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A Tune for the Times 0

The Parody Project looks back at the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency (and wonders why anyone would want to go through that again).

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Macho, Macho Man 0

Afterthought:

Donald Trump has a long hsitory of doing things to women whether they like it or not.

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Flotsam 0

Image:  Donald Trump standing atop a pile of garbage in a garbage scow with flags reading

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A Tune for the Times 0

H/T Jim Hightower.

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The Confluence 0

Steve M. takes a look at this weekend’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden (which, I must note, is neither square nor located at Madison Square, but I digress), where Trump’s supporters openly flaunted their racism, and notes an overlap. Here’s a bit about the overlap:

Did yesterday’s rally seem like the work of an organized, dangerous fascist party? Yes — but the rally’s rhetoric also seemed like ordinary casual conversation among bigoted white men when they think no one can hear them.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Frame One:  Man standing next to

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

The things that you’ve seen,
And can read on your screen,
They ain’t necessarily so.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Writing at the Detroit Free Press, Arlene Frank, a daughter of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States, listens to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and hears a rhyme.

Here’s a bit:

The lies, blame, xenophobia, antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiments that are currently being advanced are reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda that forced my father into a concentration camp and my mother to scrub the streets of her beloved Vienna while hate was spewed at her.

Follow the link to read the article.
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*Mark Twain.

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Decoding De Code 0

Caption:  M(ake) A(merica as) G(ruesome as) A(fghanistan)  Image:  Woman in Arab-style robe labeled

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Republican Family Values 0

Republican Elephant dressed as Rhett Butler labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Family Values 0

The L. A. Times’s Karen Kaplan runs the numbers.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Florida Man loses in court–again.

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Speaking of Rhymes . . . . 0

The Kansas City Star has a long article about efforts by parents, aided by the ACLU, to fight back against Oklahoma’s mandating the (Trump) Bible in Oklahoma public schools. One bit of it leapt out at me; it quotes a Southern Baptist pastor of Native American descent whose children attend Oklahoma public schools and who is one of the plaintiffs in the suit:

Randall said his personal family history is another reason why he opposes the mandate.

He said his great-grandmother and her sister were removed from their home in Broken Arrow and sent to a boarding school where they weren’t allowed to speak their native language and they were forced to attend church.

“All of this was done at the funding of the government,” Randall said. “It’s a haunting history that Oklahoma has when it comes to mandating religion for public education when children are a captive audience.”

Follow the link for the rest.

In related news, Leonard Hitchcock, writing at the Idaho State Journal, shares his thoughts on Establishmentarians’ school voucher money grab. A snippet:

I have no quarrel with parents’ right to try to instill their own religious conviction in their children. But I think that they should do so with their own dollars, not mine.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Lawyer Marc Elias discusses Florida Man’s attempt to stifle speech he doesn’t like.

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The Line of Defense 0

Woman standing inserting ballot into ballot box as Donald Trump lunges towards her.  The ballot box says,

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is a scam.

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts runs the numbers and shows that you can voucher on that.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Joseph A. Shrand considers why so many would dehumanize those from other countries and cultures, aka “aliens.” Here’s a tiny bit from his essay; follow the link for the complete article.

For one human to hurt another we first have to dehumanize them. You are not going to hurt someone you care about until they dip below the threshold of being human.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

In an article from the the Washington Monthly, Smith College professor Carrie N. Baker takes a deep dive into right-wing plans, as detailed in Project 2025, to turn the nation’s colleges and universities into engines of wingnut indoctrination.

No summary or excerpt will do her article justice. Just go read it.

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Establishmentarians 0

MAGA-hatted nman kicking a woman out of an Oklahoma elementary school as students look at the windows.  One student says,

Truthout reports that the states of doctrinal indoctrination may soon have some days in court.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Afterthought:

Suppose I spec a product for purchase. Then suppose that said spec can be only satisfied by one supplier, though the basic product is available from many sources at much lower prices.

Is it conceivable that my specifications might be viewed with suspici–oh, never mind.

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