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Nexus X HumectressLol. I can only imagine what New York liberal Trump really thinks of the deep red zone rubes who idolize him. The red-state rubes are the useful idiots of the right-wing of the ruling class, just as the blue tribe SJWs are the useful idiots of the left-wing […]
The Chinahate that is going on now, like the parallel Russiahate, is just a rhetorical trick the system is using to deflect attention from its own incompetence and malevolence. Not only is China a province in global capitalism that provides cheap labor and cheap loans for Western governments […]
“We don’t need no stinkin’ 13th Amendment!”
The good news is that the ruling class is digging its own grave by offering bailouts to debt collectors and lobbyists while ordinary folks go without food.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Saagar’s appearance on Tucker Carlson, where he blasted House Democrats over a provision in the stimulus bill that bails out corporate lobbyists, as first reported by the Intercept’s Lee Fang.
Big Tech brings back the censorship boards that existed before the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and which still exist in some places. Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project Matt Stoller explains why Facebook decided to elect their own independent appeals board to […]
Krystal Ball discusses the $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill House Democrats unveiled that adds no funding for additional healthcare, no paycheck guarantee, and blasts progressives for relying on the “next time” narrative to get their provisions included in relief bills.
Saagar Enjeti rails against the coronavirus relief bill House Democrats proposed that appeals SALT deductions and fails to keep Americans on payroll, but includes funding for female-owned marijuana companies and bailouts for debt collectors, lobbyists.
This Sandernista third-party idea isn’t going to work. It will be torn apart by SJW fruitbats. An economic-populist/progressive party like these folks are advocating would be fighting a three-front war against the neoliberal center, Trumpian right, and SJW left.
The positions that Ilhan Omar takes on foreign policy generally lead me to conclude that she is a tool of the Muslim Brotherhood (right-wing Sunnis who strategically play the Shia-led axis of resistance and pro-imperialist Wahhabi/Zionist block against each other). Her positions line up almost perfectly with theirs.
The neocons, led by Bill Kristol, are using the Biden campaign to colonize the Democrats, while Trump has an 80% approval rating among the Republicans. If the neocons are successful at this, it means the US will have a neocon party and a faux-populist right-wing plutocratic party. Imagine […]
Kulinski talks about a video from 2013 where Obama admitted he and the Republicans agreed 70% of the time, and that the differences between the two parties were more about procedure than substance. Obama also pointed out something I have also pointed out many times, which is that […]
This is quite interesting. Disaffected Sandernistas are seeking to build a populist-left mass people’s party that crosses over to the populist-right and disaffected Trump voters, and seeks to become a major party by 2024. Kim correctly points out that substantial sectors of the Left will be adamantly opposed […]
Her comments about 30 minutes into this are on the money. She points out that US politics has become divided into competing coalitions of “tribes” who think they are oppressed and under attack, but who regard “the other side’s” claims of being oppressed as ridiculous. She also points […]
Having dealt with nutbag “extremists” (left, right, religious, countercultural) my entire life, I generally agree with the arguments of this article. But a major qualification involves the need to reject the view that holding “centrist” views reflect psychological “normality,” while holding “extremist” views reflects abnormality. As Caitlin Johnstone […]
The social science research that Brooks (another neocon dumbass former Bush apologist) cites in this article confirms what I have long suspected, which is that issues like race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, immigration status, etc. as not nearly as divisive as beliefs that people hold ABOUT these […]
The author of this piece, Jonah Goldberg, is a neocon dumbass who was a Bush cheerleader in the 2000s. His wife, Jessica Savora, is a former aid to uber-police statist John Ashcroft (Asscrack). But the political science research he’s citing is correct. White liberal and left opinions have […]
A 2017 study breaks down the US electorate into 4 basic categories (really 3, because libertarians are barely on the radar). The gist is that Americans lean leftward on economic issues by a 3 to 1 margin, but are divided 50/50 on social/cultural/identity issues. Liberal (44.6 percent): Lower […]
When different tribes create their own realities. By Luke Conway Heterodox Although both groups live in the same country, conservatives and liberals in the U.S. do not seem to be experiencing the same COVID-19 pandemic. Liberals are very concerned about the disease; conservatives are comparatively apathetic. This fact […]
My respect for Kyle Kulinski has gone way up since he adopted a “boycott the major parties” stance on this election. “Vote blue, no matter” (or “vote red, no matter who”) is the stupidest position possible. It means you are telling your supposed leaders and rulers that you […]
Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya from Stanford Medicine makes his third appearance on Uncommon Knowledge in eight weeks, this time to discuss a new COVID-19 survey of Major League Baseball employees he co-authored. The survey tested more than 5,600 employees across all 26 Major League Baseball clubs across the country. […]
Kim is rapidly becoming one of the very best commentators on the Left.
Great analysis from Kim.
It’s pretty sad that both this year’s election and the 2016 election amounted to putting a credibly-accused rapist or sexual assaulter in the White House, whether Joe Biden, Donald Trump, or what would have been the return of Bill Clinton as First Husband.
“Any meaningful revolution would be, as a revolution, populated by idiots. You could have clever leadership, a clearly communicated message and you would still have millions of stupid followers with all kinds of silly ideas you don’t agree with. Exclude all but the purest of heart and you […]
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
An interesting Amy Chua interview from Canadian television in 2018. Author and scholar Amy Chua talks to Steve Paikin about her latest book, “Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.” She discusses how American foreign policy has ignored the internal ethnic divisions in countries and conflicts […]
Who shall be the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief? Bill Maher goes to bat for Dementia Man. Krystal and Saagar discuss Bill Maher’s rant about Tara Reade’s accusations, as he asks, “Why wait until Biden is our only hope against Trump?”
Vote for Dementia Man over Orange Man, says Obomber. Krystal and Saagar listen to former President Obama’s leaked call saying that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case. In the same chat, Obama also lashed out at the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic […]
The Republicans’ Chinahate vs. the Democrats’ Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss The New Yorker’s interview with Chris Hayes, where the MSNBC host describes the network’s coverage of Russiagate as “craziness and paranoia.”
It makes sense that the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society would have the highest COVID-19 rates. The pandemic is a class issue. Krystal and Saagar give an update on coronavirus case numbers in the U.S. at 1,336,700, and 79,552 deaths; Navajo Nation experiences outbreak at rates […]
I do agree the Chinahate gets a little over the top, but no more so than the Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss Former Senator and Ambassador to Beijing, Max Baucus, on CNN, where he likens Trump’s China rhetoric to Nazi Germany.
The problem with “The Squad” is not that they are “too radical” but that they are not radical enough. But that’s still too much for the System. D.C. Bureau Chief of The Intercept Ryan Grim shares insight on the primary races ‘the squad’ faces this November, and where […]
How the propaganda arms of neoliberalism actually work. Author and Host of VICE TV’s ‘Seat At The Table’ Anand Giridharadas discusses his new show, his experience at MSNBC and the New York Times, and how the coronavirus crisis sets the stage to rebuild society.
Who needs the working class when you have slaves? Krystal and Saagar discuss a ProPublica report that shows the S&P 500 is now up 30% from its lows in mid-March and back to where it was last October, as the government reported that 20.5 million people lost their […]
Societies with a large middle class tend to have higher marriage rates. Brad Wilcox shares insight on marriage rates in the US, and explains how on average married Americans are happier and make more money.
Great Depression Two will be worse than the previous Great Depression. Krystal and Saagar discuss Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari’s remarks that Americans should brace for further unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic, and said Congress should consider providing more financial help.
The center-right, neoliberals, and neocons are circling the wagons to defeat Trump while deflecting the Left in the process. Interesting. Something similar happened in 1972 when “Democrats for Nixon” formed to ensure George McGovern lost the election. Krystal Ball comes down on Joe Biden for building a GOP-backed […]
Have the “Satanic panics” of neoliberalism have fizzled and discredited the propaganda arms of the new clerisy in the process? Saagar Enjeti discusses the media’s partisan coverage of Russiagate and the ‘Believe Women’ movement during the Trump era, highlighting their failure to cover Flynn’s recusal.
An interesting aspect of the last 40 years of US economic history is that the right-wing of the ruling class (remember Reaganomics, anyone?) implemented the policies that allowed for the present rise of the left-wing of the ruling class (the tech-oligarch/financier/new clerisy coalition), which is now overrunning the […]
A leader of an organized atheist group (the far left of organized religion) interviews a member of the liberal media class (the new clerisy) on the role of the religious right (clerical oligarchs manipulating naive peasants on behalf of the right-wing of the ruling class/dying WASP elite/Likudniks/war profiteers). […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the strategic and cultural impact on the USA of historic recruitment methods divided roughly into three periods: amateur volunteer forces (1607-1861); conscripts (1861-1973); Professional Volunteer forces (1973-Present).
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
As good an example as any of why the liberal class is worthless. Keep in mind that the liberal class concentrated in the “ideas industries” are simply the new clergy whose purpose is to issue secular papal bulls on what is considered acceptable opinion and what is not […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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