Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Bully’s Puppets 0
Robert Reich looks at how the rich and powerful use misdirection plays to get even more rich and powerful and expresses hope that persons are finally catching on. An excerpt; follow the link for the rest.
The bullied are still there; Trump is still exploiting their anger.
For nearly a decade, Trump has channeled that anger into racism, nativism and misogyny. He has encouraged his followers to feel powerful by bullying those with even less power: poor Black and Latino people, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Muslims, families seeking asylum, undocumented workers, pregnant women who can’t afford to travel to a state where abortions are legal.
This bullying game has been played repeatedly in history by self-described strongmen who pretend to be tribunes of the oppressed by scapegoating the truly powerless, but who are actually fronting for the rich and powerful.
In reality, Trump and his lackeys work for the oligarchs — cutting their taxes, rolling back regulations that protect the public but that cost the oligarchs, and dividing the rest of us into warring factions so we don’t look upward to see where most power and wealth have gone.
The good news is that Americans are catching on.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh decide that, if all else fails to bring back the Confederacy, let’s craft a Way-Back machine?
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk calls out the con.
The Scofflaw 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Leonard Green looks at Donald Trump’s practice of using songs at his rallies, even after being served legal notice by the songs’ copyright holders not to do so.
He closes his article with a suggestion for the next song’s copyright Trump should infringe.
Follow the link and name that tune.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini highlights the hypocrisy. A snippet:
Earlier this year, Republicans in the U.S. Senate bowed to Trump’s demands and killed a bipartisan security bill introduced by Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
(snip)
The bipartisan bill was not bad for border security. It was not bad for those looking to stop the flow of illegal drugs. It was not bad for those working to solve the asylum problem. It was not bad for the border patrol, since it included more officers and enhanced security.
In essence, the bill was not bad for America, just the opposite.
The border security bill was only bad for one thing — Donald Trump’s campaign..
Weasel’s Words 0
Mark Meadows tries to claim that Arizona state law doesn’t apply to him because he was working for a federal official, i. e., President Trump at the time he recruited fake electors to overthrow the 2020 election.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks has noticed certain traits and behaviors that seem universal among adherents to the MAGA movement. For those who wish to become MAGAts (but have not sustained any serious head injury or possess a profound personality disorder) Mangy wrote this song to outline some of the basic tenets every good, blindly-obedient MAGAt needs to master.
A Questioning of Identity 0
Thom calls out Republican race-baiting and puts it into historical context.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Reprise 0
Retired attorney, judge, and a 24-year veteran of the Kansas Army National Guard Thomas Arnhold reveals what he has learned about himself from Republican campaign ads in Missouri. For example:
Follow the link for the rest of the revelations.
Trump’s Plan for a Police State 0
Robert Reich takes a look at Project 2025.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Noah Feldman argues that persons aren’t really noticing because the right-wing is doing it one baby step at a time.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.
It wants to rule.