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Devolution 0

Frame One:  Ronald Reagan gestures towards a gleaming Washington, D. C. and says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes to the seas intracoastal waterway.

Instead of “road rage,” I guess this must be “water rage.”

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Republican Thought Police 0

Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:

America at the moment is not just enduring attacks by a completely untethered president and his administration against critics and political rivals. It is an attack on thought itself.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:

The deployment of National Guard troops in many cities has recently been massaged as protecting “federal officers and assets” against “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness.”

Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.

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QOTD 0

Tom Robbins:

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

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Meta: Sidebar 0

I’ve deactivated the Blue Delaware RSS feed over there ——> on the sidebar, as the site seems to be experiencing issues and the feed is currently not working.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more neighborly politeness.

We are a society that has chosen to die from lead poisoning.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

David suggests that we are seeing

. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Grunge_e_Gene hears a rhyme that sounds a lot like “Blackwater.”

You remember Blackwater, do you not, the security firm mercenaries from the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq?

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*Mark Twain.

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In the Court of the Dimson King 0

Stephen Miller:  Sir, the government shutdown is officially under way.  Trump (wearing a crown):  That means I have all the power now, right?  Miller:  That's certainly my understanding of the rules.  Trump:  Obviously, we blame the whole thing on the Democrats.  What was their stupid objection--health care?  I already solved that.  Did they not see the video I post of myself announcing the incredible

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Republican Thought Police 0

Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.

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The Medicine Show 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Vanessa LoBue notes that “. . . blaming mothers for autism is as old as the diagnosis itself” and goes on to debunk de bunk spread by flawed research and the Trump maladministration.

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QOTD 0

James Randi:

Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

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MAGAchurched 0

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This New Gilded Age 0

The Perfessor:  How about a game of Monopoly this evening?  Skyler:  No thanks.  That game is way too outdated for me.  The Perfessor:  Outdated?  what makes you say that?  Skyler:  There's a

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Republican Thought Police 0

Michael in Norfolk interprets the intent of the indoctrination.

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“The ‘E’ Word” 0

David offers a theory as to why Donald Trump is okay with shutting down the federal government.

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Deportation Nation 0

Sightseer ship in New York harbor passes the pedestal where Lady Liberty used to stand.  Tour guide says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates politeness on the pavement.

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