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September, 2024 archive

The Policy Statement 0

PoliticalProf.

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Facebook Frolics 0

AI frolics.

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QOTD 0

Clarence Darrow:

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.

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Goose Stepping 0

The Trumpettes are telling the lie that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing geese. In a story about that lie and those lying liars, C&L’s John Amato, almost in passing, decodes de code:

By the way, their are approximately 11 million Haitians. Even if we imported their entire country into 330 million Americans, it would do nothing to turn us, as you say, into a third world country.

“Third world country” is also another code word for White Replacement Theory.

Follow the link for the larger story.

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The Presidential Debase 0

The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal makes a compelling case that it is not possible to have a meaningful presidential debate when one of the participants persons on the stage is Donald Trump.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They explore new frontiers of fiendliness every day.

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

Rebecca Watson hears a rhyme:

Or you can read the transcript.

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*Mark Twain.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Along those lines, AL.com’s John Archibald points out that today’s self-styled “conservaatives” are keeping somewhat questionable company.

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Microplastics People You’re Such a Drag 0

Cartoon showing man eveolving from Australopithecus to Homo habilus to Homo eerectus to Home neandertalensis to Homo sapiens to Microplasticansis.

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is indeed a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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QOTD 0

Jean de la Bruyere:

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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The Misdirection Player 0

Pete Buttigieg thinks that there may be a method in the madness.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Lemont:  What's wrong with you?  Bus Stop Guy, wearning a MAGA-hat:  People are already voting by mail.  Voting isn't supposed to be easy and convenient.  That invites fraud.  The only way to ensure a fair vote is to vote only during one single weekday where the minorities who manage to get time off work stand in line for hour in crucial states because my party closed so may of ther polling places . . . .  Lemong:  I'm sorry for your loss.  Bus Stop Guy:  Don't interrupt.  I was about to say,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A little politeness, just in passing, don’t you know . . . .

Too many guns. Too much stupid.

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Mongers of Fear 0

Speaking of that platform of fomenting fear . . . .

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Dynastic Desires 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey makes a compelling case that Donald Trump does not aspire to be president.

Rather, he aspires to be king. And that’s one reason why he’s running on a platform of fomenting fear.

A snippet:

A king convinces fellow politicians in the legislature and the judiciary that the country is ready for this new form of government, necessitated by all the terrible threats to our way of life, foreign and domestic.

The foreign threat comes from brown-skinned folks who want to experience life in America. The king hates these largely innocent people because they may not be open to supporting his kingship. On the other hand, he is happily willing to become besties with all the dictators of Europe and Asia and allow them full and complete access to his court. He allows them to cross our borders clandestinely at first in order to influence our elections, and then openly later, in order to influence our economic and political policies. Why does he love them so much? Because they are autocrats like him.

The domestic threat comes from the middle class and the working poor, who want economic mobility and human rights. Highly contemptible what these ignorant commoners want. Don’t they know they aren’t smart enough to have rights? Many of them are Democrats who want rights for women and minorities, the ones clearly least deserving of rights in God’s kingdom.

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Sometimes the Obvious Answer Is Obviously the Answer 0

PoliticalProf.

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It’s Bubblelicious 0

Michael in Norfolk gets to the heart of why persons are willing to believe falsehoods, half-truths, and misdirection plays peddled by Fox News,its imitatros, and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers in the right-wing media bubble. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

. . . . the main driver is the (listener’s–ed.) willingness to believe anything that supports one’s bigotries and hatred, most of which when all else is stripped away comes down to racial prejudice if not open hatred.

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QOTD 0

David Jason, in the voice of Inspector Frost:

Conspiracy theories are always flavor of the month.

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Russian Impulses 0

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