I have to admit that I have no special insight into Ron DeSantis’s thinking re: the regressive laws he supports, and this (see left) is a good case-in-point.

He supports the “Stop Woke Act,” designed to combat “woke indoctrination” in Florida businesses and schools by prohibiting instruction that could make some parties feel they bear “personal responsibility” for historic wrongdoings because of their race, sex or national origin.

Well, no surprise, that got struck down for its obvious violation of the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.

My question: Didn’t he see this coming?  Did he ever expect the law to stand up?  Did he go through all the histrionics for any other reason than making the national news?

 

 

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We’re told that Trump is having a bit of difficulty finding qualified criminal attorneys to protect him from the onslaught of indictments that appear to be heading his way.

One good reason is presented in the cartoon at left: history has shown that there is precious little upside in dealing with Trump in any capacity.

If you take the bait, you’re going to come away from this with the realization that this was the single worst decision you made in your entire life.

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Nice headline.  Kudos.

It’s time to turn these investigations into indictments.

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I’m delighted to note that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is taught at the local high school where I tutor.

I would love to see “a new kind of society,” as he put it so well.  Seems unlikely at this point in history, but it doesn’t cost anything to dream.

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I have a few conservative friends who like to make points like the one here, i.e., that the news about violence and hate is blown out of proportion, as compared with what actually exists out there.

I’m unconvinced.

Whether the news covers it or not, Donald Trump is trying to overthrow the U.S. government.  Depending on how things progress here, Ron DeSantis may replace him as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, a man who’s ideologically even more backwards than Trump himself.  Women’s right are being eroded.  Important books are being banned from our schools.  Our planet is baking, and our schoolchildren are being mowed down by lunatics with assault weapons.

As Aldous Huxley told us, facts don’t disappear simply because they are being ignored.

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The content of the graphic here is all over our news.  And it certainly rings true, doesn’t it?  It’s very clear that Trump led a team that attempted, and is still attempting, to overthrow the U.S. government.

A moderate cost of living isn’t going to be a huge benefit if your nation now resembles Russia or Venezuela.

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It easy to feel sorry for professional comedians like The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, because it’s hard to be funny when the real world is behaving with such comical ineptitude.

There is actually nothing funny in Borowitz’s piece; Republicans actually are worried that removing women’s rights that have been in place for 50 years is a move for which they may pay a heavy price in the November midterms.

Why any woman with the IQ of a turnip would vote for a party that is so hostile to her autonomy and basic dignity is a complete mystery.

On top of that, you’re talking about blatant misogyny; many males in the GOP are known to be p****-grabbing sex abusers, which, one would think, just might amplify women’s disgust.

Strange days indeed.

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There are so many weird aspects of American politics that sometimes it’s hard to know what stands out as truly noteworthy. That said, the issues of “lack of candidate quality” that are beleaguering the Republican party should be getting a lot of attention, especially insofar as it’s hilarious, if only for its outrageous stupidity.

The GOP pushed pathological liar and card-carrying moron Herschel Walker into the Georgia race, and career swindler and Alex Jones knockoff Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.  Really?  Two big, purplish states, and that’s the best you could manage?

If you believe that voters want to hear ultraconservative rhetoric, that’s one thing.  But these people are simply clowns. It’s far, far worse than the normal bats*** crazy Big Lie stuff.

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The idea that a civil war could lie in front of us has been bandied about ever since it became clear that Trump was a career criminal who, when elected U.S. president in 2016, had the potential to destroy the country and needed to be removed.

Roger Stone, one of our country’s most profound ass****s, once said that any attempt to impeach Trump would cause a violent insurrection, but let’s give that a thought or two.

There are several insurmountable problems associated with such an uprising.  The main one is that the “combatants” don’t wear uniforms, nor do we live hundreds of miles away from one another, e.g., the distance from Pennsylvania to Tennessee.  The town I live in, the clothes I wear, and the (lack of) bumper stickers on my car all make me indistinguishable from the MAGA couple who lives next door.

OK, we live among hateful idiots, but are any of us, regardless of our mental shortcomings, going to simply start shooting at our neighbors on the suspicion that they may have voted for Biden?

Looked at differently, will people indiscriminately start trying to kill FBI agents because they raided Mar-a-Lago? Will they attempt to knock off the representatives and governors of blue states?  High level assassinations aren’t easy for the average fat moron with an AK-15 to pull off.

Seems far-fetched.

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