated by the current crisis). Hence, […]
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