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I’ve never liked Donna Brazile
My dislike for Brazile even pre-dates her fucking-up Al Gore’s campaign. So this is like the cherry on top of all the BS she has been trading in as a DC-based “Democratic Consultant” all of these years. Donna Brazile should know that if you need to write a 900-word essay to rationalize taking your new […]
Coons “calls on” Trump to Apologize for McCain Remarks
The prayerful Senator from Delaware also called on clouds to not be so vaporous, called on quartz to stop being so metamorphic, and called on Root Beer to stop being delicious.
Coons, I hate to do this because I know the terrible power of a “calling on” but, I’m hereby calling on you to stop embarrassing yourself.
Calls for a Global War on White Nationalism Begin
Christopher Dickey, foreign editor of the Daily Beast, is out with a column that calls the devil by his name. The New Zealand killer, Dickey writes, may have been a lone shooter when he slaughtered 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday, but he was not a “lone wolf.” He was part […]
THIS Is How You Respond To An Atrocity
You can read the letter that Mayor Pete Buttigieg penned to the Muslim community of South Bend in its entirety in this piece. I found his words to be deeply moving. I haven’t yet researched his background as much as I’d like, but what he did was…Presidential. Here are some excerpts: “As you gather this […]
Why Capitalism Sucks, in One Paragraph
Mark Sumner, who writes the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup on Sundays, made this comment after one of his links, and it’s hard to make it simpler: I live in a capitalist system, yes, but if we really believe there’s nothing better than a system in which 90+ percent of people spend the bulk of […]
I love Gillibrand
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid on Sunday morning, announcing she will deliver her first major speech next week in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City. I also love whoever the Dems nominate provided the contest is fair and transparent. That said – this was another […]
My Mini Review of Biden’s Speech
Content: He has some good stuff that will work on a ton of people. Especially media types like David Brooks, who he name-checked and is part of a media army that pines for a great white hope to save the republic and restore the collegial Senate poker night. (The Georgetown cocktail parties have SUCKED since the Clintons, let’s face it.) I liked the “white supremacists are bad” stuff and might have liked him to hit the “Republicans in the Senate need to nut up and be Americans” a little harder, but he is running to be the peacemaker, President. PS – he didn’t announce except in a slip of the tongue in which he announced.
Style: I’ve heard him in much better speaking form at prior JJ Dinners. (Do they still call it JJ? I don’t think so) He is old. He is an old guy. It isn’t as fluid as it once was, so the slow rolling build that he’s mastered after a lifetime of doing this shit wasn’t there. It was more like “quiet, quiet, quiet, YELL YELL, YELL.” He can still hold a room in the palm of his hand, but he is rusty. The pace needs work.
Overall: All that said, he could win. He will benefit from a brokered convention in which Super Delegates come into play. You heard it first here.
BONUS: Carper is in full on crazy old man mode now. Coo-coo.
Dumbfuck ‘New’ Democrats Oppose Green New Deal
The “New Democrats,” the organization Lisa Blunt Rochester has joined, has made clear it disapproves of the Green New Deal. The “new” in the name apparently means lobbyists should send their donations to a new address. “The energy industry is replete with bad unintended consequences of well intentioned regulation. The aspirations of the Green New […]
Coons’ Opioid Epidemic Op-Ed Fact Checked by Retired DEA Agent
Corporate lackey, Chris Coons, called out in the pages of the Cape Gazette.
As I read the commentary column by Sen. Chris Coons (Feb. 2 Cape Gazette) I could not believe that this legislator was patting himself on the back for introducing a bill that, in his view, will “…prevent prescription opioids from flooding our communities…” I found this proposed solution presumptuous, hypocritical and disingenuous because it is a shallow attempt at restoring a power that the Drug Enforcement Agency had and diligently performed before Congress stripped it away from the DEA.
Biden, Stacey Abrams Hold Private Meeting
The Associated Press reported that Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor’s office in a race tainted by voter suppression, and Joe Biden held a private meeting in Washington on Thursday. Spokesmen on both sides were close-mouthed, but it’s not too hard to guess that the 2020 presidential race was on the agenda. According to […]
White Nationalists Now World’s No. 1 Terrorism Threat
That’s not just my opinion. It’s what anti-terrorism expert Brian Levin, Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, told MSNBC this morning. “There’s an international network of Islamophobes, and sometimes they visit different places, but most of it’s on the Internet. What we’re seeing here just generally […]
Highlands Bunker – E07 – Print Your Own Money
Economist Andrew Cassey joins RE Vanella to talk about Modern Monetary Theory, a new old idea which is overturning decades of both Republican and centrist Democratic talking points. A nerdy, but important, listen. Highlands Bunker – E07 – Print Your Own Money
American Style Racist Terrorism Arrives in New Zealand – 49 Killed
The New Zealand version of #MAGA terrorist kills more people in one day than are typically killed in a year.
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