Our last election
In two weeks I will know whether American democracy is dying or even worth preserving. If lies and disinformation hold sway, and the voters elect a proven criminal psychopath, the answer is yes, and...
View ArticleTrump beat his polls twice—and it could happen again
In 2016, Democrats headed into Election Day confident they’d win the White House. Many election forecasts were confident of that. But of course, that's not what happened. Donald Trump landed on the...
View ArticleI'm Really Close to TTFN...
Between the AP articles that sanewash Trump and both-sider the Democrats and the new Front Pagers who post shit like the diary this morning arguing that Trump could win in a landslide, to the almost...
View ArticleBiden vs SCOTUS
Let’s lay out what is about to go down1. Harris Walz win2. GOP stops win with a multitude of paper-cut strategies and blocking actions3. A case goes to SCOTUS — SCOTUS Installs Trumpif this is a...
View ArticleAssume Biden is behind - and it could get worse
Assume Biden is behind.Assume the polls are not as far off as we had hoped — that is irrational exuberance. The same irrational exuberance we experienced here in 2022 when many said we would flip the...
View ArticleDemocrats want to lose in 2024 on immigration?
This week an Augusta University nursing student was murdered while out for a job.The suspect is in custody.Jose Antonio Ibarra.A Venezuelan national who according to ICE/CBP sources (Fox News cited,...
View ArticleNo, it is extinction. Deny it if you wish
It’s name calling season, it’s always name calling season.If one points out we are at extinction — “doomer” is the retort.We need proof that this is in fact extinction….. so lets go to the noaa dash...
View ArticleRefuting DOOM! (and Doomers - thanks, Beau)
I subscribe to very few video accounts, aside from Crashing Vor’s, and mostly ignore them when I do, but I suspect I won’t be ignoring this one, though I don’t expect to be posting many of them here....
View ArticleTime For the Mass Arrests to Start
It's time. It's past time. They threaten our existence. They openly talk vengeance, repression, revolution, violence, executions, treason.In 1967, Israel knew the Arabs were going to attack them. They...
View ArticleIn deference to Marjorie Taylor Greene
This is a gentle pushback to the immediate dismissive reaction of so many progressives to Marjorie Taylor Green’s advocacy of a national divorce. Now, we can’t expect ol’ Marge to begin to offer, or...
View ArticleElection is not squeaker Democrats' success, but step forward for...
There is no respite from plutocrats’ fascism after November 8 elections. They spent billions. They will spend billions more to destroy democracy.Violence. Destruction. Sexism. Racism. Anti-Semitism....
View ArticleThe Death of Democracy
The way I figure it, 2022 and 2024 will be the last two truly free and fair national elections in the United States for some time.Contrary to some folks, I am extremely pessimistic about this year. I...
View ArticleIt is Important to Understand That We Are Losing
EDIT 2: So never post when you are frustrated. The tone of this obviously upset a lot of people, so I apologize for being harsh and strident. I was and am frustrated. I thought it clear that no one...
View ArticleBYE BYE EARTH omg
How many people still believe climate change is a hoax? Republicans ? Democrats ?
View ArticleRussia will eventually defeat Ukraine, but the human cost will be extremely high
Contrary to optimistic reporting in most Western countries, things look grim for Ukraine. Hopeful predictions of Russia giving up with fatigue or demoralisation, or Ukraine mounting a sudden...
View ArticleSave America by breaking it up
I think there is a serious liberal argument for lowering the bar for secession from the union. The only other recourse to Civil War in a nation so riven is to let people vote w/ their feet and let them...
View ArticleNational Divorce/Secession: It's A Right Wing Talking Point - and by such a...
… and it’s not a good look for Daily KosAll you have to do, for this to make sense when you see it, is to accept that this country is doomed. That there are irreconcilable differences between the Red...
View ArticleI Want A Divorce
Dear Red America,This is really hard to say, but it's been coming on for a long time, so I hope it's not too much of a surprise: I want a divorce.In the beginning we had such high hopes. We were so...
View ArticleOur Founding Fathers screwed us with the Great Compromise: America is now...
Our Federal System Is Irreparably Broken — The Great CompromiseWhy is our Federal System broken? Because the Representative Democracy that our Founding Fathers had envisioned has run its course and no...
View ArticleUkraine cannot win independence militarily
Ukraine has been ruled, mostly, by Russia, since the 1700s. During this time, substantial numbers of Russian speakers have come to Ukraine.The Russians are much closer to Ukraine and have shorter...
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