A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
If Donald Trump is successful in stealing the election in 2024, he will likely view his second inauguration as a royal coronation into his new position as King/Dictator for Life. Americans could suddenly lose the majority of freedoms they’ve long enjoyed, such as the right to criticize the government, the right to self determination, the right to travel at will, the right to own property, the right to choose their leaders, the right to personal autonomy, the right to free association, the right to read what they want, the right to fair trials by their peers, and on and on. Trump would be, as promised, a dictator on day one, and also on all days that follow. Pledges of loyalty to Trump will be REQUIRED. Children will be expected to tell authorities if their parents aren’t sufficiently true to Trump. Trump will replace Jesus, Buddha, and Allah as the required subject of adoration and reverence in churches. Jokes about Trump will land folks in prison or the cemetery and songs that are unflattering to him will be forbidden. Those who are more popular, smarter, funnier, more skilled, more articulate, more creative, more handsome, or command more attention and love than Trump, like Taylor Swift. Stephen Colbert, Stephen King, or Alexander Vindman, will be exiled, fined or imprisoned for ‘stealing attention away from Trump. All of this would be consistent with life under a narcissistic sociopath like Trump.
Mangy Fetlocks was imagining the forced displays of fealty and reverence that Trump’s shock forces would likely be required to organize, mimicking the displays that are often put on for other dictators like Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”
The Witch Trial 0
Seth dissects the duplicity of Republicans’ effort to impeach President Biden for the high crime and misdemeanor of not being a racist bigoted Putin tool.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” chooses to be polite to our furry four-legged friends.
It would seem that, in gun nut world, “SPCA” stands for the “Society for Pointing Carbines at Animals.”
We are a broken society.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At my local rag, columnist David Hall writes eloquently of an incident of racist name-calling at a college basketball game. I commend his article to your attention.
This bit, in particular, caught my eye:
Methinks he has a point.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Bill Comes Due 0
Sam and his crew discuss the disarray at James O’Keefe’s (laughably misnamed) Project Veritas.
Devolution 0
AL.com’s John Archibald charts the regress.
“I Know You Are But What Am I,” Reprise 0
The Rude One analyzes the Republican game plan. (Warning: Rudeness.)
QOTD 0
Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:
The real victims of war are people who live at ground zero, cannon fodder for failed leaders.
Aside:
In normal times, whatever they are, I like would not have cited this, but it seemed somehow quite a propos.
The Hunt for Hunter 0
Thom dissects the misdirection play.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.
Courting Disaster 0
Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, fears that the current Supreme Supremacist Court is forsaking the rule of law for the rule of flaw. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he said that.