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Echoes 0

This reminds me of someone in the news.

Go read it and see whether it sounds familiar to you.

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QOTD 0

Andrew Carnegie:

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

It’s how Republicans deal with historical fact.

Here’s an example from Above the Law, where Joe Patrice looks at why the Trump maladministration wants to rehabilitate Richard Nixon’s reputation. Here’s a tiny bit from his article (emphasis added):

Why Nixon? Why now? On one level, this caps off a long-time mission of the conservative legal movement. While it presents as an intellectual project draped in originalism and unitary executive theory, it’s just the byproduct of a bunch of late 70s Republicans fluffing up a pseudo legal justification to bring back segregation and clear Richard Nixon. It’s not an accident that Antonin Scalia’s first big assignment running the Office of Legal Counsel in 1974 was concluding that the tapes were Nixon’s personal property. Unitary executive theory touches on a wide array of executive functions, but at its root it’s just “when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal” run through an English-to-Legalese dictionary.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Donald Trump shouts at a voter,

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When the Truth Hurts, Attack the Truth-Tellers 0

Steve M. makes a prediction:

. . . if the November results are as bad for the GOP as most observers now expect, I expect him (Trump–ed.) to argue that poor media coverage of his administration was illegal election interference. And he won’t be alone.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.”

Yet another improperly stored portable phallus.

Yet another child.

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Orange Clockwork 0

A snitch on time.

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American Stasi 0

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp tells the story of another innocent swept up in the Trump maladministration’s mean for the sake of mean.

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Ricky Gervais:

. . . some people in America are offended by equality because when you’ve had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

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The Grand Inquisitor 0

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The Art of the Deal 0

Donald Trump wants to spread his taint on the Kennedy Center. Via C&L, it’s gone pretty much like everything else Donald Trump has done. A snippet:

. . . it turns out that despite Trump repeatedly decrying how the Kennedy Center was insolvent, crumbling, and so on, it was solvent—until Trump took over.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.

Authorities said the child’s parent went into a Dollar General in Oakwood, leaving the 7-year-old and two younger children in the vehicle. The child reportedly retrieved a handgun from inside the vehicle, and it discharged, striking the child in the leg.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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This New Gilded Age 0

In the midst of a column about the somewhat surprising results of a recent poll in Alabama, Kyle Whitmire includes a quotation from Les Barnett, a member of Alabama’s public television commission, which pretty much sums up this new gilded age:

“Have you ever heard of the Golden Rule?” Barnett said in an interview last November. “The man with the gold makes the rules.”

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Legacy 0

David discusses Karl Rove’s statement that today’s Republican Party is being taken over by Nazis and posits that Karl Rove bears some responsibility, even if that was not Rove’s intent, because of the tactics he used in the George W. Bush years.

Methinks his arguements are worth a listen. (Warning: Short commerical at the end.)

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The Carriers 0

Donald Trump and RFK Jr. covered in red bumps.  The ones on RFK Jr. read

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The Man Who Would Be King, Red Scare Redux Dept. 0

Anita Chabria looks at the political advertisements that the Trump maladministration recently released, paid for by our tax dollars and sees a pattern. Here’s a couple of bits from her article; follow the link for context.

“In authoritarian countries, all leaders, they try to completely blur the line between themselves and the state function,” said Konstantin Sonin, an expert in authoritarianism and a professor at the University of Chicago. “So basically, being ‘anti-me’ is being anti-state. In this Trump advertisement, there is this authoritarian scent.”

(snip)

Finchelstein points out that painting opponents as communists or socialists – an incessant refrain from Trump and the core of the commercials – is a common practice in non-democracies, turning enemies of the dictator into enemies of the state, and perhaps even criminalizing them.

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Stephen Hawking:

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0

Soul-crushing? At the Psychology Today website, Nir Bashan argues that “AI is slowly killing human creativity.”

My new cell phone keeps nagging me to use Google Gemini. I keep telling it to leave me the heck alone. It doesn’t listen.

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