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Things Were Dullsa in Tulsa 0

Ed at Gin and Tacos suggests that bizarre, convoluted theories that K-Pop and TikTok fans somehow affected Donald Trump’s Dullsa in Tulsa miss the more pedestrian and more likely explanation. A snippet:

. . . for all their bold talk and faux-populist defiance about rules intended to prevent the spread of COVID, it appears that some portion of Trump’s aging, maybe-not-in-awesome-health base is worried about the potential of getting sick at a big public gathering where it is all but certain that most attendees will refuse even the most basic precautions against contagion. It’s cheap talk to boast about how the virus is Fake News, but even the most brain-addled older people have to understand on some level that people over 70 have greater than a 10% chance of buying the farm if they get sick. All but the most slavish Fox News enthusiasts are likely to have some reservations, or to have a spouse unwilling to indulge their fantasies. Again, these events are tired and stale and pointless. Hardly the kind of thing you’re going to risk your life to attend.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

A 36-year-old man died in the East Village Saturday night after the gun he was carrying accidentally discharged in his waistband, according to police sources.

The man, whose identity has not been released, was adjusting his pants inside the apartment building at 635 E. 12th Street when the gun fired, striking him in his upper left thigh around 7:21, p.m. police sources said.

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Lowering the Barr 0

Title:  The New Statue of Justice.  Image:  AG William Barr holding sword in one hand and the head of US Attorney  in the other while saying

Via Job’s Anger.

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QOTD 0

Elmer Davis:

The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

Via KCEA.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Some persons just can’t help themselves frolics.

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Testing Flailure 0

Donald Trump’s coronavirus testing strategy leads one to conclude that Trump is certain that the answer to this question is must assuredly in the negative:

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

Finish reading this post »

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All the News that Fits 0

Sam and his team discuss Tucker Carlson’s hypocritical fragile white guy pity party.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

In Maine, you might expect to see a moose, but a noose?

A noose was removed from telephone lines along Route 15 in Deer Isle on Saturday, while nearby Black Lives Matter signs were vandalized the day before. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Fraudulent frolics.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpled from behind.

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QOTD 0

Demosthenes:

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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UnAmerican Activities 0

Frame One:  Man wearing

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Cogito Ergo Dumb 0

Title: Trump Logic.  Frame One:  Old man in wheelchair says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Truth Will Out . . . . 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock points out that, from time to time, Donald Trump speaks the truth, to the discomfiture of his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers. A snippet:

Interestingly, Trump, though he has persistently lied about the vote-by-mail issue, has also told the truth about why he and his party oppose it. In an appearance on Fox and Friends (as reported by the Guardian newspaper) he said that if Democrats succeed in enabling states to use that voting method and provide added incentives to vote such as same-day registration, there would be “levels of voting” such that “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

So, contrary to the party-line that he supports, which focuses entirely on the “fraud” allegation, Trump admits that mail-in-voting is likely to increase voter participation, and when that happens, Democrats will win. In other words, he has acknowledged that the real reason Republicans have tried, in a variety of ways, to suppress voter participation is that they are afraid of losing elections.

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The Discovery 0

Thom and Joe Madison discuss Donald Trump’s “discovery” of Juneteenth, the Tulsa riots, and related issues.

Afterthought:

It occurs to me that much of what is commonly referred to as “white fragility” results from white folks’ reluctance/refusal/unwillingness to face up to what their ancestors and fellow white folks and even they themselves have done to the various “others” in our society.

So they pretend it never happened or if it happened didn’t/doesn’t matter or happened so long ago that it doesn’t matter any more, even as it continues to happen every day.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Secure security, politely.

Investigators found that a man properly licensed to carry a gun was in the parking lot and securing it about 10 p.m. Monday.

The gun discharged by accident, striking the young man in the leg, said Lt. Dennis Garren, police spokesman.

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“Still Standing” 0

Title:  Problematic Monuments.  Image One:  Statue of Conferate general bearing a plaque reading

Click for the original image.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpled in the heartland.

And, in more news of the Trumpling . . . .

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QOTD 0

Honore de Balzac:

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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