The Atlantic reports on how an all-American mom (and Ivy League grad) discovered what Matt Gaetz already knew: race-baiting and conspiracies are a sure route to the top of Today’s Republican Party: The Trumpy Republican… Read More »Today’s Republican Party: Ivy League Neanderthals
In Greenville County, South Carolina, the deep south of the deep south, the MAGA Loonies are reenacting the French Revolution. Among serious experienced conservatives there were no survivors. The following is from the Daily Beast:… Read More »Republicans Begin to Eat Their Own
As readers of American Carnage may recall, I decided some time ago to no longer subsidize the whitewashing of Britain’s colonial atrocities by watching shows like The Crown. Regarding the current batch of “royals”, my… Read More »My New (Only) Favorite Royal
First, because I’m a stickler for “full disclosure”, I confess that I’m writing this post wearing pink sneakers and a tutu. The Republicans have decided that in April 2021, after a year in which a… Read More »The Great Republican Freakout About Transsexuals
Wall Street Seen as Casino for Rich Insiders. The Only Real Solution Is To Breakup the Banks. Enough already! Enough with celebrity SPACs, exploding ETFs, and kamikaze Reddit hordes. Enough of high frequency trading and… Read More »Enough Already! Archegos Shows Wall Street Needs Radical Reform
Since the old white men who run Georgia decided that the Peach State should take a leading role in the establishment of the New Jim Crow South by passing legislation whose objective is to make… Read More »#BoycottGeorgia #BoycottCoke
Today’s Republican Party is a handy new feature on American Carnage which will serve as an educational service for country club Republicans and other conservatives who still believe they are members of a party that… Read More »Today’s Republican Party: Mich GOP Chair Calls Women Witches, Should Burn at Stake
The financial press is twittering (like birds, not social media addicts) about a leaked report prepared by a group of 13 first-year analysts in Goldman Sach’s vaunted training program which showed they worked an “average”… Read More »Pity the Poor Goldman Analyst
I never spent much time dealing with or even thinking about BlackRock. As an endowment CIO, Godzilla-sized index managers are the opposite of the type we would ever consider. Sure, we used some of their… Read More »Larry Fink, World’s Greatest Hypocrite
An angry exchange of words with China was most undiplomatic but entirely necessary. There’s been much hand-wringing by US establishment foreign policy commentators about the unseemly public spat between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken… Read More »China and the US Are Being Undiplomatic. Good!