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I am riffing here on a Sunday night, but bear with me. Does anyone else in the DKos community see the same value I see — value writ large — in the Biden camp corralling Big Dog Bill, Bush 2, and Obama to deliver a joint 4 President statement on...
by Americans for a Republican Irrelevancy
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 07:29 PM PDT
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Hi all, Some of you may have read my posts and such. I'm a Rural Progressive in Central Pennsylvania, (Centre County). I'm in the county of Pennsylvania that shows up as a blue dot on the map when they show elections in the state. The county itself is...
by RobertZeigler
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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President Clinton’s official archives and repository.� Some photos from a visit. For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 12:50 PM PDT
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First of all, by way of disclosure, I am not and have never been a teacher. But I’m sure many here at KOS are just that and are/were fine teachers. The above quote by Tyson references children, but I think it also applies to adults and politics....
by psychusa
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 02:09 PM PDT
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There are reasons why, for as long as I can remember, the Republicans have focused on demonizing “big government”. While at the same time they were spending billions on taking over Congress and that same “big government” so that they could hand it over...
by psychusa
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on Mon Apr 03, 2023 at 02:03 PM PDT
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Trump, authoritarian and fascist forces have taken over the Republican Party, which is no secret for anyone with their political eyes open or anyone here at KOS. America’s rather limiting two party system has a gigantic flaw in it that has been driven...
by psychusa
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 07:09 AM PDT
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It's July 4th Weekend. I just finished reading Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward. One of the first things I do is check Politico for any new headlines while thinking about what to write about in my next diary. Then my eye catches this...
by wisliberal
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on Sun Jul 03, 2022 at 03:53 PM PDT
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After decades of decline in overtime pay, the Biden administration is considering action to sharply expand access in a time of high inflation. To do so, he will need to learn from the failures of ...
by Capital and Main
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on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 06:59 AM PDT
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As a politician, Hillary Clinton got middling reviews. As a political analyst, there are few people better. In April 2016, she said, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Dec 01, 2021 at 03:44 PM PST
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The NYT and the Washington Post, what the Right construe to be liberal papers, featured op eds in the past two weeks from the Republicans, notably those involved in the "Project for New American Century" and the lawyers who enabled W's appointment to...
by 888guy
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on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 06:49 AM PDT
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Trump impeachment counsel Ken Starr in a number of reports is revealed as the skeevy operator reminiscent of the salacious Starr Report footnotes that Brett Kavanaugh helped craft. Decent humans don’t say sorry like this: “I’m apologizing to you for...
by annieli
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 01:34 PM PDT
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If you are not subscribing to Press Run media by Eric Boehlert, why not? How else are you going to find out things like: ...the number of unaccompanied children held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "dropped nearly 84% in the span of a month,...
by xaxnar
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on Mon May 03, 2021 at 09:21 AM PDT
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It is no secret that we, in America, are as divided as we have ever been since the civil war. We may already be in another civil war. The next few months will show us whether all the FBI alerts for domestic terrorism are backed by serious...
by 40ford
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on Sat Feb 20, 2021 at 03:33 PM PST
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Hillary Clinton gets brutally honest about what our nation needs to do if we want to heal post-Trump Less than one week after a group of pro-Trump insurgents rioted and stormed the U.S. Capitol, former U.S. secretary of state and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton published a smart, somber analysis in The Washington Post. Surprising few,...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 10:51 AM PST
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No matter how well he plans and manages it, the rollout of the Covid vaccines after Joe Biden takes office will be met with howls of criticism, sparked by the Trumpsters and the mainstream media. As for the latter, think of the New York Times with...
by boorad7
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on Mon Dec 07, 2020 at 07:58 AM PST
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While Fox News attempts to stay in the niche swirling the toilet bowl drain of ultra-right wing nationalism, it is important to remember that Fox News created the fake news space and showed the world how profitable hate and fearmongering could really...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 10:37 AM PST
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New York, November 18, 2020 Biden Won Decisively Biden finally won the White House with a nationwide popular vote of 79.0 million /50.9%, carrying 25 states and DC with 306 electoral votes. Biden’s decisive victory was indeed historic on at least three...
by HistoryStudent
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on Wed Nov 18, 2020 at 01:31 PM PST
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Even though I am thrilled that Trump has lost this election, I had hoped he would do the right thing. My hopes have diminished reading his tweets and listening to his sons and lawyers. He will tear this country apart even further by not conceding. He...
by lfallar
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on Sat Nov 07, 2020 at 01:00 PM PST
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In 2016, Donald Trump became president of the United States by receiving 2,868,691 less votes than Hillary Clinton. At the time, Clinton took 48.5% of the popular vote to Trump’s 46.4%. With rampant Republican voter suppression over the past four years...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 04, 2020 at 11:49 AM PST
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I just checked RCP’s averages. They have Biden up only 1.2 in Pennsylvania! That’s lower than Clintons average. They had him up 2.5 yesterday. What’s going on? Looks like they did it by dropping 2 good Biden polls from their averages...
by jbigss
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on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 06:06 AM PST
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