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November, 2020 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A responsible gun owner sees to it that politeness goes to the dogs.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A uniformed Trumpling.

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QOTD 0

Hunter S. Thompson:

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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“Get Off the Train” 0

Via C&L.

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Empty Suits 0

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The Interferer-in-Chief 0

Nickolas Kristoff notes the subversion. A nugget (emphasis added):

Yet what Trump has already done is what the Russians have always tried to do: cast doubt on American elections and destabilize the United States. The 2018 federal indictment of Russian election hackers alleged that they were engaged in “information warfare against the United States of America,” by fostering confusion and distrust that impair the integrity of elections and damage the legitimacy of the government that emerges. That’s precisely what Trump is now doing. He may hug and kiss American flags and pretend to be a great patriot, but this is a betrayal of our country.

And a lot of damn fools are taking the bait.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Suspending a Trumpling.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another responsible gun owner defends his hearth and home.

The woman was shot inside the couple’s home in the Rocky Point area around 1:30 a.m., the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman’s husband told detective he heard someone outside their bedroom door and didn’t realize his wife wasn’t in the room.

He opened the door and opened fire with his handgun, striking her once, according to the sheriff’s office. The woman, who was pregnant with the couple’s second child, was taken to the hospital where she later died.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Vetting the Vote 0

PoliticalProf decodes de code.

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The Day Off 0

Badtux reminds us that silence in the face of evil is complicity.

Just read it.

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QOTD 0

Felix Frankfurter:

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of ‘laws’ to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

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The Flailure 0

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Via Juanita Jean.

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Have Cake, Eat It Too 0

Having it both ways.

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Poll Watchers 0

Via SFGate comes a Washington Post article exploring a brief history of political polling in the U. S., as well as of pollsters’ history of blowing it big time in presidential elections.

And PoliticalProf offers a link to an article exploring why the polls were, as my old boss would have said, in error and why they may never be right again.

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A Bananas Republic, Reprise 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Honor thy mother, politely.

One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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A Bananas Republic 0

I have a nagging bad feeling that I just can’t shake.

I find it hard to see this as anything other than a clumsy attempt at a coup d’etat by a weakling who’s a wannabe strong man.

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The (Feeling) Dispossessed 0

PoliticalProf.

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WYSIWYG 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear reminds us “Trump voter” and “Republican” are synonyms. A snippet; much more at the link.

Back in 2016 there was this talk that placed “Trump voters” in a separate category from “Republicans” as if they weren’t one and the same. There was this bullshit notion that Trump and elected Republicans would act independently from one another, and might even butt heads.

The opposite has happened because Trump stands for the same things that Republicans stand for, he just says the quiet parts out loud, and Republicans love him for it.

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QOTD 0

Will Rogers:

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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