Month: March 2023

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— Dave (@SpotTheLoon2010) March 18, 2023

• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit sees a blur between satire and reality as an ousted president acquires a sudden intense interest in humane prison reform.
   
• YellowDog Granny throws cartoons at the Trump non-arrest this past Tuesday.
   
• Ant Farmer’s Almanac notices a pattern in Trump arrest days.
   
• In the Borowitz Report, mr Trump claims the failure to arrest him this week is a conspiracy to keep him from getting donations.
   
  Key satire:
  If not arrested by Friday, Trump said,
  “I will perform a citizen’s arrest on myself.”
   
• The oft prescient Infidel753 explains, before it didn’t happen this week, why we should not be all that unhappy that the Trump arrest didn’t happen this week.
   
• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings us more non-news. It seems the indictment and arrest were not the only Trump-announced event that did not occur.
   
  Although there have been goofy attempts to say otherwise:

  This video, claiming to show Donald Trump's supporters outside Trump Tower in New York protesting the possibility of his arrest, has been shared multiple times on TikTok and Twitter.

  It's an old video from a pro-Trump rally in New York in October 2020. pic.twitter.com/i38coX2uz4

  — Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 21, 2023

  Two lone demonstrators show their support for the former President outside of Trump Tower pic.twitter.com/ImxAAOFhEd

  — Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) March 21, 2023

• Dave Columbo suggests one scandal we don’t often discuss is an ongoing corruption of the language of scandal:
   
  Key interaction:
  We used to be so much more discerning with what was unpresidential: Howard Dean, we owe you an apology. Do you accept?…(YeeeAhhh!) Okay.
   
  
• At The Moderate Voice, the current Republican line is that arresting mr Trump would blow up the country. Joe Gangelman, with the help of 10 others, blows up that proposition.
   
• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged brings to us Donald Trump’s threat of death and destruction from his fans if he is indicted, including a screenshot of himself brandishing a baseball bat against District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
   
  Key observation:
  The solution is not the refuge of the law, or the comfort of his own knowledge of his innocence. Nope. He attacks the official who brought the case as a human being with blood and breath, because he can’t refute the facts. He can’t enjoy his day in court, because it won’t exonerate him.
   
  Key Screenshot:
  

  

Continue reading “Stormy Storm, Arrested Arrest, Threats, Captive GOP, No Pill, Erase Racist Past”

Somebody needs this right now. pic.twitter.com/uu30veZsCf

— TG (@TG22110) March 12, 2023

• Libertarian philosophy does not allow for any challenge to it’s basic premise: government is bad.
   
  So the logic on climate change is pretty much a straight line.
   
  1. Any fact that implies the necessity for government is not really a fact. It is bogus, generated for evil purposes.
      
  2. Climate change that originates with humans and that endangers human life strongly suggests the need for government regulation.
      
  3. So here it is, the straight line:
      
     Evidence of climate change has got to be bogus, part of a global conspiracy.
      

  Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara complains that the
  climate propaganda cartel infects virtually everything in media, including weather reporting.
   
  But Michael has a reliable alternative:
   
  Key reliable alternative (in Michael’s words):
  A weather network, tied to one of Steve Bannon’s platforms.
   
  Yup. The reliably reliable Steve Bannon.
  Well, any port in a climate storm, I suppose.
   
  Key endorsement:
  I never heard of WeatherNation before coming across this article. But it’s refreshing to know that there still exists a weather outlet that actually sticks to verifiable facts.

• Dave Dubya suggests that those who use woke as an insult have another problem.
   
• PZ Myers watches the interview as conservative Bethany Mandel gloats about the defeat of woke. But when she is asked just what she means by woke, she suffers a stuttering, stammering brain freeze.
   
  And thus we have a new birth of viral video.
   
  
  I have a slightly different take. I don’t see an inability to define what she is against. I see an unwillingness to put it into real words. Anti-woke conservatives seem to be antagonistic toward what most Americans see as a fundamental ethic. She is struggles to keep from saying aloud that she is against basic fairness, equality, and compassion.
   
  A more coherent response might have pointed to one or more of the few extreme excesses that can endanger any social movement, and use them to characterize the entire movement.
   
  Kevin Drum lists a few possible extreme examples:
   
  My favorite:
  Race-Based Silencing – Telling a white person they don’t have the right to speak because they’re an oppressor.
   
• Cato’s Julian Sanchez captures the essential point:
   
  
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has a thought about woke folk:
  

  Jesus preached compassion, generosity, caring for the sick, feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrant, loving the least.

  The Right would have called him "woke" and cancelled him.#SundayMorning https://t.co/bBKCztOuIf

  — John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) March 12, 2023

• Scotties Playtime carries a series of sane responses after a Fox Network host blames the near collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Pride Month.

Continue reading “Climate, Woke, Bank Run, Fox, China, Russian Divers, Death for Abortion”

Tucker Carlson 14 years ago: "In the absence of any universally recognized standard or source of news, what happens?….All sorts of crazy conspiracy theories bloom and take the place of facts." pic.twitter.com/3BWLbs5Clz

— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) March 8, 2023

• Hackwhackers goes all cartoon on Tucker, Fox, and Trump.
   
• Dave Columbo goes to alternate Tucker explaining how he got to the true story of innocent MAGA tourism:
   
  No idea why TikTok goes to autoplay and defaults to zero volume. Try clicking volume, then reload (such a bother). 

@davecolumbo He cant be serious. #democrats #democrat #politics #politicaltiktok #political #politicalsatire #politicalhumor #january6 ♬ Manke, honobo, everyday, funny, loop – arachang

• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged watches the Steve Bannon side of the Fox takedown.
   
  To the rest of us, the crime at Fox was reporting what none of Fox personalities truly believed.
   
  To Bannon followers, the Fox crime was not truly believing what they all were reporting.
   
• Dave Dubya goes into the reasons the GOP is no longer what we traditionally regard as a political party.
   
• CalicoJack in The Psy of Life suggests that, for a society to function, respect for truth is the essential basis. Acceptance of lying as a counter to truth is a threat to society.
   
  Key example – one of several:
  George Santos doesn’t even bother to claim he’s not lying. He just shrugs and wonders why everyone is making such a big deal out of it.
   
• Frances Langum reacts as conservative Mona Charen acknowledges that persistent election denialism is wrong, but insists that both sides are guilty.
   
  One key distinction:
  Sure, I remember some bloggers questioning voting machines in 2004. Liberal bloggers who do things like, demand an investigation.
   
  I don’t remember John Kerry telling us to storm the Capitol building, shit in the hallways, and beat up as many cops as we could find.
   
  Well, yeah, there is that.
   
  Frances thoughtfully provides the Mona video separately:
  
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson seems unimpressed with at least one star at CPAC:
  

  I was going to ask if she was going to twirl around like there's a pole there again. Got my answer. Did she yell like Harriett Johnson in Blazing Saddles again? https://t.co/vNTCMjwS7x

  — James Wigderson (@jwigderson) March 4, 2023

• driftglass goes back a couple years more than a dozen and proves he saw CPAC as grifters when seeing CPAC as grifters wasn’t cool.

Continue reading “Fox Exposed, GOP Truth, Denialism, CPAC, Jobs, Biden Budget, Mad Trump”

This adorable pup stole his human's camera, and… well, watch! 🐕😂 pic.twitter.com/B4wtUs9UPy

— Jessi 💫 (@its_jessi_grace) February 28, 2023

• driftglass has the quickest analysis of the quickest self-immolation of a cartoonist.
   
• At Twitter, Elon supports the racist rant and laments that it ended Dilbert. John Scalzi at Whatever explains, logical step by reasonable step, why he remains on Twitter even though, in his words,
  Elon Musk is hot racist right-wing trash.
   
  Well, okay, there is that.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz apologizes for hurting the delicate feelings of some conservative Christians.
   
  Key paragraph:
  I love you, but as a Christian I simply can’t support the sin of your homophobic and transphobic lifestyle. I know that you weren’t born this way, and that for whatever reason you made the choice to reject God’s plan for you.
   
• In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one-time Evangelical pastor (current atheist) Bruce suggests that Evangelicals are an existential threat to the United States.
   
• Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group take on the strange case of a Florida attorney who wants to free his client:
  Transcript is available.
   
  Key explanation:
  A Florida attorney is representing the fetus of a pregnant woman in prison, claiming that his client is being illegally detained and should be released.
   
  
• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors makes us aware of local and state developments: like a new law proposed by state Republican legislators that requires bloggers who write about Florida officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics,
   
  Key linked quote from Tampa News Channel 8:
  If another blog post is added to a blog, the blogger would then be required to submit monthly reports on the 10th of each month with the appropriate state office.
   
• At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Major Dorian de Wind contrasts Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ book about courage and freedom with proposed legislation requiring bloggers to register with the state.
   
• Infidel753 suggests that the attempt to license blogger criticism is part of a larger pattern. Consider attempts to control any social commentary from Disney characters.
   
• PZ Myers has more on Florida. Republicans are pushing to outlaw the use of Covid-19 vaccines.

Continue reading “Florida, Crime, Biden, GOP, Dominion Dominates, Fox Outfoxed, Ukraine”