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You Don’t Count . . . 0

. . . if you aren’t counted.

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Freedom of Screech 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini points out the Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers does not understand the concept of “freedom of speech.” Here’s a tiny bit of what he says:

Free speech is a concept Rogers will never understand, mostly because she only wants it to be free for those with whom she agrees.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It” 0

Leonard Pitts, jr.

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Republican Family Values 0

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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“A Clear and Present Danger” 0

Tony Norman sounds the alarm.

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Facebook Frolics 0

A frolicker digs in.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Twits on Twitter 0

A Twit who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

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The Marketplace of Ideas, Reprise 0

Writing at the Austin American-Statesman, Tom Leatherbury argues that recent attempts by right-wingers to control censor the content of school libraries and reading lists smells of authoritarianism. A snippet:

What thinking Texans can question is why our legislators and local office holders increasingly want to dictate exactly what we should believe – to prescribe what information we can receive and to proscribe our receipt of contrary information and competing viewpoints. We see this in the “Critical Race Theory” and 1836 Project bills passed in the legislature in 2021. These bills tell us that there is an official, state-sponsored view of what history is “appropriate” and what thoughts and works are “patriotic,” instead of allowing us to investigate, to explore, and to make up our own minds. This authoritarian view is decidedly un-Texan, where we always have prized independent and free thought. We need to speak out against it as vigorously and as loudly as we can.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Yet more evidence that Republicans’ charges of Democratic voter fraud stem from psychological projection . . . .

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The Party-Hearty Party 0

Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy sit in easy chairs backed by QAnon supporters, insurrectionists, Proud Boys flying the Stars and Bars, and the like.  McCarthy is reading a newspaper story about Madison Cawthorn's allegations of Republican drug and sex orgies.  McCarthy says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Marketplace of Ideas 0

David argues that, despite Republicans’ claims, “cancel culture” is a Republican thing.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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How the Grumblers Cookie 0

Afterthought:

It’s clear that these right-wingers have never read Plato’s Symposium.

Indeed, methinks they’ve never read Plato. Or Locke. Or Kant. Or, for that matter, much of anything at all.

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Russian Impulses, Reprise 0

Donald Trump stands in front of the porch of a log cabin holding a sign reading,

Click to view the original image.

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Russian Impulses 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini tries to remember, just what was the word for providing aid and comfort to an enemy?

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The Privilege Flew 0

Florida Republicans are turning on Disney since the entertainment company had the unmitigated gall to criticize their hate-full “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell follows the money. A nugget:

Yet now that Disney has vowed to stop donating, DeSantis and GOP lawmakers are not only threatening to repeal the special theme-park exemption they provided last year, they’re saying Disney should no longer be entitled to special statutes that essentially allow the company to act like a private municipality. . . .

But none of these state lawmakers gave a flying fairy about all the special treatment and incentive deals Disney received until Disney stood up for LGBTQ families and said it was financially cutting off the politicians.

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“Vote Early and Often” 0

It’s a Republican thing.

Afterthought:

No wonder they are so willing to believe Trump’s Big Lie. They are willing to cheat, so it’s easy for them to believe that others cheat too.

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Russian Impulses 0

Frame Ones through Four:  Donald Trump says,

While on the topic of Russian impulses, I must say, as my first wife might have put it, Republicans seem to have plucked Grung_e_Gene’s last nerve.

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Freedom of Screech 0

In discussing measures in Idaho to censor books in public libraries, Dave Feinkeinburg gets to the heart of the matter; follow the link for his reasoning.

However, as the Legislature proved, exercising free speech that disagrees with the Republican majority in the Legislature is punished.

And it’s not just Republicans in Idaho, folks.

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