This is what Republicans have been doing for the past 40 years, i.e. crying about “debt” and “taxing and spending” while running up massive public debts while building a massive welfare state for the corporate class and military-industrial complex.
Todd Lewis and Nexus discuss issues that pertain to dissident intellectuals with a decentralized bent.
During the House debate and vote for the $484 billion COVID-19 relief package, Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib made impassioned speeches.
Retail feudalism is on the way if it wasn’t already here. We’re going back to the days of company towns. Krystal and Saagar discuss the massive and permanent changes to retail stores due to coronavirus that include 100,000 store closures, and growth of online shares on retail […]
This is an interesting debate about the degree to which the US will remain the world’s leading power in the future. The participants are all far more establishmentarian than I am (who isn’t?). What I think the actual trends show on this question is that while the US […]
I generally think Greg Gutfield is a moron who is mostly just about regurgitating the standard FOX News hand-wringing about “socialism,” as if there were an actual socialist movement of any significance in the US (and, no, recycled New Dealer Bernie Sanders and McGoverite liberal AOC are not […]
More “Let them eat cake” attitudes coming from Congress. That tends to not work out well for ruling classes in the long run.
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The metals markets are being pulled in multiple directions simultaneously like never before. The global virus-triggered economic freeze has caused industrial demand for all commodities to crater. At the same time, mining output is also crashing as virus fears force many mines […]
Author of, ‘PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America,’ Gerald Posner explains how Pharma lobbies Democrats and Republicans to influence coronavirus relief bills, and profit from the crisis.
Krystal and Saagar look at a viral video of Staten Island youtuber, Vic Dibitetto, going off at the government over the stimulus bill allocations and social distancing.
A member of one of the left-wing of the ruling class’ royal families says, “Let them eat cake!” How well did that work out for the royals of 1789 and 1917, Andrew? Krystal and Saagar discuss New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s message to New Yorkers, “economic hardship doesn’t […]
Watch this video, and then read this transcript of a talk I gave a couple of years ago. “Wokeness” is merely the self-legitimating ideological superstructure of the rising left-wing of the upper-middle class, which is in turn being coopted by the left-wing of the plutocratic class. Former National […]
Not bad for a Ross Douthat-fan. Saagar Enjeti discusses new unemployment claims at 26 million, and explains how the economic fallout is a choice by corrupt financial elitists refusing to supply laid off workers with more income.
The educationist division of the new clerisy goes looting.
The neoliberals who run the Democratic Party are not Democratic Party loyalists as much as the left-wing of the Neoliberal Plutocratic Party, which means their real loyalty is to the ruling class. That means the would rather lose to the Republicans than allow the Faux Leftist wing of […]
What will be interesting is if the restrictions are lifted and everyone continues to practice them anyway. I guess that would demonstrate the viability of the anarchist principles of direct action and voluntary cooperation. Consumer confidence is going to be close to zero when the economy finally reopens. […]
The Young Turk’s Cenk Uygur discusses how 90% of the coronavirus bill went to big businesses, and says that Democrats gaslit progressives on provisions to the stimulus bill to keep progressives, like AOC, from blocking votes.
Krystal and Saagar discuss a new pew research poll that shows the majority of voters who have a problem with a white older candidate are white, Warren supporters.
The Democrats are losing the young people and the Republicans are losing the old people. Excellent.
Saagar Enjeti discusses the new coronavirus relief bill that extended the paycheck protection program by $350 billion almost a week after the program, which has loaned money to nearly 1/5th of american small businesses, ran out of funds.
When Trump was running for office in 2016, I knew that he would mostly govern as a normal Republican or neoliberal centrist, with a rhetorically leftward turn on a few issues (trade, gays, foreign policy, etc.), and that his more rightward rhetoric was mostly a bone thrown to […]
The latter part of this segment has an interesting discussion of the differences between Carlson’s and Hannity’s coverage of COVID-19. Krystal and Saagar look at a Tucker Carlson FOX News clip, where he calls out Trump for not doing enough on illegal immigration, which makes cheap labor easier […]
The primary problem that social democrats have is that they are not revolutionaries.
This includes a pretty good discussion of domestic politics as well as international relations. I’d like to see Peter Zeihan debate Alexander Dugin on the future of geopolitics.
LOL. One thing that’s interesting to consider is that if Biden gets elected whoever his picks as his VP will be acting President.
Not bad. Although let’s be clear: Alexandria is not radical or revolutionary. She does not call for the abolition of the state, the overthrow of the ruling class, or overthrow of the empire. She’s merely a reformist. Krystal and Saagar discuss AOC’s decision not to vote for […]
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Big Oil finally gets its comeuppance for its role in sole many Middle Eastern wars. By Matt Egan CNN The coronavirus pandemic has caused oil demand to drop so rapidly that the world is running out of room to store […]
Great Depression Two.
By Irina Ivanova CBS News The number of Americans struggling to pay their mortgages has skyrocketed as the economy reels from the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly 3 million Americans behind by at least one month on their mortgage payments in the week ending April 12, according to the […]
By Annie Palmer CNBC Amazon warehouse workers are planning a “mass call out” this week to call attention to what they call a lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid the coronavirus outbreak. © Provided by CNBC Amazon workers at Amazon’s Staten Island […]
Krystal is coming along in her ideological evolution. Attack the System is a far-left revolutionary anarchist tendency that embraces all forms of anti-authoritarianism (pan-anarchism/anarcho-pluralism), crosses over to the radical center (class-based populism, the people vs. the elites), the populist-right (isolationism, anti-state/local control, free association, pro-gun, pro-free speech, anti-tax, […]
It’s government, folks. It’s government. By Heather Long, Jeff Stein, Lisa Rein, Tony Romm Washington Post The national effort to get coronavirus relief money to Americans is at risk of being overwhelmed by the worst economic downturn in 80 years, as understaffed and underfunded agencies struggle to deliver […]
Is Ilhan coming through? By Sophie Kasakove The Guardian The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has unveiled a bill that would cancel rent and mortgage payments for millions of Americans struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the legislation announced on Friday, landlords and mortgage holders would be able to […]
Always a silver lining. By Ryan McMaken Mises.Org Unlike the federal government, state and local governments in America can’t just create money out of thin air. So when tax revenues go down, that money is simply not available to the state legislatures and city councils anymore. These governments […]
Once again, Orange Man and the Faux Populists outmaneuver the Democrats.
The bankstas is gangstas. Actually, that’s an insult to gangsters.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Mark Cuban’s tweet in which the Shark Tank billionaire calls out lawmakers over payment protection programs.
Washington Post economics reporter Jeffrey Stein discusses provisions, including tax cuts, in the next stimulus bill that benefit the wealthy.
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital gives insight on how Congress should approach the bailout bills, after his CNBC interview went viral.
Yep. During the period between the 1970s and 1990, liberal and left opinion decides that backwater peasants with their retrograde social views were the “real enemy” rather than the actual ruling class, and Donald Trump is what they got in response. A billionaire carnival barker marshaled the populist-right, […]
This is some pretty impressive economic/class/political analysis. It’s amazing that a former MSNBC journalist and a former White House correspondent actually get this stuff and are willing to say so. Krystal Ball exposes the Trump administration’s corporate interest in reopening the economy, explains how tax cuts for the […]
Krystal and Saagar give updates on coronavirus case numbers, share the number of reported deaths from Wuhan, and discuss a trial on a promising therapeutic medication for Covid-19 patients.
By Stephen Gandel CBS News A key piece of the federal government’s stimulus efforts to help small businesses and their employees has run out of money, shutting out thousands of potential borrowers who were seeking aid amidst the coronavirus-driven economic plunge. The U.S. Small Business Administration said Thursday […]
It’s government, folks. What do you expect? By Heather Long and Michelle Singletary Many Americans woke up Wednesday expecting to find a payment of $1,200 or more from the U.S. government in their bank account, but instead they realized nothing had arrived yet — or the wrong amount […]
Increasingly, the US ruling class is reminding me of the French ruling class prior to 1789 or the Russian ruling class prior to 1918 with their “Let them eat cake!” attitude.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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