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Nexus X HumectressOne thing Weinstein argues in this is that the fractiousness of the US would make it harder for the US to project overseas power. I would argue that’s a good thing, obviously, as I think multipolarity is preferable to unipolarity (i.e. less concentrated power, particularly on the global […]
Crimethinc As a consequence of Donald Trump’s supporters occupying the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a rally promoting his baseless claims of election fraud, the Republican Party is fracturing, setting the stage for the consolidation of a new bipartisan political center—albeit much further to the right than […]
By Peter Hermann, Rachel Weiner, Joe Heim, and Tom Jackman, Washington Post He supported Donald Trump. She supported Hillary Clinton. But in the midst of the 2016 election, Brian D. Sicknick, an officer with the U.S. Capitol Police, and Caroline Behringer, an adviser for a liberal congresswoman, found […]
They’re not organized well-enough to “collapse.” To “collapse,” you need some kind of functionally organized infrastructure to start with. Right-wing extremists forum tell-all from inside the radical Trump cults. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
Former Kennedy girl turned Jacobin-wannabe wants to purge the Enrages. Who needs sports or movies when you’ve got this shit for entertainment? However, as politics in the US becomes more extreme and polarized,. calls for literal purges will be more common, which is why the state must always […]
Rush Limbaugh is a total douchebag but he’s closer to the truth here than Hollywood progresso-nerd Sam Sedar and trust fund commie-girl Emma Vigeland. What exactly was the American Revolution if it wasn’t the violent overthrow of an established government that claimed legitimacy by virtue of its mere […]
Contra Krystal, I don’t consider the current “breaking point” to be “horrible.” I grew up in the United States when creeps like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan could get reelected with 49 of 50 states. That doesn’t mean I like Trump or Biden any more than Nixon or […]
This is an excerpt from something I wrote 18 years ago. I haven’t seen anything yet to change my mind. The history of human civilization can be divided into three primary phases when considering the evolution of political institutions. The first of these involves an idea that might […]
On January 7th, individuals and groups connected with the National-Anarchist Movement were permanently removed from Facebook after being wrongly connected to events in Washington D.C. the previous day. Ironically, several hours earlier, many of us had openly distanced ourselves from the riot that took place at the Capitol […]
Increasingly, the Trump diehards resemble something more like Scientology than a political movement. I started noticing back in the 90s that there was a cultural undercurrent that was combining anti-establishment politics with conspiracies, religion, the occult, pseudo-science, science fiction, pseudo-history, mythology, crank economic and legal theories, crank medicine, […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski interview the founder of The Jacobin. These folks’ politics sound pretty milquetoast for people who claim the Jacobin tradition. It’s like calling your magazine The Bolshevik and then placing all your emphasis on expanding welfare as opposed to full-blown terrorism, which is what […]
By James Walker, Newsweek Almost half of Republicans support the pro-Trump protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, putting them at odds with Democrats who largely oppose the actions of the demonstrators, a poll has found. The survey released by YouGov on Thursday morning found that 45 […]
An interesting interview with a former leader of the Weather Underground. The Ground Up United The GroundUp has a conversation with Mark Rudd, organizer, anti-war activist and counter-culture icon known for his involvement in the irregular military organization the Weather Underground Organization (WUO). TGU: What were the WUO’s […]
She has some fairly interesting stories about the inner-workings of Congress in this.
The analysis in this is fairly solid.
Some of these folks may want to rethink their aversion to masks. By Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz and Alex Moe, Yahoo! News WASHINGTON — A man photographed casually sitting with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at the U.S. Capitol while a […]
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresspeople from both parties condemned the attack on the Capitol that occurred Wednesday, pointing out that they’re the only criminals allowed in the building. Capitol police removed the unauthorized criminals from the Capitol Building, allowing the officially voted-in criminals to resume operations. “We would like […]
Good luck waiting for that one. Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, discusses the political implications of a Democrat majority in the Senate and predicts what Democrats will, and won’t, do with the power.
We’re rapidly entering the three new disasters a day mode.
2021 is already looking like it will make people pine for the good old days of 2020. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest updates on coronavirus and the race to get the vaccine amongst the wealthy.
Not quite the same as shooting yourself in your bunker. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the temporary suspension of President Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts and discuss what kind of precedent this might set.
D.C. Correspondent, Ken Klippenstein, discusses how and why law enforcement failed to prevent the riots at the Capitol.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss who President Trump might pardon in his last days in office, including himself.
My tentative inclination is to think the significance of January 6 is being overestimated by many folks. It seems that what really happened is that an incumbent President and his supporters were simply using a parliamentary maneuver, however cynically, to overturn the results of an election which they […]
Trump certainly seems to have changed his attitude within the space of 24 hours. What a difference a day makes. In all probability, some mysterious never-before-seen figure probably suddenly walked into the Oval Office and very quietly and casually remarked, “Mr. President, you’re old enough to remember November […]
Dreher references a reader who draws an analogy between current events and the Spanish Civil War. It’s always possible to make comparisons between historical parallels that have some relation to each other, but I tend to think a “Civil War Two” in the USA would be more like […]
There seems to be a debate going on between left and right libertarians about whether guys like Musk and Bezos are plutocratic tyrants or innovative visionaries. It seems the obvious answer is both. See the precedent of Henry Ford and Karl Marx’s writings on economic and technological history.
Uday calls for a purge of the Ba’ath Party.
This essay is quite good. This is what solid social science analysis looks like. By Michael Lind, Tabletmag In the last eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America’s ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can […]
By Andrew McCormick, The Nation It was 5 pm when the explosions started, one after another, washing the crowd of Donald Trump supporters in plumes of tear gas. For hours, these protesters had swarmed and stomped atop of the Capitol steps. They had torn down barricades and pushed […]
By Asawin Suebsaeng, Noah Shachtman, The Daily Beast Four people were dead. The Capitol was in shambles. Several members of his team had resigned. His allies were quickly abandoning him. Naturally, President Donald Trump was livid. About being locked out of his Twitter feed, that is. Twitter and […]
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: […]
I don’t like to see people get killed, but this should mark a permanent split between the Trumpists and the pigs. By Mike Baker, New York Times A United States Capitol Police officer died Thursday night from injuries sustained when he engaged with a pro-Trump mob that descended […]
By Declan Leary, The American Conservative It’s all but silent as I step out onto 17th Street just past noon, a small gaggle of flag-waving MAGA folk to my left the only other people in sight. It’s warm enough to walk, so I make off for the Capitol […]
More hilarious than heinous. Are we really supposed to be outraged that a bunch of yahoos managed to bust through a police line and do some petty vandalism, with one of them being shot by a frightened cop who had probably never dealt with a riot before, only […]
From today. In a Twitter video, President Donald Trump conceded to President-elect Joe Biden and condemned the violent supporters who stormed the Capitol Wednesday.
From yesterday. Jan.06 — President Donald Trump declared that he will never concede he was defeated for re-election and assailed congressional Republicans planning to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on Wednesday. Trump spoke to thousands of his supporters gathered in Washington.
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 […]
Sky News As protesters stormed America’s home of democracy, the focus quickly turned to who they are – and why they were there. Among the sea of “Make America Great Again” red caps there were those dressed in elaborate costumes and others wearing what appeared to be full-on […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, The Garrison Center Munich Marienplatz during the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-1486 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 In a sign that 2021 may get even more darkly weird than 2020, a mob of Trump supporters pushed their way into the US Capitol on January […]
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Tulsi Gabbard (former Congresswoman) about the storming of the Capitol building, why she fears a civil war is brewing, and what we can do to de-escalate the political polarization of our country. Tulsi discusses what it means that Trump supporters […]
Greenwald is becoming a hated man in certain sectors of the Left. One of the greatest things about recent events has been the ongoing fragmentation of the Red and Blue tribes as well as the wider Red/Blue divide. Journalist, Glenn Greenwald, reacts to both Twitter and Facebook suspending […]
Media outlets are the churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples of the Red/Blue tribal-sectarian civil war. In traditional societies, it is the religious institutions that are normally the arbiters of social and moral norms. However, in modern societies that role has largely been assumed by education, science, medicine, technology, […]
I kind of hope it happens. That would be even funnier. The dominant consensus among power elite opinion will ultimately prevail. It’s no different than invoking the by-laws of a corporation that allow for the removal of an incompetent CEO or Chairman of the Board. Team Rising discusses […]
The true head of the Trump administration speaks? Now all we need is a statement from Mohammed bin Salman.
Pence abandons the ship as it sinks. His function in the Trump administration was to triangulate the relationship between Trump, the neocons, and the Christian Zionists while facilitating the relationship between the two. The neocons are now pulling back one of their front men among the Trumpists. White […]
Are you fucking kidding me? Most shameful day? It barely scratches the surface. Read up on the history of massacres in the US. And that’s before we even get into actual genocide, slavery, war atrocities, ethnic and religious persecution, state repression, violent labor clashes, etc., etc., etc., etc. […]
Associated Press Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol. Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.” […]
Probably the most hilarious headline of the day. By Laurel Wamsley, National Public Radio Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton condemned the violence in the nation’s capital on Wednesday — and the president who fueled it. Bush, the only living former Republican president, said he was […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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