Republican Lies category archive
Jim Crow Keeps Rising from the Grave 0
And this surprises you how?
Misdirection Play, Merchants of Death Dept. 0
Kevin McDermott deciphers the doubletalk.
Misdirection Play, Invalid Syllogism Dept. 0
Thom gets into the weeds.
Birth of a Nation 0
Thom discusses the origins of today’s Republican Party.
Aside:
Would that I were as optimistic as he.
Making Book 0
Another member of the Trump administration (sic) comes out with yet another self-serving book.
Aside:
I know them both. Sheetz is okay, but Wawa rocks.
The Fear Marketplace of Ideas 0
Along these lines, in the context of a longer editorial about efforts to ban books in schools because reading books might lead to (gasp!) thinking, my local rag today points out
All the News that Fits (and Very Little of the News that Doesn’t) 0
At northjersey.com, Jim Beckerman reports on the news that wasn’t reported. A snippet:
We waited and waited.
There was one reference, somewhere between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. A shooting in Buffalo had occurred, Fox told its viewers, and people were dead. But no elaboration, no commentary, no on-the-scene interviews. Perhaps 15 seconds, all told.
He goes on theorize that this was because the shooter embraced “replacement theory,” which a number of Fox News voices have been spreading energetically.
Follow the lin for his reasoning.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The Associated Press skewers the half-truths and pretzel logic of a recent film that claims to verify voluminous voter fraud.
The short version: the pile of photographic propaganda proves primarily that propagandists prevaricate.
Follow the link for facts.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Aside:
Farron missed the undercurrent. Let’s decode the code.
When right-wingers attack “welfare,” they are invoking the spirit and racist imagery of Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen.” The word “welfare” has become yet another racist dog whistle.
The (Kevin) McCarthy Era 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott discusses the core value of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a teeny-weeny bit of his article:
Real Big Men 0
Robert Pawlicki has a theory as to why Republicans seem to be obsessed with sex* and sexual identity. A snippet:
Hence, we do not see attacks on women who are a political force. Instead, we see attacks on transgender bathroom rights, efforts to ban books in our schools, an initiative that would suppress many gender-related texts, and the false linking of the LGBT community to pedophilia. The diverse minority groups under attack are neither powerful nor numerous, but they are easy targets to rile up the discontent of those unhappy with the direction of the country.
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*I shouldn’t have to point this out, but “gender” is a grammatical term, not a biological one.
Furthermore, I think “obsessed with sex” is a more forthright and accurate phrasing.
(Spelling erorrs correxted.)
