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Ignorance Is Not Only Bliss . . . 0
, , , it’s also Florida Man’s educational you-will-pardon-the-term strategy.
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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.
Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):
I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.
Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Separation of Church and State
The Establishmentarian Con
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Thom dissects the deception.
Base Desires 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss why Republicans don’t like Representative Ilhan Omar and what it says about the Republican Party.
Calling Out the Craven 0
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had it with Republicans’ racism, bigotry, and hypocrisy.
Not that they care.
As I have mentioned before, Richard Nixon’s racist “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. The Republican Party is now the party of the New Secesh.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun weighs in on the antics of the Republican-led House of Representatives incongruously assembled.
The prognosis is not encouraging.
Republican Family Values 0
The pervs now have their own political party.
It’s the party that wants to cross-examine school girls about their periods.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
The Misdirection Playbook 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott reveals the playbook (emphasis added):
It’s (the misdirection play–ed.) also a central component of conservative politics today.
If you’re under the impression that the biggest issues facing America are things like transgender participation in sports, school curriculum and the M&Ms cartoon spokespeople — and not the fact that the Republican Party is methodically working to relieve the rich of any responsibility whatsoever for funding the government, while putting the bill on the rest of us — you’re being played.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Blaming the Shoulder 0
Every time I think we have plunged to the deepest depths of stupid, I am proved wrong.
Establishmentarians, Reprise 0
Rachel Laser makes a strong case that, as regards the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they are establishing their way along. A snippet:
As a Jefferson City Baptist minister observed during these debates, Missouri’s abortion ban is “Christian Nationalism.”
I commend her piece to your attention.
Establishmentarians 0
LZ Grandersonn suggests that America’s establishmentarians are having Pence-sive thoughts. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.