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Kagro in the Morning

David Waldmankagrox.libsyn.com
News, politics and commentary from Daily Kos Contributing Editor David Waldman

Episodes

Kagro in the Morning - July 2, 2025

Wednesday, and it’s David Waldman and Greg Dworkin ’s last live appearance before Explodey Day ! Probably not their last alive appearance, though. They don’t seem the types to screw around with such things. Zohran, the Destroyer ! Zohran, the Magnificent ! Zohran, the Relatable ! Nothing scares Democrats more than winning , because if you win ... you could lose . And yet… sometimes a win or two will slip in, like in New Jersey , or maybe around San Diego . Of course, winning just invites death t...

Jul 02, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - July 1, 2025

July! David Waldman will depart upon his KITM Patriotic Tour of America very soon but is here today and even tomorrow with live shows! Get your 4th of July prepped soon, before Hell buys up all of the charcoal . Did Republicans kill the filibuster? The Senate did kill thousands of people . JD Vance dealt the coup de grâce , and promised that there’ll be many more corpses before he’s finished. Elon Musk might go onto the casualty list if he doesn’t shut up . Dems made Susan Collins feel concerned...

Jul 01, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 30, 2025

Here we are, at the end of a long month, but David Waldman and Greg Dworkin still aren’t tired and can keep it up as long as we can. Thom Tillis picked up his integrity at the coat check area and left the Senate , rather than having Trump’s fat ugly bill become his epitaph . Of course, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are oh-so-close to becoming Democrats … until right about now in the process , when someone offers them a “ reacharound” or a “wraparound” or whatever the kids are calling it nowad...

Jun 30, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 27, 2025

David Waldman is BACK for the Friday KITM , then GONE for the weekend , then BACK on the Monday KITM ! See how that works? In local, to KITM World Headquarters , news, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University can’t operate any “illegal” DEI programs to get federal funding, and they really like federal funding, therefore they’re obeying anticipatorily . The White House appreciates their cooperation and will now require the resignation of the University of Virginia’s preside...

Jun 27, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 26, 2025

It’s Thursday and David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back to KITM and itching to analyze ! You don’t mess with the Zohran ! “ Ranked choice” voting defeats “ hold your nose and just” voting . You got to hope it’s the beginning of the end of the political consultant era , but good luck with that . When Dems discover they can be elected by listening to constituents DC will become a ghost town . And if you think that Democrats are terrified of Zohran Mamdani, you should see Republicans ! Donald K. ...

Jun 26, 20251 hr 56 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 25, 2025

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back with the latest in KITM and KITM accessories . You might not know that Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland , or that Jerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati , yet you probably know every mayor of New York City over your entire life , maybe earlier . They NYC mayoral race is like no other , and Zohran Mamdani ’s Democratic primary win is a win like no other . The establishment fears him ; the political class has been trying to stop him , and with good rea...

Jun 25, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 24, 2025

David Waldman is solo today, in front of the microphone, and behind . So, ease off of him, will ya? Hallelujah ! Donald K. Trump and his BFF, God , declared peace for our time yesterday… No... PEACE FOR ALL TIME ! No more holy wars , only eternal holy love from… Hold on, we have breaking news that Donald’s estimate was a bit off … or perhaps God’s ... FUUUUU … Oh, well, Trump cannot fail his children , they can only fail him . Calm down everybody. Except for the shooting and the bombs and the dy...

Jun 24, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 23, 2025

Give me a "K! ..."K"! give me an "I"! ..."I"! Give me a "T"! ..."T" Give me a "M"! ..."M"! WHATS THAT SPELL? David Waldman and Greg Dworkin return this week with a golden oldie that some of you out there might remember: Well, come on all of you big strong men , Uncle Sam needs your help again . He got himself in a terrible jam , way down yonder in Iran ! Put down your books and pick up a gun , we're gunna have a whole lotta fun! Turns out that Donakd … Donald K. Trump has never been awfully TACO...

Jun 23, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 20, 2025

KITM AV department intern David Waldman hopes to get a break from all of his breaks soon, but there’s always something... ICE is SAD ! Wherever the ICE men goeth , tragedy strikes… them . Beating immigrants while cosplaying as ISIS hasn’t captured the hearts of Americans like they hoped . Detainees start whining after only days of being held without charges, some even skip out without even a “ thank you ”. The constant bruising of ICE agent knees on Hispanic testicles has become an almost untena...

Jun 20, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 19, 2025

David Waldman is back on the air again , LIVE ! Greg Dworkin returns, with mega polls ! No, not Trump’s high poles , but Trump’s low polls , along with the latest takeaways from the KITM World Headquarters Primaries … well, Virginia primaries, same difference. Will TikTok TACO Trump chicken out with Iran ? We’re talking about millions of actual lives here ... so maybe not. MAGA thought they opposed such things as “forever wars”, but they’ll get over it , like their opposition to Russia . It’s ea...

Jun 20, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 18, 2025

David Waldman WILL RETURN from the Virgin Islands tomorrow! Meanwhile, let’s take on an evergreen topic , the complete and utter corruption of Donald K. Trump and how that has infected every facet of American government. Ex-prosecutors are raising alarms over Ed Martin, who everyone, including Ed Martin, will tell you is anti-law/pro-Trump . White House aide Lynne Patton was suspended for violation of the Hatch Act . Strange, because who in the Trump administration hasn’t violated the Hatch Act ...

Jun 18, 20252 hr

Kagro in the Morning - June 17, 2025

David Waldman is still out there, enjoying the beach life as if there’s no tomorrow . There might be one, though. And, if there’s a day after that, David should be right here again. It’s almost summer, but the DOGE days of spring will take a long while to recover from. We are just beginning to understand how DOGE stole government data , and who they sold it to . Remember the Obama March Madness bracket , or his summer playlist ? This administration’s thing is Trump Administration enemies lists ....

Jun 17, 20252 hr

Kagro in the Morning - June 16, 2026

David Waldman continues to lounge in the Virgin Islands, perhaps a letdown for those of us who had favorited him in local Pedro Pascal look-alike contests , but not for you loyal listeners out there, as David made certain that there wasn’t the slightest interruption in our KITM service. Of course, this show was pre-recorded last week, so listening to it you might not be aware that Donald K. Trump is an egomaniacal loser so bent on self-aggrandizement that he’s ready and willing to destroy the wo...

Jun 16, 20252 hr

Kagro in the Morning - June 13, 2025

David Waldman continues his sojourn in the Virgin Islands, getting away from it all , but not escaping from his responsibility to KITM listeners, with this brand-new pre-recorded podcast! Donald K. Trump is king now. At least, that’s what he purports . Donald purports a lot . The problem is the people who believe him , or purport to . The big problem is when the Trump Supreme Court turns purports into edicts . One can usually determine how far they’ve become detached from reality by the number o...

Jun 13, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 12, 2025

Bulletin: David Waldman has invaded the Virgin Islands ! Man, if ol’ Jeff hadn’t already wasted it on his island, Trump would’ve had the best renaming opportunity . David could have broadcast KITM live out his snorkel but chose instead to record five all-new specials to fill this spot. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense for the United States of America , is having some difficulty rising to the highest standards of his position . In fact, those people who would be interested in working in his dep...

Jun 12, 20252 hr

Kagro in the Morning - June 11, 2025

Don’t worry! David Waldman and Greg Dworkin will be back next week ! But what do you care? You’ll have brand-new KITM s, five of them, to listen to until their return! But first: Correspondent Terry Moran posted that Trump was a world-class hater without first taking into consideration what world-class haters do , and what his world-class coward employers would do about it. Stephen Miller is working to make America great for Nick Fuentes. He’s Goebbels without a master race , Nosferatu without t...

Jun 11, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 10, 2025

David Waldman is back for the Tuesday before the Wednesday before he’s out of here for the rest of the week! (Except for all those bonus shows he’s recorded to keep you glued to your myriad devices.) This is what autocracy looks like . Well, “an autocracy” is what Donald K. Trump delivered since Day One of his administration. Now we are at whatever stage of autocracy that interrogates cleaning ladies , pulls guns on maintenance workers , shoots into photographers , journalists and reporters , wh...

Jun 10, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 9, 2025

Some of y’all can’t handle two high agency men , David Waldman and Greg Dworkin , talking over each other… but if you can, you came to a good place . And yet, there's no way to delay that trouble coming every day . We all know what happens when armed forces are deployed as police . Donald K. Trump knows . Even his idiot son can figure it out. What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot doesn’t matter to Homan , Miller , Hegseth or Trump . It’s what they can do to bait all of the protes...

Jun 09, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 6, 2025

It’s D-Day! Trump actually sort-of marked the occasion yesterday, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Though I don’t think Merz was fully convinced that Trump understood the significance of the day for him. Anyhoo… Trump and Musk are still fighting . But you betas just can’t understand . How serious is it? Nobody knows. But the Russian trolls are happy to pretend it’s life-and-death . Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but Trump’s One Big Bad Bippety-Boppity Boo Bill Act Dot Com purports to ...

Jun 06, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 5, 2025

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin pull out all the stops on today’s KITM ! David predicted that North Korea would be the US Hassle Target of the Day , but who would guess that it would turn out to be Burma ! That and every other country darker than Trump’s spray tan . That’s the same criteria Stephen Miller has outlined for ICE deportations. The problem is, MAGA knows some of “those good ones” . They’d never eat dinner with those people, of course, but they sure enjoyed being served dinner by them ...

Jun 05, 20251 hr 56 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 4, 2025

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back, watch out Singapore ! (Those two things are probably unrelated, but I still don’t understand how Transnistrians always get off.) And to think , Donald thought Elon was his friend ! Elon has privately expressed frustration on a range of recent moves by Trump administration… on X.com... which could be considered pretty private by now . Oh, those two will make up soon, they’re like brothers , really. Trump would never consider hurting Musk, not out of friend...

Jun 04, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 3, 2025

TACO Tuesday! David Waldman gets us this far , at least. Donald K. Trump wants to run the country and the world but needs to maintain his golf game . Donald juggles his many momentous obligations by, well, golfing . Also, Trump has his iPhone, which anyone, anywhere in the world can call anytime they want to hear a “ Wha, huh ?’ directly from the most powerful man on Earth ... if he’s not text messaging. This system worked perfectly while Elon was around . Musk has since moved on, but did pass o...

Jun 03, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - June 2, 2025

It’s June and David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back to take another whack at it . Unlike some people you know, these guys never say die. We begin this week under the cloud of another improvised flamethrower attack . If it is bad , you know who will be blamed . Jodi Ernst visited her career in a graveyard this weekend following relinquishing any responsibility to her constituents residing in this mortal realm . Lindsey Graham hopes that Greta Thunberg doesn’t drown attempting to save the lives ...

Jun 02, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 30, 2025

It’s Elon Musk is Going to Hell™ Day on KITM! It’s true! I mean, it really is that day, anyway. Though perhaps every day is that day. But what we’re really interested in is his ETA. The New York Times connects with a one-two combination today. First, Elon is a huge druggie . And second, that his legacy is starving 300,000 kids to death . His “boss,” meanwhile, shows us what happens when you apply White Panic Central Park Five thinking to immigration. For all the claims that they would target “cr...

May 30, 20251 hr 56 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 29, 2025

David Waldman , Greg Dworkin and Thursday, together again. Nothing else seems to be right in the world, but that makes sense. Sorry Hispanics ! Trump Tower Grill has permanently removed the delicious taco bowl off its menu. Trump doesn’t want to hear the words “ TACO ”, nor “ chicken ”, ever again. He’d prefer you say that he was traitorously devaluing stocks to enrich insiders than to hurt him so. Trump’s tariffs have been halted by the “Court of International Trade”, which turns out to be an a...

May 29, 20251 hr 56 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 28, 2025

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin recalled that today was Wednesday , and many more useful and interesting things on today’s KITM: MAGA didn’t just move the Overton Window , they... threw it out the window. We now expect a punch in the face over a handshake . We expect losers to win , winners to lose , enemies to have our back , and fools to inform us . How much should politicians follow political consultants and polls ? Well, let’s consult the numbers with this expert! Like no other president befo...

May 28, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 27, 2025

David Waldman returns to the KITM helm following our three-day national holiday traditionally known as “President Bone Spurs’ Suckers and Losers Day ”, or at least that is the tradition from this point on . Donald K. Trump is going to teach Russia who’s the man here. Russia hates when it’s Trump’s time of the month . MAGA hates when mom and dad fight . Trump wants to wear the pants with Europe, but it’s kind of embarrassing when they keep dropping around his ankles . Europe doesn’t have to conse...

May 27, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning "Encore Performance" - May 28, 2024, airing May 26, 2025

It's Memorial Day, so Greg & I are having a BBQ breakfast, and knocking off for the day. But I thought you might like a little something to play in the background, if you're grilling breakfast, too. How about something from back when That F-ing Guy was The Former Guy, and a criminal defendant, to boot? Here's how things looked last year, at about this time: David Waldman has had enough grilling and hammocking , back to the microphone! Closing arguments have begun in the People of New York vs...

May 26, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 23, 2025

Trump was back in town, by which I mean my town, for his Big Crypto-Bribery Dinner . It’s like an invasion! These people are terrorists! And they probably have the tattoos to prove it! And if they don’t, we can make them have them, in totally undoctored photos! Anyway, the good news is, Trump took their money and screwed them . So that’s nice. The only problem with that is, he’s also gonna take your money and screw you . And if you take him to court and win, no you didn’t . Constitushimal schola...

May 23, 20251 hr 57 min

Kagro in the Morning - May 22, 2025

His bluebirds bouncing off the KITM World Headquarters transom windows might now be replaced by bluegills , yet David Waldman was able to arrive in freshly washed sweatpants to greet our birthday boy Greg Dworkin 🥳🤩🎂! Today, Greg received his absolute favorite gift: fresh polls ! The polls sure are looking good for a presidential election today ! (Narrator: “ There was no presidential election on that day .”) Inflation and the cost of living are more important than destroying federal governme...

May 22, 20251 hr 57 min
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