October, 2024 archive
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom posits that today’s robber barons have learned from yesterday’s. That’s why they are buying up media outlets, so as to manipulate dis coarse discourse.
Republican Family Values 0
Apparently, telling racist jokes is a Republican family value.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
They’re not even trying to hide it any more.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels it necessary to brandish his portable phallus while passing on the pavement.
Republican Family Values 0
At the Des Moines Register, Elise Free marvels at the me-me-me-and-to-heck-with-thee. A snippet:
The vast majority of my family will vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
My daughter has cystic fibrosis. Even though for 19 years they have witnessed our life-or-death struggles with the U.S. health care system, and supported our cystic fibrosis fundraising efforts, I cannot convince them not to vote for a man who has repeatedly promised to take my daughter’s health care protections away the minute he steps into office. Again.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Speaking of psychological projection . . . .
The Confluence 0
Steve M. takes a look at this weekend’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden (which, I must note, is neither square nor located at Madison Square, but I digress), where Trump’s supporters openly flaunted their racism, and notes an overlap. Here’s a bit about the overlap:
Issues Voters . . . 0
These voters seem to have issues.
Choosing the Dark Side 0
The Washington Post’s slogan is “Democracy dies in darkness.”
The same newspaper that once famously shined a light on the misconduct of Richard Nixon has chosen not to endorse a candidate for president (or, to put it another way, has chosen to go dark) in what might be the most important election since 1860.
Dick Polman offers some thoughts as to why the Post has chosen darkness.
I commend them to your attention.
The Fifth Columnist 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts makes a case that she may have identified one of those fabled “enemies within”:
Isn’t it nice to know that Arizona’s own U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar has been assisting in that effort?
Follow the link for her evidence.
It’s Bubblelicious 0
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
The things that you’ve seen,
And can read on your screen,
They ain’t necessarily so.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Detroit Free Press, Arlene Frank, a daughter of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States, listens to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and hears a rhyme.
Here’s a bit:
Follow the link to read the article.
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*Mark Twain.
