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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Will Bunch sums up the evidence for Jim Crow redux.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Kevin McCarthy says,

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Republican Family Values in This New Gilded Age 0

Republican Elephant to little boy:  I outlawed drag shows because your safety is my number one priority.  Not, get going, you're late for your shift at the slaughterhouse.

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Freedom of Screech 0

David points out that “projection is the name of the game.”

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The White-Washing 0

Why am I not surprised?

A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New York Times reported Thursday.

. . . which is, natch, exactly what the New Secesh want: to pretend–and to teach the children–that the past never happened.

Full story at the link.

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The Money Trail 0

Rashmi Rangan and James Angus suggest that the IRS is doing a rather poor job of following the money. Here are a couple of bits from their article:

Each year the Internal Revenue Service hunts down a phantom sum — the difference between taxes paid and taxes owed. The IRS commissioner has testified that this debt could amount to over $1 trillion (or more) annually. The essence of this pursuit leaves us wondering — why would low-income tax filers bear the brunt of this crusade for cash, as they are audited by the IRS at five times the rate of all other tax filers?

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The IRS follows a different strategy for the cash in the cabanas of the fortunate 700,000 club, those filers reporting total positive income of over $1,000,000. Last year for this group, about 687,000 rated nary a bother from the IRS. Apparently the use of multiple schedules for descriptions of enormous sums of money moving in myriad directions through various iterations triggers no corresponding curiosity on the part of the IRS. Too weedy, too slow, too complex.

Aside:

Methinks this disparity may shed some light on the Republican Party’s fervent opposition to President Biden’s desire to fund the IRS at a reasonable level.

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Republican Family Values 0

Those “family values” Republicans seem to have plucked Grung-e-Gene’s last nerve.

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Calamity Jane Catastrophe David 0

Steve M. points reminds David Brooks (not that he’s paying attention or ever has, for that matter) that, when you point your finger at someone else, you have four fingers pointing back at you.

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Misdirection Play 0

MAGA-hatted man says,

Via Juanita Jean.

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The Historical White-Wash 0

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Republican Family Values 0

Once again, Republicans choose to suffer the children . . . .

H/T Jason 330.

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The Crypto Con 0

Michael Graham wonders why so many reputedly responsible fiscals were looking the other way.

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The Amnesiac 0

Title:  Sixth Degrees of Separation.  Image One:  Kevin McCarthy, in 20201, says,

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Indoctrination Nation, Reprise 0

Image:  Man in Pilgrim garb sitting atop a triceratops.  Caption:  Great Moments in GOP Revisionist History:  December 21, 1620.  The Pilgrims arrive on the completely unoccupied continent of North America and begin teaching the dinosaurs about the dangers of critical race theory.

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Republican Family Values . . . 0

. . . are a most malleable thing.

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The Misdirection Playbook 0

Title:  How To Get People To Vote for You Even after You Show Complete Disregard for Their Lives.  Frame One, captioned

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Indoctrination Nation 0

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Misdirection Play, Base Desires Dept. 0

The Progressive Populist sees a strategy in the Republican Party’s sudden concern in the sex lives and sexual orientation of private citizens.

We think the Republican claims of Democrats promoting pedophilia are an attempt to distract from the ammosexuals who are a substantial portion of the base of the Greedy Oligarch Party. Our definition of “ammosexual” is “Someone who loves his or her guns more than they love their children.”

Follow the link for their reasoning.

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Decoding de Code 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock explores Republicans’ mystickal magickal incantation to legitimize any form of government overreach:

Follow the link to understand the secret of the spell.

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Unreal Estate 0

Forbes ran the numbers. Farron reports.

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