Parsing the Playbook 0
From the Youtube page:
Thom talks with Democratic Senator of Oregon, Jeff Merkley, about his FREE article, Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook, and his experience at the U.S. Senate chamber outlining these corrupt and destructive tactics.
You can download Senator Merkley’s Ring the Alarm Bells.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another case of politeness on the pavement.
Republican Family Values 0
Know them by the company they keep.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”
Follow the link for the evidence.
QOTD 0
Kyra Sedgwick, in the voice of Brenda Leigh Johnson:
If we all stop lying to each other, how will we ever get to the truth?
Republican Thought Police 0
When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Farron discusses how the Trump maladministration’s efforts to dictate how states run elections are blatantly unconstitutional.
But, of course, the Trump maladministration doesn’t care about the Constitution or the rule of law.
It cares about money and monacrhy.
Republican Family Values 0
Methinks that, when you read this article from the Des Moines Register about the struggles faced by Iowa residents since the Trump maladministration slasched SNAP benefits, you will understand why I hold that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” finds politeness in a parking lot.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
See Foot. Shoot Foot. 0
Michael in Norfolk makes the case that Donald Trump has hoisted himself on his own petard.
Stray Question 0
When an executive unilaterally imposes taxes without consent of the legislature, is that not a text-book case of taxation without representation?
Reflection Deception 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay looks into the Reflecting Pool and sees reflections of Trump’s lies.
The Unwelcome Mat 0
Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.