Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration believes that, if they don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.
A Loafsome Attack 0
Via Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law, this tribute to the Trump maladministration’s decision to throw the book at someone who threw a sandwich is circulating on “social” media.
Rubino’s post has commentary which is well worth a read. A tiny excerpt (emphasis added):
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom talks with Kymone Freeman about Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia. (Warning: Short commercial at about the three-minute mark.)
The Control Freak 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star’s Melinda Hennenberger offers what methinks is a simple lens through which to view the actions of the Trump maladministration. Here’s a tiny bit from her article:
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu has a long and thoughtful article about Iowa’s Republican Governor’s attempts to stamp out talk about DEI in the state’s educational institutions. (In case you wondered, the goal of the anti-DEI movement is to pretend that discrimination and bigotry and segregation and slavery never happened and left no legacy.)
She notes that the Iowa governor referred to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order, then observes (emphasis added)
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Chaos Agents 0
Writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier is not sanguine. He notes
Follow the link for context.
“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Donald Trump is suing universities, attacking news media, and honoring slaveholders.
Douglas Rooks* sees a pattern in all this. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
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Yes, David Rooks. Not David Brooks. Clearly.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock Donald notes that Trump denies the reality of climate change and is rolling back efforts to deal it. He wonders, “What motivates Trump to deny the reality of global warming?”
So he decided to follow the money.
What’s in a Word? 0
David Masciotra argues that, in today’s Republican Party, the word “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Here’s how he starts his article:
That might have seemed like hyperbole during the year Mitt Romney became the Republican presidential nominee. But it rings truer as we pass the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term in office.
The entire article is worth your while.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice tells the tale of a Constitutional redaction.
(Be sure to read the updates.)
No Surprises Here 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth wonders, why all the fuss? A snippet:
And MAGA world hue and cry and quiver with angst that their idol won’t come clean and release the files relating to his once close pal and now dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
A simple, but obvious question. What did you think was going to happen?
If the Truth Hurts . . . . 0
. . . then make it go away.
Robert Reich dissects the Trump maladministration’s strategy to turn the BLS into just plain BS.
Republican Family Values 0
They don’t seem to apply to families.
At the Detroit Free-Press, Debbie Dingell, who represents Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, looks at the harm the Trump maladministration is doing to Americans’ health and health care. A snippet:
An estimated 17 million people could lose their health care as a direct result. And premiums for everyone will go up. Without enhanced premium tax credits for ACA marketplace plans, more healthy people will drop coverage, making the risk pool sicker on average and more expensive to insure.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
Mr. Newberger envisions a Trumpled Smithsonian.