.HEIC){kind=small}
puakev's Profile
I'm a liberal and a Democrat. That is all.
Groups: DK Fans of 90 for 90, The Political Revolution, Red State Resistance
Twitter: @puakev
Diaries published: 159 (281 days since last diary on Wed Aug 12, 2020 at 06:07 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 8106 (20 days since last comment on Fri Apr 30, 2021 at 05:11 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 7936
Total Comment Ratings: 4773
Most Recommended Diary: UPDATED: Liberal Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt and The New Deal, 1216 comments, 707 recommends
People Following puakev: 65
puakev's Most Frequent Tags:
puakev's Most Recent Diaries:
|
If President Trump’s recent messaging about Biden and Democrats wanting to destroy the suburbs wasn’t already so obvious enough an appeal to Whites’ fears of Brown and Black hordes invading their neighborhoods, today he removed all doubt. Via...
by puakev
 16 comments
on Wed Aug 12, 2020 at 06:07 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
|
|
What we are seeing now finally is the reckoning for America’s self-delusion, and more specifically conservative America’s self-delusion. Yes, I’m singling out conservative America because if you look at all the acts of self-delusion that have led us to...
by puakev
24 comments
on Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 08:50 AM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
|
Over the past week, Democrats have lost the narrative a bit with regard to economic stimulus in response to the coronavirus outbreak and its resultant economic fallout. Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly rejected a proposal by former Obama economic...
by puakev
45 comments
on Thu Mar 19, 2020 at 09:12 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
|
While scientists, doctors, public health officials, and all other intelligent people in the known universe refer to it as coronavirus or Covid-19, there has been a concerted effort on the part of conservatives (surprise surprise) to rename the disease...
by puakev
36 comments
on Wed Mar 18, 2020 at 05:18 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
A little over a week ago, front pager Kerry Eleveld wrote a wonderful diary titled “Elizabeth Warren predicted impending economic crash last year. Her warnings weren't heeded” that was based on a Medium post Warren wrote in July 2019, and Eleveld’s...
by puakev
13 comments
on Wed Mar 18, 2020 at 09:50 AM PDT
with 19 Recommends
|
|
If you look at your history, you’ll see that when a disease hits, one of the first impulses by irresponsible and bigoted leaders and people is to scapegoat a certain race or religion for it. Everyone — newspapers, scientists, public health officials —...
by puakev
49 comments
on Mon Mar 16, 2020 at 05:23 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
|
Recommended by puakev
- If there is any doubt that police will go out of the way not to shoot a violent white man yet is trigger happy with POCs, this is. Violent anti-masker white man not shot by a cop? See full episodes here. I hear about this story from Shaun King’s...130 comments 312 Recs
- As many here know I am a Democratic Socialist and a long time Bernie supporter. I listened to Biden today and was impressed as he sounded like a democrat of old, i.e. what present day republicans would term as a screaming raving socialist. I was happy...165 comments 192 Recs
- The first year of President Barack Obama’s presidency, however well-intentioned, was a disaster. What should’ve been a quick move to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became a painfully drawn out 14-month ordeal, with Republicans pretending to...320 comments 545 Recs
- “When we took office ... I promised the American people that help was on the way,” President Joe Biden says in a new Democratic National Committee ad promoting the COVID-19 relief package that he signed into law on Thursday. “Today, I can say...57 comments 139 Recs
- In prior posts, I talked about how Joe Biden’s presidential campaign resembled George Pataki’s successful challenge to Mario Cuomo in 1994 when Cuomo was seeking his fourth term of governor. Like his son today, Cuomo had become stale and burned more...5 comments 11 Recs
- The American Rescue Plan, the bill providing $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus, is through the House and on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk, reportedly to be signed Friday afternoon. The House passed the version of...195 comments 159 Recs
- Since the start of the pandemic in the U.S., COVID-19 cases and deaths have been severely underreported nationwide. State officials have repeatedly been found to underreport cases in attempts to downplay the severity of the virus’s condition in their...117 comments 55 Recs
- Sen. Tina Smith, the first-term Democrat from Minnesota, became the most recent Senate convert to ending the filibuster. "I believe that the filibuster should be abolished in all cases, not just for any particular piece of legislation," Smith told...284 comments 298 Recs
- If this were a perfect country, the rejection of Donald Trump by a substantial majority of the American electorate would have resulted in a fundamental, across-the-board rebuke, where everything Trump ever said or stood for would stand repudiated,...221 comments 198 Recs
- As many here know, two years ago the city of Sockton, Cal. launched the first comprehensive experiment in the use of universal basic income (UBI). For 125 individuals in lower-income parts of the City, using contributed funds, the city provided...149 comments 259 Recs
puakev's Tags
- No current results.
