No worries in these parts.

And I should note that both emails are utter bollocks.

The Daily Kos and, more importantly, the Democratic party are the enemy of progressives. What is surprising is their unwillingness to admit it.

to the cool kids table...

Sad, but not surprising for a sellout. I had occasion to delve into the inner workings of a sham conservative 501(c)3 operation. It involved non-stop fundraising for the purpose of countering hyped crisis after crisis. Of the millions raised for the cause, the actual work product was basically a series of press releases. Everything else was absorbed into the owners' pocket in the form of overhead expenses paid to service companies or property management companies owned by the owner of the 501(c)3. Expenses such as rent, mailing services, payment for mailing lists, professional consulting fees, etc, ate up almost all of the donations. Not that there was any accountability to the donors whatsoever. The overhead expenses were all created for the benefit of the IRS, as the owner of that particular advocacy group had once spent six months in Federal prison for tax evasion.

Sounds like Moulitas is looking to milk his flock for all they are worth, as would any good four-flushing charlatan.

Have no worries.

DKOS is not:

"a huge platform from which to organize progressives."

As the stated site mission and his own edicts clearly indicate. It is a "huge platform to elect Democrats". You can't have it both ways... either you're policy based or you're partisan.

about paying for an ad-free experience. You've just explained it.

Deny the revenue! Sounds like a hashtag to me.

Here you will find neither flags nor HRs.

And about Boss Markos' begging letters? dkos is progressive the way the boss' candidate is progressive--by self-proclamation. Proclamation is a tool of the boss class and the political royalty class. Also demagogues and fictional characters.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." --Through the Looking Glass

Feels good here, yes?

It's only 2400~ words so far but I think I can keep it under 40K if I don't stray off the storyline too much.

It's not a flaky story. ha ha.

Installments might have more effect than dropping the whole story all at once. Good idea, pf.

I can't picture how far down a page 2400 words would fall.

I hate homonyms. No, that's not true. I love homonyms. I just can't spell them properly anymore.

a warm welcome! Of course, I knew you would. Glad I could help. There are still Berners over at TOP, and it's much easier to take when we stick together behind the scenes over there.

...of the number of times over the years when someone (usually a relative newcomer) at DK would say, "but this is supposed to be a progressive website!" and the standard, official response always was (and still is), "this website is about electing Democrats." It is very telling that they now want to conceal or obscure that partisan orientation. Perhaps it's a sign of cognitive dissonance.

As the meaning of "Democrat" has drifted over the years, we end up where we're at now, with a party leadership that seems to have no moral compass or goal other than winning and getting campaign money and lucrative speaking/consulting gigs when the show's over.

The "go to" place for progressives? It is to laugh.

I'm glad you wrote this. And I have some more stuff I would like to get off my chests. Kos decided that Facebook and Twitter was where its at so topics that did well (at least were shared well) became more important than any post or any topic that did not share well. I thought that was a real blow in the sense that the larger world was not exactly progressive.

Second Kos raises money but we have no accounting no transparency at all with what he does with the money. We can see results like dKos5 but I have no idea if the writers get paid or if they are allowed to be union. I have no idea how much the overhead of servers and programmers cost. I don't have a clue as to advertising revenue. And he doesn't have to tell us but it might make a difference in my willingness to cough up money.

Third they have authored some god awful petitions. Petitions guarantee not to do any damn thing at all.

My rants for the day.