Thursday, December 15, 2022

GUARDRAILS 2.0: THE DeSANTIS YEARS

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The Bulwark's Jonathan Last doesn't have much respect for Ron DeSantis's latest moves on COVID: ... the COVID stuff? My God: Mo...

THE TRUMP REBOOT: NFTs AND ALSO ... A POLICY-ORIENTED LISTENING TOUR? SERIOUSLY?

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Yes, Donald Trump embarrassed himself today by announcing that he's selling licensed collectible NFTs/trading cards depicting himself ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TRUMP PLANS TO ANNOUNCE, BUT I ASSUME IT WILL BE UNDERWHELMING (updated)

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WTF? Here's some speculation : Trump won't be announcing a running mate. The video suggests that this announcement, like mo...

NEVER FORGET: REPUBLICANS THINK OUR COVID STRATEGIES ARE FAKE AND WE SUPPORT THEM ONLY BECAUSE WE'RE TYRANTS

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A journalist who works at the Southern Poverty Law Center is puzzled by Ron DeSantis's anti-public-health witch hunt: In my line of wo...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

RON DeSANTIS'S ASSAULT ON PUBLIC HEALTH IS BEING TREATED AS A HORSERACE STORY

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The possible next president of the United States wants to launch an all-out assault on vaccine manufacturers -- but don't worry your sil...

THE GOP: GULLING THE RUBES FOR SO LONG THAT NOW THE RUBES ARE IN CHARGE

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When I started blogging twenty years ago, I believed that the right-wing propaganda machine was a cynical means to an end: The people who sa...
Monday, December 12, 2022

TRUMP MIGHT AS WELL ADD COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT TO HIS LIST OF LAW VIOLATIONS

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CNN reports that Donald Trump plans to publish a new book next year: Former President Donald Trump is planning to release a book next year ...

ELON MUSK IS A POLITICAL ACTIVIST, BUT HE ISN'T A "FAR-RIGHT" ACTIVIST

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I'm grateful to The Atlantic 's Charlie Warzel for debunking the notion, advanced in a recent New York Times story by Jeremy Peter...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

MUSK : TRUMP :: TEA PARTY : BUSH?

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Republicans don't do introspection. Okay, sure, sometimes the official party admits that mistakes were made and commissions a study to...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

CHOOSE YOUR CONSPIRACY

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Grant Wahl, a 48-year-old soccer journalist, died suddenly while covering a World Cup match in Qatar. This happened a couple of weeks after...
Friday, December 09, 2022

SINEMA SAVES HER CAREER AND TRIES TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE PRINCIPLE -- BUT WHY NOW?

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Senator Kyrsten Sinema has announced that she's a registered independent now. In an Arizona Republic op-ed, she says she's "d...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

RON DeSANTIS WANTS VACCINE MANUFACTURERS TO BE THE NEXT DISNEY

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Ron DeSantis -- soon to be touted by the mainstream media as a "return to normalcy" Republican presidential candidate -- hasn'...

WHY NO INSURRECTION IN 2022?

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Amanda Marcotte has a theory about why there's been no serious violence or unrest in response to the midterm results, even in Arizona, ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

MATT BAI: WON'T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE POOR HATEMONGERS?

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The Washington Post 's Matt Bai has noticed that many of us are horrified by Kanye West's anti-Semitism. Bai think the problem is ....

IN A SANE AMERICA, THE GEORGIA SENATE RACE WOULD HAVE BEEN A ROUT

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I'm happy about the outcome in the Georgia Senate race, but it shouldn't have been close. I keep hearing that Herschel Walker was a...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

NO, REPUBLICANS AREN'T PURSUING HUNTER BIDEN BECAUSE THEY THINK IT TAKES THE HEAT OFF TRUMP

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The New Republic 's Alex Shephard thinks he knows why Republicans are determined to pursue the Hunter Biden story: For the right, the f...
Monday, December 05, 2022

HOW THAT GOP BREAKUP WITH CAPITALISM GOING THESE DAYS?

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We've all read commentary like this : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ... public vendetta against Disney over its opposition to Florida’s P...