Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Courting Disaster, One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice dissects Supreme Supremacist Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s misdirection play.
All the News that Fits 0
Amy Goodman and Juan González spoke with The Nation’s Chris Lehmann about Donald Trump’s efforts to stifle free speech and silence the press. Lehman notes that this is a long-standing tactic for Trump. Here’s a snippet; follow the link for the full article.
(Broken link fixed.)
Republican Family Values 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Wendy L. Patrick offers some pointers which methinks could be helpful in spotting the next Matt Gaetz.
The Courage of His Conniptions 0
John Amato points out that a self-proclaimed “independent thinker” who proclaims that he will do as ordered is not that independent a thin–oh, never mind..
Meet the Swamp King . . . 0
. . . and his swamp things.
What’s in a Name? 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Jack Abell would like to know.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Rep. Melanie Stansbury argues the we are facing McCarthyism v. 2.0, with extra added malice and stupid (commentary by Cliff Shecter).
Via C&L.
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*Mark Twain.
Kashing It In 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers looks into why Donald Trump wants Kash Patel to run the FBI.
Establishmentarians 0
Thom looks at recent Establishmentarian antics in Texas (and a few other states).
Republican Family Values 0
“Republican family values” has never been anything other than a marketing slogan, a tale told to the susceptible, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The SPLC takes a deep dive into the growth of anti-Haitian rhetoric lies and how they feed division and hatred.
Here’s a bit from their article (emphasis added. The whole piece is worth your while.
“The extremist forces behind the Springfield attacks know that they can only succeed with division,” she wrote. “They employ the machinery of antisemitism and racism to distract from the root causes of our collective struggles and turn us against each other.”
Courting Disaster under the Rule of Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice reports that, for some fool reason, Americans’ faith in the Supreme Supremacist Court, not to mention (which, natch, translates as “to mention”) lower courts is–er–somewhat in decline.
Republican Thought Police 0
Scott Maxwell has a question for Florida’s Republican thought police:
But to this day, the state has refused to produce a list of the books it believes are inappropriate — or even answer questions about whether certain books are OK when asked. Why do you think that is?.
Follow the link for his answer to his admittedly rhetorical question.
Post Mortem 0
Cliff Schecter wonders why it can happen (is happening?) here. (Warning: Mild language.)
Republican Family Values 0
Thom talks with Jacob Soboroff about the film, Separated, which documents Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents.
It would appear the “suffer the children” is a Republican family value.
You can learn more about the film at this link.