Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Apostate 0
Via The Japan Times, Steve Pincus argues the Trump maladministration is busily abandoning America’s founders’ principles. Here’s how he opens his article:
As the United States celebrated its 249th birthday on July 4, the determination of President Donald Trump’s administration to abandon these founding principles has become starkly apparent.
Follow the link for his evidence.
Election Defiers 0
Thom talks with Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State for Michigan, about what it was like when armed Trump supporters turned up at her house because Trump lost the 2020 election and about what may motivate such extremism.
Deportation Nation 0
Farron discusses the Trump maladministration’s plan plot to denaturalize naturalized citizens because they have the unmitigated gall to exercise their rights as American citizens.
Ironically, my local media celebrated a naturalization ceremony at Fort Monroe that took place on the Fourth.
This New Gilded Age 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News looks at Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and sees little more a transfer of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy, with a healthy side dish of mean for the sake of mean.
I commend their editorial to your attention.
Truth in Labelling 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz raises a relevant point.
Have Cake, Eat It Too, Republican Family Values Dept. 0
Farrno deciphers the duplicity.
All the News that Fits 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini discusses the latest manifestation of the Lake Effect.
Kill the Voice of America (VOA).
Why kill the VOA? one wonders. Well, actually one does not. The VOA was established to counter propaganda with truth, something for which the Trump maladministration has no use.
In a related piece, Laurie Roberts follows up with a report on Lake’s testimony at yesterday’s hearing, where the Lake Effect was in full display.
Details at the links.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom finds a chilling precedent for the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision to greenlight the Trump maladministration’s decision to send undocumented immigrants to third-country exile.
The Hostile Takeover 0
Gene Collier looks at the Trump maladministration’s attempt to stage a military invasion of Los Angeles and is not sanguine. A snippet:
Phoning It In, Reprise 0
“Mr. President, Emoluments calling on line two.”