Infidel753 dives into the deep right wing bubble and emerges back into the light with a thoughtful, as always, conclusion. The impeachment hearings will change no minds. We should finish them and get back to the reality of electoral politics. Largely true, I suspect. Still, I won’t be surprised at a profound political effect. There were many problems in 2016 – Putin subterranean interference, Comey mountaintop interference, the Electoral College. The biggest anti-democracy influence was resigned apathy. The hearings may, without changing minds, get democracy back to work.
Marie Yovanovitch served for thirty years for presidents of both parties, sometimes in highly dangerous situations. She is a hero. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors covers my president’s smear attacks on her during her testimony and the stunned reaction of some at Fox News.
Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged brings us a 27 second video of Nancy Pelosi explaining how exculpatory evidence could work for Donald Trump while gently burning his lack of intelligence. He’ll get angry. As soon as someone explains it.
Andy Borowitz reports as angry Republicans address a long simmering injustice, demanding that everyone in the federal witness protection program appear on national television. It’s only fair.
Dreamers are Americans who were brought here as kids, average age 6, and who grew up in the United States. Most do not even remember any other country. News Corpse reports as Donald Trump attacks Dreamers themselves, and President Obama for letting them stay. NC points out the high number of falsehoods in a single Donald tweet and refutes each lie.
Oh my. Tommy Christopher quotes the recently discovered white nationalism communications of Trump advisor Stephen Miller. Conservative MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough blasts the GOP for silent complicity with racism.
Ah, a competition! Max’s Dad may be the world’s best ranter. If you ever tick this guy off, you’ll want to apologize RIGHT away. Turns out he doesn’t much care for former Ambassador to the UN and former Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley. And he doesn’t much care for US Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. He runs a comparison to figure out which of these two Trumpers is worse.
So Donald Trump, Jr. toured Arlington National Cemetery. As he listened to the slow, mournful, notes of “Taps”, his thoughts, according to his own words, went to horrific, heroic sacrifices. No, not the sacrifice of life for freedom – the sacrifice made by those in final rest at each marked grave.
Rather he was thinking of the sacrifices he, his siblings, in fact the entire Trump family, made to install Donald Trump in the White House. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reads those words and manages to express a calm bit of disapproval.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara saluted veterans this past week, but reserved his highest praise for those most responsible for supporting the military, productive, wealth producing, wealthy Americans. This anti-government ideologue embraces a case study: the astonishing production of weaponry during World War II. An interesting illustration, since the mobilization was organized and carried out by government.
Ant Farmer’s Almanac apologizes in advance to Rodgers and Hammerstein, offering anti-boomer lyrics to the tune of Oklahoma. Okay, so we’ve attacked the climate, the seas, the economy, the society, and simple morality in the treatment of refugees and their children. But we should at least be allowed to scream at kids to get off our lawns.
After six decades of the pure joy and relief of being too young to be a boomer, nojo is outraged to find his generation grouped with mine. So now he’s as guilty of OK-boomer-itis as am I. You know this piece will be good. For one thing, it’s by nojo, who seems congenitally unable to write anything that isn’t golden. For another, the first sentence is: We’ve hated our generation since Disco.
