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— PLAYING POLITICS (@PlayingPolitics) April 29, 2021
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson provides a bit of background on what happened just before President Biden’s address to Congress.
- Most of America saw the Biden speech as uplifting, showcasing an America on the mend, achieving new heights. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara saw something different. He attacks the President’s presentation for its irrational pessimism. No kidding. That’s what he says.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger watches the polls. The public sees President Biden as more moderate than Barack Obama. Ted doesn’t much mind that.
- The Borowitz Report uncovers an explosive video revealing a Biden plot to use his powers to improve living conditions.
- John Scalzi at Whatever sees President Biden as boring as all hell, and regards it as one of his best secret weapons.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson posts one of the cleverest takedowns while clearing a Democrat of wrongdoing. Congressional Representative Ron Kind (D-WI) is wrongly accused.
However, while the GOP is hoping to use this against Kind, there does not seem to be any allegations that Kind did anything wrong. Certainly not on the level of some other politicians.
Followed by For example, it’s not as if Kind was arrested for … then a list of Democratic scandals. Clever. Well played.
Should inspire others to provide similar links about solicitation of minors and sex abuse cover ups.
- The Propaganda Professor remembers the old Southern joke about someone living many years before learning that “damn” and “yankee” were two separate words, then reminds us why librulmedia is less a word than a myth.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil seems impatient at the meanderings of conservative preachers and right-tip-of-the-wing-ers and their historical absurdities.
To borrow a phrase: Conservatives thrive on the rhetorical excesses of their opponents. When confronted with the accusation that one of their brethren has murdered a family, including their dog, conservatives will triumphantly produce the dog alive.
The good pastor referenced by M. Bouffant begins by slamming an ill-considered, and since deleted, post by LeBron James prematurely reacting to the shooting of a teenager, who turned out to be swinging a knife to slash an antagonist. The shots represented the very best of all very horrible choices available to the police officer. The preacher then goes on to condemn everyone who is not loyally conservative as incurring God’s wrath.
The politician accuses liberals of surrendering to intimidation by leftist mobs. M. Bouffant helpfully makes an obvious point about mobs.
- Nojo has one line summaries of 9 controversies that panic panicky white people.
- Max’s Dad goes to the races to see equine type competition. The Sport of Kings has a shrinking but enthusiastic audience. The part he liked the most was the horses. The least? The red state denial and lack of humanity.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors exhibits a photoshop of a chart by Republican Senator Joni Ernst that reveals the hidden liberal agenda. Sex Blimps is not on the original. A shame.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz reveals how his bucket list was radically altered by the pandemic. Now that we can, at least, visualize the end of that crisis, he suggests a bucket list for America.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is not at all saddened when an anti-mask legislator in Alaska discovers that playing a privileged ass can have consequences.
- Heard all the excuses for not getting one of the vaccines that will prevent COVID infection? At The Moderate Voice, Dorian de Wind hears a new one, one of the dumbest.
Okay, perhaps the one and only dumbest.
- It was a gotcha question. But it was one easily anticipated. Frances Langum watches the Governor of West Virginia squirm, trying to think of an answer about an anti-trans bill attacking youngsters.
- PZ Myers has a negative opinion about state legislators here in Missouri who have an unhealthy interest in the genitals of trans kids.
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group take a close look at a student’s rights lawsuit over free speech. Your choice of a podcast or a transcript.
- Dave Dubya watches the Supreme Court schedule, and warns that they will be hearing an important case on gun control. Dave asks a brief, interesting question.
- At The Onion, Ted Cruz slams the voting rights bill before the Senate as nothing more than a ruthless power grab by the American People wanting to control the country.
- Sarah Cooper doesn’t understand why everyone is making a big deal about those new Florida voter restriction laws. Well, she kind of does understand. Sarcasm can be an effective weapon.
- Tommy Christopher digs into reality and finds that the border crisis is nosediving into a non-crisis, at least regarding children in custody. This while an NBC anchor tries and fails and tries and fails to get President Biden to call it a crisis.
- Cato’s Julian Sanchez detects a developing conservative position that the government must act on immigration right away to preserve a white majority.
- Tired of incidents of police wrongdoing, with special enthusiasm when Black people are the victims? CalicoJack in The Psy of Life applies lessons he learned as a kid from his mom. He supports a proposed limitation of the catch-22 aspects of qualified immunity.
- One reason we’re not supposed to make racial distinctions is that race is a social construct. In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist just can’t understand why historically Black colleges can exist. False social construct, you know.
Perhaps I can help with a reference to another former British colony.
In 1940s India, Mohandas K. Gandhi – the Mahatma – made it a point to associate where possible with those whom much of Hindu society regarded as untouchable. It was a social construct that, like race in America, left its mark on those who ended up with a very real common cultural experience.
False social constructs can result in very real life effects. Overcoming an imposed historic disadvantage can produce a cultural distinction that deserves recognition.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has a low opinion of Rick Santorum, who has a low opinion of Native Americans. You may know former Senator Santorum as CNN’s current resident bigot.
- Aside from Tucker Carlson being personally repulsive, advocating actions that would be loathsome, Iron Knee at Political Irony points out another obvious impression about Tucker.
- Green Eagle finds someone accused of crimes worse than those allegedly committed by Matt Gaetz. Say hello to evangelical Christian and television personality Josh Duggar.
I keep thinking of a proposed dialogue:
Matt Gaetz: Accused of promoting prostitution? 17 years old?
I must be the most terrible person anywhere.
Josh Duggar: Hold my beer.
- driftglass points to Matthew Dowd’s militant centrism as a textbook example of everything that is broken about the mainstream media.
- Is anyone unaware that Louis DeJoy was appointed by once-upon-a-time president Donald Trump to run the US Postal Service? Or that Louis DeJoy dedicated himself to disrupting operations in an effort to keep pro-Biden mailed-in ballots from being delivered in time to count in the 2020 Presidential election? Or that other essential deliveries were disrupted as well? I rely on mailed prescription drugs, so I can testify to that last.
DeJoy can only be fired by the Post Office Board of Governors, which is dominated by Trump-supporting holdovers. Hackwhackers counts the votes as the US Senate is poised to approve enough new members to assign Mr. DeJoy to the too long lines of the unemployed.
- Infidel753 provides a well written review of a well written book on what might otherwise be a dry topic: how geography may have influenced evolution. Infidel describes the treatment of dramatic geographic events as gripping. So is Infidel’s review.
- Vagabond Scholar evaluates and gives awards to the best of the Oscars.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes ponders the freedom of retirement followed by its losses. He suggests the polar opposites of seeing retirement as nothing or everything which, he suggests, is the ultimate question of all existence.
- Let’s talk about unintended consequence, shall we? Reductress provides a chilling account of a lost 127 hours, as a bather makes the mistake of using lotion, then can’t get a grip on the doorknob.
- As a committed Christian, I have to admit to a bit of bias. Former pastor Bruce Gerencser is one of the most thoughtful atheists around. His insights should benefit anyone of any faith – or lack of it.
In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce discovers a public school that has blocked student access to his site. His site is described by the school as a source of pornography.
Uh – – – Huh?
- SilverAppleQueen has had a problem blogging for a few days. Moving, unpacking, trying to get computer accessories working. Then she gets to the real reason. Those of us who have lost pets can empathize.
- @momwino98 has fun with a family photo:
@momwino98 - I thought Defund the Police was dumb. Now comes a recommendation that Biden abolish menthol cigarettes. No, really!
This is opposed by such folks as the ACLU, the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers, the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association of Social Workers, the National Black Justice Coalition, Black folks in general, smokers,
and, most important,
my loved one. You think the NRA is adamant? She will vote for most any Republican if the plan is carried out. You can take her menthols from her cold dead lungs.
Anyone who believes this ban will accomplish anything but the creation of a true Republican tsunami should read a history book. Look in the index for Prohibition or, if you can’t find it, Stupidity.
You wanna know what’s more addictive than cigarettes? If they find it, you’ll see the headlines.
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