Tag: Republicans
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Chinese balloon threat nonsense
What the hell is wrong with Republicans? It’s been about a week since a Chinese balloon was detected drifting around 60,000 feet above sea level over Montana. In a sense though, the timing was right. Republicans are always looking for something new and scary to blame Democrats for. The Chinese balloon hit all the marks, […]
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The coming shit show
Rabid orthodoxy can make you clueless. In a normal political party, where in the 2022 elections you barely squeak by with a House majority, lose a Senate seat, and Democrats take total control of two state legislatures (Michigan and Pennsylvania) and add governorships (Maryland, Massachusetts and Arizona) to your party’s one governorship pickup (Nevada) while […]
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I’m glad to be “woke”
It’s not just House Republicans, but Republican politicians everywhere that are scared of being “woke”. Admittedly, it’s hard to say what “woke” actually means to Republicans, but allowing kids to be “woke” greatly upsets them. It upsets them to the point where they are passing legislation and ordinances to not allow “woke” teaching because, well, […]
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Republicans are trapped in their own cage
I must be feeling better if I can blog about politics again. Republicans “won” control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November with 222 seats to 213 for Democrats, a nine seat gain. It was an unusually anemic midterm performance for the party out of power, particularly since a round of redistricting was completed […]
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DeSantis is not owning the libs here in Massachusetts
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is busy “owning the libs” by sending about fifty of them by plane recently to Martha’s Vineyard, here in Massachusetts. It turned out though that he didn’t have any ready “illegal immigrants” in his state, given it’s kind of hard for them to take a boat to Florida, so he imported […]
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Republicans may be surprised by the 2022 midterms
There’s a problem when you are ruled by a minority. Unless they are careful in the exercise of their power, you can expect a boomerang effect. We saw it, or at least a “boom”, in Tuesday’s primary election in Kansas. It included a ballot question on whether to amend the state’s constitution to prohibit abortions. […]
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White replacement theory is so painfully dumb
In my last post, I noted that Trump famously said he likes the uneducated. I’m not surprised, since Trump is appallingly uneducated. But he can relate to them. But Republicans in general seem to prefer the uneducated because they will believe any sort of crap they throw out there. White replacement theory is just the […]
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Republicans are dancing to the Pied Piper
Attention Republicans, or should I say lemmings: you are being misled. Right off the cliff, I mean. I hate to break this to you, but you guys (and gals) are painfully easy to manipulate. All your opinion leaders have to do is play to your prejudices and you fall in line like enthusiastic sheep welcoming […]
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Dodging covid-19
I’m now among a minority of Americans because I haven’t contracted covid-19. A recent Monmouth poll found that 52 percent of Americans polled say they have come down with covid-19. I’ve never tested positive for covid-19 either. I suppose it’s possible I’ve been exposed but before getting on a cruise December 1st I passed a […]
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Republicans: be careful what you wish for
Republicans seem hellbent on creating an autocracy. You’d have to be living in a cave somewhere not to be aware of just how brazenly they’ve been working on this project. The usual tactics had been extreme gerrymandering and voter suppression. But now they’ve dialed it up to 11. Texas is making it hard to successfully […]
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