Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Misdirection Playbook 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott reveals the playbook (emphasis added):
It’s (the misdirection play–ed.) also a central component of conservative politics today.
If you’re under the impression that the biggest issues facing America are things like transgender participation in sports, school curriculum and the M&Ms cartoon spokespeople — and not the fact that the Republican Party is methodically working to relieve the rich of any responsibility whatsoever for funding the government, while putting the bill on the rest of us — you’re being played.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen 0
Shevrin Jones decodes Florida Man’s code. A bit of the translation (emphasis added):
I commend the entire article to your attention.
The Unnecessary Question 0
Michael Paul Williams has some thoughts about the motives for the muting:
“It’s not just anti-Blackness. It is an explicit act of legislating white ignorance … because they are being robbed of their history as well,” she said of white students.
She recalled the 2020 movement for Black lives after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer . . .
“There were too many white young people out there marching with Black people hand in hand,” Guy said. “That is the biggest concern that they have … white people being educated.”
Image via Job’s Anger.
Low Common Denominator 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’shttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-george-santos-congress-gop-extremism-20230124.html Helen Ubiñas thinks she’s found the common denominator for success as a Republican Congressperson:
Follow the link for the evidence.
Same Message, Prettier Packaging 0
It occurs to me that Florida governor DiSantis is sort of like George Wallace after a finishing school do-over.
An Empty Suit 0
Liz Dye delights in reports on Donald Trump and his attorneys being fined just under a million dollars for filing an empty suit against Hillary Clinton et al. An excerpt from her article:
And the reason he persisted is that Trump’s lawsuits are not really lawsuits at all, in the sense that they don’t function to vindicate any legally cognizable injury.
“The Complaint and Amended Complaint were drafted to advance a political narrative; not to address legal harm caused by any Defendant,” the court writes, adding later that “this case is part of Mr. Trump’s pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes.”
Twits on Twitter 0
A twit who is hoist on his own petard.
How Unfirm a Foundation 0
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out that it’s difficult to take a stand on principles if you don’t have any.
Kick ‘Em When They Are Down 0
LZ Granderson considers Republicans’ oft expressed concern over government spending at the national level. He looks specifically at their campaign to cut destroy the social safety net, including Social Security and Medicare*, and suggests that the would-be cutters are focused on the wrong things. Here’s a bit from his article:
A politician tells constituents what they want to hear. An elected official governs.
(snip)
We spend more on our military than the next nine countries combined spend on theirs. The 2017 tax cuts led to a 44% jump in profits for banks in 2018. And, despite (or because) of global inflation, corporate America booked record profits during 2022 while families struggled to put food on the table.
Our problem is not money. It’s priorities.
Politicians, telling constituents what they want to hear, are setting out to cut the safety net. A safety net that public servants recognize we need.
Of course, it could not possibly be that these would-be cutters are purposefully acting in service to the wealthy for their own benefit. Why, that would be unthinkable.
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*Not to mention the cuts already made over the past four decades to welfare, unemployment compensation, and the like, which have contributed to the increases in homelessness and destitution that today fills the headlines.
