September, 2024 archive
The Crypto Con 0
Paul Krugman is less than sanguine about crypto con artists’ growing interest in and influence on politics. A snippet:
(snip)
So crypto’s political spending clearly seems motivated by financial self-interest, while the right-wing lurch of other tech bros may — as a Facebook founder, Chris Hughes, put it the other day in The New York Times — reflect a sense of common cause with Trump, who like them believes that he shouldn’t have to play by the rules.
Follow the link for the full article.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Much Be Better 0
PoliticalProf seems to think that one thing is not like the other thing.
Republican Family Values 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun notes the “mean for the sake of mean” appears to be a Republican Family Value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle disagreements with politeness.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
But It Calls Itself the “Party of Personal Responsibility” . . . . 0
The editorial board of the Charlotte Observer opines that North Carolina Republicans are providing a tutorial in how to excuse the inexccusable.
Misdirection Play: about Those “Issues” 0
Dick Polman has a message for those who say that they don’t know enough about Kamala Harris’s positions on “the issues” (follow the link for context):
Afterthought:
Honest to Betsy, it’s not like she’s keeping her positions secret. There’s this thing called “a website.”
You may have heard of it.
Suffer the Children 0
Apparently, that’s a Republican Family Value.
The Playbook 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Mark D. White looks to the Marvel Universe, particularly to a recent Captain America series, to draw lessons about how fascism works. He identifies three steps in the process; follow the link to see whether they remind you in any way of dis coarse discourse.
1. Inventing a “Mythic Past”
2. Setting “Us” Against “Them”
3. Presenting a “Strongman”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
PoliticalProf decodes de code.
