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: […]
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 […]
The true head of the Trump administration speaks? Now all we need is a statement from Mohammed bin Salman.
The Little League Falange wannabes make their move. I generally favor anti-system violence regardless of where it comes from or what foolish cause it’s attached to. Decades ago, I predicted that while the struggle against the US state/ruling class/power elite would cut across ordinary ideological, cultural, and class […]
Ideally, the fragmentation of the Democraps would proceed at the same pace as the fragmentation of the Repugnicans. Good work, Jimmy Dore.
I love it. Fragment, fragment, fragment… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest updates on President Trump’s “stop the steal” movement, ahead of the Electoral College confirmation to take place in Congress today.
The best thing about the “Stop the Steal” scam is the exacerbated division between Trumpists and neocons it has caused, the pig vs right-winger street clashes that have resulted, and the mockery of the state that is taking place. Keep up the good work, Donald and friends. Krystal […]
McGovern’s revenge marches on. The relegation of the GOP to permanent minority status and the creation of a de facto one party state like Mexico’s PRI in the 20th century or Sweden’s Social Democrat would have disadvantages (like a less divided government) but we anti-systemists would be less […]
Why stop at the Senate? Why not the whole fucking government? Once again, social democrats display their appalling lack of vision. By Daniel Lazare, The Jacobin With Republican Senate victories in Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and West Virginia, Democrats are reeling from their worst […]
This “Force the Vote” dustup among progressoids arguing about how to go about begging the ruling class for more crumbs has been a hilarious site to behold.
Tulsi has got to be planning something with these moves. I think if she defected to the Republicans she might actually develop a larger following there. She is one of the few liberals that conservatives tend to respect.
I wish AOC luck on this one. Team Rising discusses the possibility of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez running against Sen. Chuck Schumer in the New York Senate primary.
Saagar Enjeti analyzes the real motivations of the congressmen supporting the “stop the steal” movement, by objecting to the certification of the Electoral College vote.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti give an overview on the Georgia Senate elections taking place today. They analyze the impact of President Trump’s public criticism of election security.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the leaked audio from Washington Post between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. The audio reveals Trump’s latest attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
I strongly suspect that the neocons are grooming this douchebag to be their new post-Trump frontman and that he will have enough appeal to the know-nothing right to make it happen. Trump’s torch will probably be passed to his kids or Mike Pence, or maybe Josh Hawley, and […]
The frontmen for the ruling class and managers of the Deep State articulate the consensus of power elite opinion. “Sorry, Don, but…You’re Fired!” Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld Washington Post As former secretaries of defense, we hold a common […]
This is the Wikipedia description of the Powell Memorandum described in the Sam Sedar video in the post adjacent to this one. It is particularly interesting to compare the Powell Memorandum with the Dutton Strategy that was developed at precisely the same time. In many ways, Powell defined […]
Some fairly interesting commentary on modern American cultural history in this. One thing I often find interesting is the way in which the rhetoric of the socially conservative “right” and the progressive liberal “left” frequently mirror each other. Social conservatives tend to be nostalgic for the social mores […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Finally, mercifully, it’s twenty-hundred and twenty-one, dearest motherfuckers. The year of our lord Satan, 2020, is finally fucking over and all around America there are signs of life. It’s a brand new spanking day for democracy, because 2021 doesn’t just bring an […]
Trump was the Jimmy Carter of the Right. Just another corporate liberal, who was perceived to be especially incompetent and often made out to be far worse than he actually was, and who presided over an economic disaster and turned out to be a one-term president. By Gene […]
This is a pretty good discussion of the media.
Some pretty good class analysis in this, which describes a key aspect of US electoral politics as class conflict between the rising urban, suburban, professional-managerial upper-middle class, and the sinking rural, small-town, heartland working to middle class. Of course, like most left and/right class analysis, it ignores the […]
It looks like this Hawley dude is jockeying to be Trump’s successor as the leader of the Trumpist party.
This actually pretty interesting. Williamson is definitely a product of her generation.
It would be hilarious if Yang ended up replacing Diblase’. Team Rising gives their thoughts on Andrew Yang being spotted at a hair salon with a film crew.
A perfect illustration of the neocon/neoliberal alliance. Imagine West German television in the 1950s inviting Joachim von Ribbentrop (if he hadn’t been hung at Nuremberg) on the air to complain that the economic policies of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard were too extravagant. Krystal Ball gives her take […]
What this Blackburn person is saying might be semi-true if the social democrats actually controlled the entire government (think President Bernie with AOC as Speaker). But that’s light years away from where things are now. The neocons at FOX tend to use the social democrats as a whipping […]
It makes sense. Purge Trump and create a ruling class unity regime, but use the Senate to obstruct any populist efforts. And they’ve already got control of the judiciary nailed down. DC Bureau Chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses why Mitch McConnell didn’t help Donald Trump get […]
Make America Boring Again? Team Rising weighs in on what Donald Trump has done for the media and how the landscape could change with the Biden Administration.
By Glenn Greenwald Asserting that Donald Trump is a fascist-like dictator threatening the previously sturdy foundations of U.S. democracy has been a virtual requirement over the last four years to obtain entrance to cable news Green Rooms, sinecures as mainstream newspaper columnists, and popularity in faculty lounges. Yet […]
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout More than 10,000 people in the U.S. died from COVID-19 in the time between when Donald Trump blew up the stimulus bill and when he finally signed it. No, he doesn’t care about that. The millions of people desperate for unemployment assistance, along […]
It’s hilarious watching “progressives” begging social democrats to beg neoliberals for a few crumbs. Krystal Ball weighs in on the debate over whether progressives should make demands in exchange for support of Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker.
By Larry Gambone There is unhappiness among many Green Party of Canada supporters that the “establishment” candidate won the leadership. This after the GPC “establishment” weighed in against the eco-socialist candidates. There is also the generations-long failed attempts to drag the NDP to the left, an act of […]
The mainstream argument about “healthcare reform” is not a race in which I have a horse. Essentially, two statist sects are arguing over whether the healthcare system should be run by the king’s royal ministers (the progressive position) or the aristocratic feudal manors (the conservative position). But this […]
Being an anarchist, I have a natural morbid curiosity about the functioning of statecraft. I follow politics in the same way someone might drive very slowly past the scene of some horrific accident so as not to miss the sight of even one mangled limb. But perhaps even […]
Another dynasty of royal/aristocratic assholes. Kennedys, Rockefellers, Bushes, Clintons, Gores, Romneys, Trumps. So what? Business as usual.
Sounds a bit high. The 13% likely comprises the power elite and the managerial class.
I generally find accusations of cheating in the election (I generally assume everyone cheats) less interesting than the way the accusations shape the perceptions of the different sides.
Fox Host Says “Intel Source” Claims Trump Won the Election, Rand Paul Says The Election Was Stolen. In a hearing on fraud Rand Paul said the election was in many ways stolen.
By Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic In the evening of September 11, 1980, my mom was approached by a neighbor who held rank in the Turkish military. He told her to stock up on bread and rice. “Oh, another coup,” she immediately groaned. The neighbor was aghast—he wasn’t supposed […]
Neocon douchebag David Frum vs the Trumpists. By David Frum, The Atlantic On Friday, December 18, the secretary of the Army and the Army chief of staff formally disavowed any intention of participating in a military coup: “There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the […]
This is news? By Peter Wehner, The Atlantic Donald Trump’s descent into madness continues. The latest manifestation of this is a report in The New York Times that the president is weighing appointing the conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, who for a time worked on his legal team, to […]
The principal culture war divide in terms of demographics appears to be the college-educated vs non-college educated, i.e. those who have been brainwashed with SJW bullshit vs those who have been brainwashed with all the other kinds of bullshit (patriotism, military, religion, co-worship, Horatio Alger economic mythology, etc.)
Debunking the presumptions of liberal democracy should be the main intellectual project of anarchists in the modern world. The majority of the world’s nations are now liberal democracies, and all of the developed countries. In the ancient world, the royals were worshipped as gods (which still takes place […]
But the flaw in their plan is that it will be their blood. By Michael Stone, Patheos Domestic terrorists: According to their leader Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia organization, will lead a “bloody civil war and revolution” if Trump leaves office and Joe […]
Alexandria ain’t wrong. Although Trump has done nothing except building his own personality cult. By Brett Wilkin, Common Dreams Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a stern warning for President-elect Joe Biden about filling his Cabinet with the types of war and Wall Street candidates that have come to characterize […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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