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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Title:  The Tree of Gullibility.  Image:  A serpent extends itself from a tree above Adam and Eve, who are holding pieces of fruit.  Adam says,

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And, now, let’s hear about someone who took that bite . . . .

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Deportation Nation 0

Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic House candidate for Seat A in the district, said in a press release that after a question was asked about discrimination and whether it exists in Idaho, she said that, “just because someone hasn’t personally experienced discrimination, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Racism and discrimination are real issues here in Idaho, as anyone familiar with our state’s history knows.”

Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Viola, reportedly responded to Carter-Goodheart, “I’m so sick and tired of this liberal bull (expletive). Why don’t you go back to where you came from?”

Per the news report, Trish Carter-Goodheart is of Native American descent. Her ancestors were here a millennium before Foreman’s.

The stupid. It burns, and the hate, well, it metastasizes.

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Kindred Spirits 0

Hitler holds a Nazi flag.  A Klansman holds the Stars and Bars.  Both ask,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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The Undecided 0

In a longer article in which he wonders why Kamala Harris does not have a wider lead in the polls, Robert Reich asks a question which I find well-warranted.

Behind the information asymmetry lie racism and misogyny. I can’t help wondering how many Americans who continue saying they “don’t know” or are “undecided” about Harris are concealing something from pollsters and possibly from themselves: They feel uncomfortable voting for a Black woman.

Follow the link for context.

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Stormy Donald, Reprise 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Hartford Courant, Robert Helfand argues forcefully that the coverage of J. D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants is missing the point. Here’s how he opens his article (emphasis added); follow the link to read the rest.

As Donald Trump and JD Vance intensify their claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets, journalists have fallen into a familiar trap. Efforts to debunk these claims implicitly suggest that the candidates might be vindicated if genuine cases of feline abduction should emerge. That’s wrong. The real outrage is not the slander of one community, bad as that is, but the underlying message that some nationalities might be congenitally unfit to live in the United States.

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The Parody Party 0

Cliif Schecter argues that the Republicans no longer have a party.

They have a parody.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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“One Ring To Bind Them All . . . .” 0

Calvin McNeill, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, offers a theory as to the common denominator of Trumpism.

Methinks he’s onto something.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is indeed a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

PoliticalProf decodes de code.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Thom argues that the Republican Thought Police fear ideas, fear history, fear truth.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Nedra Rhone offers a theory as to what motivates the Republican Thought Police:

. . . the parents lobbying to ban books in their schools and communities are positioning their children to be less politically curious and less charitable toward others.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Two men, one labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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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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How Stuff Works: Fending Off the Fabulist Dept. 0

Frame One, title,

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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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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Writing at The Charlotte Observer, Esther Alejandra Sierra, a legal immigrant working in health care, reports that the hatred and bile towards immigrants being spread by Donald Trump and J. D. Vance is spreading. Here’s a bit from her article:

When extreme politicians at the federal and state levels make baseless accusations blaming immigrants for rising crime rates and our country’s problems, it’s not just deeply offensive and disrespectful, but it creates a hostile atmosphere in my community. This fear-mongering spreads unnecessary mistrust among our friends and neighbors and should be strongly denounced.

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article292728654.html#storylink=cpy

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Thom talks with Greg Palast about Palast’s new film detailing Republicans’ efforts to deny American citizens their right to vote.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

White man and black woman sitting at a bar.  White man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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