Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice points out that incompetence exacts its toll. Here’s how he opens his article:
Of course, that does not matter to her bosses, who are working tirelessly to impose the rule of lawless.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
History professor Michael E. Neagle listens to the Trump maladministration’s justifications for bombing South American fishing boats and hears a number of rhymes. Here’s just one of them:
Applied during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the label denied captured insurgents international rights and protections otherwise afforded state-sanctioned “prisoners of war.”
It enabled the indefinite detention and torture of these individuals, which eroded America’s moral standing in the world and crippled judicial efforts to convict suspected 9/11 planners.
Follow the link for the rest.
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*Mark Twain.
Emoluments, Meet the Crypto Con 0
David follows the money (launderer). (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
It’s been a while since we revisited a sea shanty – you may recall, mother doesn’t approve of these – but we’ve dug deep and repurposed “Drunken Sailor” to talk about the news this week of the BBC cocking up their edit of a speech on a Panorama programme over a year ago (making it appear more vehement than it was). As a consequence of this hitting the headlines in a targeted attack on the UK’s flagship broadcaster, which has been caught up in culture wars, post-truth, and its own self-generated problems, Donald Trump has now issued a threat of legal action. Obviously this is a model he’s used to good effect (for his purposes) in the USA, having taken on ABC, CNN, and CBS and won big settlements there and elsewhere.
The first recorded description of “Drunken Sailor” is from a Pacific Ocean whaling voyage in 1839 that departed from New London, Connecticut. So very appropriate for Trump’s latest giant lumbering trans-oceanic phishing foray. You can find details about this fast-moving story, which will reach some kind of resolution by tomorrow when he’s given a deadline for his Austin Powers Dr. Evil-style threat of “One Billion Dollars” here.
The Swearing In 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Afterthought:
I suspect that I am not the only person to see irony as the Squeaker of the House asks others to swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States, something he seems unable or unwilling to do.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
David debunks de bunk and decodes de code.
Republican Thought Police 0
If you don’t like history, well, just apply a little white out.
The Rule of Lawless 0
David dissects the implications of Trump’s preemptive pardons of persons who tried to undermine the 2020 election on his behalf.
Or Not To Reevaluate? 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks he has figured out why the Trump maladministration is so determined to end SNAP benefits.
The Emoluments Ballroom 0
Farron follows the money.
This New Gilded Age 0
Aside:
I’m with Thom about watching election returns on television.
I’m quite happy to read about them the next morning.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is not scripture. Rather, it’s a Republican family value.
Stray Question 0
Am I the only persons who sees not a little irony–if that’s a strong enough term–in Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of establishmentariarism?
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at Donald Trump’s decision to demolish of the East Wing of the White House (without, natch, getting permission, although he does not own the White House) and hears a rhyme.
Follow the link for his citation of the evidence.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Ronald Brownstein hears a rhyme from the past in the actions of today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. Here’s a snippet from his article:
But, starting in the 1870s, the conservative Supreme Court of that era unraveled those protections in rulings that culminated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation for nearly the next 70 years.
Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a period that historians often describe as the nation’s Second Reconstruction.
This New GIlded Age 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey follows the money.