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Metamorphosis 0

David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme with nations in decline.

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*Mark Twain.

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Chaos Agents 0

Writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier is not sanguine. He notes

The great awakening of Trump 2.0 is that tragically unserious people can do tragically serious damage.

Follow the link for context.

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“Facts Are What People Think” 0

Donald Trump is suing universities, attacking news media, and honoring slaveholders.

Douglas Rooks* sees a pattern in all this. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

It’s really no secret. From his 2016 campaign to the present, Trump has constantly presented lies as truth and facts as debatable. To maintain credibility, it helps if the electorate becomes more ignorant, and Trump has set out to achieve that goal in, shall we say, textbook fashion.

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Yes, David Rooks. Not David Brooks. Clearly.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Trump maladministration has another concentration camp in the works.

But, according to the local Republican state representative quoted in the report, it’s a boon to the local economy, because of all the jobs it will create.

Never mind that confining persons without due process violates the very notion of the rule of law.

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

At the Bangor Daily News, Mary Ann Larson hears a recent rhyme from across the sea.

Aside:

I know someone who has relatives in the land Larson refers to. What she says is quite correct.

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*Mark Twain.

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What’s in a Word? 0

David Masciotra argues that, in today’s Republican Party, the word “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Here’s how he starts his article:

Gore Vidal took a British television interviewer by surprise in 2012 when he remarked, “When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative,’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not. They’re fascists.”

That might have seemed like hyperbole during the year Mitt Romney became the Republican presidential nominee. But it rings truer as we pass the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term in office.

The entire article is worth your while.

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American Stasi 0

Thom discusses the random arrest of a U. S. citizen and wonders whether ICE has been transformed into Donald Trump’s own secret police.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Seton Hall law professor Lori A. Nessel is distressed and dismayed by the Trump maladministration’s policies of mean for the saek of to immigrants. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:

Today, the very people we have protected from oppression and torture, and other hardworking members of our society who have built their lives believing in the American dream, are finding themselves once again subject to arbitrary arrest and torture. This time, at the hands of the United States.

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

Trish Fontana, whose family survived Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, hears a rhyme with what’s happening in the U. S. today. She notes that

. . . fascism has become a polarizing force in our own nation today.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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*Mark Twain.

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Actions . . . 0

. . . have consequences.

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American Stasi 0

Mary Trump sounds a warning.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.

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Courting Disaster 0

Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s attack on an impartial federal judiciary and the impllications thereof.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.

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The Update 0

Title:  The Four Freedoms 2025.  Frame One:  Freedom of speech . . . if you don't say anything mean about Trump.  Frame Two:  Freedom of worship . . . if you're a Christian.  Frame Three:  Freedom from want . . . if you're a billionaire.  Frame Four:  Freedom from fear . . . if you're a straight white guy.

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Republican Family Values 0

Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Ring of Fire looks at some of the latest racist and bigoted antics out of Florida.

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Establishmentarians 0

Methinks the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun makes some good points in advocating that establishmentarians who want to use the government to conduct their inquisitions should pay to play.

Me, I’m a disestablishmentarian. I believe that established churches should be disestablished.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Via WHYY, the AP looks at how the Republican thought police are leaning on learning.

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