Warren had a great night, could hardly been better if you scripted it and by “luck of the draw” (if you believe in such things and not my Completely True QAnon Conspiracy Theories) got a chance to be all Presidential and Front-Runnerish which can only help. She’s got MoMo (as in Momentum Movement) working and …
Tag: ek Politics
Jun 26 2019
Mike Gravel For President!
Wait Wha??? DocuDharma and The Stars Hollow Gazette rarely make an endorsement of an individual candidate as our orientation is primarily policy and not personality. Hey, if you’re in favor of confiscatory wealth taxes (not as way out a Lefty idea as when I started talking about it) I’ll praise you for that and ignore …
Jun 25 2019
The ‘Right’ Side of History
Ben Shapiro- too much hate? I’m sure this would be much more impactful if I had any impression at all of Ben Shapiro other than random Republican asshole.
Jun 24 2019
Outrageous Scandals We Will Ignore
Somewhere swimming out there is a quote from a D.C. Insider that goes something like “I wish the whole Russia thing never happened. We’d be impeaching him today.” Probably apocryphal and I mostly disagree. I do think there are plenty of buckets full of Impeachable Behavior that don’t necessarily intersect except in the Criminal Activity …
Jun 23 2019
When Democrats Were Racists
Writing Clio always has the same problem, where do you start? Asking for a date Democrats started supporting Race Slavery is useless because they always supported Race Slavery, from their inception. Indeed the prospective loss of Slave Property was one of the precipitating causes of the Revolution we elide by talking about Yankee Smugglers who …
Jun 22 2019
Cervical Injuries
Feeling a little Whiplash? In the last week Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio has brought us within minutes of War with Iran (if you believe his story which is squirrely as hell) and also a Pogrom against Brown People which is now umm…, postponed. Trump says he will hold off on planned ICE raids for now …
Jun 21 2019
Pathos
Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (in which it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos), as well as in literature, film, and other narrative art. Emotional appeal can be accomplished in many ways, such as the following: by a metaphor or storytelling, commonly known …
Jun 20 2019
Reparations
Look, it didn’t just stop with Slavery, or the Civil Rights Movement. Economically disadvantaged populations are that way in part due to decades and centuries of exploitation and discrimination. Jews are routinely stereotyped for their prevalence in certain professions, this is usually a response to the fact they were barred from pursuing other, “nobler” occupations. …
Jun 20 2019
Pre-Debate Froth
I don’t know if Sam has anything special happening next week, or indeed that she will have new material at all, Stephen is running live special episodes and Seth will probably be new on tape meaning his jokes are going to be about a day behind. I’m also not sure how we’re going to cover …
Jun 19 2019
Feel the BuhBye’den-Mentum
Biden epitomizes everything bad about Hillary Clinton without the charisma or brain. His nomination as the Candidate of the Democratic Party is about the only scenario where I can see Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio eeking out a victory of sorts. Biden represents nothing except the failure of Neo Liberalism and the smug self righteous satisfaction …
Jun 18 2019
Social Sciences
A big problem with Social Sciences is that the phenomena they want to describe are in many ways unique and unduplicateable. This is less true in History which purports to be the story of what is and one can, with a reasonable degree of confidence pick up an incised lump of dirt off the desert …