Trump Goes Full Mafia Don On Kevin McCarthy
“He has given his blessing.” Nice mafia boss accent.
“He has given his blessing.” Nice mafia boss accent.
“This Will Not Pass” is coincidentally also a great summarization of Joe’s entire presidency.
By Jason Fields, The Week Analysts all over the world woke up on Monday morning to mourn the fact that far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen wasn’t beaten soundly enough, even though she lost by more than 16 points to a man few people in France apparently […]
The Signal Why is Joe Biden so unpopular? David A. Hopkins on the U.S. president’s political troubles—and the limits on his ability to resolve them anytime soon. Wassim Chouak As unimaginable as it might have been a year ago, Joe Biden is starting to resemble Donald Trump in public-opinion […]
Team Rising weighs in on new polling that reveals 58 percent of voters are open to backing independent candidate if faced with Biden or Trump in 2024.
Krystal and Saagar look at the collapse of Kamala Harris’s inner circle and the new people she is turning to for advice such as Morning Joe Scarborough and Rahm Emanuel
Krystal and Saagar question the claim by Trump that he will not return to Twitter now that Elon Musk owns the platform and would be willing to restore his account
Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Bernie 2020 top campaign advisor Ari Robin-Havt to get the inside story on who Sanders is as a person and how powerful forces fought his campaign
Krystal considers the possibility of Bernie Sanders running for President again and why the Left is lacking in a successor to lead the progressive wing of the Democratic Party
Krystal and Saagar respond to Kevin McCarthy being pressed by Fox News on the lies he told them about comments he made concerning then President Trump back in January of 2021
By Damon Linker The Week Liberals across the Western world are rejoicing at the news that incumbent Emmanuel Macron roundly defeated the right-wing antiliberal candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election on Sunday. The celebration is warranted. Macron didn’t just win. He won […]
Do you think when he said other reps “invited him to coke-fueled orgies,” he was just pretending hoping it would get him an actual invite?
Given how close she was to winning, it is clear that the French are as fed up with the establishment as us Americans are, if not more.
Ryan Grim, Emily Jashinsky, and Kim Iversen discuss the results of the French Presidential election.
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to reporting that Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden’s business partner at White House in 2010.
Former deputy campaign manager for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, Ari Rabin-Havt, previews his new book, “The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders.”
Krystal and Saagar break down the French election results that saw President Emmanuel Macron win re-election and displayed the deep divides in France that he will be tasked with navigating going forward
Kyle Kulinski discussed the protests in France after the initial election results led to dissatisfaction from many younger voters against their political system
The main reason to un-elect Marco Rubio isn’t even mentioned in this article. Rubio is a neocon puppet, a one time favorite of Bill Kristol, who now wants to use the neocon-front movement known as “national conservatism” as a vehicle for gaining the presidency. In power, he would […]
I find it interesting how in my lifetime the Republicans have gone from the party of the Moral Majority to the party of “just don’t be a pedophile though being a hebephile might be okay” (see Matt Gaetz). Outside of a few geographical areas, it’s the upper-middle-class bourgie […]
David Sirota makes the case that Joe Biden and Democrats are helping Republicans convince the country that government and politics don’t matter.
Brexit was a victory for the English Red Tribe and their Blue Tribe-dominated elites. A victory by Le Pen in France would have a somewhat similar effect. A Red Tribe victory in a Blue Zone, and in a way that strikes a blow against not only the EU […]
The main thing I am hoping for right now is that the upcoming Supreme Court decision on abortion, the mid-terms, and the 2024 election have the effect of escalating the culture war. Emily Jashinsky argues that Democrats need a concrete answer to the culture war.
Ryan Grim argues that elections matter when it comes to supporting the labor movement.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky kick off the first edition of Rising Fridays. They react to newly leaked tape showing Rep. Kevin McCarthy supported President Trump’s resignation in the days after the January 6 Capitol breach.
Economist Richard Wolff talks about the U.S. media’s “grotesque misrepresentation of not on the French election but French and European politics in general. Find the full chat at Patreon.
By Ken Klippenstein The Intercept Affinity Partners boasts of “accelerating transformation through connectivity” in a slide deck obtained by The Intercept. Jared Kushner’s new investment fund, Affinity Partners, nakedly touts the former Trump adviser’s work with Saudi Arabia and his links to several Trump-era deals in the hope of raising […]
Alencia Johnson & Emily Jashinsky discuss campaign finance reform and PAC money’s influence in the midterm elections.
The DNC will never allow it to happen, just like last time. Again, there is ZERO correlation between the desires of voters and what actually happens, while there is a strong correlation between the desires of banks and corporations, and what legislation happens. The banks and corporations don’t […]
The sad part is: The media has failed to actually critique Trump which is why he has supporters. Trump was never forgiving; he just lacks ideological commitment, administrative competence, and focus. Lacking the skills to get revenge isn’t being “kind and forgiving”, it’s just incompetence.
Fragment, fragment, fragment… “Tom Cotton has the personality of a dirty diaper”.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 SO true!!!
The US political class is starting to resemble that of the USSR in its final years. Briahna Joy Gray and Kim Iversen react to reporting that Senator Bernie Sanders may run for president in 2024
Krystal and Saagar bring back journalist Ryan Grim to provide his coverage of crypto billionaire funding Nina Turner’s opponent among other special interests. Ryan will be working with Breaking Points more going forward!
Krystal and Saagar break down the decision by Donald Trump to endorse JD Vance in the contested Ohio GOP Senate primary and whether it will push Vance over the top of the field
Vote for mashed potatoes and senility in 2024! Because we all want a president that keeps thinking he is leader of Ukraine!
Maz Alvarez and Denise Long discuss whether the GOP can successfully recruit Black voters disaffected with Democrats.
Independent candidate for mayor in Oakland, California, Seneca Scott, calls for a post-partisan solution to solving homelessness.
This happens all over the world, not just the US or the one corner of Europe, corporations, and oligarchs have this in the bag a long time ago. They are lucky enough that people today are still kind enough to protest instead of chopping their heads off. Over […]
Krystal and Saagar comment on the leaked audio of GOP congressman Mo Brooks explaining how the entrenched corruption in DC works during an event for his senate campaign
Whenever I hear Obama supporters say the phrase “he did all he could” “he made all the hard choices for the best of America” and my personal favorite, “he showed us that we can” I burst into laughter considering the Obama administration was a huge disappointment.
This is an excellent book that explains how the neoliberal model of capitalism actually works. Neoliberalism is by design a state-centric and not a “free market” paradigm. 99.9% of “free market” economists aren’t free market at all. The exceptions would be individualist anarchists like Benjamin Tucker or radical […]
This is an excellent critique of the reformist left.
Big Labor supporters like President Joe Biden are cheering the first successful vote to unionize workers at an Amazon facility, in this case, an 8,000-worker warehouse in Staten Island, New York. The effort was spearheaded by a couple of best friends who built support on TikTok, among other […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss who they think could beat former President Trump in 2024 from the Washington Post’s list of top 10 Democratic candidates for the 2024 presidential election.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss how President Joe Biden has let down young voters.
News just in! Democrats feel exactly the same about it….. Now here’s the weather!!!!
Krystal and Saagar look at how the Washington Post humiliated Kamala Harris in their rankings of 2024 Democratic presidential contenders as her battle with Buttigieg intensifies
Krystal explains why young Biden voters of the Millennial and Gen Z demographic have expressed strong disapproval of his presidency as they abandon Democrats in numbers
More like “There’s an iceberg!” Democrats: “We know. We are going to hit it, the Titanic will sink and many of you will die. But imagine how bad it would be if the Republican’s were steering.”
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