Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, the past president, current president, and incoming president of the American Sociological Association take strong exception to Florida’s decision to remove sociology from the list of “core” courses at Florida universities.
I commend their article to your attention.
Afterthought:
I am a strong believer in the value of sociology as a field of study. I majored in history, as I’ve mentioned before in these electrons, but, had my college given minors, I had more than enough credits for a minor in sociology.
History teaches how we got where we are. Sociology teaches us to understand how where we are functions, plus it sheds light on the workings of the where-we-came-froms.
But, of course, racists and bigots (and fascists and wannabe dictators) don’t want you to understand, or you’ll see through their game.
Republican Family Values 0
Dick Polman identifies an inconsistency.
Have Cake, Eat It Too 0
Business Insider cites examples of Republican congresspersons voting against appropriation bills, then boasting to their constituents about the appropriations. In at least of them, the Congressperson in questions claims not to recall voting against the bill in the first place.
A snippet:
Favoring Faction over Action 0
If this isn’t putting party over country, I know not what could be.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Self-Incriminated 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Radine Robbins reminds us of Maya Angelou’s statement: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Courting Disaster 0
Precedented 0
Robert Reich sees a disturbing precedent to the rhetoric and tactics of Donald Trump and his followers.
Just go read it.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini writes about an Arizona legislator who has decided that, well, if you can’t gut out the vote, why not just throw it out completely. A snippet:
Make it legal.
Kern has introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 1014, which — I am not making this up — allows that “the Legislature, and no other official, shall appoint presidential electors.”
The Oathbreaker 0
An MSNBC panel discusses Donald Trump’s claim that he did not take an oath to “support” the Constitution, only to “preserve, protect, and defend” it. (How “preserve, protect, and defend” does not mean “support” defies me, as it does them.)
They also discuss the various ways in which our current Supreme Supremacist Court may try to weasel out of confronting the core issue.
Swiftvoting 0
Sam and the crew try to figure out the right-wing’s furor over Taylor Swift’s suggesting that citizens should vote.
The Fifth Column 0
In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, self-described Republican Andrew Richardson says that he is fed up with Republican’s preventing the U. S. from aiding Ukraine to defend itself from Russia’s invasion.
I commend his arguments to your attentioin.
