When jumping out of your car to pitch a fit at the drive-through window, while harassing an underpaid employee, be sure to put your car in park. pic.twitter.com/XaRCUHWXWG
— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) May 15, 2022
- Max’s Dad, usually pithy and entertaining in his rants, becomes angry and eloquent as he contemplates more mass murders by white supremacists.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit does not think targeting guns or even assault rifles will end racially motivated mass murders. She does have a suggestion.
- Frances Langum covers the coverage as CNN’s Jim Acosta calls out Tucker Carlson for his deadly Replacement Theory nonsense.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life explains how social language norms influence behavior and how that applies as conservatives toe-dip, and sometimes wade, into white supremacy, and how it then leads to race based mass murder.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson examines the great Replacement Theory, variations of which are becoming popular among Republicans, conservative television personalities, white supremacist groups, and racist mass murdering shooters, and traces it back to reconstruction days in the South circa 1870.
- In Hackwhackers it’s cartoon time, and a few takes on modern white supremacy.
- Ten years ago, John Scalzi figured out a way to write about white privilege in a way that would effectively communicate the concept to resistant white males. It didn’t work, and John is pretty sure why.
- Pro-life Republicans are now going after the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged takes a look at the message behind the message as Cultural Conservatives attack those getting nutrition as undeserving layabouts and then lapse into a variation on Replacement Theory rhetoric.
- By US and International law, refugees have to be treated humanely. Our policy has been to investigate thoroughly whether they are truly refugees, which is to say they have a legitimate fear of persecution. This has been the law for over 40 years. While being investigated, they have to be fed and sheltered.
Scotties Playtime covers a new controversy as Republicans, presumably pro-life conservatives, are calling Democrats pedo grifters for providing enough baby formula to keep immigrant babies from starving. After all, the baby formula is for babies already in America in programs the same conservatives are trying to eliminate.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger knows the polls, he has the data, and he tells us how Americans regard the US Supreme Court.
One way to say it might be minimum high esteem.
- Dave Columbo has a few newsworthy opinions on abortion rights and the Supreme Court draft rationale for overturning them:
@davecolumbo It’s been a pretty rough week. #news #democrats #democratsoftiktok #democrat #politics #politicaltiktok #roe #roevwade #fy #fyp #foryou ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo - Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara regards with some skepticism those who insist on the right of individuals to make their own abortion decisions, if they also want indoor masking mandates at public facilities during a pandemic. He calls us on our hypocrisy.
I dunno, Michael. When my neighbor stands next to me at the checkout during a widespread contagion, it can affect me, my family, my friends, and others in deadly ways. When my neighbor decides whether she will have children it does not affect any of the rest of us.
Not everything that is my concern is my business. Some things are.
- Nojo contemplates how to be happy in these desperate times, and settles for an evening with a Ukrainian friend.
- Infidel753 sees a few dim, but brightening, signs of hope as Putin loses his war of aggression. Infidel has a habit of accurate analysis in these areas.
- Green Eagle knows that most analysts see only two ways for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to end. One is Russian defeat that Putin will not tolerate. The other is escalation to a nuclear nightmare. Green Eagle sees a possible path to a third alternative.
- After @momwino98 became @whiskeywhistle98, I was afraid this might be lost. Fortunately she thought to preserve it:
@whiskeywhistle98 #answer to @spidermark790 an oldie but a goodie!! 😂 #humor #trumpispathetic #tiktokmom #foryourpage #fyp #trend #obama #yikes ♬ original sound – @Whiskeywhistle98- - The Palmer Report has been covering the legal contest between Donald Trump and NY’s Attorney General in her investigation of corporate and bank fraud. At issue was whether Trump would surrender financial documents that are under subpoena. Now it looks like Donald has caved and given up the documents.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez has an idea of the source of right wing politics:
The primary function of modern right wing politics is giving people who are angry and bitter because they’re losers a series of fictions they can pretend to themselves are the source of their rage. https://t.co/qCwpqTUOuL
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 20, 2022
I’m dead serious about this. A truly frightening amount of our politics now seems to be about manufacturing socially acceptable public pretexts for rage people are already harboring for essentially personal reasons.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 20, 2022
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