Tuesday, April 20, 2021

IT'S NOT TRUMPISM, IT'S REPUBLICANISM, PART LXXXVII

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The Atlantic 's Olga Khazan describes Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne as "the new face of Trumpism in Texas": Last year, Presid...
Monday, April 19, 2021

THEY THINK WE'RE OUTVOTING THEM, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY THINK WE OUTNUMBER THEM

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I won't attempt a thorough critique of that Nate Cohn piece about sectarianism , but I'd like to comment on this passage: Sectariani...

WHO'S GOING TO BUY WILLIAM BARR'S BOOK?

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Politico reports: William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general who resigned two days before Christmas after disagreeing publicly with Trum...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

TRUMP MIGHT NOT RUN, BUT WITHIN THE PARTY HE WON'T BE BEATEN

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The first part of Ross Douthat's latest column makes the standard case for Ron DeSantis as a 2024 Republican presidential nominee: He w...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

GREENE, GOSAR, GAETZ, AND CARLSON ARE MOVING THE OVERTON WINDOW (updated)

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You probably know about this already: In an effort to "follow in President Trump's footsteps," a new America First Caucus led...
Friday, April 16, 2021

IT'S CONCEIVABLE THAT A BLACK EX-DEMOCRAT COULD BEAT BRIAN KEMP, BUT MAYBE NOT THIS ONE

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New York magazine's Ed Kilgore notes that Brian Kemp's polling among Georgia Republicans looks a lot better since he signed the vo...

THEY'LL DO ANYTHING FOR "FREEDOM" (BUT THEY WON'T DO THAT)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci had tense exchanges with Jim Jordan on Wednesday : Ohio’s Rep. Jim Jordan got into a shouting match at a Wednesday hearing...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

IS BEING INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED BLACK PERSON A GOOD CAREER MOVE NOW? (updated)

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The Louisville Courier-Journal reports : One of the Louisville Metro Police officers who fired shots during the attempted search warrant ex...

OVERTURNING ROE: WHAT WOULD THE PLUTOCRATS THINK?

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Even with a 6-3 Republican majority that includes Amy Coney Barrett, there hasn't been a big Supreme ruling on abortion this term. Kate ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE RIGHT-WING FREAKOUT IF THE CAPITOL POLICE HAD DONE THEIR JOB?

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The New York Times reports : The Capitol Police had clearer advance warnings about the Jan. 6 attack than were previously known, including ...

CEOs AND CORPORATIONS WON'T SAVE VOTING RIGHTS

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Wow! Amazing! Amazon, BlackRock, Google, Warren Buffett and hundreds of other companies and executives signed on to a new statement release...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

RIGHT-WING SITES LAUNCH PRO-VACCINE ATTACKS ON BIDEN, BUT THEIR READERS ARE STILL ANTI-VAXX

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The Biden administration has paused distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine after a small number of recipients (fewer than ...

ALL-POWERFUL DEMOCRATS!

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Imagine if Democrats were as powerful as Republicans think we are. Here's something Donald Trump said in his speech over the weekend: T...
Monday, April 12, 2021

"BIDEN ISN'T REALLY PRESIDENT" IS THE NEW "OBAMA ISN'T REALLY AMERICAN"

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In the heyday of birtherism, some of the people who advanced the notion that Barack Obama wasn't born in America and was secretly a Musl...

IF THIS WERE AN ELABORATE CONSPIRACY, HOW WOULD IT LOOK DIFFERENT?

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I'm very skeptical about this : More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new acti...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

THEY DON'T EVEN WANT THE SHOWMANSHIP, JUST THE ABUSE

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So I'm reading the latest Ron DeSantis puff piece , this one in The New York Times ... Now, with Florida defying many of the gloomy pr...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

ADD TWO LETTERS, INDUCE OUTRAGE

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Here's the headline of a Reuters story : Now here's the headline of a New York Post story based on the Reuters story: Not...
Friday, April 09, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES: THE PARTY OF FREEDOM FRIES AND BIRTHERISM HAS ABANDONED ISSUE-ORIENTED POLITICS!

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Really , New York Times ? Republican lawmakers are passing voting restrictions to pacify right-wing activists still gripped by former Presid...

THE RIGHT'S VOTER-FRAUD PARANOIA AND IMMIGRATION PARANOIA ARE BASICALLY THE SAME THING

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America's most prominent racist said this yesterday: Tucker Carlson gives an passionate defense of “white replacement theory” https:/...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

THE WORST PEOPLE

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This development in Gaetz-ghazi is just too perfect : Joel Greenberg, the former Seminole County Tax Collector at the center of a sprawling ...