Debunking de Bunk 0
Robert Reich debunks the de bunk that Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers are telling themselves (and others).
He addresses five specific lines of bunkum. Here’s a bit from one entry (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the rest.
4. Trump has received preferential treatment because of who he is.
Trump’s defenders complain about a two-tiered justice system.
They’re right about that, but not in the way they claim. Trump has been given special privileges most criminal defendants would never get.
Reich goes on to remind us that
The principle that no one is above the law is only true if we make it so.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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One more time, “social” media isn’t, and won’t be as long as it and its algorithms continue to magnify malice, foment falsehoods, nurture nasty, and propagate puerile.
Just Another Day at the Office 0
Mark Meadows attempts to wiggle out of the Georgia indictment by claiming that conspiring to undermine an election was just another day in the life, at least for a Trump toady. Here’s a bit from the report at Above the Law:
All in the Family 0
Farron visits Eric Trump’s fantasy world.
The Transmogrification 0
Dick Polman marvels at the state of today’s Republican Cult of Trump Party. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” shoots himself someone in the foot.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
A reference in a Philo Vance mystery led me to pull out my old copy of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology* the other day.
As I was idly thumbing through it, it occurred to me that there are many similarities in the events it recounts and the current Republican-fed hysteria over “grooming,” trans kids, and LGBTQ+ in general. Both are based on fiction, feed on ignorance and fear, and persecute the innocent and faultless, while empowering the despotic and tyrannical, who cynically exploit them.
I’m sure more parallels will come to me over time.
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*I’ve had the book for years. I got it in connection with a research paper I was doing back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un.
Pathology 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that we–and especially the pundocrisy–ignore Donald Trump’s somewhat obvious mental–er–challenges at our peril.
Geeking Out 0
VirtualBox VMs of Slackware –Current, Ubuntu MATE, and Mint MATE on Mageia v. 8 under the Fluxbos window manager.
Fire on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
Rebecca discusses the cavalcade of crazy surrounding the fires on Maui.
If you prefer, you can read the transcript.
Devolution 0
Writing at the Hartford Courant, David Holahan finds himself dismayed by flood of lies in dis coarse discourse and by those who would dismiss justify them as somehow being “free speech.” Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added):
(snip)
America has devolved from the home of self-evident truths to the land of felonious falsehoods.
Tubervillainy 2
Methinks Grung_e_Gene may be onto something.
