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“Well, Isn’t He Not Special” 0

Above the Law’s Liz Dye takes a look at the Supreme Court’s rejection of Trump’s latest ludicrous attempt to avoid accountability as regards his theft of government documents. A snippet:

. . . the high court’s order is a sign that Trump’s run of getting a whole lot more “due process” than any other subject of a criminal investigation may be coming to an end.

Because from the very moment he filed this preposterous action, Trump’s only justification for his demands has been that he’s the former president, and so he should be treated differently from any other person in the same situation.

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Paper Trail, Reprise 0

It’s a paper train, and Michail in Norfolk follows it.

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Paper Trail 0

Frame One:  Shadow image of woman saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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All the News that Fits 0

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Republican Family Values . . . 0

. . . have always been a con to ensnare the gullible, but, when you look closely, there’s no there there.

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Under Deconstruction 0

Tombstone reading

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Republican Family Values 0

Republican Elephant says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Another Florida Man 0

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Florida Man 0

Frame One, captioned

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Governor DeSantis, standing in front of property devastated by hurricane Ian, points at a carpenter and says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Family Values 0

Caption:  Wrightsville, Georgia, names street after Herschel Walker.  Image:  Street sign reading

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Storm This Time 0

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Republican Family Values 0

There been quite a bit of who-shot-john lately about Herschel Walker and his family values (or perhaps one should say, “families values”). Some are taken aback that, despite his family values (or lack thereof), Republicans seem to still support him in his race against Georgia’s Senator Warnock.

Will Bunch has a theory as to why that is. Here’s a bit of his article:

It’s easy to reach for the simplest explanation of why a deeply flawed candidate like Walker is still in the running: That in an era of negative partisanship, there is no scandal that trumps the desire by Republican voters for a GOP Senate that would block President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees and prevent what they call “the woke liberal agenda.” And that’s surely part of it — but there’s also something much deeper in play.

The conservative movement is about one thing: preserving traditional hierarchies, especially around white privilege and patriarchy, by any means necessary. In the past, democracy — in times and places where white Protestants were the majority — often served that agenda well, and there were dirty tricks like Jim Crow laws for the places where it didn’t. But in an increasingly diverse and better-educated America, the old hierarchies are fading. So today, the far-right has a brand-new tool kit — a belief that Christian law trumps the will of the voters, or that vote counts don’t matter because elections are rigged (although they aren’t), or merely faith in the raw power of imposing unqualified candidates on the body politic.

I commend the entire article to your attention.

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Playing the Pawns 0

Michael Paul Williams has serious qualms about and see grave ethical issues with Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s decision to use transgender students (which, remember, are an almost infinitesimal proportion of the populace) as political pawns.

But, then, using innocent persons as pawns seems to be all the rage with today’s Republican Party.

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Republican Family Values, Reprise 0

Jeff Shapiro argues that a political party that wants to follow little children into bathrooms and look at their private parts cannot credibly claim that it’s the party of small government.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Methinks that the writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times is onto something.

Where is HUAC when we need them?

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The Trumpian Text 0

Uniformed man reading

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The Craven Chameleons Who Call Themselves “Conservative” 0

See the article that David refers to.

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Cannon Law 0

The law means what she wants it to mean.

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The Privatization Scam 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini says that you can vouch for it–school vouchers a bait-and-switch.

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