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Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Courting Disaster 0

Originalist sin.

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Twits Own Twitter X Offenders 0

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk bans (again) speech he doesn’t like.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Blowing in the Wind, Reprise 0

PoliticalProf observes that Republicans seem to really want to do away with the federal government, except when they need it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Much Be Better 0

PoliticalProf seems to think that one thing is not like the other thing.

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Republican Family Values 0

The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun notes the “mean for the sake of mean” appears to be a Republican Family Value.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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But It Calls Itself the “Party of Personal Responsibility” . . . . 0

Get out of Jail free cardThe editorial board of the Charlotte Observer opines that North Carolina Republicans are providing a tutorial in how to excuse the inexccusable.

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Suffer the Children 0

Apparently, that’s a Republican Family Value.

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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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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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Tilting at Spinmills 0

Mike Johnson:  We must keep noncitizens from voting.  Reporter:  It's already illegal.  Mike Johnson:  Exactly, so we have to stop them before they do it.  Reporter:  It's already illegal.  Mike Johnson:  Right.  We must not allow them to ddo what they didn't do before ever again.  Reporter:  It's already illegal.  Reporter thinks:  This should be illegal.

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The Lab Rat 0

Donald Trump as Dr. Frankenstein in a lab coat holding a bottle containing a brain labeled

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

That’s the guiding principle of today’s Republican Party.

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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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The Provocateur 0

Trump spews out hate, anger, threats, and hostility.  Democratic Donkey says,

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Originalist Sin 0

It’s encoded in Cannon law.

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“Tempered Rhetoric” 0

Seth takes a closer look at the Republican Party’s expressed desire to “tone donw the rhetoric.”

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False Equivalence: Comparing Apples to Cow Pats 0

Colby Hall notes that (some) Trump is trying to blame Democrats’ rhetoric for the recent thwarted assassination attempt. They are equating claims that Trump represents a threat to democracy (he does) with Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen (it wasn’t).

Here’s tiny bit from his article:

Syllogistically, it seems like a very easy argument to follow. By comparing the blame Democrats place upon Trump for his supporters’ attack on the Capitol on January 6 with the blame Republicans place on Democrats for the attacks on Trump, Hume seeks to make the case that both are a consequence of rhetoric.

The problem is that the comparison makes no sense. It is a brazen false equivalency that flat-out ignores the fact that what caused Jan. 6 — Trump’s false election claims and his continued spouting of them — is precisely the threat to democracy that Hume invokes.

Crucially, the difference between Hume’s examples of inciting claims is simple: one is true, and one is false. The claim that fueled Jan. 6, that the 2020 election was stolen, is false. If it were true, few would criticize Trump for complaining about it. It was not true.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Sue Jarrett, writing at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, outs house speaker Mike Johnson’s misdirection play.

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