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News, politics and commentary from Daily Kos Contributing Editor David Waldman
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@KagroX
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English
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Episodes
Kagro in the Morning - February 13, 2025
2/13/2025
Duration:01:56:33
Kagro in the Morning - February 12, 2025
2/12/2025
Duration:01:56:59
Kagro in the Morning - February 11, 2025
2/11/2025
Duration:01:57:04
Kagro in the Morning - February 10, 2025
2/10/2025
Duration:01:56:48
Kagro in the Morning - February 7, 2025
2/7/2025
Duration:01:56:50
Kagro in the Morning - February 6, 2025
2/6/2025
Duration:01:56:19
Kagro in the Morning - February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
Duration:01:57:02
Kagro in the Morning - February 4, 2025
2/4/2025
David Waldman spins the big wheel of awfulness, let’s see if your number comes up!
Our digital Pearl Harbor continues, and we continue to lose. Federal workers are reeling from the ongoing surprise attack. A 25-year-old working for Musk now has a few trillion dollars of his very own. You say it was your money? Try proving that with a deleted Social Security number. You say a federal judge backs you... What federal Judge? You say you have a paper trail… What’s paper? Chuck Schumer has a few zingers that he had hoped to unleash on Gerald Ford but now is as good a time as any.
Gops blame DEI in schools eating the cats and dogs to poop in the litterboxes.
Steven Miller says that you saw the ax in Trump’s hand when you let him in the door. What did you expect would happen? Anyhow, who’s Trump? President Musk has finished measuring the drapes and will be accepting the Oval Office now. Today’s random country is South Africa. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa begs Elon for mercy, not Donald. Donald’s happy to just sign stuff and go golfing.
Heads up to Democrats, today’s target is the Department of Education, so you’ll know to put that on your list to definitely get to, sometime. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just said F’ it and surrendered. The NSA puts burkas on their woman’s photos. Susan Collins is concerned.
Trump is putting together a sovereign wealth fund so that he still gets a chunk when this all goes down.
Duration:01:56:55
Kagro in the Morning - February 3, 2025
2/3/2025
Duration:01:56:38
Kagro in the Morning - January 31, 2025
1/31/2025
Duration:01:44:16
Kagro in the Morning - January 30, 2025
1/30/2025
David Waldman, Greg Dworkin and we are under the cloud of a domestic commercial airline disaster, just a few days after Trump/Elon fixed it. ON BLUE SKY, experts have predicted something like this for a while in the area. President Why Don’t They Just demanded to know why didn’t they just avoid colliding up there, then realized that black and gay people might be involved, then remembered that Obama and Buttigieg actually were involved. Whew! Disaster averted! Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy adroitly asked, “Does this stuff normally happen, or what?” Gop Tim Burchett begs fellow Republicans to just shut up already, Jeez! Dems are deliberating on a sternly worded letter that they hope to release this fiscal year.
Did you ever think that maybe this administration can’t be this stupid? They probably are, though. It is after all what their voters demand over everything.
Using military jets for deportations is an ugly, wasteful, and a super-cool photo op that will be played on a loop in corporate media. If they can find a well-lit faucet in California Trump will send Seal Team 6 and a Fox News crew there. Gitmo is the perfect concentration camp for Trump, even if he never sends anyone there. Mel Gibson is slated to direct. The scene opens with masked strangers in body armor attempting to kidnap children, only to be turned away by newly-armed military-trained elementary school teachers.
David gives his analysis of Kevin Elliott’s analysis of Ezra Klein's analysis of why Republicans just walk over and kick you in the balls. What young impetuous newcomers in DC don’t realize is that those dinosaurs they want out of the way have evolved an extremely tenacious grip that will not be broken unless that meteorite bops them directly on the forehead, and even then…
Meanwhile, Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners after Gaza released theirs. They’re still getting the hang of it.
Duration:01:56:14
Kagro in the Morning - January 29, 2025
1/29/2025
the weekend yesterday…David was just checking to see if you had a calendar! Remember, always ask to see the paperwork!
Because today is not Saturday, Greg Dworkin showed up to review the breathtaking amount of FA occurring, with the inevitable FO upcoming. Just because Trump “can’t” impound doesn’t mean he can’t “impound” … or maybe he can’t! That right wing circle jerk might have got the water hose after all. (Follow Aaron Fritschner on Blue Sky, damn it) Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester pointed to the overstep, withholding her vote on Sean Duffy. (Who made it, anyhow.)
The president is now offering a buyout for federal employees to not come in to work, that is “President Musk”, now tired of impersonating a video gamer and various others is trying the same trick on all federal employees. This might be Elon’s most based troll yet!
Meanwhile the purge continues. The DOJ fires career lawyers. The DOD fires career soldiers. Even 4-star General Mark Miley needs to watch his step around 5th story windows.
Duration:01:57:09
Kagro in the Morning - January 28, 2025
1/28/2025
Two-fisted drinker of breakfast beverages, David Waldman tells it like it is this Tuesday.
WAR! Trumpskrieg is in full force, finding the calvaries of MGs Schumer and Jeffries still tamping down their muskets. Of course, reporters aren’t used to the news being so damn “new” either. MAGA forces have already scored massive, albeit imaginary victories in Colombia, California and assorted elementary schools.
If Canada and Mexico get tired of Trump, they can just hit the BRICS.
The White House paused all federal grants and loan disbursement, which they can’t do, and just did. This has caused immediate chaos and although they promise it will be temporary chaos, it will be long-term chaos which they hope to turn into permanent chaos.
There is also a Gop proposal to make college scholarships taxable income as most of us will be picking tomatoes within a generation anyhow.
Trump hopes to skip out of the World Health Organization without paying the bill.
When Trump pardoned repeat offending wife beating, police assaulting, gun running pedophiles he never could have guessed they would return to a life of crime. One thing’s for certain, Matthew W. Huttle would have been alive today if it wasn’t for Donald Trump.
Duration:01:56:56
Kagro in the Morning - January 27, 2025
1/27/2025
Duration:01:56:49
Kagro in the Morning - January 24, 2025
1/24/2025
David “Golden Voice” Waldman mellifluously orated us through the week and off the ledge. We’re on our own now, but first:
President Why Don’t You Just is out there just getting things done every minute. What things? Why? Don’t ask him, he doesn’t know and doesn’t care. He has staff for that. But Trump, like any boss will tell you, is the only one getting things done around here. That’s why he’s ordering all the lazy good-for-nothing remote workers to get their asses back to office where someone can assistant manage them. There! His boss part is done, the rest is just details.
On to California to find out why don’t they just turn on the big water tap so people can flush their toilets on the fire? They could they just put immigrants on the fire line and… what? Details! What matters is that a lot gets done, whatever that might be.
As long as things just get done, we can always go back and make corrections. Like the two DC cops who chased that kid with their SUV until he was run over. Pardon the cops, and as for the kid… That’ll buff right out.
Must bosses think of everything? It’s up to teachers across the nation to figure out what to tell their children when an automatic weapon toting stranger enters a classroom and schoolmates disappear forever… and when that stranger wasn’t sent by the Feds.
Wielding government to annihilate woke weaponized government is tricky business. Might need to crack a lot of eggs to make that omelet. The Leopards Ate My Face party will sometimes have to accept that a certain number of faces will be eaten by leopards.
Lauren Boebert went to check the genitalia of someone in the restroom and came up empty handed.
Andrew Puzder’s wife beating kept him from being labor secretary in 2017, but now he will be EU ambassador. Now, there’s probably nothing in the way of him beating his wife.
Several congressional Gops were happy to attend Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 testimony and texted her with details on how they would like to show her their happiness. Mike Johnson had to send his son an emergency boner alert.
Duration:01:57:03
Kagro in the Morning - January 23, 2025
1/23/2025
Duration:01:56:27
Kagro in the Morning - January 22, 2025
1/22/2025
Duration:01:56:54
Kagro in the Morning - January 21, 2025
1/21/2025
Progress on David Waldman’s memecoin, $KAGRO, is moving along slow and steady… Kidding! 15 years and we don’t even have a t-shirt! In the meantime, you can show your solidarity and enthusiasm right here.
Welcome to 2025... Project 2025 has commenced with President Why Don’t Cha farting out whatever EOs and affixing his skid mark to most of them… maybe somebody will check. Or not. It is only a matter of time before SCOTUS decides that whatever the (this) president thinks to himself will be law until someone says differently… and who is left to say differently?
People believe that Trump made $50 billion from his memecoin. He didn’t, but as always it is more important to him that people believe that he did, and that he alone can.
Keeping the mythos going is reason enough to let 1,500 J6 insurrectionists loose to rearm. When your lord is all-powerful, there’s no limit to what you can do. Instead of a wall, Trump’s declaring martial law, and Mexico will pay for it this time! (Not just any President can declare martial law, you know.)
Leonard Peltier had to wait until he was 80 for freedom and it probably doesn’t include a discount at the local gun shop.
It is the dawn of the golden age of the broligarchy, yet some bros are sad… perhaps a cyber-Galt Gulch will finally dry their tears.
Duration:01:56:58
Kagro in the Morning - January 20, 2025
1/20/2025
RIP, Charles “Big Chuck” Schodowski. Man, that’s the end of an era that no one will ever recapture. You won’t see times like that again, guaranteed. David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are here to interrupt each other and some of our doomthinking for a couple of hours.
The thumb-in-the-eye president is back to stick his thumb in more eyes. Voters with problems know someone else is to blame and have reelected history’s greatest blame-shifter to blame those who aren’t them. Sure, he’ll be Lovecraftianly horrific otherwise, but on that one skill he is a virtuoso. All the rest are lies of course but lies that feel so good people will pay billions to hear them.
Your goldbug friends who wanted a return to the gold standard are now going crypto which is stable somewhere between zero and infinity. A one-world coinage sounds just fine to them.
Welcome to today’s new gilded age, with sadly no Titanic yet spotted on the horizon. A couple of bros wanted to buy Greenland for incels and stock it with females. Donald wants a piece of that too. Rudy Giuliani doesn’t have that pay to play anymore.
Trump’s DC hotel might reopen as the world’s premiere graft speakeasy, but this time Elon’s opening his international whorehouse of payola right up the street. The inaugural ass kiss lip balm concession sold out today around one o’clock.
Israel trusted Bibi Netanyahu to lie to them, but some are concerned that he might have begun telling the truth lately.
And, it is still Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this year.
Duration:01:56:58
Kagro in the Morning - January 17, 2025
1/17/2025
Bob Uecker and David Lynch are hanging out together in Heaven’s waiting room, laughing (slowly, and in reverse, naturally), looking down as Hell freezes over so that Donald Trump can return to the Presidency. But... why are we still here though? Probably to listen to David Waldman on the Friday KITM.
Don’t turn to Republicans to answer your questions, existential or otherwise. They have all the answers, just not to the questions they’ve been asked. If they told you the answer they wouldn’t have to kill you, but they’ll wish they have had killed themselves.
Joe Biden looked at his watch and just realized that he forgot to answer all the questions and fix everything. Hurry Joe!
What caused Sam Harris to wake up and turn on his bro Elon Musk, other than they couldn’t fit both of their heads into the same room anymore?
Bro RFK Jr. isn’t a part of the broligarchy on nepotism, inheritance, and psychopathy alone. He put in his time scamming rubes just like the rest of them.
Paul Manafort returns to his job of being the bro of the broligarchy and dick for the dictators.
Beta Mike Johnson makes certain to have all betas in chair positions before Trump comes in.
Meatball Ron DeSantis sometimes doesn’t do exactly what he’s told but is still a good boy.
In Minnesota, DFL Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee won reelection, but Gops seized control anyway, which would really matter if they had planned to get anything done legislatively.
Duration:01:56:41