RBG RIP, Reproductive Rights, Nazi Genes, Hypocrisy, Climate D-d-d-denial

Shamelessly stolen from Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

  • Iron Knee at Political Irony provides a minute and a half of inspiration, reviewing the career of RBG. Video is from the Lincoln Project.
     
  • JoAnn Williams defends Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy on reproductive rights.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson goes for the sort of balanced approach that afflicts much of the mainstream.
     
    Seems Republican Senator Ron Johnson is a hypocrite. He insisted in 2016 that President Obama had no right to have his SCOTUS nominee considered in an election year. But now Johnson insists that Trump has that right.
     
    However, we have to hit both sides, right? So Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin is also a hypocrite. In 2016, she thought Obama’s nominee should be considered. But now, for some unprincipled reason, she thinks both presidents should be treated comparably. Goose and gander.
     
    In defense of James, he usually does much better than this.
     
  • At The Onion, mainstream media also maintains a balanced approach, as CNN demands to know why Biden has not yet come up with his own plan to trigger nationwide violence.
     
  • You know what part of world history Trump rallies bring to mind, right? PZ Myers takes a look at the the rhetorical content coming from the podium, the part about the importance of good genes.
     
    On that good genes front, I do find myself occasionally correcting friends who criticize my president for hating immigrants. It’s only some immigrants.
     
  • Sarah Cooper allows my president a moment of serious denial in a clip sponsored by World War Zero:
     

    One insightful comment: Sometimes even comedy isn’t funny anymore.

  • MadMikesAmerica illustrates how, with just a couple of reasonable adjustments in virus stats, my president can prove our nation is doing better than anywhere else.
     
  • Hard not to enjoy it when two elderly insightful friends, like Margaret and Helen write to each other. This week Helen suggests an IQ test involving Trump, coronavirus, and two trains going at different speeds in opposite directions.
     
  • In Ant Farmer’s Almanac, Trump hates the latest examples of voter fraud and liberal hoaxing. Question: is it a blog fraud and post hoax if there is no content below the headline? It does make for quick reading.
     
  • My long-time conservative friend Darrell Michaels (very good friend, actually) continues to conflate taking away our assault rifles with taking all our guns. It’s a tired old NRA trick. So he shows Joe Biden insisting he’s not out to take our guns, and shows Joe saying he’s against assault rifles. Boy, what a liar!
     
    Look, I really like Darrell. So I won’t insult his intelligence by suggesting he believes what he wrote.
     
    Okay, okay. So I stole that line from another conservative, where I left a comment.
     
  • Infidel753 reminds us of another election, one we had best not forget.
     
  • 2020 has been, well, an extended visit into Dante’s Inferno. Will Virgil ever guide us back again? Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, takes relief where she can get it. For instance she enjoyed watching Lindsey Graham in freely provided fundraising airtime on Fox desperately begging for funds. Terrible watching a grownup fighting off tears.
     
  • Uh oh. Buzzkill warning.
     
    Jonathan Bernstein remembers, and that’s the problem. Democrats might achieve a unified government, taking the Presidency and both houses. After all, they did it before in 2008. Thing is, that’s also when they blew it.
     
  • Max’s Dad is about fed up with Senate Democrats. Republicans are street brawlers while Democrats in the upper chamber were taught as kids to never hit back (My words, not his – sorry). But it’s different in the House, where Democrats know how to deal with bullies. So, when Trump and company try to steal the Supreme Court and the Presidency, saving democracy will be up to the House.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box takes a close look at a religious conservative who has been misrepresenting American history throughout his public history.
     
    I have had some thoughts about David Barton through the years. False witness apparently is fine, as long as it’s in the service of the Lord.
     
  • Karen McDougal was paid off by Trump to keep quiet about a sexual relationship. Tucker Carlson accused her of extortion, so she sued for defamation. News Corpse takes a look at why she lost. Fox News successfully argued in court that no reasonable viewer would take Tucker Carlson seriously. Really? The everyone-knows-he-lies defense?
     
  • Meanwhile, on the streets, driftglass checks out Tucker Carlson’s account of a scary attempted intrusion at his home by a massively large, incredibly violent mob of leftist rioters. Turns out it was just a few people chanting in the dark. They were armed with a tambourine. One did paint a letter on Tucker’s driveway while others demanded he stop.
     
  • Among other things, our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit explains why anti-mask folks never have to use headlights while driving at night.
     
    AND I have pointed to things we MAGA folks can do in the face of those freedom-interfering liberal snowflakes.
     
  • That’s…different. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil brings us video of the latest creative way anti-mask conservatives are owning us libtards. Well, I didn’t see that coming. Didn’t even imagine it. In fact…
     
    I’m gonna spend the whole rest of the weekend deliberately not thinking about it.
     
  • Julian Sanchez of Cato Institute submitted his statement to a congressional subcommittee dealing with extremist misinformation in social media, conspiracy theories often promoting radical violence. Sanchez provides some historical context, explaining how new communication technologies throughout history resulted in similar whirls of informational chaos. They steadied out as people adapted.

    Our own transitional era is host to no shortage of ideological pathogens, from violent and fanatical religious movements to bizarre conspiracy theories such as QAnon. And the social media platforms on which these pathogens spread find themselves in the unenviable position of attempting, by trial and error, to discover how one builds a functional sewer system.

    Guy has a way with words.
     


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