Republican Hypocrisy category archive
American Stasi . . . 0
. . . Meet your newest propagandist.
Were he still with us, Walter Cronkite would hang his head in shame to see his former employer turn into Fox News Lite.
The Belles of the Ballroom 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay follows the money.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:
Follow the link for the article itself.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.
This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).
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*Mark Twain.
A Postal Puzzle 0
Is Alabame Senator Tommy Tuberville actually a Florida man? Inquiring minds want to know.
Read the article by Kyle Whitmire that Farron references.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains why the Supreme Supremacist Court is relying on its “Shadow Docket” to roll back civil rights, resuscitate Jim Crow, and take the nation back to the 1950s {if not the 1850s, which, methinks, is where they truly want to be):
It relieves the burden of having to slap lipstick on this pig.
Follow the link for context.
The Art of the Con 0
Robert Reich dissects the duplicity behind Donald Trump’s “Freedom 250″ celebration cash grab. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he says that.
Republican Thought Police 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that the Trump maladministrations legal attempt to define “8647” as somehow prohibited speech, well, just got 86ed in court.
All the News that Fits 0
Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran must be going so very well.
I mean, why else would Pete Hegseth try to gag the Pentagon press corps?
The Rule of Lawless 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at recent actions by the Trump maladministration’s Department of Justice (sic) and concludes that
I think he’s onto something. Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Via the Law Vegas Sun, Mark Barabak considers the results of a recent poll of lawyers, legal scholars, lawyers and law professors, and citizens. The results are somewhat–er–disquieting. Here’s on quote from his article:
Republican Thought Speech Police
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Bruce Schneier and John Penney argue that the actions of the Trump maladministration are having a chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of speech. Their article focuses on college campuses, but methinks it extends much further. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
Research suggests that surveillance, personal threats, uncertainty and abuse of power are key factors in doing so. The federal government has a clear and systematic pattern of employing these very mechanisms across a number of domains far beyond campuses.
They are evident in militarized raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and in journalists being arrested and indicted for reporting on protests. They are made clear in the long list of political enemies the Trump administration has investigated or threatened, including the Federal Reserve chairman. And they can also be seen in the weaponization of technology, including ramping up surveillance to target critics and protestors.
The Rule of Lawless, Reprise 0
I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that, under the Trump maladministration, the Department of Justice is being turned into the Department of Retribution.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
UNC law professor Gene Nickol tells NC Republicans that, try as they might,
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Afterthought:
I think “racist agenda” would have been a more appropriate phrasing, but that’s just me.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports on DOJ attorneys fired by the Trump maladministration. A snippet:
The prosecutors fired were doing their jobs. That is, apparently, the problem.
Follow the link for context.