Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Neglected Legacy 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., reminds us that Martin Luther King, Jr., gave more than one speech.
Patriot Gamers, Reprise 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini minces no words. A snippet:
So how else should we view the men and women who signed fake electoral certificates after the 2020 election hoping to subvert that constitutional work of the Electoral College, overturn the outcome of a duly certified election and, in essence, stage a coup that would have kept Donald Trump in office?
More unminced words at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles Blow decodes de code:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Geographically Challenged 0
Aside:
I used to live in northern Delaware (indeed, that’s where I was living when I started this blog). When I had to go to my company’s headquarters in D. C., I occasionally would see Joe Biden and Bill Roth, Delaware’s Senators at the time, on the early Metroliner to Washington. (And, no, I never disturbed them.)
Why? Because they lived in Delaware and commuted to D. C. every day. They stayed over in D. C. only when pressing business forced them to.
Frankly, I think that’s one reason that both of them were pretty good Senators–they remained grounded in their home state (though, sadly, Roth got a little ditzy towards the end of his career).
But I suspect that the smears Farron refers to will resonate with many Republican supporters. What with smartphones and all, reading maps seems to be a lost art.
Rand Gestures 0
Rand Paul reveals Democrats dastardly designs (emphasis added):
More dastardliness detailed at the link.
Going Off Script 0
Will Bunch offers a theory as to how Donald Trump’s attempted coup d’etat failed. It’s a rather long and nuanced read, so I recommend that you go directly to the source.
Aside:
We may never know how close the plan came to succeeding–too close–but the very existence of such a plan warns us that the polity was, and still is, under grave threat from persons who have convinced themselves (have been convinced?) that sedition is somehow patriotism.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It is also a key element in the strategy of American racists and bigots going back over a century and a half.
Crisis Authors 0
At the Washington Monthly, Lindsay M. Chervinsky dissects Republicans’ strategy. Here’s the nutshell, follow the link for the full exposition (emphasis added).
School Daze 0
The American dream is rapidly becoming the American nightmare.
Aside:
My mother was a teacher. I refuse to visualize her debasing herself in such a manner.