Month: November 2019

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This is the grave of Allen Dulles. Born in 1893 in Watertown, New York and brother of future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Allen grew up in an elite Republican family. In fact, his sister Eleanor would later be a major diplomat. His grandfather, John Foster, was Benjamin Harrison’s Secretary of State and his […]

Bevin Down!

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On November 5, 2019

How fucking bad do you have to be to lose a statewide race as the GOP candidate in Kentucky? We’re calling it the Bevin Line. Matt Bevin is a genuinely awful human being who managed to alienate

Election Day

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On November 5, 2019

Election day is upon us. Soon, we’ll be treated to extreme over-interpretations of a handful of electoral events in unrepresentative states. Let’s call this an open thread for all election

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Turns out his testimony a couple of weeks ago was seriously incomplete in that regard. But after a bunch of people contradicted him under oath, his memory magically restored itself. I’m morbidly curious about how Trump’s lickspittles in the Senate and elsewhere will continue to play this. Rational strategies would include: (1) OK Trump asked […]
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We Create Nothing. We Own.

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On November 5, 2019
I like Krugman’s theory for why our Wall Street special snowflakes are demanding a safe space from Elizabeth Warren only slightly more insulated than the one they demanded from Barack Obama: In any case, the point is that Wall Street billionaires, even more than billionaires in general, seem to be snowflakes, emotionally unable to handle […]
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