- This week’s note in Trumpian Alternative Facts comes from Senator Elizabeth Warren – really! The Trump admin lie she bumps into is minor, petty. And that’s what makes it worth considering: the petty pointlessness of it. Seems to come so naturally to these people, falsehood has become a default position.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post goes after Mr. Trump’s self-description as a self-made individual. He begins with New York Times research revealing the Trump financial history of failure and fraud. It is a story that is largely under-reported by other mainstream outlets.
- Master ranter Max’s Dad goes to a Trump rally, gives a blow-by-blow along with his own reactions. The adventure is worth the click-n-read.
- Tommy Christopher reports as a Senator who is an actual war hero blasts my President for saying Devin Nunes deserves the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is our nation’s highest and most prestigious personal military decoration.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil points out the irony in a democratic republic of a major decision made anti-democratically.
- The Onion is entertained as Kanye West jumps on massage table to deliver speech about relaxation.
- Jonathan Bernstein looks at what have to be considered campaign activities and tells us who, among Democrats, is now running for President: everybody.
- Let’s see. For decades in Waller County, Texas, officials have illegally tried to prevent students, mostly black students, from voting. At the Waller County courthouse, a campaign staffer drops off a letter supporting voting rights for those students. Frances Langum covers his sudden arrest as a couple of police officers discover that he is a Democrat. No charges. “Investigative detention.”
I was just a kid way back when this was routine in the South. Saw it on my parents’ black and white TV.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson gets mad. After protests by parents and children, use of the n-word in the script prompts a high school to cancel a play based on To Kill a Mockingbird. We all should get mad about that. Harper Lee’s novel was largely based on the false conviction of an innocent man because of racism. Use of racial epithets would seem obvious for a play against racism to be faithful to the novel.
- At MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist compiles a list of how conservatives are giving ordinary words increasingly weird definitions.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings us the story of a guy who saves a gosling. Gosling grows into a goose who then adopts the guy, then passes him down to the next generation. Neat video of the guy in his boat walking the goose.
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