- Tommy Christopher suggests that a campaign season is a tough time to test the proposition that an accused sexual predator may be entirely innocent and that a politically motivated accuser may be making things up. “If Biden’s accuser is lying,” says Tommy, “then maybe people need to hear a liar be called a liar.”
I dunno. Maybe the thing is to deny the accusation if not true, avoid name-calling, show gentle respect, encourage investigation, let the facts speak. Otherwise, keep silent.
You know… be the non-Trump, be the non-Kavanaugh.
Be the contrast.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson takes us through the desperate measures Republican strategists are considering. Candidates should stop defending their president and just get local. Trump’s campaign should proclaim that he is the very best of the very worst – because he is horrible, but Democrats are double horrible plus one.
Heather reviews all that and why none of those fine plans will work.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives slams Donald Trump, then slams him again and again, without saying anything. At least not saying his own words. He simply quotes a President from before I was born. And quotes him again and again.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the latest poll results. The November election is close very close. Biden edges Trump, that’s the good news. But it’s by only one point.
Hold on! That’s not nationwide. It’s a state poll in wait… where?
- Frances Langum takes notes. An armed, sponsored mob protests against virus-related restrictions by storming the Michigan legislature, threatening lawmakers. My president reacts quickly. He calls the armed stormers … stop me if you’ve heard this before … “Very fine people.”
- Scottie, at Scotties Toy Box, has a photo of the armed thugs and a brief account by a Michigan legislator.
- Who can blame them? Andy Borowitz reports as Michigan’s Governor arrogantly forces residents to stay alive.
- Wisconsin’s James Wigderson is a committed conservative who is steadily getting more irritated by racist messages from other conservatives.
- At The Onion, Trump accuses New York health officials of padding the state’s mortality rate by including African Americans.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz listens to fellow Christians who are torn because of all the side-choosing. Can’t we all be on the same side against the pandemic. Can’t we all just get along? Pastor Pavlovitz suggests Christians are called by Jesus to get off the fence and get on the side of the downtrodden, the side of justice.
- PZ Myers has a short, disgusting, compelling analogy that will convince us to wear face masks – – and other clothing. It will also convince us that Mike Pence runs around naked… unless I missed the point.
- This truly is sick. News Corpse reports that the Trump campaign has found a new, tasteless way to make money from COVID-19.
- Nan’s Notebook contains a pertinent question from a hundred years ago. There are obvious lessons from the flu pandemic of 1918. Why have we forgotten them?
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil posts three crisis related headlines and a challenge: Which one is not completely accurate?.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post has a modest suggestion on how our Commander-in-Chief might spare himself further embarrassment over his medical suggestion that we inject Lysol into our veins.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony reminds us of breathtaking hypocrisy in Louisiana. Sometimes it gets so extreme it’s tragically funny.
- At The Moderate Voice, David Robertson sadly shakes his weary head at the foolishness of so much of humanity. No, children. 5G does not harm the human body. A biological virus cannot travel on an electromagnetic wave.
- Meanwhile, back on the gun front, Hackwhackers digs into the financials and finds that the NRA is financially broke and organizationally broken.
- A couple of generations ago, I watched classic conservative William F. Buckley argue that the death penalty, far from a denial of the value of life, is life affirming. In some cases, the state justifies extracting something of infinite value from the guilty as penalty for extinguishing something of infinite value from the innocent. It is a valid argument. I bought it then. I buy it now. And I still oppose capital punishment. So…
The Propaganda Professor offers 10, count them 10, objective reasons the death penalty must be abolished. The most powerful, and the truest, reason is omitted. It is a subjective reason, a matter of values alone: Extracting that infinite value, even as a life affirming penalty, is wrong.
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