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Why we shoudn't call Trump supporters "Stupid"

4 days ago | dailykos.com | Frank Vyan Walton

Name calling is disrespectful. That’s not a difficult concept to absorb. Calling someone a name, insulting them is not a way to win them to your side of the argument or even to be able to effectively communicate with them. We are told this constantly. We are constantly berated with the idea that we need to moderate our behavior and seek to appeal nicely to the MAGAs because that’s the only way we’ll be able to bring people over to our side and win electorally.
Cartoon: Heads or tails?

4 days ago | dailykos.com | Clay Bennett

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Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!

1 week ago | dailykos.com | David Waldman

It’d probably feel like Tuesday, but for the fact that Greg Dworkin is on his way in. Greg hasn’t had a crack at the Trump “speeches” yet, but I’m not sure that’s really his thing, anyway. Luckily, there’s no shortage of the outrageous, authoritarian, or just plain stupid to sample from. Today or any other day. Although if it was a Tuesday, it wouldn’t be Greg sampling from it. That’s not news.
Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Bill Harnsberger

[I]n this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak—in America! If our government is, in Lincoln’s phrase, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ then why are we afraid to speak? The Wake Forest class of 1861, they did not choose their time of calling.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: It's not you that's nuts. It's the White House.

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees. We are throwing the most advanced health science research system into the sea and have turned over our public health infrastructure to quacks and crooks. We are destroying our prosperity to sate the president’s desire to play at 19th century political economy.
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!

1 week ago | dailykos.com | David Waldman

Now it’s the Tuesday-that-feels-like-a-Monday that follows!Which is preceded, of course, by the Monday night that feels like a Sunday night. It’s almost comforting to think that at least when you get the Sunday night jitters, you realize you’re already 20% closer to the next weekend. And then, of course, you remember that Trump is president, and weekends aren’t all that great. This one wasn’t! But I appreciated the extra time in the morning.
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Bill Harnsberger

I had an exceptional above-the-fold intro planned for this morning—[crosses fingers] really I did [uncrosses fingers]—but my neighbors said because yesterday was Memorial Day and I was being so helpful to everyone, in that Eagle Scout model-of-selflessness way of mine for which I am famous kinda like Colonel Sanders and his chicken, that an intro would not be necessary and we could just hop down below to the meat of the thing. And now, our feature presentation...
Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Monday, May 26, 2025

1 week ago | dailykos.com | David Waldman

It's Memorial Day, so Greg & I are having a BBQ breakfast, and knocking off for the day. But I thought you might like a little something to play in the background, if you're grilling breakfast, too. How about something from back when That F-ing Guy was The Former Guy, and a criminal defendant, to boot? Here's how things looked last year, at about this time:David Waldman has had enough grilling and hammocking, back to the microphone!Closing arguments have begun in the People of New York vs. Orange J.
Kagro in the Morning is MEMORIALIZING at 9 AM ET!

1 week ago | dailykos.com | David Waldman

Greg & I are gonna kick back and grill some breakfast, while we take the day off today. Believe me, I thought about dragging myself to the microphone to comment on Trump’s act of word torture against the graduating class of West Point. But then I also thought about how nice it would be not to. I mean, that “speech” is a Tuesday roast if I ever saw one. Nobody wants to spend their Monday on that hot garbage!So instead, another “throwback” episode. Back in time a year or so, to May 28, 2024.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When we was fab

1 week ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive. If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the abrupt abrogation of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans legally living and working in the United States seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.