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An Ailing Society . . . 0

. . . and Chauncey Devega offers a diagnosis. A snippet:

The Age of Trump is defined by its pathocracy: a society ruled by the emotionally, psychologically, morally, intellectually, and spiritually sick, whose behavior spreads throughout the population and becomes the new normal.

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Real Big Men 0

Stephanie Hayes considers the who-shot-john over Shane Gillis’s SNL appearance and decodes de code.

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Little Boy Playing Soldier 0

In a blistering editorial, my local rag opines that “Hegseth’s unserious address again shows his unfitness for office.” No summary or excerpt can to it justice; just go read it.

Similarly, via the Miami Herald, Kofi Mframa lambasts “Pete Hegseth’s comical crusade of military re-masculinization.”

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American Stasi 0

Title:  Speaking of Public Executions.  Image:  ICE agent pointing a pistor at the brown-skinned man.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Apparently, that a lawyer with a long record of fighting for human rights won the Nobel Peace Prize toasted Trump’s marshmallow.

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American Stasi 0

Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.

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The Maven of Manliness 0

Pete Hegseth looks at Ulysses Grant and Abraham Lincoln and says,

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American Stasi 0

If they can’t arrest the one they want, they’ll arrest the one they’re with.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Hate-full frolics.

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American Stasi 0

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp tells the story of another innocent swept up in the Trump maladministration’s mean for the sake of mean.

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Republican Family Values 0

Judge ordering the deportation of a Spanish-speaking child without counsel or due process.

Via Job’s Anger.

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

Peter Johnson hears a rhyme from older time. Here’s how he starts his article:

I remember what happened when officials in the South told the country that civil rights marchers were causing trouble. We were there to ask for rights promised by the Constitution. They called us agitators. Sometimes they called us dangerous. If the only account the public heard came from those officials, many Americans would never have known what was done to us.

That is why President Donald Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House troubles me.

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*Mark Twain.

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Aghast and Furryous, Reprise 0

Kyle Whitmire looks at Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s bizarre claim that airliners are crewed by furries, then proceeds to decode de code (emphasis in the original):

Tommy Tuberville’s political pitch to Alabama has been as simple as it is old.

I hate all the same people you do.

Follow the link for his evidence.

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American Stasi 0

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:

In a blistering 127-page opinion, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said the inhumane treatment violated the Constitution, “not to mention any decent concern for the Golden Rule or the demands of humanity.”

“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.

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Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0

As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”

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American Stasa 0

Another person’s story.

If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.

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Suffer the Children 0

As is clear by now, that’s not scripture.

That’s a Republican family value.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Apparently this Republican believes that teachers must be spied upon so as to ensure that do not waver from his party’s line,

Aside:

As far as I can tell, “woke” is Republican newspeak for “not racist and not bigoted.”

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American Stasi 0

AL.com’s John Archibald tells another family’s story. An excerpt:

Last week Roberto and Lola – Roberto Avalos Magallon and Dolores Mendoza Cerda – were detained by ICE at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport while returning from a family reunion in California. The married couple from Mexico had no criminal history, never entered the U.S. illegally and were working through the system to remain in America’s good graces, according to their attorneys. Still they were whisked away to detention in Pickens County, then to separate ICE facilities in Louisiana.

Leaving those grandchildren, scarred by heartache, to wonder again what would become of them, and the people they love.

Again we are reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

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