Republican Hypocrisy category archive
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.
If the Truth Hurts, Try Threats 0
Afterthought:
In one way, I get the right-wing’s fascination with Hitler. After all, hate sells, and hate is what they sell.
Hate blinds people, for it’s easier to hate than to think.
But they don’t seem to remember that Hitler’s “thousand year Reich” latest less than a decade and a half and ended with his dying by his own hand while it collapsed around him.
This New Gilded Age 0
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty.
At the Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin makes a strong case that now, over six decades later, the Trump maladministration has decided to make poverty great again surrender.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Republican Thought Police 0
Thom calls out the Trump maladministration’s selective prosecutions persecutions of persons who criticize Donald Trump.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mr. Newberger salutes the Squeaker of the House.
The Rule of Lawless 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary is somewhat distressed at the realization that we are now living in a (my words, not his) klepto-idiocracy.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mary Trump discusses how Donald Trump’s behavior has given permission to racists, bigots, and haters to act out in public.
The Man Who Would Be King 0
Seth takes a closer look at the “No Kings” rallies and Republicans’ reaction to it.
Redemption 0
That is, the type of redemption that happens when you cash in those bonus points.
Republican Thought Police 0
The EFF reports that they have joined a suit to stop the Trump maladministration’s efforts to surveil and punish persons for exercising their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Here’s a bit from their release (emphasis added):
As detailed in the complaint, when asked in a survey if they had changed their social media activity as a result of the Trump administration’s ideological online surveillance program, over 60 percent of responding UAW members and over 30 percent of responding CWA members who were aware of the program said they had. Among noncitizens, these numbers were even higher. Of respondents aware of the program, over 80 percent of UAW members who were not U.S. citizens and over 40 percent of CWA members who were not U.S. citizens said they had changed their activity online.
Much more at the link.