Kagro in the Morning

Kagro in the Morning - December 29, 2022

You can get the who, what, and where anywhere, but on KITM David Waldman and Greg Dworkin focus on “the why” behind the news. Jew-ish Republican-elect George Santos, who goes under the name of George Devolder and Anthony Zabrovsky, claims to be Holocaust, 9/11, Pulse Nightclub, and cancer-adjacent, and quasi-graduated from a series of prestigious schools, becoming eventually wealthy-destitute, as well as somewhat black-ish. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t shovel the BS like George can. G...

Kagro in the Morning - December 28, 2022

As we approach the new year, David Waldman continues on his warm beverage adventure featuring the mulch-in-a-mug assortment I recently sent his way. Greg Dworkin drinks his tea the way God intended, British. Glass Onion, the No. 1 movie on Netflix, has received mixed reviews, enjoyed by those who understand mysteries, comedies and movies, and disliked by the others who enjoy and understand nothing. Jew-ish Republican-elect George Santos somehow managed to make even Fox News look “Fair an...

Kagro in the Morning - December 27, 2022

Today, David Waldman presented a limited edition KITM, offered live only to a select audience in his kitchen this morning, but now publicly available at an amazingly low price! Are Rooibos and Yerba Mate teas any good? One way to find out.  Just Security sums up the January 6th Select Committee’s final report, and The Bulwark focuses on the Trump coup’s fake elector scheme, Donald Trump claims that he has total immunity and total innocence, the MAGA mantra. Adam Schiff points out that is...

Kagro in the Morning - December 26, 2022

KITM gave the staff the whole day off for Christmas this year, allowing us to be here all the earlier next morning for Boxing Day! The first rule of Boxing Day is you do not sing Boxing Day carols. Instead, David Waldman and Greg Dworkin of course croon only the best Christmas songs written by Jewish men, (All of them.) including that anti-nuclear annihilation ditty, “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, and the Ukrainian export, “Carol of the Bells”.  It’s also Monday, so Greg’s here to review with u...

Kagro in the Morning - December 23, 2022

This morning, David Waldman slipped on his KITM mukluks, and disappeared into the hyperborean maelstrom bearing down upon our World Headquarters. You stay warm with this freshly baked, pre-recorded Friday show. Things are getting hotter for Donald Trump. The January 6 committee’s final report contains transcripts of the insurrectionist rogue's gallery attempting to cling to the 5th amendment (and any other amendment handy) while garroting the Constitution. TFG is miffed but can’t come up w...

Kagro in the Morning - December 22, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin count down the days leading us to the next day and day after that, which is always a good plan. After all, them’s the rules. Elon Musk might not really be suited to run Twitter, or much of anything, but at least Tesla, for as long as it lasts, shares his sense of humor. Musk’s fart mode sure beats Musk's petty asshole mode.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky wowed and inspired in an address to Congress yesterday with...

Kagro in the Morning - December 21, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin perform another KITM Holiday Miracle today, by pulling the same-sized show out of the shortest day! Donald Trump’s tax returns are finally public. It turns out that Trump always could have released his taxes, and that he was not being audited. I mean, I am not sure if we can trust the guy anymore. Trump’s longtime friend, investor, and former IRS chief John Koskinen must have forgotten to submit Donald’s returns for their “mandatory” audits... The New York ...

Kagro in the Morning - December 20, 2022

David Waldman delivers another Happy Holiday KITM. There might be plenty of oil to go around, but we’re always low on the schmaltz. Yesterday, the Jan. 6th committee recommended prosecution for Donald Trump. They’re not the first and won’t be the last. Trump knew this was coming and as expected had a meticulously considered statement prepared. More pieces of the coup puzzle fell into place once investigators looked into Scott Perry’s cell phone and email records, and Jeffrey Clark’s Google...

Kagro in the Morning - December 19, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin herald a happy holiday season as we start off the week. Vox Pecuniae, Vox Dei for Elon Musk, who has become used to losing users while using losers... although however now we’re talking cash, and that cash is talking smack. Elon appears to be going the way of Caesar, if Caesar planned to install a straw boss between those knives and himself. Musk can’t imagine anyone else handling the job, but of course Elon’s shortcoming has always been a lack of imagination...

Kagro in the Morning - December 16, 2022

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! Today, David Waldman releases another special edition KITM episode! Each one has a unique date and will be treasured for generations. COLLECT THEM ALL! Donald Trump’s “major announcement” yesterday was that he was selling digital trading cards with heroic caricatures of him for $99 each. (Why not $88? Trump missed a bet there.) Oh boy, what a stupid idea! Who would be so dumb! Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh. They’re all sold out. Asked, and answered. Psst... Elon Musk’s jet lande...

Kagro in the Morning - December 15, 2022

Hello Americans, this is KITM. Stand by for NEWS!  Loudoun County Public Schools are closed today due to too slippery for Virginians conditions. Public Information Officer Wayde Byard is usually on hand to relay this information to the public but is under indictment for reading the wrong announcement about the wrong people at the wrong time, thus becoming the head on Glenn Youngkin’s pike. David Waldman and Greg Dworkin address the final lessons of the 2022 midterms. (There’ll probably b...

Kagro in the Morning - December 14, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin bestride athwart the metaphoric battlements, on crénelé parapets betwixt embrasures and merlons, to bear their benevolence, your benefaction. Hark! Behold KITM. A day we must not forget, no matter how painful the memory. Republicans remain in disarray, torn between their traditional cynical nihilists, and the new wave of fanatical demagogues. The two things holding them together, hatred of democracy, and complete aversion to work, have had plenty of like-mi...

Kagro in the Morning - December 13, 2022

Heavens to Murgatroyd! David Waldman is smarter than the average podcast host, even! And that is why David focused today’s KITM on the bombshell series posted on Talking Points Memo, “The Meadows Texts” which reveal 34 members of Congress plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Thousands of seditious texts furiously typed out by dozens of illiterate elected representatives eager to toss out democracy.  Thousands of texts supporting insurrection and not one dick pic, as required by the firs...

Kagro in the Morning - December 12, 2022

Feliz día de la Virgen de Guadalupe! David Waldman ain’t talking about Navidad, yet, not when we have KITMs for your stocking! Elon Musk attended a seminar on free speech with Dave Chappelle this weekend. Of course, neither one learned a thing. Steve KG Bannon collected photos of Hunter Biden’s genitalia with the expressed purpose of grooming wide-eyed innocents like Matt Taibbi and others to share associated Chinese disinformation and propaganda. At a Republican/Treason event in New Y...

Kagro in the Morning - December 9, 2022

David Waldman has waited this entire week to demand, “What’s the deal with this Murdery Traitor Greene person?” David and KITM listeners needed to wait a while longer while the spotlight was again stolen by expert attention burglar Kyrsten Sinema. Formally a Green Party member, then an independent, then a Democratic Party member, Sinema returns to being an independent… Although there is no one who believes Kyrsten was ever that awfully into being a Democrat in the first place. Now she’s ju...

Kagro in the Morning - December 8, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin present KITM, now, at least today, 100% New York Times free.  WNBA star Brittney Griner has been freed from Russia in a 1-for-1 prisoner swap. Brittney is safe, on a plane, and on her way home. Biden isn’t Trump, therefore Brittney Griner isn’t Otto Warmbier. People pore over the numbers while the GQP counts their regrets following Raphael Warnock’s Senate win. One reason for Warnock’s win might have been the perceived lower quality of his opponent… Also, t...

Kagro in the Morning - December 7, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin bring us another Happy Wednesday KITM FunTime! Well, isn’t that nice? Raphael Warnock won election 5 times in a row, which in Georgia qualifies him for a 6-year term in the Senate. That means Herschel Walker and Donald Trump lose, a relief to everyone, probably especially Republicans. Perhaps not all Republicans. Kevin McCarthy kind of needed that win. Andy Biggs and others are running against McCarthy, not to win the speakership, but to see Kevin lose. For...

Kagro in the Morning - December 6, 2022

It’s your lucky day! It’s Tuesday! It’s also David Waldman and Joan McCarter day! Also, the Georgia Senate runoff runs out today, and that might mean we won't have Herschel Walker to kick around anymore. Of course, Republicans do have a soft place in their heart for candidates with soft heads, so there’s always a Walker or Madison Cawthorn comeback possible. If Raphael Warnock is successful, 51 votes will be nice. Members of the future 118th Congress are putting their wish lists together...

Kagro in the Morning - December 5, 2022

Following unsuccessful efforts to terminate the calendar, David Waldman admitted that today indeed is “Monday”, and took the rap for his household’s corn dog shortage. You can set your clock, and your calendar with Greg Dworkin’s raft o’ stories, though! Donald Trump’s two step plan to MAGAGA: First, terminate the Constitution. Second… well, that wouldn’t really matter then, would it? Republicans would have to go somewhere, after all. In Moore v. Harper the Supreme Court will decide if dem...

Kagro in the Morning - December 2, 2022

David Waldman catches us up on the latest Donald J. Trump courtroom drama, and there’s a lot of it as Donald is an inveterate, ubiquitous and incompetent criminal. Where else can you catch such nuanced analysis backed by an uncanny vocal portrayal of Trump in a Trump mask robbing a bank? The 11 Circuit rules that no special master is needed for Trump’s stolen document case, and generally there isn’t much need for Judge Aileen Cannon, period. Donald isn’t special enough to change the law.  ...

Kagro in the Morning - December 1, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin ring in the new month on today’s Holiday KITM. In Georgia, Raphael Warnock is way ahead of Herschel Walker in early voters polled. Republicans holding off until they see some good Walker news might need to wait a while longer. In fact, the Lieutenant Governor of Georgia waited an hour to vote and just couldn’t bring himself to do it. Even Herschel has found it tough showing up, preferring to stay at home.  The Supreme Court paved the way for the Dem-led Hou...

Kagro in the Morning - November 30, 2022

Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over. David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are still working out the kinks in their Mastodon experience, which doesn’t need either advertising or fascist trolls to keep running. What keeps Mastodon working? Techno-magic, I figure. Equally hard to fathom is how Sam Bankman-Fried screwed thousands of people out of millions of dollars. That is, until you factor greed and stupidity into your calculations, then it becomes a little ea...

Kagro in the Morning - November 29, 2022

Kagro in the Morning - November 28, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin resolutely lead us ever forward, as KITM tracks the unrelenting migration of social media, just as our ancient hunter forbearers pursued vast herds of mastodons across the great plains.  How about those midterms, huh? The media and pollsters are still trying to figure out what they did right, which wasn’t a ton. The Democratic party shouldn’t pat themselves on the back too hard either. Voters figured out on their own what they needed to do and did it, mostly ...

Kagro in the Morning "Encore Performance" - November 27, 2020, airing November 25, 2022

For National Leftovers Day, we present this vintage post-T-Day episode, from November 27, 2020. We had planned to bring you last year's post-Thanksgiving show, but that one was taken down by YouTube, because we read a story that quoted and debunked COVID loons, and, well, YouTube. (The episode was later restored on appeal of an appeal, but the odds were pretty good that they'd take it down all over again.) So, instead, we have one from the year before! David Waldman and Armando deliver...

Kagro in the Morning - November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a good day to give thanks for Justice Putnam, who keeps the gears turning at Netroots Radio! He gives us the flexibility to throw together a last-minute show, and maybe even knock off early for the holiday. Which we didn’t! One you get rolling on a show like this, you need every minute you can get! First up, Pro-Fish Mary Peltola is coming back to Washington. Which means Sarah Palin isn’t! On the darker side, wingnut idiots are saying terrible things about...

Kagro in the Morning - November 23, 2022

David Waldman leads us off today under an other another cloud of a mass shooting. This time, six were killed in a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart. Probably a disgruntled employee did the shooting, but we all know who’s pulling the trigger. Lauren Boebert and others pray over the bodies they target, then target the rescuers.  As threats to LGBTQ communities intensify, they in turn react to the reactionaries. Want to watch Twitter crash and burn, but from a safe distance? Alternatives are out...

Kagro in the Morning - November 22, 2022

David Waldman and special Tuesday guest star Greg Dworkin run the gamut from Elon Musk to Richard Fierro on today’s KITM. Poor little rich boy Elon Musk only wanted to buy love and respect, but fate can be so cruel sometimes to self-centered megalomaniacs… Here are 3 other investments the billionaire likes! Elon continues to have a kind of a “Love/Fire” relationship with his employees. One day you can tell your kids of the time that catturd2 place helped fight the COVID 19 pandemic. Seve...

Kagro in the Morning - November 21, 2022

David Waldman leads us into the KITM Eastern Orthodox Canadian Thanksgiving Week solo, as Greg Dworkin had his Raft o’ Stories™ blown off course and is busy with a soccer ball and the Professor to chart a course over to Wednesday: Again, we start the week under the cloud of another mass shooting. It’s also a hate crime, and of course, a terrorist attack. Even when mass killers use a knife, they go with military-grade weaponry. Donald Trump was all Fake News when he predicted that Elon Mu...

Kagro in the Morning - November 18, 2022

David Waldman refers to himself in the third person at the beginning of today’s KITM show summary! No particular reason for it, though. Twitter continues to implode, but not this way. New Members-elect are in DC for orientation. Gen-Z (and Gen-Z leaning) Members finally learn the answer to question, “Why do I need to learn to write in cursive?” We’ve managed to avoid discussing the FTX collapse because there may be no point in understanding it, anyway. But today we learn it may be wor...

Kagro in the Morning - November 17, 2022

David Waldman takes a break from his crazy day to chat with Greg Dworkin and us for a couple of hours.  Today, all eyes were on Nancy Pelosi, and what she would decide to do in the face of a Republican majority in Congress. Pelosi decided to step down as leader, but to stay in Congress. Republicans who hate functioning government, were happy to see a person who made it function so well leave. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now the face of Congressional governing standards. During the lame duc...

Kagro in the Morning - November 16, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin embrace hijinks, eschew shenanigans, as per usual on this Wednesday’s KITM: MAGAGA! Perhaps you heard, the Former Guy says he intends not to be former. Mostly, he intends not to be convicted. Either way, not many are convinced... Maybe, Madison Cawthorn. This time, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Believe it or not, someone on Team Trump remembered to file the paperwork. That other Donald Trump in high heels, Kari Lake, might as well run as Trump’s running mate, as sh...

Kagro in the Morning - November 15, 2022

David Waldman brings us the Tuesday after the Tuesday that brought us the Pink Piddle, and the good news hasn’t yet stopped. Joan McCarter is in to describe Democrats’ plotting their lame-duck priorities, starting with taking sharp objects away from House GOP. Too bad, they had been sharpening many of them to stick into Kevin McCarthy. It’s really the Freedom Caucus that Kevin, and the rest of us, need to worry about.  To reassure MTG et al. on his leadership abilities, Kevin tried yelli...

Kagro in the Morning - November 14, 2022

David Waldman is binging miniseries until he can figure out what's wrong with everything. One thing’s for certain, “easy money” is the only way to make a lot of money. Elon Musk is trying out the concept of “working to make money”, and at about $8 an hour, he doesn't like it. Greg Dworkin binges polling data and has been watching the votes and the wins pile up. But first, we again start the week beneath the cloud of another mass shooting, at the University of Virginia. The suspect was so...

Kagro in the Morning - November 11, 2022

David Waldman brings all the Friday vibes to a very Friday Friday. Republicans don’t seem to love Donald Trump like they used to, which is okay by Donald as he has always despised each of them. No respect, even after all of the felonies he committed for them too! You’d never expect Trump to use racial slurs on Glen Youngkin, but Donald Trump always exceeds expectations. Donald is having a bad week, but Elon’s is worse. Sam Bankman-Fried made a billion on crypto, lost a billion, and in-...

Kagro in the Morning - November 10, 2022

Ever want to be David Waldman? Who hasn’t? But — Now you can! Thanks to Elon Musk’s pay-to-play Twitter verification plan, in less than 25 minutes and 8 bucks you can easily break into the glamorous world of the KagroX media empire... or even impersonate “Dr. X”! (No relation.) Post-election misinformation is flooding social media, plenty from Republicans of course, but a lot also from the mainstream media. The New York Post offered at least two crime victims front-page coverage if they’d ...

Kagro in the Morning - November 9, 2022

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin told you so. Today, they will tell you even more. Did you read the news? Joe Biden and the Dems did very well last night, or as the mainstream media calls it, “not a repudiation”. It will take them a while to figure out how Democrats did so well with so many incorrect messages. It might be that people are complicated and will vote for a complicated party over a very simple one. Fox News does have the simple answer, though. No one can explain how Raphael War...

Kagro in the Morning - November 8, 2022

I voted! How about you? How about all of your friends, relatives, neighbors? David Waldman and Joan McCarter tell us to GOTV like democracy is on the line... because it is. Kari Lake wonders just how American Native Americans really are. Marjorie Traitor Greene just can’t wait to match wits with people who can’t talk back. Don’t expect help, ever, from Joe Manchin. The GQP is playing the refs all the way to an election denying free-for-all. Michigan wingnuts head out to head off the vote. ...

Kagro in the Morning - November 7, 2022

David Waldman presents the KITM day before the day when we used to elect people special. Except for Eastern Orthodox election day, Thursday. The midterm elections are tomorrow. So, who’s going to win? Greg Dworkin tells us there’s no need to predict, just vote. But, what is being predicted? The important thing right now is to vote. But, is it looking good for Democrats, (and democracy)? Get out the vote. But, what is being forecast? It is impossible to know but getting out the vote is impe...

Kagro in the Morning - November 4, 2022

GOTV. Listen to KITM, then GOTV. Knock on doors from now through election day and tell them David Waldman sent you. OK, you’re out there GOTV-ing. Democrats are out there trying to hold the line. It’s not over yet. Now how much would Republicans really need to win to ruin everything? Not much. David explains how duly-elected Democrats may have their seats contested, and how Republicans can evade pesky precedent, or abuse the rules and procedures to cause trouble. While that’s happening, ...

Kagro in the Morning - November 3, 2022

David Waldman delivers another KITM Holiday Special. What makes the day special? It has a KITM in it! (And it’s National Sandwich Day) Even Fox anchors don’t want to come off as beta cucks to Elon Musk. Actor Robert Kazinsky explains why verification is a public service, not a business model. The tougher it is to remain on Twitter, the more reason that good people need to remain there. Some are scared by polling numbers going into the midterms. Keep working, because what is really fright...

Kagro in the Morning - November 2, 2022

Ghouls then Saints now Souls! Today’s holiday is a solemn occasion, though. David Waldman and Greg Dworkin discuss how and why November 9 could turn out that way also. Fear and rage sell the news and move votes, and the GQP isn’t about to leave any behind. And if some die, they die for a good cause, bringing lulz to the survivors. They’ll also laugh at your reaction to them. Win! Playing with handguns and children rarely ends with laughs. Capitol Police cameras caught the break-in at t...

Kagro in the Morning - November 1, 2022

David Waldman hopes you had a nice Celtic festival of Samhain... a holiday so scary they needed to round up all of the saints to chase it away. Some people are sick puppies. Some are idiots. The GQP calls them “the base”. 2000 Mules was written with them in mind. A Georgia man sues for being defamed. Surry County, North Carolina Director of Elections Michella Huff has been harassed by attention seekers, election loons and potential felons ever since Donald Trump only got 70% of the vote ...

Kagro in the Morning - October 31, 2022

David Waldman and KITM, never a blue checkmark and always passing that savings along to you. You know Elon Musk would never throw capitol willy-nilly at employees like KITM does with me. This weekend Elon’s Twitter employees worked overtime to fire other employees, so that half of them can fire the other half next weekend and so on, until things eventually get back to normal. Happy Halloween! Finally, a holiday without sober reflection or celebration of higher ideals! Of course, the scarie...

Kagro in the Morning - October 28, 2022

David Waldman delivers us to what definitely feels like a Friday.  That musky stench has begun to permeate Twitter. Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was violently assaulted in his home this morning. The assailant, armed with a hammer, was looking for Nancy and is now in custody. Here’s wishing Paul a speedy recovery. KITM goes in-depth on the political history of Canadian transcendental yogic pilot Dr. Doug Henning. Laugh while you can, but the Republican war on voting is gaining strength...

Kagro in the Morning - October 27, 2022

Anybody can read the news to you. You may even read the news to yourself. But where can you go to hear the news, every fifth word in Spanish, spoken with a heavy Austrian accent? Not many places. This is just one of several services David Waldman and Greg Dworkin can and do provide on today’s KITM. Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, this time brandishing common sense and an amicus brief in the upcoming Trump Supreme Court case of Moore v. Harper. To those who attempt to mock him, Arnold says, ...

Kagro in the Morning - October 26, 2022

David Waldman rushes into Wednesday to give Greg Dworkin an opportunity to tackle the latest news while the contents of his Raft o’ Stories is crispy fresh. Greg is ready for Rishi! Rishi Sunak that is, maybe we should find out more about Sunak, if he plans on hanging around. Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and TV’s Mehmet Oz held their debate last night. On women’s reproductive health, Mehmet would like to see a local alderman or two get their faces between the stirrups and help with...

Kagro in the Morning - October 25, 2022

David Waldman is back! David returns from a whirlwind 4-day tour of Philadelphia, where everyone was in good cheer and some even more so. Also, it’s another week, so another mass school shooting starts us off. David got out of Philly in the nick of time. Team Trump is moving in to steal the ‘22 midterms and plot the theft of ‘24. Election deniers are on track to win 189 midterm races and will even deny their own elections if they need to. Of the 12 Republican-held districts that swung to m...

Kagro in the Morning - October 24, 2022

David Waldman is KITM’s Schrödinger's Host today, alive, yet not “live”. KITM correspondent Steve Sittig returns with an equally pre-recorded segment to fill things out. KITM is back to “normal” tomorrow! Orange County school district has banned the teaching of “critical race theory”, which they found easier to ban if they left it undefined, and by cutting their Cal State Fullerton student teacher staff by 90%. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office wants all of the email records ...

Kagro in the Morning - October 21, 2022

Scott always says that the shows with the fewest links are the hardest to write summaries for. But that’s just because he cares about quality! Ha ha! I’ve always wondered how it would go if we just skipped the narrative and just told you straight up what the links were, and then knocked off for the day. Hmm... I imagine it would go a little something like this: First, we revisited and finished the WaPo’s story on how the racial disparity in COVID deaths eventually flipped. Then, ...