The Chewbacca Candidacy
Reading through, listening to, and watching Willard Mitt Romney and his coterie of plutocrats, would-be aristocrats, neo-conservative chickenhawks, and just plain-old fools run their apparently...
View ArticlePlame for CIA chief
Among other changes I think would be delicious.Joe Wilson for State.National Voting laws, with a Federal Office explicitly devoted to rules and enforcement of a nationwide election/voting...
View ArticleStrikes, Sit Down Strikes, and maybe a new model?
Ok, short and sweet;Strikes have been the first line of defense against corporate/owner depredations for many, many years. Leave the workplace, demonstrate outside, create pickets, encourage others not...
View ArticleObama pushed the deal knowing it won't pass the house.
Lot's of ink and pixels (and tears of bitter rage) spilled on all sides of the fiscal cliff thingy over the last couple days/hours.I think the simplest take on this deal is as follows:1) It gets some...
View ArticleThe Founders Hated the Fillibuster
With appropriate props to BooMan who posted this yesterday...If you read the full context of the Federalist Paper that is excerpted in the link above, here: Federalist Papers #22 you will see some...
View ArticleSquaring the Kissinger Circle: It's much worse than just 40 year old war crimes.
Kissinger is the lynchpin that explains the differences between Clinton and SandersIn this article, Dan Froomkin reminds us why we enjoyed his time at the Washington Post, why he was probably asked to...
View ArticleCan POTUS sue the Senate?
Short question: Can the Executive Branch sue the Legislative Branch for failure to discharge their constitutional duty?If so, is there precedent?If there is precedent, in what court does the suit get...
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Very Serious People get it wrong again...
So, Kreuger, Romer, Goolsbee, and Tyson wrote a letter… and Paul Krugman piled on, and cast some seriously nasty aspersions on an economic analysis of Bernie Sanders' economic proposals. That...
View ArticleLies and propaganda have no place here. Those who promote them should be banned.
Perhaps it might be a good idea to promote turnout and encourage engagement, rather than attempting to win contests by suppressing voter enthusiasm and incurring deep, long-lasting wounds and hatred...
View ArticleKrugman, CEA, V.S.P's eviscerated by reality. Yves Smith with the strong assist!
Let’s get back to some wonkery, shall we??So, Gerald Friedman of his own free will and curiosity decided to evaluate the performance of Bernie Sanders’ economic proposals using a standard...
View ArticleArticle 2, Section 3: Got your hydrothermonukular option right here... Hello...
Haha… or whomever Pres. Obama decides he really wants to place on the SCOTUS to cement his political legacy.So Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution is pretty damn straightforward:[...] he may, on...
View ArticleI sense a lot of guilt...
You know what’s right, and you’re afraid to take the steps to support it with your vote.You know what’s right, and you don’t know enough about the person saying it to trust it.You know what’s right,...
View ArticleHow about we let Berta Cáceres and her sisters speak for themselves?
There has been a warranted and needed recent deluge of impassioned diaries condemning the condescending and demeaning behavior of people questioning the voting behavior of one bloc or another in this...
View ArticleWhy (and how) to effectively continue the Primary Fight: Joyful and...
Lots of moaning and groaning and gnashing of teeth on all sides of the Primary… and an awful lot of sneering triumphalism juxtaposed with angry snarling.All bad juju. All undisciplined. All immature....
View ArticleHillary Clinton and the "Authorization for the Use of Monetary Force"
Disclaimer: If Clinton is the nominee she gets my vote, and happily so. If this campaign pivots toward “let’s keep this going and focus fire on the GOP and the downticket races,” I’m all in. Until...
View ArticleMaybe tone deaf, but at least singing the right song...
I suspect this might get a bit contentious, but it’s a contentious issue.I also suspect that there will be a bunch of Candidate vs. Candidate sniping — not welcome or interesting.I frankly don’t care...
View ArticleShortsighted, ahistorical, puerile and stupid: The Minuteman smear is pure...
Mainstream Liberal Political Discourse has become embarrassingly dumb and shallow, and this “Minutemen” nonsense is the most immediate and egregious example I have seen in a long, long time.I will not...
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Military Times poll of the troops: They favor Trump and Sanders by a lot ......
Not a scientific survey, but a large population… and the results are crazy.Overall, There are variations between branches that mirror almost exactly what you’d expect: Navy and Air Force favor Trump...
View ArticleWhy We Fight On: A primer for Sanders supporters and foes, Chapter 1.
Approximately 40% of Democratic Party is quite happily and vocally “down” with leftwing progressive populism ...That 40% has an interesting demographic makeup, comprising a large number ofcollege...
View Article126,000 democrats removed from voters rolls in Brooklyn, WNYC reports, De...
This is bizarre.WNYC report on voters removed from Democratic RollsThis is not conspiracy theory nonsense, and is not from one of the many partisan hackjob websites… it’s WNYC.De Blasio sounds a bit...
View ArticleLet's not forget who we are, and why
Just a quick reminder from the universe today: we’re human, we’re mortal, we love, we fear, we suffer, and we’re fighting with each other right now because we care so damn much.xYouTube Video
View ArticleThose talking about Putin-Trump-Russia nexus of election hackin need to put...
And they need to do so in a very unequivocal and public fashion.If the information being bandied about right now is accurate, then Trump and his close circle of strategists and advisors is literally...
View ArticleWalking and Chewing Gum
There are a host of issues that confront us, all of which tie together and reinforce each other, and all of which hold important influence on the success of our political agendas, our political party...
View ArticleWar is very likely...
One of our closest NATO allies, with whom we share numerous military treaty obligations has just been subject to a chemical weapons attack authorized by and carried out with the approval of a recent...
View ArticleStop the hand-wringing about Florida.
A bunch of stories crying doom and gloom about Florida voting have been published today, and I must say I am a bit skeptical of their intent, and quite skeptical of their grounding in actual...
View ArticleWe aimed for the stars, we got to the moon
We came into this election season with very, very high hopes.We thought we had a serious shot at running the table on any number of levels.There were polls that gave us a lot of enthusiasm.We thought...
View ArticleEmergency?
Just a quick thought here, and of course partially tongue in cheek…But if the southern border is truly an emergency, requiring executive usurpation of the powers of congress… then why not send in the...
View ArticleAllegations that tRump suborned perjury give the GOP an out...
Just a quick thought:1) Trump is alleged to have suborned perjury by Cohen, and Cohen is alleged to have lied under instruction while under oath in front of congress.2) This gives the GOP an exit...
View ArticleEXCUSE ME!! ALL CAPS SHOUTY POST!!!
Why did the aid to Ukraine only get released after the Whistleblower complaint was forwarded to Congress?Ahem… if there is anyone listening that has the ability to ask this question on the national...
View ArticleAHEM. SHORT SHOUTY DIARY ALERT!
Preface to Shouty Bits: Timeline is everything when it comes to these kinds of investigations. When did “No Quid Pro Quo” get stated by the president? 1) After texts between Sondland and Taylor wherein...
View ArticleI am declaring myself an offshore tax haven.
Pursuant to recent changes in my status as a US Citizen, and given my new status as a Citizen of International Jewry, I have decided to take the following actions:1) I will be staying in my bathtub for...
View ArticleUnderstanding where the bile is generated...
I think one article kinda lays it all out:projects.fivethirtyeight.com/…FiveThirtyEight did a pre- and post-debate opinion survey in conjunction with Ipsos.They polled a panel of voters/viewers with...
View ArticleQuick Hit, North Carolina Poll is ... interesting...
So High Point University has polled in North Carolina...Topline results for the Presidential Primary: Likely voters Registered VotersBernie Sanders 20...
View ArticleRip Off the Band-Aid
Apropos of a spate of recent diaries, editorials, news stories, and “buzz” surrounding the current rise in Bernie Sanders’ polling numbers, both national and state-by-state, showing that Sanders is at...
View ArticleButtigieg, Steyer, Klobuchar exit reveals need for ranked choice primary voting
I hope that this diary remains clear of political preference wrangling and name-calling. I am torn between Warren and Sanders and quite sanguine about Voting Blue No Matter Who. Enough with the...
View Article2700 people in self-isolation or quarantine in NYC, per NYTimes.
www.nytimes.com/…22 confirmed cases in all of New York State… 2700 in some form of quarantine.I suspect the reason why the number of confirmed cases is only 22 is because there have been very few tests...
View ArticleMy personal history, and why I am sad/angry/bitter right now.
Prologue: Several of my comments in diaries and stories over the last couple of days have been jagged, jangling, barbed, and nasty. I’m angry. I’m sorry.My History, My Family, My PeopleMy direct and...
View ArticlePlease observe "operational security" no matter who you support.
www.nytimes.com/…This is a quick hit diary, and I am out for most of the rest of the day.The NYTimes has an in-depth article about Erik Prince, Project Veritas, and a number of other groups and people...
View ArticleThese people are murderously insane, and violently stupid
Trump Admin orders immigration courts to immediately remove coronavirus posters.Read that headline again. I’ll even bold and center it for you...Trump administration orders immigration courts to...
View ArticleChina may emerge from this as the global leader in ... everything.
China has controlled Coronavirus and is now ramping up production of needed medicines and supplies...And sending those supplies, and medical teams, and construction teams to countries around the...
View ArticleDoing the most possible good...
Sanders turns his campaign to coronavirus reliefFrom each according to ability, to each according to needis not just a slogan.This will be a very short diary, and I will be around to interact in...
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Using HEPA filter material for home-made mask inserts
Recently, a diary was posted in which a call for people who sew was put out.Do you have a sewing machine?Sew some face masks!More sewing!In the original diary, I put out the idea of “pocket masks” and...
View ArticleUSNS Comfort has 20 patients. Hospitals running out of respiratory and...
USNS Comfort has 20 patientsNo COVID patients allowed. All patients must be first sent to a hospital, tested negative for COVID, and then sent to the hospital ship. The ship is not set up for COVID...
View ArticleForecast: Trump and the GOP will try to start a war by October.
Several storylines are developing in parallel that indicate to me that the Right in this country, and its leadership in DC and at state levels, is going to attempt to start a war by fall.1) China…...
View ArticleDeeply ignorant, selfish, destructive, and stupid.... or deliberate?
I do not know the backstory of who these people are, I do not know whether they traveled 130 miles to Brooklyn from Catskill or if they now live in NY… But what I do know is that...
View ArticleDon't Be a D*ck. Rural Mainers Stand Up.
I am going to post a video sent to me by a friend from Maine.I was born and grew up in Maine… and it’s White. It’s isolated. It has a long and complicated, weird, mixed up history when it comes to...
View ArticleControlled experiment on children conducted in Georgia, results not pleasant...
In June of this year, following guidance from Governor Kemp and the Georgia Dept. of Public Health, and using guidelines put forward by the CDC and HHS, two overnight sleep-over camps run by the YMCA...
View ArticleFor I am afraid that a grim and dark time is upon us
This will be very short.Folks, while the election drama plays out (and drama it surely is; never since the Civil War has this degree of deliberate sabotage of basic governance been so public, and so...
View ArticleTrump, Mar-a-lago, Secret Documents, and a logical query...
Hey folks. It’s been a while since I’ve written a diary, mostly been lurking, reading, and standing back in consternation, watching all the crazy crap rain down. So… hello! Today’s update to the...
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