MAGA Violence, Colorado Walled, Lynch, Corruption, Barr, Biden Lips

MAGA Pepper Spray
  • How many MAGA folks will turn violent if provoked by that with which they violently disagree? M. Bouffant at Web of Evil notes a pepper spray attack on some non-violent anti-Trump protestors (videos included), followed by the arrest of the attacker, and sees a sign of more violent things to come when Trump gets tossed.
     
  • After 7 months or so, Margaret and Helen are finally back. YAY!
    Helen talks about Trump’s wall in Colorado right on the border with Mexico.
     
    Uh…
    HaHaHa. He was just joking, really he was.
     
    She suggests that something is seriously wrong with someone who ties himself and his administration into pretzel shaped knots because he can’t ever, ever be wrong, even about little mistakes that can’t possibly be m-m-m-mistakes. Because … Trump.
     
  • Laurie Baron at The Moderate Voice explains to my President, I suspect with exaggerated care, the difference between impeachment and lynching.
     
  • It’s all in the headline as Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post manages a bit of pity for those trying to defend Trump lies. Or maybe the lack of content after the sympathetic headline is the message. Symbolism can be hard.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony brings us Tom the Dancing Bug to explain the absurdity of current Trump defenses and why Trump still doesn’t seem worried.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors quotes my president on Rudy (“He looks for corruption wherever he goes”) and discerns a bit of irony.
     
  • Let’s see. GOP Congressional Reps object because Impeachment Proceedings are following unfair procedures, including conducting investigatory hearings in private. The rules were established in 2015 by … uh … the Republican controlled Congress. News Corpse suggests a bit of hypocrisy as Trump Attorney General Barr conducts a baseless investigation of FBI investigators of 2016 Russia interference. Seems Barr’s Russia probe is being done entirely in secret.
     
  • Green Eagle goes to the history books (which, for me, would largely be memory) to count Attorneys General in Republican and Democratic administrations and which retired with reputations intact and which did not.
     
  • In MadMikesAmerica Michael John Scott likes Bernie Sanders. Might even support him. One drawback: Bernie’s reckless minions who helped serve up Trump. Michael didn’t exactly say Bernie Bros are jerks, so I suppose there may yet be peace in the valley.
     
  • Frances Langum brings us a couple of lip-reading videos with Joe Biden as the subject, both videos hilarious. Other campaign targets are promised.
     
  • Lots of retractions. So, okay, turns out Hillary didn’t say, or imply, that Tulsi is a Russian asset, but rather that she is being groomed by the GOP for a third party. The always insightful Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, insightfully makes an insightful observation. Tulsi pretty much underscores the underlying under lying by making Trumpy talking points on, of all places, Fox. Okay, so maybe shes a groomee after all. Still I do kind of wish Hillary would start of new tradition that losing presidential candidates are best not heard or seen or thought about. Like …uh… Jill Stein. Did I mention insightful?
     
  • Julian Sanchez of Cato Institution is interviewed about 2020 election security in a posted podcast.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit briefly explains the how the crisis in higher education spreads to a similar crisis in military recruitment. Trump/Miller immigration policy makes both crises close to hopeless.
     
  • In about 5 seconds, Scotties Toy Box explains what the issue of deficit spending is really about.
     
  • driftglass briefly recites the story of how upstart Einstein with his weird theories was vindicated and ties it to media history of false equivalence. Balance at the expense of documented truth.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finds a documentary about ongoing research into talent and meritocracy. Apparently, luck has more to do with it than is generally acknowledged. One study provides mathematical proof that organizations would be more efficient if promotions were awarded randomly.