Monday, October 17, 2022

THE DEMOCRACY CRISIS MIGHT ARRIVE NEXT MONTH, AS WE SHOULD HAVE FORESEEN

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I warned you six months ago : What happens if election truthers lose in ... purple states -- Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin? I thin...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

COULD KATIE HOBBS HAVE PULLED A HERSCHEL WALKER?

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Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, is having a moment, with long profiles in The Atlantic and The Washington Post...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

EVIL LIBERAL SUPERVILLAINS WANTED EVERYONE LOCKED DOWN AGAIN! REPEATEDLY!

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I don't know why this tweet fills me with despair, but it does: Monkeypox scare didn't work. Polio scare didn't work. What wil...
Friday, October 14, 2022

EVERYONE IS WRONG

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This , from Ryan Lizza and Eugene Daniels of Politico, seems glib, simplistic, and half-right at most: Why Trump is the main character of 20...

NEW DIMENSIONS IN "THIS IS HOW YOU GOT TRUMP"

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Please tell me that what Politico's John Harris writes here won't become conventional wisdom: Two years ago, Donald Trump lost the ...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

ON JANUARY 6, TRUMP WAS JUST BEING A PLUCKY OPTIMIST!

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Christopher Caldwell, a preppy right-wing hack and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times , tells us in the Times that the ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

YOUR RIGHT-WING RELATIVES PROBABLY THINK ALEX JONES DID NOTHING PARTICULARLY TERRIBLE

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Here's a reminder of why a jury ordered Alex Jones to pay nearly a billion dollars to parents of children killed in Newtown, Connecticu...

THE FOX KANYE WEST INTERVIEW WAS MEANT TO BE AN ELECTION AD

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A round of applause for the anonymous leaker who slipped Vice the unaired footage of Kanye West being anti-Semitic and paranoid in his int...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

LOOK, IT'S THE OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT EVERYONE WANTS BACK, AND IT'S AFTER YOUR MONEY!

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We all know who the real enemy is, right? It's Donald Trump -- he's everything that's wrong with politics, the most dangerous ma...

IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO HATE JOE BIDEN BECAUSE OF HUNTER'S STRUGGLES, YOU'RE ASKING MANY OF THEM TO HATE THEMSELVES

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Desperate to turn Hunter Biden into an issue in the 2022 midterms, right-wing leakers, presuambly in law enforcement, have released a new a...
Monday, October 10, 2022

WILL WE REALLY START SHOOTING ONE ANOTHER OVER POLITICS?

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I'm reading The Washington Post Magazine 's warnings about a possible second Trump presidency. I think most of what we're told ...

RIGHT-WING BLACK CELEBRITIES LEARN WHAT GOP POLITICIANS ALREADY KNOW ABOUT TRIBAL IMPUNITY

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A couple of hours ago, I spotted this juxtaposition of stories at the news aggregation site Memeorandum : Late Saturday night, Kanye Wes...
Sunday, October 09, 2022

IF HERSCHEL WALKER'S VOTERS STICK WITH HIM, IT'S BECAUSE THEY THINK THE TRIBE IS STILL ON HIS SIDE

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It's not just that the Republican Party is sticking with Herschel Walker -- the Republican Party wants the party's voter base to se...
Saturday, October 08, 2022

NO, THOSE NEW YORK HOMEMADE-VIDEO SITES AREN'T POPULAR BECAUSE OF POST-LIBERALISM

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In The New York Times Magazine , Jody Rosen writes about some popular social media feeds that offer videos and snapshots of unusual, occasi...
Friday, October 07, 2022

A RIGHT-WINGER'S SOLUTION TO THE HERSCHEL WALKER PROBLEM IS SIMPLE, ELEGANT -- AND DOOMED TO FAIL

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The Washington Examiner 's Quin Hillyer thinks Herschel Walker should effectively withdraw from the Georgia Senate race, while keeping ...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

THE GOP'S INCOMPETENT OCTOBER SURPRISE

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This is supposedly the biggest story of the moment : Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden Federal ag...

WHEN SCANDAL HITS, REPUBLICANS DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO WHATABOUT ANYMORE

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The latest news about Herschel Walker is that the woman whose abortion he financed is also the mother of one of the children he didn't ...