James Carville, 80, Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager, and now an aging political pundit on the Democratic side of things, has been predicting Kamala Harris will win the 2024 election. Nobody knows; polls suggest it could go either way, and Carville admits he “could be wrong.”[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dictatorship’
Who is Curtis Yarvin and why does he matter?
Curtis Yarvin (photo, left; profile here), 51, grew up as a prodigy and became a software developer, which doesn’t make him important. Yarvin’s influence derives from his blogging and radical political views. He’s worth posting about because J.D. Vance, the 2024 GOP vice presidenti[...]
May 22nd, 2024 - 9:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans
DeSantis escalates war on rainbows
Gov. Ron DeSantis is escalating his war on Pride by imposing more political color correctness on Florida. As part of his relentless campaign to turn gay people into non-persons, he banned rainbows from schools (see my posting here). Now they’re banned from bridges, too. NBC News reports (her[...]
It sucks to be a Russian soldier
“Advance at any cost.” Those are the marching orders being given to Russian soldiers fighting in eastern Ukraine; and by some accounts, the cost is very high. Ukraine claims it’s killing over a thousand Russians a day. While that can’t be verified, outside expert observers sa[...]
4 things Putin got wrong
Kirill Rogov, a Russian political analyst (C.V. here), says Putin’s Ukraine war is “lost” and an “epic failure,” and propounds 4 major mistakes: “The mistake was the notion that the West was unwilling to resist aggression, that it was lethargic, greedy and divided.” “[...]
January 21st, 2022 - 2:44 am § in Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts
“Does this mean we can’t come to America?”
Of course they can. They’ll even be invited to stay for a while, although trips to Disney World won’t be on their itinerary. “The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a passenger plane to Minsk last May,” BBC reported on Friday, [...]
November 6th, 2019 - 12:34 pm § in Politics
Kentucky GOP legislators threaten to overturn election!
ILLEGITIMATE. That’s a word you may hear describing Kentucky’s Republican governor, Matt Bevin, if the state’s GOP-controlled legislature follows through on a threat by Republican Senate President Robert Stivers to keep him in office by invoking a state constitutional provision [...]