Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Ignorance Is Bliss 0
At least, that appears to be a tenet of the Trump maladministration. Via the Las Vegas Sun, Michael Hiltzik catalogs the casualties in Donald Trump’s war on science. A snippet:
Referring to a list of grant terminations announced in October 2025, the agency admitted that it terminated or canceled 283 grants “solely” based on whether their recipients were in states that had cast its electoral college votes for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and had two Democratic senators. Meanwhile, 340 other grants from states that voted for Trump were left in place.
The Fix Is In(cubating) 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s efforts to fix (or at least undermine) the 2026 elections and offers some suggestions as to what we can do to combat them.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established, that’s a Republican family value. Here, Emma talks with Katie Bergh about the damage that the Trump maladministration’s cuts to SNAP food benefits have done to families and children.
Republican Newspeak 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
Rand Gestures 0
Susan Estrich argues that Dr. Fauci was justified in citing the Fifth Amendment when he appeared before Senator Rand Paul’s committee, She notes that Senator Paul was not acting in good faith and that Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth so as
The purpose here was the trap.
Much more at the link.
Afterthought:
What would be your opinion of a person who would releases someone’s private diary to the press?
Personally, I would not think higly of him or her.
American Stasi 0
ICE detains another law-abiding legal resident for being.
American Stasi, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Deport them if they dare to disagree.
In these Trumpled times, it seems that’s the new American way.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye and Andrew Torrez tell a tale of strange bedfellow united to fight the rule of lawless.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well demonstrated, that’s a Republican family value.
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Layla Sayed looks at the effects of the Trump maladministration’s actions on SNAP benefits. Here’s a tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
These statistics are not just numbers — they’re people not being fed.
Before the new law, SNAP helped feed 41.7 million low-income Americans per month, 62% of whom were families with children.
Red Scare Redux 0
PoliticalProf dissects how the Trump maladministration defines “communism.”
Parsing the Playbook 0
From the Youtube page:
Thom talks with Democratic Senator of Oregon, Jeff Merkley, about his FREE article, Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook, and his experience at the U.S. Senate chamber outlining these corrupt and destructive tactics.
You can download Senator Merkley’s Ring the Alarm Bells.
Republican Family Values 0
Know them by the company they keep.
Republican Thought Police 0
When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.
Republican Family Values 0
Methinks that, when you read this article from the Des Moines Register about the struggles faced by Iowa residents since the Trump maladministration slasched SNAP benefits, you will understand why I hold that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Stray Question 0
When an executive unilaterally imposes taxes without consent of the legislature, is that not a text-book case of taxation without representation?
Unbalanced and Unchecked 0
At the Des Moines Register, veteran attorney and long-time civil servant Dean Lerner argues that America’s system of checks and balances is broken and offers a theory as to who broke it.
Methinks he makes a strong argument. Read it and see what you think.