Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Prophesy 0
Isaac Bailey reminds us that Donald Trump once said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” He parses that statement and concludes that Trump was right. A bit from his article:
It means Trump believes the people who support him are unethical in the extreme.
It means Trump believes most Republicans are immoral or amoral at best, people who only care about the power they can attain or retain. There’s just no getting around that conclusion. Every time he gets indicted, it becomes truer.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Disparate Treatment 0
Michael in Norfolk points out that, despite the caterwauling of the GOP, Donald Trump was, indeed, handled with kid gloves. Here’s a bit of his post (emphasis added):
Paper Trial 0
Lawrence O’Donnell cuts through ex-Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore’s double-talk on Donald Trump’s theft of government documents.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
This New Gilded Age 0
LZ Granderson wonders whether Republicans have ever read any of the works of Charles Dickens.
Here’s how his article starts:
High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night.
That’s not a sentence I thought needed to be said, but here we are in 2023, and conservative lawmakers in more than 10 states are making efforts to roll back child labor laws. Cocktail waitress is just one of the disturbing occupations floated as appropriate work for children.
Iowa enacted a law last month allowing more kids to work more dangerous jobs. In Arkansas, a 14-year-old would no longer need to show an employer proof of parental approval.
Now the arguments against this movement are painfully obvious, but the so-called case for child labor requires unpacking.
Follow the link for the unpacking.
Afterthought:
As Republicans reintroduce child labor while barring immigrants who are willing to work, I am again reminded of Professor Shade’s mantra, “History is irony.”
Blowback 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier finds himself dismayed, but somehow not surprised, by the reaction of (some) Republicans to President Biden’s announcement of the “U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.” He observes that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Master Plan 0
In his commentary, the artist points out, regarding Kevin McCarthy, that
. . . it’s not up to McCarthy. He has to keep the Freedom Caucus and the fringe weirdos on board if he wants to keep his gavel. You’re not exactly negotiating from a position of power when you can’t afford to lose George Santos.
The Whitewashing 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell takes look at Florida’s whitewashing (here’s a particularly outrageous and stupid example) of America’s history; he finds the implications thereof disturbing because, well, they are. (And, natch, it’s not going on just in Florida.)
A snippet:
The leader of a Holocaust Center made a similar point recently stressing: “The Holocaust, it didn’t start with guns and death camps. It started with words.”
know Them by the Company They Keep Out 0
Methinks my old friend Noz makes a good point.
