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Nexus X HumectressAOC Says She Couldn’t Trust Holdout Dems To Keep Their Word, Manchin To Decide BBB’s Fate
Ryan Grim makes the case that even though its fate rests in Senator Joe Manchin’s hands, President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ bill will still pass.
THOUSANDS Of Health Care Workers Prepare To Strike
Krystal and Saagar look at the newest wave of strikes taking place as thousands of Kaiser workers prepare to fight for better wages against a healthcare company that made record profits in 2020
Seattle Election, Ann Davison, Republican Win
By William Meyers, III Publishing Voters Rejected Some Magical Thinking The national media has characterized the November 2021 general election in Seattle as part of a swing to the right, to Republicans, that was more obvious in the Virginia elections. Even normally reliable narrators like the New York […]
ASTROWORLD: Is Travis Scott To Blame For People Dying?
Krystal and Saagar cover the tragic events that caused 8 people including teenagers to die at the Astroworld festival in Houston that was put together by rapper Travis Scott
Biden Touts Infrastructure VICTORY. BIF Passes WITHOUT $1.75T Medicare Expansion, Paid Family Leave
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and co-founder of Justice Democrats and No Excuses PAC, Corbin Trent, discuss what’s next for President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda after Democrats passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Friday.
CNN CALLED OUT For Blaming VA Results On ‘White Supremacy’
Krystal and Saagar look at how the media universally blamed the VA election results on ‘white supremacy’ after Batya Ungar-Sargon called out CNN for doing so on Brian Stelter’s show
Inside The Corruption And Mismanagement That Led To The DOWNFALL Of The NRA
NPR’s Tim Mak details his new book, “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.”
Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power. Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone.
Division within as well as between the parties is almost always a good thing. By Michael Kranish Washington Post How one of Washington’s longtime Republican power players succumbed to the preeminence of the 45th president. As President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Senate Republican […]
Pete and Aaron From Timeline Earth Reading The Unabomber’s Manifesto Pt 4
A continuation of the series.
Hundreds of Thousands to Go on Four-Day Nationwide Strike Over Vaccine Mandates
By Enrico Trigoso Epoch Times A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker. The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the […]
My Apologies, But There’s A ‘Culture War’ Raging
By Peter R. Quiñones I really need to chill the fuck out. I’ve let things get to me over the past few months and I’ve taken it out on people that are my friends. There’s no reason to be arguing or criticizing the tactics of people I agree […]
The Bush Restoration
Predictably, Michael Lind once again gets it right. 100%. Although the main negative inherent in his analysis is one that he doesn’t mention. The trends he describes open the door for a return to power by the neocons. I have been concerned that we are presently in a […]
Part I: Wither the Workforce
By Peter Zeihan If in recent weeks you’ve gone to a restaurant or boarded a plane of shopped in a store or remodeled your house or been in a hospital or done anything that requires a degree of assistance from a warm body, you’ve noticed it. Where are […]
DEBATE NIGHT: Charlie Kirk Vs. Atheist, Marxist Professor Ben Burgis
I generally view debates between “social democrats” and “free-market conservatives” the same way I would view a debate between a geo-centrist and a flat-earther. But anyone in a position where they are forced to have a conversation with someone as stupid as Charlie Kirk has my sympathy. In […]
James Carville Rips Democrats Over Election Losses: Some Need ‘Woke Detox Center’
I don’t take domestic American politics seriously. While I write and comment about it, I view myself as the equivalent of a sportswriter or an entertainment writer, and not as someone who believes there is genuine value to all of this nonsense. While there are peripheral exceptions, it’s […]
Right-Wing Anti-Capitalism? (Ft. Todd Lewis of the Praise of Folly Podcast)
My approach to economics amounts to “cut welfare and protection from the top-down, cut taxes and regulation from the bottom up.” Virtually no one agrees with me. For most liberals and leftists, the state is their religion. And most “limited government conservatives” and not a few “free market […]
The nearly all-White jury in the Ahmaud Arbery trial is itself an injustice
By Paul Butler, Washington Post A jury of his “bubbas.” That’s what the defense lawyer for one of the three White men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery wanted for his client. Thanks to the judge, that’s pretty much the jury the defendants got, plus some bubba-ettes. Arbery was […]
Criminal investigation ongoing after deaths at Astroworld music festival
By Brendan Morrow The Week After at least eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, a criminal investigation is ongoing. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said during a news conference that officials are working to “get down […]
Angelina Jolie calls Eternals ban in multiple Gulf nations ‘ignorant’
Well, it is. The Gulf nations are eternal shitholes. By Catherine Garcia, The Week Angela Jolie said it’s “sad” that her new Marvel movie, Eternals, won’t be released in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, after Disney denied edit requests from local censors. On Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter and […]
The Democrats’ deception on critical race theory
W. James Antle III, The Week After Republicans swept all the statewide offices in bluish Virginia with a successful campaign that partially turned on critical race theory in public schools, Democrats are gravitating toward a response: There is either no such thing as critical race theory or it’s […]
Why Democrats lose when they reduce all talk of crime to racism
By W. James Antle III, The Week Crime wasn’t one of the top issues in last week’s elections. But it was among the reasons Democratic number-crunchers concluded their party underperformed at the ballot box last year and is primed to do even worse in the midterm elections of […]
Iraq’s prime minister survives assassination attempt
By Harold Maas, The Week Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi called for “calm and restraint from everyone” on Sunday after surviving an assassination attempt at his residence in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, The Associated Press and CNN report. Iraqi officials said at least two explosive-laden drones were used in […]
A Queer Call for Free Speech
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I didn’t know Daphne Dorman but she was one of my people. Daphne was a transgender comedian and a Queer rights activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a gifted software engineer who created her own […]
November 7 as Victims of Capitalism Day – 2021
The state is always the enemy, whether capitalist or communist. By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society At Reason Ilya Somin, in keeping with his annual practice since 2007, has chosen May 1 — May Day — as his date for observing “Victims of Communism Day.” Somin cites the […]
November 7 as Victims of Communism Day – 2021
The state is always the enemy, whether capitalist or communist. By Ilya Somin, Reason While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus. NOTE: The following […]
Chilling Poll Indicates Americans Are Turning Against Democracy VERY Fast
The electoral system is losing legitimacy as increasingly no one agrees on the basic rules of the game, and views victory by the other side as illegitimate by definition. There are two problems with his analysis. First, while he’s correct that the electoral system is increasingly losing legitimacy, […]
Trump BIZARRELY Laments Israel No Longer OWNS Congress
Krystal and Saagar discuss the comments made by former president Trump about the influence of Israel over congress in a bizarre radio interview he had recently
Music Industry Legend Breaks Down The Liberal Hollywood Coalition That Helped TAKE DOWN Trump
The Reagan Revolution of the 1980s represented an insurgency within the capitalist class by the Sunbelt against the traditional northeastern establishment. But the rise of digital capitalism has resulted in the tech oligarchs aligning themselves with the northeastern establishment against the Sunbelt and, of course, the media and […]
Joy Reid Blames RACISM, Van Jones Calls Dems “Annoying” As Media LOSES IT Over VA Race
In Virginia, a moderate pro-business Republican was elected governor. A black woman whose parents were immigrants from Jamaica was elected as the Republican lieutenant governor. A Latino man whose parents were Cuban refugees was elected as the Republican Attorney General. There is a lot more going on with […]
39% Of Voters APPROVE Of Kamala Harris As VP, 45% Disapprove While 16% Say Neither
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX survey found 39 percent of voters approve of Kamala Harris as vice president while 45 percent disapprove and 16 percent said neither.
GIGANTIC Pentagon Budget & GUTTED Social Spending EXPOSES Where Politicians’ TRUE Loyalties Lie
Author of the Speaking Security newsletter, Stephen Semler, breaks down his reporting on Congress’s budget priorities.
CIA Torture Victim Publicly Reveals Abuse Details For 1st Time, Officers BLAST Use Of Torment
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the CIA’s use of torture post-9/11.
Elite Greed On DISPLAY, Dems Pushing For SALT Repeal Could Score $75K In Tax Breaks
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, details ongoing negotiations to repeal, or amend, the SALT cap.
BOMBSHELL Report REVEALS 20% Believe Political Violence May Be NECESSARY, Who Is To Blame?
Team Rising reacts to shocking polling on whether Americans believe political violence may be justified, and/or necessary,
Josh Hawley CALLS OUT The Left For Attack On Masculinity, Panel DEBATES The War On Men
Team Rising reacts to Josh Hawley’s speech on, what he calls, “the Left’s attack on America – and American men.”
Working Mothers BURNT OUT Due To Pandemic, Nearly 1 In 4 Considering QUITTING Their Jobs
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen. and Robby Soave debate how the pandemic affected men and women differently.
Young Voters FRUSTRATED By Glacial Pace Of Congress. More Likely To REJECT Partisanship, Skip Voting
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss new polling on Gen Z’s political engagement.
Schumer FLIRTS With Nixing The Filibuster After GOP Blocks Voting Rights Advancement For FOURTH Time
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals 60 percent of voters want to see the filibuster reformed or ended.
An American and a Pakistani: Two paths to radicalization
I tend to agree with Caitlin Johnstone’s observation that the overlords of the empire are the real extremists. Idiots like these two are at best a quaternary problem. By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, KATHY GANNON and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press In the months before he was charged with storming the […]
Stephen Sweeney, N.J. Senate President, Loses to Republican Truck Driver
The main lesson I would take from recent elections is that normies dislike establishment politicians, and outsiders are guaranteed at least some kind of audience, but normies don’t like perceived extremists, either. By Nick Corasaniti and Tracey Tully Mr. Sweeney, the second most powerful lawmaker in New Jersey […]
Libertarian Strategy From The Jacksonians w/Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop
Just as I am for many different forms of libertarianism or anarchism, I am also for many different strategies. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
Food Prices Vault to Highest Level in a Decade
By Tom Ozimek Food prices across the world have risen to their highest levels in a decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO’s food price index, which measures world […]
Ann Coulter On Trump And Immigration
This interview with Ann Coulter seconds what I have often said about Trump, i.e. that he is simply a neo-Nixonian, a Rockefeller Republican who masquerades as a right-wing populist. Immigration was probably the issue that Trump was the furthest rightward on, and on that issue, he was way […]
Hell of Presidents
A reader offers an interesting description of this program: In the latter third or so of this episode from the “Hell of Presidents” podcast (by Matt Christman and Chris Wade of the Chapo Trap House gang), they talk about the current moment in American electoral politics and where […]
Sorel on Style and Vulgarity
By ProphetBattlestone I have begun reading Georges Sorel’s “Reflections on Violence”. Syndicalism interests me, and Sorel was referred to quite a bit by James Burnham in “The Machiavellians”. The section in quoting further down comes from the ‘Letter to Daniel Halevy’, which precedes the third edition of the […]
COVID hawks are fighting a losing war
By Noah Millman, The Week Our pandemic rules increasingly make no sense — and it’s hurting public health. I spent about a week in October at the Austin Film Festival and Writers’ Conference, attending panel discussions, round-tables, pitch competitions — and, of course, parties. Because there’s still a […]
Will moderate Democrats turn on Biden’s vaccine mandate?
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s never easy being the Democratic governor of a famously red state. Still, it was a surprise Friday morning when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) came out strongly against President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate. “While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a […]
Operatic disdain for white people is bad politics
Ryan Cooper, The Week Why liberals need to stop doing collective guilt over election results. Democrats whiffed the Virginia elections this week, and the dread “Karen” is to blame. So argues Wajahat Ali at The Daily Beast, pointing to exit polls finding that a 57 percent majority of […]
Democrats face the gathering storm
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Even if they can’t stop the flood, it would be crazy not to prepare, Imagine you didn’t know anything about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, critical race theory, Democrats’ stalled spending bill, or any of the other personalities or issues that […]
When You’re So ‘Woke’ That Rape Is OK
More Loundon County drama, apparently. By Peter R Quinones Look, you all know that I am very susceptible to getting emotional, especially when children are involved. But here goes. The backstory to this and how it started is crucial. It wasn’t even news until, Scott Smith, the father […]
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