DK4 is dead...long live DK5..!!
Welcome, users new and not so new! Now that DK4 is dead man walking, it makes little sense to further pick apart this carcass. We surely will help with any last requests, but soon will be born a shiny new Daily Kos.
According to Jason Libsch and elfling, they are nearly done with our new home and expect to be moving us all to DK5 before the end of the year. Not only can you take a look, but you can even kick the tires here, most of the features are active, you can post diaries, comments, etcetera. DK5, besides being new and improved, is purported to be more user friendly. In other words, our group may find itself busier than ever.
Ask us anything in the comment section, just be aware, the advice has an expiration date. Also follow me below the soon to be gone, cheese noodle where we’ll highlight some bright new users.
Not often will you find plumbers plying poetry, but new user, Runyonr’s political prose was found to contain just the right amount of snark.
Poetic Invective: Clueless Kevin McCarthy
The majority leader turned gleefully giddy
About his beloved Benghazi committee,
How it had achieved a smashing success
In making Hillary’s poll numbers less.
Though now it is Clinton’s turn to laugh
At this poor idiot’s ludicrous gaffe, […]
Runyonr’s list of diaries.
As a crusty old plumber it’s always nice to see a youthful flame raging.
Squall Winds’s flame is bright…
Trump, the Awakener
[…] So, back to our friend, Donald Trump. He has done something that hardly any other high-profile Presidential candidate has done since the era of the latent racist started--he has come right out, spewing overt racism from the stages and podiums he speaks from. This has fomented an environment where an unprecedented-since-the-'70s amount of latent racists have grown comfortable with rustling up the pre-1970 in them and showing overt racism. Such racists' eyebrow-rubbing relief at Trump's opening that gate is definitely a driving factor behind his popularity.
The bottom line is, Trump didn't "create" "new" racism; he has simply taken a high-powered leaf-blower to the thin layer of metaphorical topsoil that racism covered itself with four decades ago.
"Post-racial society", my narrow black butt.
Working in construction I can empathize with the frustration of
TheElectrician, it’s an industry filled with the very tools that likely inspired this righteous rant.
You're not a patriot, you're a tool
[…]
The irony is, though, the people pulling your strings, the ones driving you to hate whatever it is Fox News or Rush Limbaugh is telling you to be outraged by this week don't really care about all those things you hate so much. No, those people are the extraordinarily rich sociopaths and their highly paid minions whose only real desire in life is to control ever larger shares of the great wealth and power that exists in this country. They stoke all that hatred and anger as a way to get you to vote against the only people who will fight them even a little bit. The ones who try to keep your country and your standard of living from crumbling around you. I bet those string pullers are amused by the spectacle of your abhorrent behavior.
and a Tip of the Hat to Some Recent New Users:
Traci D Ellis writes about a her encounter with police at age 15. h/t peregrine kate
lynnforvirginia, who is running for the House of Delegates in VA!
Isn't that great? Looks like Gordon20024 might have played a role in getting her to the site. h/t peregrine kate
H/t fogcityjohn, who welcomed the new diarist Maracat with this: It's great to see a new diarist digging into the details of a story like this and bringing them to us here. If this is any indication of your abilities, you'll be a great contributor to DK.
melaka came out of lurkdom since joining in 2003 to post about the negative media bias towards Hillary Clinton. h/t smileycreek
I've heard of getting a late start on something, but this first commenter takes it to an extreme. He joined DK today and made his first comment ... at age 87! h/t FogCityJohn
Sarah Bryen's Virginia Wesleyan Batters Rape Victim, Demands Sexual History will make steam come out of your ears. h/t smileycreek
Native American activist Winona LaDuke points out the travesty behind jailing the Ojibwa for harvesting wild rice in Dear Governor Dayton: We would like to eat h/t BeninSC
In the rescued diary You, and Me, and Airbnb davidhazeltine does us the fine service of entertainingly breaking down the San Francisco municipal ballot measures "with a fine-tooth, heavily biased, socialist comb." If only every ballot had this kind or guideline to argue with! h/t smileycreek
What new users have you met or helped in the past month?
Share them with us in the comments!