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Nexus X HumectressTrump IMPEACHED With Most Bipartisan Votes In History, What’s Next?
Trump makes history. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to introduce IMPEACHMENT against Biden on his first day
Politics is definitely going to be more interesting the more wingnuts get elected to offices as opposed to the usual boring corporate lawyers. Team Rising predicts how Trump Republicans might behave under the Biden administration.
This Could Be The END For The GOP Forever
Saagar Enjeti analyzes columnist, Ross Douthat’s, article in The New York Times titled, “How the Republican Party Could Break”.
Elites ABANDON Trump
Krystal Ball reacts to the elite class withdrawing their long-standing support for President Trump.
McConnell SHOCKS By Moving Against Trump On Impeachment
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates on President Trump’s potential impeachment.
Smoking Gun FBI Report Warned Of ‘War’ At Capitol Before Rally
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the latest FBI updates on the insurrection at the Capitol.
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
Deja vu! No one ever does anything different anymore. Tells the story of the hardhat riot, which no book has focused on before Draws from nearly two dozen boxes of NYPD records that were sealed for almost a half-century, effectively buried by city officials until now Combines archival […]
Why We Need Real Anarchy: Don’t Let Trump’s Minions Gentrify Revolt
Crimethinc Politicians have come together across the aisle to decry the storming of the Capitol on January 6 as “lawless,” “anti-democratic,” and “extremist,” going so far as to misrepresent the result as “anarchy.” But the problem with the invasion of the Capitol was not that it was unlawful, […]
Neither an Insurrection or Revolt: An Anarchist Response to the Permitted Fascist Temper Tantrum
It’s Going Down A critical anarchist analysis and critique of the recent events in Washington DC and the response from the political Center and mass media. So much could be said about the spectacle recently witnessed at Washington, DC’s federal capitol building, however we will write a quick […]
Gun-toting Lauren Boebert leads charge against Capitol metal detectors as others blast ‘Pelosi’s ‘communist America’
In light of recent events, it is important to remember that politicians are merely managers who act directly or indirectly on behalf of the wider bodies of major shareholders and controlling interests in the power elite apparatus. If Congress were the “real power,” fruitbats like this chick (or, […]
The Likely Impact of the “Beer Belly Putsch”
It’s only been a week so it’s still a bit early to fully assess what the long-term effects of the “Beer Belly Putsch” are going to be, but so far it’s looking like these will be among the outcomes. The legitimacy of the present state will be undermined. […]
Federal prosecutors building SEDITION, conspiracy charges against some Capitol rioters
57% Of Americans Want Trump Gone Immediately
How To Handle Dangerous Speech Without Resorting To Censorship
Establishment To Thwart Democracy Using Old Dictator Tactic
Civil War Two But Modeled After Who?
It’s possible to draw analogies to the Spanish Civil War anytime there is a major left/right cleavage. But in our case, I think the civil war in El Salvador is a better political analogy in terms of parties, factions, and their relationships, and I think the Lebanese Civil […]
Civil war becomes inevitable in the USA
We’re still a long way from actual civil war. I know of no evidence that state security or the ruling class is actually threatened. The stock market is thriving and the military industrial complex shows no sign of fracturing into warring factions. by Thierry Meyssan, VoltaireNet.Org The problem […]
Sheldon Adelson, Billionaire Donor to G.O.P. and Israel, Is Dead at 87
If you can’t say anything nice… By Robert D. McFadden, New York Times Sheldon G. Adelson, a cabdriver’s son who built the world’s largest empire of casinos and resort hotels in Las Vegas, Macau, Singapore and other gambling meccas and used his vast wealth to promote right-wing political […]
Are we approaching the end of US hegemony?
By Daniel Lazare, Weekly Worker Evelyn Waugh supposedly once complained that Tories are forever promising to turn back the clock, but never really do. But there is a reason: the world moves on, the river continues to flow and, while change can be shaped and managed, it can […]
We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill
By Luke Savage, The Jacobin Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol […]
Trump Approval Rating Hits All Time Low But Maintains GOP Support
Team Rising reacts to new Vox and Quinnipiac University polls.
The Looming Patriot Act 2.0
Here it comes.
Video shows rioter smoking pot in Capitol Rotunda during siege
By Laura Italiano, New York Post It’s high treason!
AOC STANDS UP Against Liberal Calls For New Domestic Terror Law
Alexandria comes through. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss a potential new domestic terror law following the insurrection at the Capitol.
Trump Faces MAJOR Post-Presidency Issues As Banks Cut Ties, Belichick Rejection
The capitalist class strikes back at Trump. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the long list of people and corporations cutting ties with President Trump and other prominent Republicans following the insurrection at the Capitol.
A Mob Attacked the Capitol for Trump. Now What?
By Mike Giglio, The Intercept I spent the last year talking with people from militant groups on the American right and always driving toward the same question: And then what? You’re armed and trained and linked up with your outfit. And then what? You’re ready to stand up […]
Cultural Revolutions and Farcical Insurrections w/ C. Derick Varn
Listen here. On this edition of Parallax Views, C. Derick Varn of Zero Books makes his triumphant return to the program by providing a history lesson on the idea that “politics is downstream from culture” from the idea of cultural hegemony by the Italian Communist thinker Antonio Gramsci […]
How Unpopular Is The Failed Capitol Hill Insurrection?
Censorship Armageddon?
The Rioters Weren’t All Blue Collar: They Were CEOs, Lawyers, & Police Officers
By Erin Corbett, Refinery 29 In the aftermath of the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the FBI and D.C. Police are asking the public to help identify people who planned and participated in the attack. Like clockwork, many people have been quick to assume that […]
The Republican Party’s Death Drive
By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservative On January 6th, a mob of Trump supporters staged a coup—a PR coup for the Democratic Party. Liberals have been calling Republicans “fascists” for as long as anyone can remember. The trouble is, there’s never been any real proof. There was […]
The Moral and Intellectual Collapse of America’s Political Parties
By Alan J. Devine, Chronicles It is no longer news that 2020 saw a collapse of political discourse and public behavior in the United States. Trends that developed over many years intensified last year. One major political party had as its candidate for president a magnetic figure who […]
FBI Memo Warns Pro-Trump Extremists Plan Armed Insurrections in State Capitols Across US
So maybe the “new normal” will be that the summer season is for baseball and left-wing riots, and the winter season is for basketball and right-wing riots. Fair enough. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
Ron Paul Says He’s Been Locked Out of Facebook
By Eric Boehm, Reason Shortly after reposting an article that criticized Twitter’s decision to ban President Donald Trump, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says he was locked out of his own Facebook page. The page is still active and appears to be functioning normally for other […]
“It is Only a Matter of Time Before a More Competent Trump Emerges”
By Juan Dal Mosa and Warren Montag, Left Voices Some people argue that the far Right is small. Should we be reassured that “only” 45 percent of Republicans, that is, 30 million people, support the riot at the Capitol? We must reject facile economism to understand the Trump […]
Two Principles of Racial Equity that Outrage Liberals
From left: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey. by Don Fitz The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end economic and power divides, and replace […]
What’s Going on in the World Right Now
US politics right now (and to some degree Western politics generally) seems to be kind of repeat of what happened in the 19th century when the rising industrial bourgeois was eclipsing the traditional royal, aristocratic, an clerical elites as the dominant class. Right now we have this rising […]
Goofy Gillis: Anarcho-Gman
This guy really needs to be the subject of a comic stip where the main character is some stereotypical anarcho-loser.
Social Media Purge, Big Tech & Special Announcement | Tulsi Gabbard
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Tulsi Gabbard (former Congresswoman) about the Big Tech social media purge, Trump being banned from Twitter, the censorship of Parler by Google, Apple and Amazon and shares an exclusive announcement with Rubin Report viewers. Tulsi Gabbard shares her concerns with […]
Brooks and Capehart on the Capitol attack and Trump’s impeachment
A panel of priests cry about the temple being desecrated. New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the rampage at the Capitol, President Trump’s potential impeachment, and the future of the Republican Party.
Will PANIC Over Capitol Riots Lead To Patriot Act 2.0?
Here it comes. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss what the long-term law enforcement reaction will be to the riots at the Capitol.
Here’s How We MUST Respond After Trump Twitter, Parler Ban
This offers an interesting perspective though I tend to disagree on a few points. I prefer for the Internet to be the proverbial “Wild West.” Saagar Enjeti analyzes Trump’s removal from various social media platforms and discusses how conservatives should react.
Was I Wrong About Trump?
This commentary is fairly nuance commentary. Krystal strikes me as being similar to Tulsi in the sense of being frequently lame but capable of learning. Krystal Ball reflects on Rising’s coverage of Trump’s presidency and the 2020 election specifically, noting the successful moments and the moments she regrets.
Should Dems Impeach Trump AFTER Biden’s First 100 Days?
I don’t care whether Trump is impeached or 25thed or not, but January 6 had to be about the most jerk-off “insurrection” or “coup attempt” in history. Team Rising reacts to a clip of Senator James Clyburn saying that the House may wait until after Biden’s first 100 […]
Should Trump Be Impeached, Removed From Office?
“Rising” would be a much better program if it were co-hosted by an an-com and an-cap rather than a Berniesis and a Carlsonite. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti debate whether or not President Trump and other prominent Republican leaders who backed “Stop The Steal” should be impeached or […]
Keith Preston Essays Available from Black Front Press
Many of the titles offered by Black Front Press include essays by yours truly, along with many other interesting writers. The website for Black Press is available here.
Keith Preston Books Available from Black House Publishing
Apparently, Amazon is no longer carrying titles offered by my primary publisher (too controversial!). But it’s still possible to order directly from the publisher, which is Black House Publishing. The website for Black House is available here.
Nancy Pelosi: The 2021 60 Minutes interview
Princess Nancy’s first hand account of the plebes’ invasion of the castle.
A friendly reminder…
Riot on the Hill
Another leftist take on the Capitol incident. By Mike Davis Yesterday’s ‘sacrileges’ in our temple of democracy – oh, poor defiled city on the hill, etc. – constituted an ‘insurrection’ only in the sense of dark comedy. What was essentially a big biker gang dressed as circus performers […]
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