Crenshaw MELTS DOWN When Confronted On Jesus Comments
Krystal and Saagar respond to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s angry response to a constituent who pressed him on comments he made about Jesus on a podcast that contrast from previous stances
Krystal and Saagar respond to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s angry response to a constituent who pressed him on comments he made about Jesus on a podcast that contrast from previous stances
Dems: “Am I out of touch? No… Its the voters who are wrong” They did the meme IRL
Krystal and Saagar cover the mainstream media’s response to new poll numbers indicating that large swaths of the country do not approve of how President Biden is handling the most important issues
As commentators like Thomas Piketty and Bill Bishop have pointed out, the roles of the parties are being reversed. The Left parties are becoming the parties of the elite and the Right parties are becoming the parties of the working class (with some outliers). My suspicion is that […]
A caller praised AOC as “having something special,” and that sky’s the limit for HER. That’s the key – individual success, HER rising in power. AOC was a staffer for Ted Kennedy, her original congressional staff, who were from her campaign, were let go so she could hire […]
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
By Timothy Snyder As we reach the first anniversary of Trump’s failed coup attempt, the former president and his supporters are indulging in a pleasant dream of his return to power in 2025. An electoral victory seems unlikely: he lost last time as an incumbent by seven million […]
Hopefully, 2024 will see not only the GOP fractured into Natcon, Trumpist, and anti-Trumpist conspiracist factions, but the Left offering a major primary challenge to Biden. Fragment, fragment, fragment… Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner to examine how the Left should approach […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the comments made in private by former President and GOP kingmaker Donald Trump about the possible 2024 contender Fl. Gov Ron DeSantis
Krystal takes a look at how Kamala Harris’s attempted rebrand has already crashed and burned in a revealing display of how hollow Democratic Party elites are
Team Rising debates whether Democrats will be able to turn their fortunes around in time for the 2022 midterms.
Krystal and Saagar review the data on party affiliation and polling on the Biden administration that could preview a historic red wave for the GOP in the 2022 midterms
This dude must have a Hillary poster next to his sock drawer.
“The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a […]
My suspicion is that the national conservatives (a neocon front movement) are trying to cultivate De Santis as their front man as they try to build a parallel movement to the Trumpists. A three-way fight between the Natcons/neocons, Trumptards, and anti-Trump conspiratards would be welcome. Ryan Grim and […]
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch As he settles into office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin looks an awful lot like one of those “inherently divisive concepts” he seeks to ban from the classroom. It’s one thing to campaign to a soundtrack of dog whistles and yet another to […]
By Damon Linker The Week With Democrats confronting the imminent failure in Congress of their bills to expand social spending and voting rights, recriminations have already begun. As Politico reports, progressives are especially preoccupied with how to talk about their defeats with their presumably angry and demoralized constituents. […]
It would be interesting if the GOP split into 3 quarreling factions: the DeSantis-led natcons, the Trump loyalists, and the anti-Trump but conspiratard right. By Peter Weber The Week Former President Donald Trump has been privately fuming about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for months, irked that DeSantis […]
World-renowned author Margaret Atwood talks about how to keep democracy alive at a time when that system of government is in questions. She discusses democracies past, present, and future.
By Joel Kotkin We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian trend in the West. Don’t expect a crudely effective dictatorship out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: we may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic, but […]
Author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson joins Andrew to talk about the 2024 presidential election, third party dynamics, and her experience as a candidate.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is predicting the end of Donald Trump’s hegemony in the GOP, saying the former president “is done.”
Russell Miller breaks down the comments he made to Rep. Josh Gottheimer that might have sparked an antisemitism controversy.
‘Nothing will fundamentally change. ‘ -J Biden.
The thing a lot of people don’t understand is you can gain the largest coalition in history on economics. The reason radicalism exists is because there are desperate people who feel there is no alternative. If people felt more financially secure and that they had more control of […]
It’s funny that in most polls, Desantis is favored over Trump. If they were the only two to run for 2024, DeSantis could actually get the nomination over Trump
Let us not forget: “We came, we saw, he died!” Followed by maniacal laughter. HRC & MLK were very much on opposing sides
Team Rising discusses Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first few days in office.
He’s not giving up. He’s doing exactly he was elected to do. He protecting the oligarchs that put him in office
By Joel Mathis, The Week Former President Donald Trump held his first big rally of 2022 Sunday night in Arizona, and all his familiar old tendencies were on display. He obsessed about the 2020 election he still falsely claims was stolen from him. He slammed President Biden and […]
By Summer Meza The Week his week “will be dominated” by the congressional battle over whether to change filibuster rules to push through Democrats’ voting rights bill, reports Punchbowl News, but there’s an alternative measure that may be picking up steam. Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) effort to change […]
Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, tells CNN’s Jim Acosta about a meeting between ex-Trump staffers focused on preventing his future influence on US politics.
By Lawrence Lessig, New York Review of Books The self-governing republic works only if it expresses the will of the majority. But one party is now committed to minoritarian rule by any means. The State Department is hosting a democracy summit this week. Representatives from around the world […]
By Matthew Cole The Intercept George Nader also cultivated key Trump advisers on behalf of his Gulf clients, prosecutors say. George Nader, an American adviser to the government of the United Arab Emirates, convicted sex offender, and frequent visitor to the White House during President Donald Trump’s first […]
Pollster Patrick Murray raises his concerns about horserace election polling.
Katie Halper weighs on President Biden’s voting rights speech in Atlanta, Georgia.
Krystal and Saagar talk with Daily Poster journalist Andrew Perez about the dark money going into an organization founded by Pete Buttigieg that might be a preview of his 2024 campaign
Like her or not, this segment is fairly interesting. Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join sitting congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to break down the absolute dysfunction that can be found in Congress.
Montana Congressional candidate Tom Winter describes how he plans to fight for working class, rural Montanians.
Team Rising discusses whether Democrats’ focus on Covid is a faulty strategy for the 2022 midterms.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez expands on his reporting about the dark money contributions to Pete Buttigieg’s political advocacy group.
Is it time for a 3rd party challenger in 2024? Last week, Politico reported that several major progressive voices are confident that there will be a left challenger to Joe Biden. Jeff Weaver, Bernie’s 2016 campaign manager, said it’s a given, and names like Nina Turner and Marianne […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author & activist Marianne Willamson to discuss the state of the Democratic Party, a possible 2024 campaign, and her outlook on how to heal American politics
Krystal and Saagar look through the data on stock trading by members of Congress in 2021 that shows how many of them over performed the stock market due to inside information
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the opinion columns in major media outlets calling for Hillary Clinton to run in 2024 and for Liz Cheney to be a VP contender for Democrats
The ruling class is really showing its hand on this one. Team Rising reacts to a possible Biden-Cheney 2024 presidential ticket.
Ryan Grim and Kim Iversen debate whether President Biden can recover his sinking approval numbers before the 2024 campaign season.
Krystal and Saagar react to the comments made by former President Trump about politicians who are too cowardly to celebrate taking the covid booster shot in public
By W. James Antle III, The Week Can calling people racist get them to support your agenda? President Biden will soon find out, at least where Democrats’ voting legislation is concerned. Continuing the pattern of his Jan. 6 speech in his address in Georgia on Tuesday, Biden presented his political opponents […]
The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]
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