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The Rule of Lawless 0

Thom comments on Trump’s pardon of his violence-prone fanboys the January 6th insurrectionists.

This topic was also discussed in somewhat more detail on Thursday’s episode of The Bob Cesca Show.

I have listened to Bob’s podcast almost since its beginning–certainly since its first year–and commend it to your attention.

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Real Big Men 0

GOP members lying on their backs.  Passer-by asks,

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Republican Family Values 0

Jesus stands on the Mount saying,

Image via Michael in Norfolk, who has commentary.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Donald Trump letting January 6th insurrectionists out of prison.  As they storm out of the prison, they trample over GOP Elephant labeled

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At the Tampa Bay Times, retired DEA agent Robert Mazur shares his thoughts.

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Humpty-Dumpties 0

Shorter PoliticalProf: To right-wingers, the Constitution means what they want it to mean.

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The Oath Keeper 0

Donald Trump swearing an oath to

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Donald Trump, a second-generation American citizen who benefited from Americans’ constitutional right to birthright citizenship, wants to strip away the right to birthright citizenship.

At Above the Law, Elie Mystal reprises an article laying bare the underlying intent. A snippet:

I know you are afraid of the browning of the country, I know you’ve crunched the numbers and have come to the obvious conclusion that you can’t deport your way into a future of white majorities. I know you have two options: double down on apartheid rule, or strip away rights from non-white people who you can’t stop from living here. The Electoral College is going to do the work of the former, so when you come for birthright citizenship, I know you are fighting for the latter goal.

Today’s Republican Party has truly become the party of the New Secesh, as America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racism created to rationalize it continue to wield their curse.

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The Privatization Scam 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Randyu Sttapilus argues that it’s all about the Benjamins.

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Republican Family Values 0

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett highlights the hypocrisy.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Missing in Inaction 0

The Editorial Board of my local rag looks at statements by a number of Republican regarding the fires in California and editorializes that

Withholding relief from California fire victims would be unconscionable

The editorial itself is behind the paywall, but its title summarizes it nicely.

But that leads to a larger question:

    Where is the evidence that today’s Republican Party has a conscience?
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Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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Scott Maxwell parses the perfidy of Florida AG Ashley Moody.

No excerpt or summary can do his article justice. Just go read it.

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Tax and Spin 0

The Arizona Republc’s E. J. Montini decodes de code. A snippet:

. . . Goldwater lawyers sued the Town of Gilbert over increases in sales taxes that were approved by the Town Council in order to pay for parks and public safety projects.

That is how legitimate news operations described what the council did, anyway.

The Goldwater folks, taking a page from the playbook of what they themselves might call “fake news,” put out a press release under a headline reading: “Goldwater Sues To Stop Gilbert’s ‘Illegal’ Pickleball Tax.”

Follow the link for a description of the decryption.

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Courting Disaster 0

Yet more Cannon law.

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The Day of Love 0

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Four Years Later . . . . 0

Steve M. looks back at how the right tried to muddy muddied the waters about what actually happened on January 6, 2021.

It’s not pretty.

And, along those lines, PoliticalProf notes an irony.

Afterthought:

As my old professor of the early federal period was fond of saying, “History is irony.”

This is a particularly bitter one.

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The Fifth Columnists 0

Title:  Meet the (Partial) Cast of

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Donald Trump, standing between Melania and Elon Musk, says,

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This New Gilded Age 0

Thom discusses the “con” in “conservative.”

Robert Reich has more.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

In the midst of a long article about how the next few years are likely to be–er–difficult, the Rude One presents what methinks is an apt description of the current who-shot-John over H1B visas in the Republican Party:

It’s a battle between the racist capitalists and racist isolationists over who is the better racist . . . .

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