It’s a common trope among Centrist (Right Wing Faux) Democrats to say that Donald Trump is a fascist on a par with Hitler (the more sophisticated and historically accurate will say Mussolini). If true, who exactly is responsible for creating the conditions of post-Great War (WWI, they didn’t know there would be a second) Europe …
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Mar 10 2016
Republican Debate #12: More 4
Tonight it’s the Republicans in Miami FL co-sponsored by by CNN, Salem Media Group (talk radio), The Washington Times, and the Republican National Committee. It is available only in English on CNN starting at 8:30 pm ET. For some candidates this is a pretty important debate. It’s pretty clear that Tuesday’s Primaries could mark the …
Mar 09 2016
Democratic Debate #8 Open Thread
The debate is in Miami Fl. and co-sponsored by the Washington Post and Univision. It is available in English on CNN. It will start at 9 pm ET with hype at 8:45. Because Florida will suffer more than most from rising sea levels there’s expected to be a fair number of questions about Climate Change …
Mar 09 2016
dday beats poblano
Nate Silver (aka poblano) had a very bad day yesterday, predicting there was a 99% chance Hillary would win Michigan. He might have done better if he had read this piece by dday. The Democratic Party’s working-class calamity: How a generation of workers were abandoned to corporate interests by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, Mar 8, …
Mar 09 2016
Trump Steaks Are A Real Thing
And those were probably the genuine article on the table last night. Now a lot of people have been treating this as bizarre and inexplicable but it’s not at all really. The Trump name is a brand like Louis Vuitton or Tiffany and for years and years The Donald has been entering into lucrative licensing …
Mar 08 2016
Thumb on the Scale
Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours by Adam Johnson, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Tuesday, March 08, 2016 In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, …
Mar 07 2016
Our First ‘Black’ President
Clinton-era welfare reforms haunt America’s poorest families, critics say by Chris McGreal, The Guardian Monday 7 March 2016 11.28 EST In 1996, when welfare reforms were introduced in a coalition between President Bill Clinton and Republicans, 68% of families in the US living below the poverty line received cash assistance. That has since fallen to …
Mar 07 2016
Leverage
Since it is Monday and not Friday as Atrios constantly insists I occasionally like to draw your attention to things economic. This piece appeared over at New Economic Perspectives and while it’s slightly wonky at the beginning it gets more lucid toward the end and is overall a good explanation of the basics by a …
Mar 04 2016
The Reality Of ‘Public Assistance’
From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and …
Feb 29 2016
Black Votes Matter
You know, I don’t even pretend to understand what it is to be Black in the United States. People think things are are monochrome in Stars Hollow and they pretty much are, in Stars Hollow (hate this stinking town), but I don’t live more than an hour away from any part of Connecticut and there …
Feb 28 2016
A sense of disappointment.
Oh for a pen of living fire, A tongue of flame, an arm of steel, To rouse the people’s slumbering ire, And teach the tyrant’s heart to feel. You know, I totally understand that a lot of readers would be more comfortable if I limited my commentary to Republicans. It’s not that I don’t think …
Feb 27 2016
On The Margins: South Carolina Democratic Primary Open Thread
Hillary will probably win because for some imaginary reason (Arsenio Hall, Saxophone?) African-Americans think that she has… Well, what exactly? Policies that benefit them? Barack Obama has been the worst President for Black people since Reconstruction. Did you vote for him because of the color of his skin? Well, then you’re a racist. I voted …