“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.
Once again, we are confronted with evidence that “responsible gun owner’ is an oxymoron.
Wall Street Weak, Reprise 0
Seth takes a closer look at the stock market’s wildly swinging as Donald Trump single-handedly unleashes chaos on the U.S. economy with his unhinged tariff plan. A quote:
Trump derangement syndrome, for those who don’t know, is when he does something deranged and you, I guess, notice it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rann Miller hears a rhyme. A bit of the cadence:
(snip)
What Trump voters, and others, may not realize is that none of this is new, it is part and parcel of the nation’s contract with its people. W.E.B. DuBois, in his opus Black Reconstruction in America, spoke of the racial bribe: the deliberate and strategic method of the planter elite class to extend special privileges to poor whites — particularly in the postbellum South — to drive a wedge between them and formerly enslaved Africans.
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*Mark Twain.
The Grand Plan 0
PoliticalProf susses it out.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Able to solve complex math problems? I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t add up.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Washington Monthly, Richard W. Painter investigates the incestuous relationship between a roll-call of billionaires and the Trump maladministration.
Just go read it for yourself.
The Politics of Us vs. Them 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Glenn Geher points out that
(t)he current administration uses verbiage that amplifies differences between groups of people.
He goes on to explore the dynamics of xenophobia as a societal and political phenomenon and recommend ways of ameliorating its toxic effects.
I think you will find it a timely read in these hate-full times.
Chaos Agents 0
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s Gene Collier calls out the destruction by design. A teaser; follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and still trying to pretend that history wasn’t.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Although we all have had years and years to witness Trump’s cruelty, his stupidity, his arrogance, his simple-mindedness, his narcissism, and his ineptitude, many Republicans are feigning surprise at the horrors of what Trump is now doing. If only they’d had some inkling of what he was really like. (Yeah, right.)
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
Farron discusses why Trump loves tariffs.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
One ruling for thee, another one for me.
Afterthought:
Today’s Republican Party no longer believes in the rule of law.
Rather, it believes in ruling the law.