February, 2024 archive
The Swift Vote Conspiracy 0
Rex Huppke wonders how the right-wing ever saw through the dastardly plot. A snippet:
As a liberal in good standing, all I can say is: Dammit, how did they figure it out?
I guess some of it was obvious. Pop superstar Swift has encouraged young people to register to vote and get involved in the electoral process, while her Chiefs tight-end boyfriend Travis Kelce has encouraged people to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others from a deadly and wildly contagious virus. Those are pretty liberal things to do.
But I didn’t think right-wing sleuths would connect the dots this quickly.
Oh well. The vaccinated cat is out of the reusable shopping bag, so I might as well let everyone in on the entire plan.
To echo Paul Harvey, follow the link for the rest of plan.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
As the Founders feared might happen, this “nation of immigrants” now has a political party that values power over the polity and faction over the federation.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is shocked, shocked! I say, to find out that her party is the party of perfidy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner,” yet another child. Fortunately, this child will recover.
We are a society of stupid.
Dis Coarse Discouse 0
It’s amazing the lengths the press will go to try to turn every vote into a horse race,
If they can make it a horse race, they can avoid tackling stuff like, oh, you know, just for a couple of examples, who’s telling the truth and who’s telling lies or who cares about fulfilling the duties of office and who cares about filling his pockets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles M. Blow sees a pattern repeating itself:
He explains his reasons for fearing that at the link.
It’s Bubblelicious, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bill Eddy discusses some of the factors that help feed political polarization. Here’s one:
Polarization grows when people talk only to those who mostly agree with them.
Follow the link for the others and for his suggestions as to how to combat the bubbleliciousness.
” One says, ‘Taylor Swift fans are a cult.”” />The Galt and the Lamers 0
Thom looks at what would happen if Glibertarians got their way.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.
Deplatformed 0
You may recall that, in 2020, the Republican Party failed to adopt a platform.
At the Las Vegas Sun, a letter from Tom Harper, though not directly addressing this topic, offers what I find a persuasive explanation for that.
Untruth in Labeling 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mary Pezzulo struggles to understand why self-proclaimed “conservatives” embrace Donald Trump. A snippet:
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
Thom points out that Libertarianism arose from an attempt by real estate firms to stop rent control and that it just doesn’t work in real life.
Aside:
In line with what Thom said. a previous Republican governor of my state leased local transit tunnels to a third party, and it has not worked out well.
He sacrificed the public good for private profit.
As far as I can tell, today’s Republican Party no longer believes in the concept of the public good.
What it believes in is private greed.
