Republican Lies category archive
The No-Account Recount, Epilog 0
A clip:
Sometimes you have to eat your own to maintain the lie.
A Case of Identity Politics 0
Tim Steller looks at the assumptions behind the voter fraud fraud and Arizona’s no-account recount. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
By logical extension, their votes should not count. And if their votes are counted, democracy itself is the problem.
Aside:
In his list of characteristics, methinks he left out the one that underlies and ties together all the others: Whiteness.
Reality Bites 0
Self-described conservative Cameron Smith, writing at AL.com, argues that it’s time for Republicans to return to the real world. A nugget:
The Six-Step Plan 0
David discusses the Trump administration’s blueprint for a coup d’etat. (Warning: Short advertisement at the end.)
The No-Account Recount 0
The results are in. The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts reports:
By a larger margin than previously reported.
So much shame to go around today, as we await the findings of the final report.
Follow the link for some schadenfreude.
All the News that Fits 0
See the news report that Farron is discussing.
Afterthought:
I don’t want to think Farron is correct when he says “these people are unreachable,” but I fear that he is.
I’ve known many persons who hear only what they want to hear.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Chron.com, Dan Carson reports that Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick appears to have embraced the “great replacement” theory promoted by white supremacists. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
“This is trying to take over our country without firing a shot,” Patrick said.
Patrick’s remarks sound strikingly like “Great Replacement” theory talking points — an old line of rhetoric used by white supremacist groups around the world to whip up fear using the specter of encroaching minority hordes. It warns of a future where white nations are overrun by black and brown immigrants, emphasizing cultural purity and the “securing” of the white race. And it’s had a disturbing renaissance of among conservative pundits in the Trump and post-Trump age.
They’re not even trying dress the racism up in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes any more.
Revisiting the No-Account Recount 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts reports on the no-accounters “reunion” and their constant search for straws for which to grasp. A snippet:
Turns out it was a Phoenix police plane searching for a stolen vehicle and it wasn’t anywhere near the coliseum but … hey … facts.
(Typos correxxed.)
Hazards 0
Robin Alcarian is also fed up with the governors of what blogger Ted McLaughlin has dubbed “The Petri Dish States.” A nugget:
In response to legal threats by Republican governors like Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Biden was blithe: “If those governors won’t help us beat the pandemic,” he said last week, “I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”
The refusal of otherwise healthy people to vaccinate is, in fact, a trampling of common sense, decency and the very idea that any of us owes a measure of respect to those around us.
Vaccine Nation 0
David dissects the duplicity, which does, indeed, defy description. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
The Propagators of Pandemic 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, a doctor speaks. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
Instead, our rage is directed at the disinformation profiteers — those bad actors with the big platforms who are behind each and every one of these deaths. Some of them run state governments, some have M.D. next to their names, others are millionaires who smugly sit on their Fox News perches and some spew bile from their radio pulpit. They are the ones who have helped drive us back into the throes of this pandemic.
And while we’re on the subject . . . .