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- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger goes to Afghanistan (figuratively) right to the the point of greatest success, after which nothing has been accomplished: Which is why we should leave ASAP.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson reviews President Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan as what she suggests is an aggressive, forward thinking, strategy against terrorism and cyber attacks. Biden, she says, seems to be fighting the wars of the next 20 years instead of war as it was fought in the last 20.
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, is happy that the record is now unambiguous. The degree of certitude on Russian behind-the-curtain manipulation to get Trump installed in 2016 has graduated from reasonable speculation and obvious conclusion to established fact, even though that is unlikely to sway a political party that, as reported by Tucker, sees Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a documentary.
- Those of us who watch idealized police procedural television shows can tell you that criminal conspiracies are most vulnerable at the seams. Plotters eventually compete for the best plea deals. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit watches fiction turn to reality as the first of January’s big, bold, lethal insurrectionists becomes a springtime canary. That one should be the first of a growing number, as more are primed to push each other aside in a mad rush to take positions in the great right wing circular firing squad. Ready, aim, witness protection.Interestingly, those who are not talking don’t know who is. So suspicion, anger, and fear in the ranks is producing more stress.
- Dave Dubya reminds us of last week’s startlement (is too a word) as last year’s Trump donors discover that the campaign has been raiding their bank accounts, giving a whole new meaning to Stop the Steal.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara defends the right of social media platforms to ban Citizen Trump for violating their guidelines and to decline to prohibit documented falsehoods. They are private organizations and are not obligated to act as public utilities.I’m not familiar enough with libertarian nuances to know what Michael feels about defamation laws. If we accept as a premise that those who are harmed have a right to sue, then should platforms that decline to prohibit harmful falsehoods be made legally vulnerable as well?
- Trump supporter and sometime conspiracy aficionado Sydney Powell is being sued for billions of fists full of dollars for falsely charging a voting machine company with stealing the election from rightful president Donald Trump. The Propaganda Professor takes a look at her legal defense, that no reasonable person could have believed her weird accusations and why the defense is a logical absurdity.I share a lowbrow common reaction. There is a certain twisted irony in her my-followers-are-dumb-as-a-rock defense.
- First Delta Airlines, then Coca Cola are attacking the Georgia’s wild new voter suppression law. Then hundreds of corporations condemn the voter chokeholds, and previously planned movie productions leave the state. Andy Borowitz brings us the latest as the City of Atlanta pulls out of Georgia. Okay, now stop, just STOP tapping that keyboard! I already know it’s satire.
- Green Eagle is stunned that Republicans are now attacking (are you serious) baseball? Really? Green Eagle speculates on what revered icon might be next.Really?
Baseball?
- nojo has insight about the main reason democracy is a dangerous idea.
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