- Conservative Michael Gerson writes admirably about how conservatism generally, and the GOP specifically, have lost all semblance of morality. driftglass nods approvingly, yet still gets mad. Seems those on the left have been pointing out the obvious for years.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post, in heartwarming affirmation, writes back to Virginia that, yes, your President is a crook.
- Frances Langum reads the papers. John Boehner believes my President is a disaster. Et tu, BoTe?
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass loses sleep over Donald Trump’s disastrous European tour, not because of my President’s insults toward our allies, but because of his implicit promises to Putin.
- I detect the logic behind my President’s refugee policy, as Last Of The Millenniums explains why Murphy had to go.
- Tommy Christopher tells us about a Republican Congressional Representative who meets a voter, then finds out the voter will die if the plan to repeal healthcare goes through.
- John Scalzi at Whatever seems skeptical as the Trump administration finds the non-fake final solution in the War on Poverty. HUD Secretary Ben Carson teaches those scrambling to find their way out of privation that they should just stop struggling and simply think better thoughts. Poverty disappears if everyone in poverty declares that poverty doesn’t exist. Scalzi seems to think Carson should think better thoughts.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, observes the Kushner secret visit to the Russian Ambassador and spy-master Sergey Kislyak where he begs for the secret use of Russian equipment in the Russian Embassy to communicate secretly with the Russian Kremlin in … you know … Russia. Vixen wonders if it was boneheaded incompetence or straightup treason.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives looks past the barrage of criticism and counts the ways to praise Donald Trump.
- At The Intersection of Madness and Reality, Rippa really loves a radical professor. When he dies, he hopes to go to Cornel West. And, when it comes to West not voting for Hillary last year, Rippa says his hero is full of it.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz speaks to white Americans who were embarrassed by Obama as President. Actually, he explains, you weren’t.
- Even Fox News has backed off, issuing a regretful near-apology, but some surprisingly well known conservatives keep going. Newt? Sean? This week in ‘Alternative Facts’, the Baltimore Sun covers what wingnuts are using to replace the old Vince Foster tale. Seems true believers truly believe Democratic staffer Seth Rich did not die in a random street robbery, but was killed as part of a liberal revenge for Wikileaks leaks. Seth was supposed to be the leaker.
- nojo, at Stinque, takes a closer look at the attitudes of those on the right toward criminal violence in the service of conservatism.
- At the The Swash Zone, Capt. Fogg takes note of the latest Christian terrorist attack in Portland and makes the obvious but needed point about painting an entire group with the same brush. He points to three heroes, two of whom died, saving the Muslim woman and her friend as examples for real Americans.
- Infidel753 has a beautiful image dedicated to solidarity with the victims of terrorism in Manchester, the Union Jack projected onto the tallest building in the world.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes continues struggling with Lao-Tzu’s ancient Tao Te Ching, 2400 year old lessons in self-awareness. Vincent has had issues with not doing, and his difficulty in doing it. He approaches it now as trust in the universe.
- A faculty member departs, so PZ Myers cleans out a refrigerator and contemplates an accidental world-wide pandemic. Fun with chores.
- James Wigderson in Wisconsin is having a hell of a time on the neighborhood lane.
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The testimony of Driftglass nails the truth behind the Great American Tragedy.
First, the only thing you Republicans truly excel at is lying. Lying about your party’s past. Lying about its present. Lying about its future. Lying about math and science and God and history. And most of all, constantly, pathologically lying about Liberals.
Unhinged hatred of the Imaginary Left is now such a fundamental element of the GOP psyche, that now it just rooooolls off the tongues of the Pig People without them even noticing.
… millions of brand new “independents” who all believed, with a wild and fanatical fervor, that Barack Obummer was a Kenyan Usurper who was going to kill their sainted white grannies with Muslim Brotherhoods and New Black Panthers and Saul Alinskys and Death Panels.
And they got away with it…
Donald Trump is not destroying your conservative movement. He is just throwing a very inconvenient, million-candle-power spotlight on the rotting, squirmy, midden pile of racists, con men, imbeciles and demagogues that your conservative movement has always been.
Amen.
They have become a neo-fascist cult that listens only to their authoritarian leaders; their leaders who demonize unions, journalists, scientists, educators, and liberals who dare serve the truth and call out their hate and lies. The far Right’s view of the “Imaginary Left” is formed by these fascists, from “loonie libtards” to “Lügenpresse,” (lying press) a Nazi slur shouted at a Trump rally.
Now they openly cheer physical assault on reporters. “Heil, Trump! Death to the Lügenpresse!”
This is the rabid ideology that has taken over our country. We must never let them forget they are a minority.
This is the Great American Tragedy. Thanks to “good conservatives” and the party of “value$”.