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BREAKING: Curtis Yarvin Concedes That “The NPR Class Are Not Evil People; They’re Human Beings”
The Real Mr. Anti-Woke Would you feel uncomfortable if someone were too tell you they are part of the neo-reactionary movement and “the...
Howie Klein
Jan 2514 min read
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Moan About It All You Like But Electoral Politics Really Requires Villains As Much As Heroes
This Is Why I Respect And Admire AOC And Rashida Somewhere along the way (let’s say around 1993), the Democratic Party careerists— those...
Howie Klein
Dec 3, 20248 min read
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I Quit As President Of My School's Young Democrats— I'd Rejoin The Party If It Had Leaders Like FDR
What Will The Dems Do When The Post-MAGA GOP Doesn't Run A Sociopath? Three days before the 1936 election. FDR addressed a rally at...
Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20243 min read
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Mankind's Greatest Thinkers Have Always Inveighed Against Our Tendency To Slide Into Plutocracy
Let's Take A Look— From Plato To Tolstoy To Chomsky Let’s go back to high school for a minute. When we read War and Peace — in my case—...
Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20249 min read
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Elon Musk Has Unlimited Resources And He's Putting Millions Of Dollars Behind Republican Candidates
And Not Just Trump Aside from relying to get Trump elected, the world’s richest person, fascist and heinous criminal Elon Musk, is also...
Howie Klein
Sep 19, 20246 min read
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How Badly Will Anti-Union Fanatic Elon Musk's Endorsement Of Trump Hurt The Republicans?
Who Remembers Hearst's Jihad Against FDR In 1936? Born into great wealth, William Randolph Heart dropped out of college— actually he was...
Howie Klein
Sep 2, 20245 min read
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Will The Party Of Joe McCarthy Be Able To Re-Ignite The Red Scare By Calling Kamala A "Communist?"
To Republican strategists and their politician clients, every Democrat, no matter how moderate or conservative, has been labeled and...
Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20244 min read
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Do You Ever Wish That Democrats Still Welcomed Their Hatred?
Democrats— and normal people who don’t want to see Trump get anywhere near the White House ever again— are getting increasingly all...
Howie Klein
Aug 1, 20245 min read
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Should Societal-Destroying Greed Be Outlawed? Sure, But Our Political Class Will Never Go For That
We Need To Change Them First— The Way The Dems Did In The '30s During his interview with Chris Hayes on Friday, Bernie called out...
Howie Klein
Jun 24, 20247 min read
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FDR's Second Bill Of Rights Is What Electoral Politics Should Be About, Not Who The Greater Evil Is
Yesterday I mentioned I had had dinner with Stephanie Kelton the evening before. I forgot to mention a couple of things we talked about....
Howie Klein
May 18, 20249 min read
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FDR Was Fearless— Do You Ever Wonder What He Would Have Had To Say About Elon Musk?
Polls of historians show that only one relatively contemporary president gives George Washington and Abraham Lincoln a run for their...
Howie Klein
May 1, 20245 min read
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The Culture of the CIA
How did the CIA become what it is?
Thomas Neuburger
Apr 30, 20247 min read
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Think Of What You Dislike Most About The Democratic Party— You Can Put Gavin Newsom's Face On That
Yesterday we started the day off with a long, winding look at how the Democratic Party has tried to play both sides of the street— Wall...
Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20234 min read
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Trump Is A Weak General Election Candidate; Picking Marjorie Traitor Greene For VP Slot-- Palin II
If Trump Runs On Medicare-For-All, He Could Win Yesterday, historian Harvey J Kaye tweeted a couple of paragraphs about America’s last...
Howie Klein
Nov 28, 20237 min read
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Do You Use ChatGPT Enough To Realize That Glaring Errors Are Part Of The Program?
Yesterday, tangential to writing a post about a blue wave, I noticed that Warren County, Iowa had never voted for FDR, not once in the 4...
Howie Klein
Sep 2, 20235 min read
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The Minimum Wage Is 85 Years Old This Week-- Our Corporate Masters & Their GOP Servants Want It Dead
When the 1930 elections came around, the Republicans were still in control of both chambers. The effects of the Great Depression that...
Howie Klein
Jul 27, 20238 min read
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Roosevelt Had A Great Idea Whose Time Has Come: An Economic Bill Of Rights
During his last State of the Union address (1944), FDR proposed an Economic Bill of Rights or Second Bill of Rights. His point was that...
Howie Klein
May 13, 20234 min read
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Has The Republican Party Reverted To Isolationism & Xenophobia As The Basis For Its Foreign Policy?
I don’t think most Americans under the retirement age knew anything about Charles Lindbergh before Phil Roth’s alternative history novel,...
Howie Klein
Mar 29, 202310 min read
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Is The DNC Worthless? Or Much Worse Than Worthless? And Is It Salvageable?
A corrupt and less than useless DNC leadership is all in on nominating Biden again— and hostile to the idea of anyone challenging him....
Howie Klein
Feb 7, 20236 min read
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This Is A Pretty Shitty Political Ad-- And In More Ways Than One
Some overpaid consultant came up with this ad idea (above), probably a team of consultants: Trump endorsed Dr. Oz and now "Dr. Oz is...
Howie Klein
Jun 18, 20225 min read
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