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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Title:  The Tree of Gullibility.  Image:  A serpent extends itself from a tree above Adam and Eve, who are holding pieces of fruit.  Adam says,

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And, now, let’s hear about someone who took that bite . . . .

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The False Idol 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Hartford Courant, Robert Helfand argues forcefully that the coverage of J. D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants is missing the point. Here’s how he opens his article (emphasis added); follow the link to read the rest.

As Donald Trump and JD Vance intensify their claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets, journalists have fallen into a familiar trap. Efforts to debunk these claims implicitly suggest that the candidates might be vindicated if genuine cases of feline abduction should emerge. That’s wrong. The real outrage is not the slander of one community, bad as that is, but the underlying message that some nationalities might be congenitally unfit to live in the United States.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Pick-Up Line 0

Little Red Riding is confronted by the Big Bad Wolf, who's wearing a MAGA hat.  Grinning evilly, wolf says,

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is indeed a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Thom argues that the Republican Thought Police fear ideas, fear history, fear truth.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Nedra Rhone offers a theory as to what motivates the Republican Thought Police:

. . . the parents lobbying to ban books in their schools and communities are positioning their children to be less politically curious and less charitable toward others.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Two men, one labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu highlights the hypocrisy of Donald Trump’s fear mongering about those from foreign shores. Here’s a tiny bit:

Recall that as president, Trump launched an effort to strip citizenship from even naturalized U.S. citizens and deport them if they’d ever used a fake ID to get in. But he’s willing to ignore the fraudulent documents reportedly allowed by his CEO of Trump Media, former California congressman Devin Nunes, to employ undocumented immigrants on his family’s Iowa farm. A 2018 Esquire story lays that out.

Follow the link for a link to the Esquire story and more Trumpian hypocrisy (of which there seems an unending supply).

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How Stuff Works: Fending Off the Fabulist Dept. 0

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Vance Planning 0

. . . in case you needed any more evidence that today’s Republican Party is little more than the party of the New Secesh.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Writing at The Charlotte Observer, Esther Alejandra Sierra, a legal immigrant working in health care, reports that the hatred and bile towards immigrants being spread by Donald Trump and J. D. Vance is spreading. Here’s a bit from her article:

When extreme politicians at the federal and state levels make baseless accusations blaming immigrants for rising crime rates and our country’s problems, it’s not just deeply offensive and disrespectful, but it creates a hostile atmosphere in my community. This fear-mongering spreads unnecessary mistrust among our friends and neighbors and should be strongly denounced.

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article292728654.html#storylink=cpy

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“Childless Cat Ladies” 0

At the San Francisco Chronicle, a self-proclaimed childless dog lady responds. Here’s a tiny bit from her article:

The folks at the Heritage Foundation might call childless pet owners like me selfish (or in Vance’s words, “sociopaths”), but it’s all projection.

There is truth in the idea that the United States isn’t supportive of families, but the solution isn’t to ban contraceptives and abortion or defund support systems for single mothers, as Roberts and his colleagues would do. Absurdly, the right-wing approach presupposes that a policy of forced birthing is preferable to bettering the lives of the people alive now through expanded educational and work opportunities, strict gun control to end school shootings, ample and paid parental leave and subsidized childcare.

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Republican Family Values 0

See the article at ProPublica.

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Fatal Attraction 0

Michael in Norfolk wonders just what keeps Donald Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers from seeing the reality of Trump and Trumpism.

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

At the Portland Press-Herald, David B. Offer hears a rhyme. Here’s the first line of the couplet:

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the first Hmong refugees began arriving in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I was then managing editor of the La Crosse Tribune. We reported on these new Asian residents, who were sponsored by local churches. That reporting included dealing with rumors that Hmong were stealing and eating people’s dogs and cats. We reported that there was no proof of those claims. They were unfounded, baseless assertions. Fortunately, no respected leaders – certainly no one running for president or vice president – repeated these lies.

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*Mark Twain.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Donald Trump in helicopter hovers over Lady Liberty.  Trump says,

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Thom points out that racial hate seems to be the only strategy that Trump and Vance have left.

He also notes that their racist tactics are–er–not unprecedented in America’s history.

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Real Big Men 0

Michael in Norfolk wonders why so many men seem to be afraid of women.

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