Republican Hypocrisy category archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper argues that, “If Trump can use a mail-in ballot, we all can.”
Ruining America Like One of His Businesses 0
Thom talks with Sabrina Haake about how the Trump maladministration’s fiscal incompetence will tank the economy. Haake minces no words, but she does mince Trump’s you-can-hardly-call-them policies.
Republican Thought Police 0
Sam and the crew discusses the Trump maladministration’s censorship of Jimmy Kimmel’s television show.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A New and Improved Poem.
In Fact, the Greatest Poes of All Time.
As Revised by President DJT et. al.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breather free,
And I will deport them to some place where they don’t even speak the language becauase that are not white like me.
Hoist on His Own Petard 0
Donald Trump chose to start a was–I guess because that’s what despots do–and now he finds himself dire straits, in particular, in particular, the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Jackie Calmes hears a rhyme. A snippet; go read the rest.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Thom discusses how the Trump maladministration is intentionally misinterpreting the equal time rule so as to exercise its freedom of repress (before moving on to a couple of other equally vile items).
The Art of the Steal 0
Afterthought:
I reckon it really should suprise noone that Donald Trump thinks it’s okay for him to bribe persons for their votes.
The Rule of Lawless, Reprise 0
Jacob Sullum argues that, when it comes to disregard of law and precedent, Donald Trump is the belle of the ballroom.
Cosplayers 0
In the course of a larger article about how the Trump maladministration relied on AI fabrications in a legal brief (which was subsequently rejected by the court), Techdirt pretty much sums up the rule of lawless:
Republican Family Values 0
“Republican family values” have always been nothing more than a grift that keeps on grifting.
The Me Veneration 0
At the Kansas City Star, Fred Wellman points out that there is a dark side to Donald Trump’s me veneration. A snippet:
That should alarm every American, including those who consider themselves conservative.
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We do not have kings. We do not pledge ourselves to rulers. Public officials are not supposed to ask whether citizens “remain loyal” to the person occupying the White House. The government exists to serve the people under laws that constrain the people who wield its power.
Republican Family Values 0
It should come as no surprise to learn that they are a (not at all) surprisingly flexible thing when Republicans find them inconvient.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration is trying an end run around the law so as to punish journalists who report news they don’t like (i. e., actual factual news).
Stray Thought 0
There’s a difference between interpreting the Constitution and amending it.
As far as I am concerned, today’s Supreme Supremacist Court has arrogated to itself the power to amend.