Repubs in Disarray 0
Tom Hilton has the play-by-play.
The Phony “War on Christmas” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks behind the agitprop:
Aside:
As I journey about my neighborhood, it looks to me that, if there is a “war on Christmas,” Christmas is sure as heck winning.
GOP Goes a-Gaslighting 0
University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried reads the tea leaves and looks into the future:
Meanwhile in Congress, Republicans will be gaslighting and generating chaos in two ways.
One, they’ll probably try to obstruct normal governance by trying to coerce President Joe Biden to cut Social Security and Medicare, two incredibly effective and popular policies.
(snip)
Second, House Republicans are ready to take up a good deal of time with phony scandals — a clear contrast with their pre-election focus on inflation and the economy.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness.
Yet another reminder not to toy with instruments of death.
Yet another reminder that “accidentalal” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
Yet another sacrifice to the NRA’s leaden idol.
Yet other reminder that we are a broken society.
Farcical Recognition 0
Madison Square Garden Entertainment uses facial recognition to ban a mother from seeing the Rockettes with her daughter because of her day job.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Ayn Rand’s philosophy of “objectivism” explained in four easy frames.
(Broken link fixed.)
Facebook Frolics 0
In an interesting twist, the con works only when you click on a link within Facebook. If you try to reach it otherwise, it redirects to another fake website. Snopes theorizes that this was an attempt to make the scam harder to uncover. I submit that it may rather be an indication of the scammers’ opinion of the susceptibility of persons assimilated by the Zuckerborg.
A Notion of Immigrants, 0
Thom suggests that Republicans are trading on a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Afterthought:
Methinks Thom is onto something.
I doubt that this is some sort of conservative conspiracy. Frankly, I don’t think the American right is capable of thinking that far ahead. (Indeed, their preference is to look back, not forward.)
Nevertheless, given the pervasiveness of “social” media (and I think Americans tend to forget that other countries have are plagued by it too), I think he makes a strong case that one society’s rhetoric could affect other societies’ perception of reality.
Save Just What, Exactly? 0
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I have found that those who trumpet most loudly their own patriotism, those most likely to wrap their bodies in the stars and stripes (in violation of the Flag Code, by the way, but that is quite another issue) while waving the Stars and Bars–the flag of treason, for Pete’s sake–are also those most likely to reject the idea that “all men are created equal,” however imperfectly it might have been practiced at the time of the Founding.
Rather, they would will restore if they could can America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
I say this as one whose ancestors wore the grey.
I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.