Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk gives away the game plan.
The Establishmentarian Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones deciphers the double-talk.
His article focuses on a proposed law in Idaho, but his arguments can be extrapolated to the larger polity. No excerpt or summary will do it justice. Just go read it.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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A X offender with a notion of immigrants.
Stray Thought 0
It occurs to me that Trump’s MAGA slogan is in rhyming code.
The third word is one that rhymes with “great,” but actually starts with the next letter of the alphabet. And he’s made it come true.
Here’s just one little example.
Disparate Treatment 0
Michael in Norfolk sums the position of the party of the Secesh today’s Republican Party on civil rights (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest of his article.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal hears a disturbing rhyme, one that she says “brought me back to Germany in 1938.” Follow the link to find out why.
Aside:
It’s one I also hear.
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*Mark Twain.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Joe Conason looks at J. D. Vance’s recent remarks during a visit to Germany and makes a strong case that Vance is running with a bad crowd.
Just go read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about today’s Republican Party’s war on DEI, Suzanne Moynihan decodes de code.
The Game Plan 0
In The Minnesota Star-Tribune, in a longer article by ten health professionals about the right-wing’s jihad against trans youth (who, remember, are minuscule portion of the population), the authors sum up the strategy of today’s Republican Party as succinctly as can be done:
Manufacturing a good enemy is the best way to stay in power.
follow the link for their evidence.
The Privatization Scam 0
Maddy Wheelock details the duplicity. A snippet;
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that leads one to consider the possibility that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.
It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.
Follow the link for a list.
The Cultural Devolution 0
Mangy announces the upcoming bill of events for the newly Trumpled Kennedy Center.
Indoctrination Nation 0
David parses the implications of some of Linda McMahon’s testimony in her confirmation hearings. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
White Coffee 0
Words fail me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:
And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.