Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Sound of Silence 0
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board argues that the Republican Party’s silence about George Santos speaks volumes. A snippet:
Trumpettes Try the Nuremberg Defense 0
It fails. Here is the short version.
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January 6 insurrectionists: We were only following Donald Trump’s orders.
Federal Judge: That excuse won’t work.
Follow the link for the long version.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky points out that the self-styled originalists on the Supreme Supremacist Court are quite willing to ignore “original intent” when it suits them. A snippet; follow the link for his evidence.
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Unfortunately, the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court is obliterating any notion of a wall separating church and state.
The Phony “War on Christmas” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks behind the agitprop:
Aside:
As I journey about my neighborhood, it looks to me that, if there is a “war on Christmas,” Christmas is sure as heck winning.
Have Cake, Eat It Too 0
“Reactionary Populism” 0
David decodes de code.
Crocodile Tears 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini suggests that Donald Trump’s outrage at Britney Griner’s return home may be less than sincere.
Who woulda thunk?
Courting Disaster 0
Robert Reich discusses the latest danger posed by the Supreme Supremacist Court, the case of Moore v. Harper, and the failure of the media to give it the attention it deserves. I’m not going to do his article the injustice of trying to summarize of recap it.
Just go read it for yourself.
A Picture Is Worth 0
If one standard is good, two must be better.
Originalist Sin 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Josh Gohlke sums up the strategy (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the back story.
A Freudian Slip-Up 0
They said they didn’t see them.
How the heck could they have missed them? I saw them the first time I saw that political cartoon, for a political cartoon is what it is.
My guess is that, just as when they look at day-to-day life, they don’t see what they don’t want to see.
Furrfu.
The Pyrite Rule 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is somewhat taken aback that evangelical they-call-themselves-Christians seem to have rewritten the “Golden Rule” so that it reads simply, “Do unto others.”
The Hunt for Hunter 0
David tries to make sense of the right’s obsession with Hunter Biden (Warning: short commercial at the end). An excerpt:
Hyperfocus on irrelevant issues has been the name of the game for this Republican Party for four, six, probably closer to eight or even ten years at this point in time . . . .
Here’s the article that David refers to.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
As my old professor was fond of saying, “History is irony.” When you see a headline about someone’s being caught intentionally voting illegally, it’s almost always a member of the party that claims that voter fraud is rampant, which it is not.. Methinks ’tis a classic case of psychological projection.