Evangelicals' love affair with Trump will become a long-term poison pill for...
I grew up going to Sunday school and church every week — a Christian denomination that was big on humility and where parishioners didn’t much wear their religion on their sleeves except by quietly...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough tells huge, scare-mongering lie about universal health care...
I caught a snip of a Scarborough rant this morning, and the man was talking sh*t about universal health insurance (you know — the kind everyone in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan etc, etc takes for...
View ArticleAn invitation to ridicule Biblical scholar Donald Trump and his "Two...
Its Friday, it has been a rough week. Dictator Trump is empowered, and this is scary for the whole world… not just Americans.We all need a laugh.The First Family has provided some comic relief...
View ArticleTrump implies 9-yrs jail may be appropriate for "drug addicts" Okay - here's...
“You have murderers and drug addicts – they don’t get nine years,”President Donald Trump, complaining about Justice Department sentencing guidelines February 12, 2020
View ArticleBritish Columbia - population 5 million - has tested more people for...
I don’t have much to add to this stunning statistic (as of Feb 27), other than it’s time to storm the gates with pitchforks and votes… but everybody on KOS already knows that. Here’s the link:...
View ArticlePres "I know Wall Street" misjudges market reaction to rate cut -- smart...
President “Nobody knows Wall Street better than me” today used coronavirus to bludgeon the Fed into doing something he has wanted for weeks. It unexpectedly cut the prime rate by half a point — twice...
View ArticleCan Speaker Pelosi order virus-exposed GOP Rep Gohmert removed from House...
I am no expert on where the legal rights of individual Congress members end and the legal right of the Speaker to maintain order and safety begins.IN case you haven’t heard, Republican Rep Louie...
View ArticleWhat happens if President Handshake ends up in an oxygen tent?
Okay — so we have a 73-year-old American President who recently made an unexplained, sudden trip to hospital, is overweight, never exercises and hides his medical records behind fake reports from his...
View ArticleIs Pence's "Presidential demeanor" at daily pandemic briefings showing up...
Let me make it clear: Mike Pence is an ass-kissing right-wing-evangelical idealogue — a horrible human being with horrible political values.Those deficiencies have not stopped him from stepping up to...
View ArticleCARTOON: The moment Mitch realizes what he's just done
How do Republicans put THAT cat back in the bag?
View ArticleIf Trump Nation attends Easter services en-masse, he'll lose the election
If you listen carefully, Donald Trump is signalling his supporters they are entitled to attend Easter Services in April — and the only thing stopping them are the “so-called experts” with pointy heads...
View ArticleSURVEY: How is your MAGA uncle coping with Trump's COVID flip from "fake...
UPDATES AND SURVEY ADDED… SEE BELOWEven as experts all over the world were warning of a coming virulent pandemic, MAGA nation was digging in its heels in the belief that this whole thing was liberal...
View ArticleJump in - share NEW stories of any Trumpies in YOUR life starting to see the...
A few days ago I wrote a diary asking Kos members to share anecdotes if they had experienced — in their own lives — a Trumpist who was starting to see through the con… where the light was going...
View ArticleHome-schooling the kids this month? Here's today's civics lesson info-graphic.
Guess which photo is “the greatest country ever anywhere any time”
View ArticleBahamas requires proof of negative COVID test for all incoming travellers as...
The Bahamas — an island paradise located just a few miles off Florida — has just announced a new policy that when they re-open their borders in two weeks the price of admission (for tourists and...
View ArticleBiden should tell Trump's stormtroopers they will be personally accountable...
All U.S. military and federal public servants take an oath to support and defend the constitution. When those same public servants follow instructions from their supervisors (or commanders) to...
View ArticleAre the Trumpsters in your family/circle starting to peel away from the...
Every few months I post a diary inviting Kos readers to leave a comment describing how their Trunp-supporting crazy uncle/ageing parent/lunchroom buddy etc. has turned on the Donald — has suddenly (or...
View ArticleDid anyone else catch this?: Nikki Haley denies American racism, then...
Here are a couple of passages from Nikki Haley’s speech on the first night of the RNC:In much of the Democratic Party, it's now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not...
View ArticleIllegal for Non-Citizens to contribute to US campaigns - but ok to send $ to...
You’ve got to be an American citizen to legally contribute to an American political campaign or PAC. That’s a good law, in my view. Casting a vote is a right based on citizenship, and non-citizens...
View ArticleAnti-Trump vandals damage Texas-plated pickup truck in Canada
In Canada!!? Canada???Canada’s land border is closed, closed, closed to Americans — has been for months. It’s not just the high infection rate (although that alone would be justification enough)… it’s...
View ArticleCanada extends closing its border to Americans by 30 more days, and 90% of...
Canadian Broadcasting Corp news tonight is running two stories about the one-way closure of Canada’s border to Americans — one story reports Canada has again extended the closure another 30 days. This...
View ArticleIs it racist to be wary of white Americans (especially white American *males*)?
The question in this headline doesn’t refer to all white-skinned people — just white-skinned Americans. Especially themen.When Donald Trump repeatedly characterizes black crowds as “rioters” and...
View ArticleDoes Trump get even CRAZIER when the steroids stop?
I am writing this short diary to ask any readers with medical knowledge (by training or by experience as a patient) to comment on what might happen when Trump’s short course of “feel-good” steroids...
View ArticleCanadian officials fine "a few" Americans cheating on temporary entry permit...
Although the Canadian border is generally closed to Americans (COVID), Americans who can prove they have a legitimate reason for travelling by car to or from Alaska can get a special...
View ArticleWhy does alleged Michigan kidnap conspirator refer to shooting "vermin" while...
In video of the accused Michigan kidnapping plotters released by prosecutors there is an almost unnoticed reference to the militia plotters somehow being involved in “doing a recount,” and a threat to...
View ArticleLet's stop allowing bands of U.S. terrorist warlords to steal valor by...
American history provides the word “militia” with very positive, patriotic connotations. During the War of Independence against Britain, anti-British militias fought bravely against the redcoats....
View ArticleAfter Biden bus jacked by armed Trump highwaymen - a question for Trumpy...
This weekend a Biden bus was hijacked by armed men who forced it off its planned route. This is how Putin deals with elections, or how Hitler’s Brownshits did during his rise to power. In modern...
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"...a really bad day"??? Well -- now it ALL MAKES SENSE. Thanks for the...
When the police shared the “He was having a really bad day” talking point, what were they trying to do? Were they trying to reassure the community “We don’t have a racist, woman-hating psychopath...
View ArticleCongress hears how Canada is out-competing USA attracting talented,...
Democratic congress members this week warned of a “reverse brain drain” where the U.S. is losing the race to attract smart, skilled, well-educated immigrants. The warnings were voiced at a hearing...
View ArticleLet's call this anti-vax selfishness what it really is: the "Typhoid Mary...
Typhoid Mary was a real person.Her name was Mary Mallon, and she worked as a domestic cook for a series of wealthy NYC families just over a century ago. She was an asymptomatic carrier for typhoid...
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A cat-5 COVID hurricane is heading our way - world is almost oblivious to...
I’m not sure whether people who don’t normally work with numbers on a daily basis truly appreciate the difference between a virus where each carrier infects on average2 other people compared to a virus...
View ArticleTucker's love affair with Hungary: not a word about its government-run...
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH THE TUCKER CARLSON HYPOCRACY.Carlson is spending a week in Hungary slavishly praising fascist leader Orban and Hungarian government policies that allegedly protect the...
View ArticleLaw in British Columbia, Canada now banishes the unvaccinated from a wide...
Government in the Canadian province of British Columbia is done f*cking around with pro-COVID anti-vaxxers. On Monday the provincial Premier (counterpart to and American state governor) announced new...
View ArticleCanadians fired for refusing employer vaccination mandate ineligible for gov...
In Canada unemployment insurance is run strictly by the federal government, and the provinces have nothing to do with it. Employees pay into the insurance fund as a compulsory payroll deduction. If...
View ArticleWanna send Putin a scary message? Make Dick Cheney America's new Ambassador...
This is not The Onion and it’s not snark. It’s a serious proposal.People on the left hate Dick Cheney because he is an amoral asshole war-monger. He pretty well single-handedly dragged America into a...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism: The exceptionally deadly price of American "freedom"
What more can I add… the picture says just about everything.This ^^^ is what the splinter group of Canadian truckers want. (90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated — about double the rate in...
View ArticleWill the obscene brutality of the Ukraine invasion end Putin-loving Trump's...
I have nothing more to add — the photo comment says it all.
View ArticleRussian family flees country after cops come to door "collecting evidence" on...
The New York Times Monday published an article describing how thousands of middle-class Russians have fled the country for neighbouring Armenia and (Republic of) Georgia since the Russian invasion of...
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Update on anti-war Russian family who fled west after threats of arrest by...
A few weeks back I wrote a Kos diary about a Russian family who suddenly fled the country (leaving behind a prosperous small business) after police arrived at their door threatening arrest for treason...
View ArticleJustice Thomas shows critics that right wing idealogues can be every bit as...
... they can even be ironic!
View ArticleIf you've forgotten what majority-rule democracy looks like, just look north...
Canadian Majority Public Opinion: Abortion should be legal and should be covered as a medical procedure under Canada’s government-run universal health insurance program.Canadian Law: Abortion is legal...
View ArticleMaybe the 19 cops who stood in the hall for 47 mins without saving the kids...
By now everyone knows about the 19 police officers who stood motionless outside the classroom where a slow-motion mass murder was taking place, and by now everyone has a theory or two or three...
View ArticleCanada announces new ban on buying, sale, import, transfer of handguns &...
Canada’s Prime minister today announced sweeping new legislation designed to freeze the number of privately-owned handguns in Canada and reduce the number of assault weapons currently in circulation....
View ArticleLet's start assigning blame for mass shootings where it really belongs: "A...
Today’s mass shooters are the bastard grandchildren of the“well regulated Militia” amendment How is it that all these mostly-young American mass shooters are able to get their hands on a weapon of war...
View ArticleHow about THIS as a "framing statement" -- and as a bumpersticker
I mean — when you can’t go to the grocery store, the doctor’s office or a nightclub without wondering if you are safe, are you really living the American dream?If you cannot send your kids to school...
View ArticleFinally the right time for White House to revoke FOX' credentials in the...
Initial reaction to release of Dominion Voting Systems’ discovery evidence in defamation suit vs FOX News.Not Surprising: The FOX News details of the eyes-wide-open full awareness that “the big lie”...
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#MomsForLechery
C’mon Kossacks — let’s make this #hashtag and meme trend on social media.Ridicule is a much more potent weapon against pious, sanctimonious right-wing hypocrisy than shouting at them or arguing with...
View ArticleCanada expanding universal medicare coverage for specific prescriptions
Most of Canada’s universal health care is available on a “universal” basis — everyone has the same access, regardless of income. Prescription coverage is NOT universal: most provinces cover...
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