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Have I mentioned there’s nothing new in the tactics of right-wingers Trump and Vance? Why, yes, yes I have. The ideology that we now call “right wing” has been around for many centuries. What “right wing” means is the idea and desire that power be...
by Douglas Giles
 29 comments
on Mon Sep 16, 2024 at 08:22 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Sep 15, 2024 at 07:02 PM PDT
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I previously wrote about the post-Trump GOP in what turned out to be my most-liked post ever. And – just to mention this as an aside – the fucking day I called him out for his Trump hypocrisy, ...
by Jaxpagan
40 comments
on Mon Sep 16, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 62 Recommends
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Years ago I was being interviewed for a new position, one that came with some serious responsibilities. I thought it was going well, nothing I hadn't expected. Then the district manager asked, "How do you handle stress?" And it dawned on me: this is...
by the one who knows
3 comments
on Sun Sep 15, 2024 at 05:32 AM PDT
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I saw this last month here while the whole Biden → Harris story was in full swing and it immediately made sense of these times. I am 78, one month younger than the old man VP Harris is pushing out of the way and a little over 4 years younger than the...
by JimLieb
9 comments
on Sat Sep 14, 2024 at 04:21 PM PDT
with 54 Recommends
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Rarely do you get such quick confirmation of endemic problems. On September 7th I posted an article, When Cops Condone Crime, addressing how the National Fraternal Oder of Police (FOP) for the first time ever endorsed a convicted criminal for POTUS. In...
by JohnBAlexander
23 comments
on Fri Sep 13, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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This should be a short diary but it's important to me. We ordered a large cabinet that weighed several hundred pounds. It was supposed to be delivered up seven boulevard steps, along a sidewalk and then up three steps and into the house. It was...
by Omne47
10 comments
on Fri Sep 13, 2024 at 11:52 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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Welcome to Opsec. (Operational Security) Normally, I would NOT write about this, all things considered, but the German government has seen fit to tell the public that there are, finally, actual Bundeswehr training operations going on IN TOWN this...
by KLWhite
297 comments
on Fri Sep 13, 2024 at 09:14 AM PDT
with 683 Recommends
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The Liar’s Paradox
In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is � the statement of a liar that they are ...
by vjr7121
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on Sun Sep 15, 2024 at 03:00 AM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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OH. MY. FUCKING... SPIRITS. I’ve been a professional exhibit installer and mount-maker in museums for 18 years. I’ve been on lifts, driven fork lifts, rigged cables, lifted a 500 lb. model of a pterosaur and hung it from the ceiling. I’ve been part of...
by billydoll
24 comments
on Fri Sep 13, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
with 91 Recommends
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Remember the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office? Replacing that unnecessary and racist bureaucratic duplication in 2021 was yet another one of President Joe Biden’s quiet accomplishments. An accomplishment he could not trumpet...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Thu Sep 12, 2024 at 08:24 PM PDT
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Semiotics: the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. As a talking head on PBS’s coverage of the DNC, never Trump Republican David Brooks of the NYT opined that the Democrats were making a big mistake by not focusing more on...
by jhannon
24 comments
on Thu Sep 12, 2024 at 07:51 AM PDT
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I’ve been reading a very absorbing book- Going Back to Bisbee, by Richard Shelton. It is absorbing at least to this desert rat because I know the area of Southeast Arizona in intimate detail. In the last three years I lived in Tucson, I covered much of...
by Desert Scientist
69 comments
on Fri Sep 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM PDT
with 129 Recommends
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There is a reason Maga and the Trump media apologists hate Kamala’s smile. It scares the sh#t out of them. Biden beat Trump with a promise of a return to normality. People were exhausted by the four years of drama and the dysfunctional hate fest. So,...
by Irenaeus
23 comments
on Thu Sep 12, 2024 at 03:17 AM PDT
with 66 Recommends
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Yesterday, Sept 10, PBS did a report on Springield, Ohio. Coincidentally, DJT mentioned the town more than once in the debate last night as an example of immigration disasters. I am not a resident of Springfiled, or even of Ohio, but from the PBS...
by Shagbark1706
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on Wed Sep 11, 2024 at 04:45 AM PDT
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I started this as a comment to an article by Cripple Gal. (Please read that first!) I realized that there was way too much here for a comment. I apologize for the way I expressed this. It was written to a specific person. I don’t have any idea whether...
by jimerthy
7 comments
on Tue Sep 10, 2024 at 11:45 PM PDT
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Yeah, I know, how do I make the connection from restoring some old forest fire lookout building to nature and phenology?� Well, for one thing you can sure see from the title photo how nature and the ...
by funningforrest
69 comments
on Tue Sep 10, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 75 Recommends
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A lot has changed since the start of the year when I conceived of a diary about the state of the race for control of the US Senate and painted the pictures above. At that time, Manchin was a lost cause and West Virginia was going to go over to the...
by Xamtishado
14 comments
on Sat Sep 07, 2024 at 09:28 PM PDT
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I wish Elon would not occupy part of my mind, I’ve kept his nonsense out for years.. yet he’s forced his way into all of our lives, nationally, internationally, interstellar-y, and can even affect the outcome of global wars (see Ukraine). I hate his...
by NateDoggg
49 comments
on Tue Sep 03, 2024 at 10:05 PM PDT
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A circuit judge has just ruled that TikTok is liable for the harm material that its algorithm caused. �Predictably, we are hearing about the End of the Internet As We Know It. �First, don’t make ...
by angryea
9 comments
on Wed Sep 04, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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- I did not want to write this diary. Mostly because I feel stupid for being forced to make the argument. I feel dumber for having to explain something so self-evident. What happened yesterday was NOT an assassination attempt. It was a security breach....206 comments 365 Recs
- Scientific American backs Harris, slams Trump: It’s only the second time SA has endorsed a candidateOn Monday, Scientific American (SA) endorsed Kamala Harris for President. It was only the second time in its 179-year history that America’s venerable general science magazine has endorsed a presidential candidate. The first was Joe Biden in 2020. Why...52 comments 342 Recs
- In Racist FB Rant, Ohio Sheriff Tells Cty Residents to Write Down Address of People with Harris SignIn an amazing display of racism and ignorance, Portage County, Ohio Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski, on his Facebook page, instructed county residents to write down the address of anyone displaying a Harris yard sign so they know who to target if she wins....362 comments 801 Recs
- My dad. He fell down the trump rabbit hole. 😔 When I arrived at my folks’ house early 🥱 one morning a couple of weeks ago to hang out with my mom (who has dementia) so my dad could spend all day at an outdoor event with his...356 comments 803 Recs
- It’s a tale of two offensives. Ukraine continues to advance north toward the Russian town of Glushkovo, while over in Russia’s Kursk offensive their troops headed east from Snagost toward Lyubimovka. Putin has ordered an increase of 180,000 more troops...79 comments 445 Recs
- Many people are scratching their heads about why Donald Trump sent out a social media post on Sunday declaring: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" One thing that post did was to fire up the “Swifties for Kamala” organization. “As soon as we saw the post, we knew...66 comments 377 Recs
- survey.mrxsurveys.com/… projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… The latest national poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump 50.5% to 43.4% among likely voters as surveyed September 11-15 by pollster Big Village. When asked who would win the election,...106 comments 224 Recs
- Earlier today, some deranged individual was caught wandering around the woods outside of Trump's Florida golf course with an AK-47 or AR-15. Sensing a viewership and ratings bonanza, the news media leapt into high gear and started pumping out the...417 comments 836 Recs
- The GOP has told us for a long time that if only everyone had a gun, we’d all be a lot more safe. They told us that everyone needs to exercise their 2nd amendment rights if they feel democracy has failed them. Well, that’s exactly what the alleged...109 comments 341 Recs
- For most of this past summer, we’ve been treated to an almost daily litany of horrors coming from a Texas megachurch whose founding pastor was a top spiritual advisor to Donald Trump. In case you missed it, back in June, Robert Morris, pastor of...125 comments 611 Recs
- Des Moines Register : Trump's Iowa lead shrinks significantly as Kamala Harris replaces Biden, Iowa Poll shows The nationally recognized Iowa Poll's first test of Kamala Harris' strength against ...407 comments 517 Recs
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- So, evidently Rachel Maddow told the country tonight that Donald Trump vomited out his cat eating story during the debate because he cleverly knew it would distract everyone from talking about how he was losing the thing. I’ve never heard a more...10 comments 17 Recs
- The race for the US Senate remains painfully close, largely due to a system that continues to give people living in the least-populous states the most power. The Democratic Caucus has 51 members, with 47 Democrats and four independents caucusing with...4 comments 10 Recs
- Jake Tapper has been one of the Trump enablers, despite his feigned innocence. He still complains about the ‘straw man’ BS about Harris not giving enough interviews and details of her plans. Those are not real, in a campaign you need to ‘keep it...3 comments 6 Recs
- Okay, this week, I will not post any videos from my YouTube channel. But let me post one song:� x ...11 comments 10 Recs
- Rate the Debate: 53 Point difference! Debate Score: Harris +15 Trump -38 I developed the "Rate the Debate" scoring system because last Tuesday’s “Presidential Debate” was not in fact a debate,but was actually a thinly disguised form of political...4 comments 5 Recs
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- THE KAMALA JOY CONTINUES As soon as Kamala became the Democratic Candidate for President, my wise wife of 44 years bought us both Kamala T-shirts. We have been wearing them almost every day. When I walk my pitbull Bentley in the park now, women of all...7 comments 21 Recs
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- WTF is wrong with this country??? In a sane world, what tRump and Vance have been saying and doing would bring nothing but derision, if not horror, from the MSM, but instead, we're hearing about tRump's so-called "policies" vs. Kamala's truly visionary...12 comments 18 Recs
- Spread the news! The Biden-Harris Administration and Democrats are helping seniors (and their families) save BIG on prescription drugs. CMS has released the 2025 Medicare Handbook which details the big news: out-of-pocket drug costs will be capped at...2 comments 11 Recs
- Found this while scrolling through my Threads feed mRNA vaccines have gained widespread attention for their crucial role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, even before the pandemic, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center were...6 comments 31 Recs
- I found this on Crooks and Liars. It’s an interview that the despicable Rich Lowry of the National Review was having with the racist, transphobic thing that crawled off of the Fox propaganda network — Megyn Kelly — about JD Vance’s lies about the...10 comments 19 Recs
- — — Maddow just told the story of this kid who knows he is failing his Exam, in the middle of taking it. Desperate, he manages to pull the school’s Fire Alarm. Granted, he gets caught, and he catches hell for that stunt. But he is no longer “failing...32 comments 71 Recs
- Look at this poll. This is from Fox News. A new poll conducted entirely after last week's debate indicates Vice President Kamala Harris holding a three-point edge over former President Trump in Pennsylvania, which is arguably the most crucial of the...5 comments 40 Recs
- I’ve mentioned before that I am on the e-Board of my local Democratic Committee. Several weeks ago we were given the opportunity via our State Party� to purchase competitively-priced Harris/Walz ...48 comments 46 Recs
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