A reader offers the following observations: I guess the writing has been on the wall for a while now, but it’s still somewhat surreal to watch the GOP under Trump formally and officially double-down on Know-Nothingism and stupid culture-war social conservatism / law-and-orderism. To me, it appears that […]
It’s hilarious how the Trumpists have been able to position themselves to the left of the Democrats on foreign policy, trade, and criminal justice reform, largely by doing nothing at all. The Democrats program seems to be “Scumbags, Unite!… Because At Least We’re Not As Scummy As That […]
The Trumpists seem to be realizing that abandoning their 2016 platform is a losing idea and now they’re trying to at least partially reclaim it. The Trumpists are in the unenviable position of having to pretend to be the party of hawkishness and non-intervention, domestic free enterprise and […]
Arguably, one of the most underreported stories in US politics is how a group of former Communists were able to apply Leninist infiltration methods to colonize “movement conservatism,” and then the Republican Party itself, while building an alliance with arms merchants, corporate plutocrats, and Christian Zionists, with the […]
This is a good overview of how the neocons have essentially colonized and gained control of both parties at this point.
These guys are all likely doing what their various backers and associates want them to do. Once again, the neocon/neoliberal alliance aims to purge the Trumpists while co-opting, pacifying, and marginalizing the social democrats. The emerging totalitarian humanist regime is going to be a coalition of woke capitalism […]
The money quote: “Biden’s most progressive achievement will be having the most diverse, inclusive and intersectional cabinet of mass murderers ever assembled. By Caitlin Johnstone Medium There was a simultaneously hilarious and nightmare-inducing meme format that was popular not long ago called Creepy Garfield, in which the familiar […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist […]
David Graeber, a leading left-anarchist academic, has an interesting take on Trump. Read the Twitter thread here. He is a pure opportunist but sincere in two ways: 1.he is genuinely and sincerely racist; 2. He is genuinely and sincerely anti-imperialist at least in the US empire’s current form. […]
By Bill Sanderson New York Daily News Take it from President Trump’s older sister: He lies, he’s cruel, he doesn’t read, he cheated his way into college, he only cares about his base. © ED JONES In conversations recorded by her niece in 2018 and 2019, Marianne Trump […]
The dumbass title of this video and Chomsky’s severe TDS notwithstanding, 95% of this interview is quite good, as it usually is with Noam. To debunk the “Trump=Hitler” hysteria, all you have to do is ask people, “If Trump and Hitler were the two major party candidates, who […]
By Stratton J. Davis The Cotton Report Maine has become the first and only state to use ranked-choice voting in this upcoming presidential election. This allows voters to vote for not just one presidential candidate but for multiple candidates, in the order they prefer them. This is very […]
Embracing Trumpism as an antidote to the SJW cult is a remarkably bad idea. It’s a minor-league version of the ex-Communists who became right-wing reactionaries in the mid-20th century (which is how we got the Buckleyites and the neocons). What we need is a Stirnerite/Nietzschean left (which is […]
“What have the Democrats done to solve ANYTHING? Help the poor? No. Help black & brown people? No. Stop police brutality? No. Help single mothers? No. Help children? No. You have achieved nothing. NOTHING. Why did people vote Trump? Because of you motherf—kers,” READ MORE
My People. Knight Foundation In 2016, nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a vote for president, representing 43% of the eligible voting-age population. They represent a sizeable minority whose voice is not heard in our representative democracy. Most of our attention, in politics and in research, […]
“You’ll be subsisting on a diet of Ramen noodles but at least Orange Man won’t be prez,” said the Democraps.
Trump is running on culture war issues while the Democrats are running on “Trump is an asshole.” It will be slightly interesting to see which substanceless campaign wins.
It’s not a “mistake” in the sense that the Democraps are a ruling class party that wants to exclude or marginalize anyone with even a hint of interest in alternative positions. Even recycled McGovernite liberals like Tusli and AOC. Notice that Tulsi, the most anti-imperialist of any of […]
“Orange Man vs. the Swamp Creature” might actually make for an interesting comic book series.
No, but it hasn’t improved under Republican-run federal administrations or state governments either. So fuck ’em all.
Biden: “I may be senile and can barely talk but at least I’m not a crazy unhinged asshole like that guy.” Krystal’s point that Republicans had more speaking time than progressives at the convention is definitely interesting, and indicative what the Democraps are.
Obama is just as much of a con man as Trump. He is simply better spoken and better behaved in public.
Krystal and Saager are great at critiquing the bankruptcy of the ruling class. It’s too bad all they offer in its place is lame Scandinavian social democracy or East Asian mercantilism. A program like this hosted by a serious left-anarchist (like David Graeber, Carne Ross, or Cindy Milstein) […]
Biden is playing the same role in relation to the Totalitarian Humanists that Paul von Hindenberg played to the National Socialists. By John F. Harris Politico Joseph R. Biden Jr., at the age of 77 years, nine months, and 10 days has been alive for just a shade […]
Alexandria and Bernie have the distinction of playing the role of Otto and Gregor Strasser to Biden’s Paul von Hindenberg and Kamala’s Fuhrer. By Alex Thompson and Caitlin Oprysko Politico Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had less time to speak at the Democratic National Convention than a former Republican governor, […]
“Vote for us because we’re awesome and that guy sucks.” Hannity’s response, while contrived and insincere propaganda of its own from a guy who is just a Israeli-Saudi mouthpiece, is largely accurate in terms of recognizing the substancelessness of the Democraps, the dumbass references to “Bolshevik Bernie” notwithstanding.
This is interesting even if it’s pathetically tragic. The neocons have the Democratic Party under their control, which they can use to advance liberal imperialism on a general level through the wider set of institutions that comprise the global capitalist empire (UN, NATO, IMF, World Bank, WTO, G20, […]
Trump has embraced the FAUX News tactic of attacking everything as “socialism.” Ironically, while it’s fashionable among the chattering classes to compare Trump to Hitler, his supporters are more analogous to Communist voters in Weimar, i.e. traditional working-class folks hit hard economically by the aftermath of WWI and […]
It’s good to see that Americans are tuning out this crap. In addition to their lame politics, MSNBC is also boring as hell. Their commentators are basically the Stepford Wives of neoliberalism and associated nerdboys. At least the Spiro Agnew impersonators at FOX are entertaining in a pro-wrestling […]
With Biden and Harris on the ticket, the Democraps have arguably moved to the right of Trump, or are at least in a dead heat with Trump in terms of who is most “far-right.”
This guy Vaush, a self-identified anarchist/libertarian socialist, seems to epitomize what I call an “anarcho-Democrat.” This is more or less the left-anarchist/anarcho-social democrat version of “Libertarians for Trump.”
Ellison’s comments remind me of what progressives were saying when Bill Clinton was elected in 1992: “We can work with this centrist guy to get all kinds of do-gooder stuff done.” Clinton ended up consolidating the neoliberal “Reagan Revolution,” expanded the Nixon-Reagan-Poppy Bush police state, continued Poppy’s war […]
This is a pretty good critique of MSNBC, which is basically a technocratic neoliberal version of the Communist Party.
As I have said before, we really have three political parties: the neocon/neoliberal party (with two factions, the Pelosi Democrats and McConnell Republicans), the Trumpist party (mostly Trump, his immediate circle of family and friends, and his general base of voters), and the social democratic party (the Bernie/AOC […]
Are recent events having a Nixon ’68 effect?
Obama sounds like he was the typical status-seeking yuppie who happened to make it to the CEO position.
Trump realizes he needs the libertarian vote so Democraps become jingoists.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump is the worst president in American History! That seems to be the downright unanimous opinion of every left wing wonk from here to Noam Chomsky, and I might have a bit more respect for the view […]
What an idiot. At least Sean Hannity and Noam Chomsky finally agree on something, lol.
LOL. The banskers are happy with Princess Kamala.
I generally agree with Paul’s and Joseph’s argument that as soon as they get a comfortable enough electoral majority, the Democrats will likely move toward restructuring the electoral system in a way that will essentially allow them to maintain permanent victory, through methods like court-packing, increasing the size […]
The problem with the perspective that is presented in this interview that it makes it sound like Trump is uniquely authoritarian compared to his predecessors. No one considers Eisenhower, whose administration organized a series of right-wing coups in other nations and whose immigration policies were far to the […]
Okay, Tucker, Sean, Noam, Pakman. Here’s your revolutionary Marxist most progressive candidate ever, lol.
It is really is interesting how political polarization and culture-war politics have caused so many otherwise intelligent people to go completely off the deep end, whether Noam Chomsky from the Left or Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Right. What the hell is wrong with these folks? Biden’s neoliberal […]
This is just fucking sad. So Noam now agrees with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson that Biden is some kind of revolutionary Marxist? After the Democrats have gone out of their way to marginalize any semi-radical elements in their party? Joe is so “progressive” he doesn’t even support […]
The Democraps have gone out of their way to marginalize any “left” or “populist” elements within their own party while embracing Never Trump Republicans like Bloomberg and John Kasich. The ruling class is circling the wagons against mavericks from the left and right.
One thing that I actually with Mikey the Empty Suit Toady on is that the Biden-Harris ticket does symbolize the transition of the US economy to the present “California model”(neofeudalism ruled by tech-oligarchs and the new clerisy). The problem is that Mikey still clings to the failed supply-side […]
Kamala Harris largely symbolizes the transformation that is presently taking place in the entire Western world. The managerial revolution of the middle 20th century still functioned within the wider framework of the industrial capitalist mode of production and the bourgeois nation-state system. However, the present transformation involves a […]
The problem is not so much Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, or the Democratic Party as much as the tens of millions of dumbasses who keep voting for these cretins over and over again for no apparent purpose like a hamster trapped in a spinning wheel. Just as Trump’s […]
An advantage to an eventual Kamala Harris presidency might be that both the Left and the Right hate her, which will have the effect of delegitimizing the system.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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