Republican Hypocrisy category archive
A Tune for the Times 0
(Mild language.)
This New Gilded Age 0
Apparently, I am not alone in realizing that the 1890s are back.
Russian Impulses, Reprise 0
The Rude One is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit from his article; follow the link for the rest (warning: rudeness):
The effect of this meeting was to take the United States out of its place as a leader in the world. We are now on our way to becoming like Russia . . . .
Suffer the Children 0
Again, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy (emphasis added).
Follow the link for details.
Republican Family Values 0
Afterthought:
I wonder what Dr. Freud would have to say about Republicans’ obsession with other persons’ sex lives.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Portland Press Herald, Roger Smith thinks he may have caught a tell.
Whether or not he’s right about that (I just can’t bring myself to check it out for reasons that should be obvious), methinks he still makes a valid point
The Fifth Columnist 0
In World War II, my father was in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944-45. He almost never spoke of his experiences there, but I am confident that he would agree with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Adriana E. Ramírez, who writes
Go read the rest.
The Agent of Chaos 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey asks a question, then he answers it:
Follow the reasons for his answer.
This New Gilded Age 0
Robert Reich fears that the existence of independent regulatory agencies may be in the crosshairs of today’s Robber Barons, aided and abetted by the Trump (mal)administration and the Supreme Supremacist Court.
DOGE Bulls in the China Shop 0
Trump voter is hoist on her own petard.
But wait! There’s more.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
The Wage Slave 0
PoliticalProf thinks he has a handle on the division of labor in our current federal (mal)administration.
Along those lines, the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini imagines that Elon Musk emailed Donald Trump demanding that Trump justify his being on the federal payroll. Then he goes on to imagine just what Trump might write in reply. A nugget:
Monday: Played golf in Florida.
Tuesday: Played golf in Florida.
Now, he’s even more troubled, thinking that he needs to dress things up a little because he is the president, after all, and he actually did do a lot more than just play golf. So, moving on to the next day, he writes:
Wednesday: Played golf in Florida. But, BUT, I also spoke to a group where I slammed federal employees for not working in their offices and said, “All federal workers must once again show up to work. Show up to work in person like the rest of us. It doesn’t work when you don’t show up … They’re not working. They’re playing tennis, they’re playing golf …”
Immunity Impunity
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If it’s not in a database, then it must have never happened.
The Establishmentarian Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones deciphers the double-talk.
His article focuses on a proposed law in Idaho, but his arguments can be extrapolated to the larger polity. No excerpt or summary will do it justice. Just go read it.