Author: Burr Deming

Critical Race Theory definitions invite conservative distortion.

I have tried finding a path through academic obscurity. I got stuck in quicksand composed of phrases like:

• We reject evidence and reason
   
• We reject concepts of truth and merit
   
• We are captives of complex, changing, subtle social and institutional dynamic
   
• The key Critical Race Theory concept is intersectionality
   
• White supremacy is an intersectional social construction

Huh?

Anyone trying to get an honest grasp gets turned away by a sort of sneering academic mishmash of jargon that might as well be written in Sanscrit.

Conservative translations lack truth but do possess the virtue of clarity.

As soon as conservative activists learn to read and develop the patience to dive into the tall weeds, they will discover that, through the argle bargle, some golden phrases stand out.

Like, for example: “reject evidence and reason” and “reject concepts of truth and merit”

All of which will pretty much take the wind out of the sails of those of us who, quite correctly, point at the rejection of truth and reason on the the part of conservative critics.

 
Swirling Thoughts
 

This is a full view of the board behind Michael Flynn and Mike Lindell. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/SYw5wqSE8e

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 6, 2021

And that’s how Trump-centric theories are born

Big bang theory of the brain…

…eventually the plasma will form into emotional galaxies

• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors watches establishment Democrats get slapped around by an angry impatient young Turk until Whoopi Goldberg steps in and knocks him out. tengrain patiently explains why Whoopie is right.
   
• If only Democrats would surrender a little faster to these nice, cooperative Republicans. driftglass does not seem surprised that the same guy who astonishingly accused Obama of excessive partisanship now catalogues Joe Biden’s missed opportunities. Said loss seems to be caused by a lack of empathy with poor beleaguered Republicans, who are so eager to help him.
   
• Frances Langum watches MSNBC news anchor Brian Williams take conservatives at OAN to the woodshed as they advocate the execution of those who voted against Trump.
   
  Brian! You mean we can’t kill the hundreds of thousands of traitors who stole the election by voting for the wrong guy?
   
• News Corpse sees the conservative call for mass executions of Democratic traitors cautiously disowned on the Fox Network. Howard Kurtz seems disturbed by the execution talk because due process. The rigged election has not been conclusively proven and the Traitors have not yet been identified and charged.
   
  Apparently, wiser conservative heads will prevail and the executions will be delayed until after the conservative overthrow!
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson sees Republican politicians unifying behind a few issues in the coming campaign. COVID decline and the economic upswing are no longer to be discussed in polite company. Statues to those who fought and killed to defend slavery are now themselves to be defended. The 2020 election is to be relitigated with vote “audits” by private groups. All abortions are to be outlawed. Teaching in public schools about racism must be limited to how it no longer exists in America. And, of course, immigrants are to be attacked. So elections in 2022 are to be about saving confederate statues, performing election audits, banning abortion, forbidding teaching about racism, and attacking immigrants.
   
  Some of those positions are unpopular with anyone but rabid Republicans. But conservative lawmakers plan to insulate themselves from the popular will through voter suppression and hyper-aggressive gerrymander.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger dives into the data. Most Americans want a more fair economy as long as it isn’t called socialism.
   
  Reminds me of my socialist friend who began nodding as I suggested that most people do not realize that the technical meaning of Socialism is getting your ass kicked in the next national election. To his credit, he laughed.
   
• Republicans have supported police by trying hard to tie Democrats to the absurd Defund the Police slogan adopted by some leftists, and rejected pretty much uniformly by national Democrats. Meanwhile, Democrats have worked to increase police funding, while Republicans have insisted on defunding the police they maintained they were supporting. When he graced the Oval Office, Mr. Trump proposed slashing police funding in every budget he submitted. And, this year, Republicans voted against Biden proposals to send funds to local police departments to support police.
   
  Tommy Christopher watches one of the more entertaining White House press conferences as Fox network personality Peter Doocy tries hard to dominate White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki over the crime issue. After all, Democrats are all about Defund the Police! Jen Psaki responds with a smile. Democrats supported funding and Republicans fought it. Poor Doocy flounders, arguing that nobody told Republicans that money for police could fight crime.
   
  Jen Psaki simply reminds Doocy that actions speak louder than words, then pretty much lets the poor soul tangle himself in his own barbed wire.

Continue reading “Conservative Race Theory, Bi-Parted, Execute Dems, GOP Defund Police, CRT”

 

 

This is the funniest and best explanation of baseball, ever. I’m dying. pic.twitter.com/XY4IxM54gB

— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) February 10, 2021

I’ll go along with those observations

• Hackwhackers looks at the data. The public really likes Joe Biden in office. And that’s according to Fox News polling.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is impatient with those of his right leaning fellows, like Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who advance conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Now he gives the evil eye to those campaigning against COVID vaccinations: like, for example – well wadiya know? – Senator Ron Johnson.
   
• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors admits to shock at learning that Mr. Trump’s no-mask-no-vaccine ethic infected almost 900 Secret Service employees with COVID.
   
• Yes, says Frances Langum, once-upon-a-president Trump wanted the federal government – Department of Justice, the FCC, everyone – to take action against Saturday Night Live for teasing him.
   
• Ant Farmer’s Almanac applies formal formers to poor beleaguered Rudy Giuliani. Not much beyond the headline, but then there doesn’t need to be, does there?
   
  Okay, so I do have an opinion:

• CalicoJack takes a hard look at social media in The Psy of Life. Connecting with others of like mind lends a feeling of community, and expands what we know vicariously beyond what we can know directly. And it just may be that benefit is how social media damages democracy.
   
• The Borowitz Report covers Mitch McConnell’s patriotic response to voting rights. Democracy originated in ancient Greece, and Senator McConnell will stand firmly against allowing a foreign form of government to sneak into America.

Continue reading “Popular Biden, Vaccines, Rudy Dissed, Secret Infected Service, Crush SNL, CRT”

 
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has an opinion
 

After being asked about Critical Race Theory, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley delivers an answer every American should watch.pic.twitter.com/MrJl5oCvsw

— Rantt Media (@RanttMedia) June 23, 2021

Thank you General Milley

• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged watches as a legislative witness, testifying in Pennsylvania, tries to demonstrate that vaccines magnetize the human body.
   
  There has been some mirth on the internet over this.

• CATO Institute’s Julian Sanchez analyzes the newest preferred target of anti-VAXers to decide whether vaccine passports are Orwellian infringements, or simply a combination of good business, good health, free association, and common sense. Okay, so we can guess where he goes on this.
   
• Then it gets serious. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz hears from a woman who lost her mother to COVID but has had no opportunity to truly mourn. He contemplates the impossibility, until postponed grief has been fulfilled and suspended loss acknowledged, of going back to normality.
   
• Pretty much everyone has seen video of a Republican Congressional Representative denying that any insurrection even happened. Just a bunch of tourists says he. Then a photo of that same Repub Rep emerges showing him screaming in panic and hiding behind a police officer as the Jan 6 mob approaches.
   
  At The Moderate Voice, Dorian de Wind notes a remarkable chance encounter between that same Rep Rep insurrection denier and one of those officers who was injured saving sorry posterior of said Rep Rep and other deniers. If you haven’t seen the story already, you are allowed to guess who refused a friendly handshake.
   
• Republican representative Andrew Clyde notwithstanding, Frances Langum produces new bodycam footage showing a clear Jan 6 deficit of harmless tourists. Who would have thought?
   
• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds yet another reason the FBI is able to identify so many Jan. 6 insurrectionists for arrest. Has to do with very poor internet reception in the Capitol Building.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony illustrates the four groups who most apparently participated in the Jan 6 mob attack.
   
• Ever wish insurrection supporting office holders would just go away? Me too. But we have to support their right to holler fire in a crowded theatre, right? Scotties Toy Box says that there is that little bit in the Constitution contained in the 14^th Amendment. Hmmmm.
   
• Nojo goes poetic with the best set of verses I’ve seen this week: an ode to Joe Manchin.
   
• You gonna believe mere videos when the Lord speaks something else? News Corpse observes as Kayleigh McKEnany proves that she never ever lied while serving as Trump Press Sec. Proof of truth is simple. She couldn’t possibly have told a falsehood because she is a person of faith. So close your eyes and check no further, folks. The issue is settled.

Continue reading “Vaccine Goes Magnetic, Passports,
Insurrect Handshake, Pants, Manchin”

Matt Taibbi: Look what you made me do!

• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reads the polls, this time about who voters see as most bipartisan and willing to reach out to make things work. By a substantial margin President Biden comes out ahead of, well, pretty much everyone.
   
• Imani Gandy welcomes the good news as President Biden takes a step toward abortion rights, keeps his promise, and and excludes the discriminatory Hyde amendment from his proposed budget.
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson notes what seem to be the final days of Israel’s extreme right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, we should recall, puts match to fuel by encouraging orthodox extremists to attack and force out Palestinians families who have lived for generations in the wrong neighborhoods.
   
  Among US officials traveling to Israel to support Netanyahu in his hour of desperation are three Republican members of the United States Senate. They join to call President Biden weak, presumably for not supporting the soon to be ex-Prime Minister.
   
  I sometimes think back wistfully on those halcyon days when partisanship stopped at the water’s edge.
   
• Green Eagle has seen a lot of zombie movies. Those living-dead folks just do not stay dead. So Large Green Bird reads, with some skepticism, news accounts of the dethroning of Netanyahu.
   
• Tommy Christopher chronicles the saga of an Indiana man’s awkward phone conversations with a co-worker who who recently formed a lynch mob to assassinate him.
   
  You thought YOUR employment environment was harsh?
   
• Mr. Trump sent a mob over to the Capitol Building last January to see that Mr. Pence gets assassinated. Julian Sanchez watches the former Vice President this week describe the disagreement in minimalist terms: they don’t see eye to eye. Julian is amused:
   

• The Jan 6 insurrection commission gets voted down by a Senate minority. We don’t just learn a lesson about the filibuster. Dave Dubya points to a few things we have had proven to us, the world, God, and everyone about the Republican Party.
   
• Scotties Toy Box has a few unnerving, entertaining, cartoon type thoughts about Jan 6 rioting, voting rights, and the end of democracy.
   
• News Corpse covers the strange fit of rage from Mr. Trump as Facebook bans him for 2 years.
   
• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors watches as Facebook, having told my once-and-no-more president he can’t post there for a couple of years, suggesting there may be other outlets for him. As in you can always take you business elsewhere. Or perhaps he can start his own blog? Oh wait!
   
• At The Moderate Voice, Editor-In-Chief Joe Gandelman seems to have little sympathy for the spectacular, and very public, blog failure of Donald Trump, contrasting the not even a month of our once-upon-a-president with the 18 years of The Moderate Voice.
   
  Come on, folks. Are we really gonna kick the guy when he’s down?
   
  Well – – – Hell YEAH!

Continue reading “Biden, NetanyOUT, Blog Gone It, Great Reinstall, Flynn Flam, Tuckered Out”

A Marine holds the door as Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, walks into the White House. pic.twitter.com/tbsavLTzcx

— Evan Vucci (@evanvucci) May 25, 2021

• Two kinds of tough on display. Tommy Christopher gathers reactions to what will become iconic photos of a United States Marine holding a door for George Floyd’s little girl Gianna Floyd as the family visits with President Joe Biden. This week was the first anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s murder.
   
• PZ Myers doesn’t exactly call it cancel culture, but there it is. Texas has outlawed racism in education.
   
  Well… not racism exactly, just any mention of racism.
   
  Move along, history students. Nothing to see here.
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson retells the story I confess to never having heard before of the courageous, dangerous, step Frederick Douglass took in 1838 to get from slavery to freedom. She includes the risk another took to help him.
   
• The rest is worth a look, but do scroll to the middle as Scotties Toy Box posts the story of former slave Mary Fields, better known as the legendary Stagecoach Mary.
   
• In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist watches with sadness the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and suggests another murder is happening: around the globe, democracies, including our own, can’t breathe.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger figures out just who wants a complete investigation of January 6.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony contrasts Republican disinterest in Trump insurrectionists with the anger and conservative focus on Hillary emails.
   
• Glancing through videos from just before the Trump riot, Seth Abramson notices something odd that should have only been true about White House golf carts.
   
• In the Borowitz Report, Republicans are claiming that the Jan 6 rioters were middle schoolers on a field trip.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz examines bipartisanship and finds a hidden flaw.
   
• Joe Manchin seems not to have given up on bipartisanship, or on his defense of the filibuster. Green Eagle has a one-sentence suggestion for the ever outreaching Senator, a suggestion that, mercifully, does not involve an anatomical improbability.
   
• Want to know how the founders fit the filibuster into the legislative process? Hackwhackers has a couple of paragraphs that explain the whole thing.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson considers the current condition of the Republican party, thinks about and rejects a third party, then suggests what today’s responsible conservatives should do.

Continue reading “George Floyd, Democracy, Slavery, Stagecoach Mary, Trump Riot & Golf”

 

I’d trade my shoes to see the face of the recipient.