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“One Ring To Bind Them All . . . .” 0

Calvin McNeill, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, offers a theory as to the common denominator of Trumpism.

Methinks he’s onto something.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is indeed a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

PoliticalProf decodes de code.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Thom argues that the Republican Thought Police fear ideas, fear history, fear truth.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Nedra Rhone offers a theory as to what motivates the Republican Thought Police:

. . . the parents lobbying to ban books in their schools and communities are positioning their children to be less politically curious and less charitable toward others.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Two men, one labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu highlights the hypocrisy of Donald Trump’s fear mongering about those from foreign shores. Here’s a tiny bit:

Recall that as president, Trump launched an effort to strip citizenship from even naturalized U.S. citizens and deport them if they’d ever used a fake ID to get in. But he’s willing to ignore the fraudulent documents reportedly allowed by his CEO of Trump Media, former California congressman Devin Nunes, to employ undocumented immigrants on his family’s Iowa farm. A 2018 Esquire story lays that out.

Follow the link for a link to the Esquire story and more Trumpian hypocrisy (of which there seems an unending supply).

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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

Man wearing

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.”

(snip)

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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