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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

Way back in 2018 Trump made his once famous, now forgotten comments about “Shithole Countries” which inspired this parody. Based on comments that have accumulated on the original posting since that time, it bears mentioning that those “three guys” are not Norwegian and the video wasn’t shot in Norway. Just more Parody Project visual trickery for your entertainment.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Real. Big. Men.

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The Replacement 0

MAGA-hatted Republican Elephant standing before a sheld holding Trump Bible, Trump trading cards, and other Trum merch.  Elphant gestures towards shelf, saying

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“Sanewashing” 0

PoliticalProf offers an example.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy decodes de code.

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

At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth hears a rhyme.

And, while we’re on the subject of voices from the past . . . .

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*Mark Twain.

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A Tune for the Times 0

(Typo fixed.)

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Speaking of “Bankrupt” and “Looted” . . . . 0

Robert Reich discusses what a second Donald Trump presidency means for the economy.

Or you can read the transcript.

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Feeling Anxious? 0

If you’re worried about the upcoming election (I know I try not to think of it too much, because I find the prospect of the U. S. turning into yet another bankrupt, looted Trump business to be somewhat disquieting), Robin D. Stone, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, offers some hints for dealing with “election anxiety.”

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Courting Disaster 0

At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court seems to have some wounded fee-fees.

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One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0

Caption:  Moses attempts to stop social media before it gets started.  Image:  Moses stands at the foot of Mount Sinai holding two tablets.  Next to him is a third tablet reading,

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Remember, “social” media isn’t. For example.

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The Prediction 0

At the Kansas City Star, Roger C. Barnes and Don C. Smith argue that a Kansas newspaper editor predicted Donald Trump nearly a century ago. A snippet:

On May 15, 1941, White wrote in his newspaper The Emporia Gazette: “If this republic ever totters to its fall, it will be because the moron minority mind shall sometime, somewhere, somehow, gain a party majority by unscrupulous leadership and vote with a fascist group.”

Then, in early 1943, White wrote to a friend: “The pretension that a candidate’s utterances are omniscient when everyone (knows) he is talking damned nonsense is one of the large reasons why the American people lose faith in democracy.”

Follow the link to learn why they think those words are coming true.

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The Invalid Syllogism 0

Michael in Norfolk is perplexed.

I truly cannot understand the total and seemingly deliberate blindness of the MAGA base that mistakes Trump’s railing against those they hate – racial minorities, gays, the foreign born and independent women – as proof he gives the slightest damn about them.

More perplexity at the link.

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The Self-Made-Up Man 0

Lee Camp tells the story of Elon Musk.

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The Lake Effect 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini opines that, in an attempt to smear her opponent, Kari Lake stumbled into an accidental unintentional compliment.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers recaps Republican strategy.

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Deportation Nation 0

Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic House candidate for Seat A in the district, said in a press release that after a question was asked about discrimination and whether it exists in Idaho, she said that, “just because someone hasn’t personally experienced discrimination, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Racism and discrimination are real issues here in Idaho, as anyone familiar with our state’s history knows.”

Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Viola, reportedly responded to Carter-Goodheart, “I’m so sick and tired of this liberal bull (expletive). Why don’t you go back to where you came from?”

Per the news report, Trish Carter-Goodheart is of Native American descent. Her ancestors were here a millennium before Foreman’s.

The stupid. It burns, and the hate, well, it metastasizes.

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Republican Thought Cookie Police 0

Just when you thought dis coarse discourse couldn’t get any stupider . . . .

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The ‘”So What?” Party 0

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Dick Polman has more.

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