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How Stuff Works: Fending Off the Fabulist Dept. 0

Frame One, title,

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Vance Planning 0

. . . in case you needed any more evidence that today’s Republican Party is little more than the party of the New Secesh.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Writing at The Charlotte Observer, Esther Alejandra Sierra, a legal immigrant working in health care, reports that the hatred and bile towards immigrants being spread by Donald Trump and J. D. Vance is spreading. Here’s a bit from her article:

When extreme politicians at the federal and state levels make baseless accusations blaming immigrants for rising crime rates and our country’s problems, it’s not just deeply offensive and disrespectful, but it creates a hostile atmosphere in my community. This fear-mongering spreads unnecessary mistrust among our friends and neighbors and should be strongly denounced.

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article292728654.html#storylink=cpy

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Thom talks with Greg Palast about Palast’s new film detailing Republicans’ efforts to deny American citizens their right to vote.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

White man and black woman sitting at a bar.  White man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Fatal Attraction 0

Michael in Norfolk wonders just what keeps Donald Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers from seeing the reality of Trump and Trumpism.

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Republican Strategists on the Job 0

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Via Job’s Anger.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

At the Portland Press-Herald, David B. Offer hears a rhyme. Here’s the first line of the couplet:

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the first Hmong refugees began arriving in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I was then managing editor of the La Crosse Tribune. We reported on these new Asian residents, who were sponsored by local churches. That reporting included dealing with rumors that Hmong were stealing and eating people’s dogs and cats. We reported that there was no proof of those claims. They were unfounded, baseless assertions. Fortunately, no respected leaders – certainly no one running for president or vice president – repeated these lies.

Follow the link for the rhyme.

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*Mark Twain.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Donald Trump in helicopter hovers over Lady Liberty.  Trump says,

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Thom points out that racial hate seems to be the only strategy that Trump and Vance have left.

He also notes that their racist tactics are–er–not unprecedented in America’s history.

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Karen Karen-Like 0

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

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin debunks de bunk. A snippet; follow the link for context.

And you can probably say the same about the slightly more complicated situation in Aurora (Colorado–ed.). If you watched the debate, or just saw the clips, you already know that Trump, citing Aurora by name, says migrants “are taking over the towns, they are taking over buildings, they are going in violently. These are the people (Kamala Harris) and Biden have been letting into our country. And they’re destroying our country.”

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Whether the apartment buildings in question — housing mostly Central American migrants — are dilapidated and run down and have been cited over the years for a long list of code violations is not up for debate. It’s true. Rep. Jason Crow, who represents Aurora in Congress, called the conditions “squalid” in a tweet while saying the gang issues are “grossly exaggerated.”

And also not up for debate is whether Aurora is a war zone or a migrant wasteland. That’s simply false.

Aside:

Methinks the reason Republicans lie so much about so many things is that truth is not on their side.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron comments on J. D. Vance’s doubling down on his racist lies about Haitian immigrants..

PoliticalProf adds an observation.

As I have noted before, Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.

It is now the party of the New Secesh.

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Goose Stepping 0

The Trumpettes are telling the lie that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing geese. In a story about that lie and those lying liars, C&L’s John Amato, almost in passing, decodes de code:

By the way, their are approximately 11 million Haitians. Even if we imported their entire country into 330 million Americans, it would do nothing to turn us, as you say, into a third world country.

“Third world country” is also another code word for White Replacement Theory.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Along those lines, AL.com’s John Archibald points out that today’s self-styled “conservaatives” are keeping somewhat questionable company.

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Mongers of Fear 0

Speaking of that platform of fomenting fear . . . .

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Sometimes the Obvious Answer Is Obviously the Answer 0

PoliticalProf.

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It’s Bubblelicious 0

Michael in Norfolk gets to the heart of why persons are willing to believe falsehoods, half-truths, and misdirection plays peddled by Fox News,its imitatros, and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers in the right-wing media bubble. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

. . . . the main driver is the (listener’s–ed.) willingness to believe anything that supports one’s bigotries and hatred, most of which when all else is stripped away comes down to racial prejudice if not open hatred.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Over at Truthout, Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University, decodes de code.

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A Notion of Immigrants, Carrion Crows Dept. 0

The parents of Aiden Clark have had enough of Republicans’ politicizing the death of their son. Aiden died in a traffic accident involving a Haitian immigrant in Springfield, Ohio.

Here’s bit from Aiden’s father’s statement before the Springfield City Commission:

We have to get up here and beg them to stop. Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose. And speaking of morally bankrupt…politicians Bernie Marino, Chip Roy, JD Vance and Donald Trump then spoke in my son’s name and used his death for political gain. This needs to stop now.

They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants. The border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio. I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.

Follow the link for the video and more background.

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