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The Tactics of the Trumpling 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier looks at the tactics of Donald Trump and the Trumpettes and concludes

This is basic thuggery.

Follow the link to learn how he reached that conclusion.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At AL.com, Williesha Morris catalogs the crazy. A snippet:

One library in north Alabama even flagged a book for removal because the author’s last name is Gay.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Thom debunks the Muskrat lies.

Aside:

Remember, Elon Musk is an immigrant to America.

Perhaps that is ipso facto evidence that we need to erect higher barriers to entr–oh, never mind.

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Establishmentarians 0

Peter Montgomery reports on efforts by right-wing they-call-themselves Christians to keep the spotlight off their efforts to piggy-back on Donald Trump and turn the United States into a theocracy. Here’s a tiny bit:

Scholars have documented that people who hold strong Christian nationalist beliefs are more likely than other Americans to support authoritarianism and embrace the idea that political violence may be necessary to move the country in the right direction. Christian nationalism played a significant role in motivating and mobilizing the crowds that attacked the U.S. Capitol to keep Trump in power after his 2020 defeat. Millions of conservative Christians have been told over and over again that God had anointed Trump to lead America back to God, and have been urged to wage “spiritual warfare” against the Trump’s “demonic” opponents.

Much, much more at the link.

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He Is His Owned Man 0

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says,

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini points out that Arizona Congresscritter Andy Biggs keeps some pretty sketchy company.

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Willful Blindness and the Republican Thought Police 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Solomon D. Stevens argues forcefully that we should not blind ourselves to our country’s faults, as the Republican Thought Police would have us do. I cannot say that I agree with everything he says, but I do think his piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read it. Here’s a snippet, one which I think we are seeing being validated in real time:

When we close our eyes to the fact that our country is flawed, patriotism can turn nasty. It can become defensive and angry. It can lead to the desire to strike out at, to harm, those who dare to question our vision of the country. This can turn what should be a healthy patriotism into a toxic force.

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One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0

Robert Reich takes exception to a comment by noted fifth columnist Tucker Carlson:

Days before Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison, Tucker Carlson gushed over Vladimir Putin, saying, “Leadership requires killing people.”

Well, I’m sorry, Tucker. You’re wrong.

Real leadership is the opposite of thuggery.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Republican Thought Police.

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Russian Impulses 0

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Heavily-armed GOP Elephant mans a guard booth in a wall beneath a MAGA flag.  On one side, a Democratic donkey bearing a paper labeled

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Dick Polman.

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The Swift Vote Conspiracy 0

Sam and his crew find themselves dismayed by the delusional dimensions of this dis coarse discourse.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

If not de jure, most certainly de facto.

Also, too.

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American Establishmentarism 0

Thom talks with Tim Alberta about how the confluence of bad history and bad theology are feeding American establishmentarianism.

This is well worth the few minutes it will take to listen to it.

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The Invading Horde 0

But the folks in Eagle Pass, Texas, say the invaders are not who you might think they are. Here’s a tiny bit from the story:

Residents of the border town at the center of an ongoing feud between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration made it clear over the weekend that the only people they see as “invaders” in their community are the 14 Republican governors and a convoy of Christian nationalists calling themselves “God’s Army.”

(snip)

While local residents with the Eagle Pass Border Coalition told reporters and supporters that they of course welcome all visitors to the community who respect their culture and diversity in a civil manner, they believe the recent arrival of Republican governors and a trucker convoy of Christian nationalists in support of Abbott’s violent rhetoric helped to spread “hate and descension” in their community over the weekend.

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Psychological Psychopathic Projection 0

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Flooding the Disinformation Superhighway 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier suggests that the liars are winning, benefiting from the “liar’s dividend.” What is the “liar’s dividend”? In his article, he defines it (emphasis added):

First described by law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron in 2018, it says that when a culture becomes awash in lies and disinformation, the liar benefits from the public’s diminished ability to identify actual truth. The liar’s dividend, of course, is metastasizing as the unscrupulous seize advantage of the described uncertainty.

Methinks he has a point. Read the full piece and decide.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Republican Elephant entangled in razor wire.  Behind him, also entangled in the wire, is a sign reading 'Partisan Poliitics at the Border.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Methinks Atrios makes an excellent point or two.

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