The first time I saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV, she impressed me as a twit, and my opinion of her hasn’t changed much. She currently works as a Fox News propagandist, which is an appropriate placement for her. She doesn’t belong in respectable journalism. Even though I pronounce her name &#[...]
Archive for the ‘Hypocrisy’ Category
Why is a girl too young to have an abortion, old enough to be a parent?
Self-contradicting conservative rationalization is playing out in Florida courts, where a circuit judge, then a state appeals court, ruled a pregnant 16-year-old is not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” (See NBC News story here.) Florida law requires minors to g[...]
California Democrat indicted for financial crimes
Terrance “TJ” Cox (photo left, bio here), a Central California ag-sector businessman who served a single term in Congress (2019-2021), has been indicted for wire fraud, money laundering, financial institution fraud, campaign funds fraud, CNN reported on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (read sto[...]
August 15th, 2022 - 11:29 pm § in Hypocrisy
Will you be in the “heat belt”?
Animals, including humans, can biologically adapt to climate change, but it takes millenia. We don’t have that much time. Climate change will bring “extremely dangerous” heat and humidity to the U.S. in the next 30 years, according to a climate research group, CNN reported on Monda[...]
How to silence a GOP spin artist
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH; bio here, photo below), who is a lawyer but never served in the military (bio here), and doesn’t know squat about classified information and may not even know what “secret” means, sparred with CNN‘s Brianna Keilar on Sunday, August 14, 2022, over Trump[...]
Why Republicans have no credibility with a majority of Americans
Let’s start with this: They don’t deserve any, and most people can connect those two dots. They lie, all the time, about everything, and dishonesty will cost you credibility. They’re incompetent; everything they touch goes bad (e.g., the deregulation that led to the 1980s and 2000s[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
Republican celebrates bombing of “Satanic” monument
Granted, Kandiss Taylor isn’t a typical candidate. She’s extreme even by Republican standards, having lost the Georgia GOP governor’s primary by over 70% (see results here), but still refusing to concede (see story here). And she has no problem with blowing up monuments she doesn&#[...]
Had enough of this yet?
Republicans talk about responsibility; let’s make them practice it. They had a chance to ban assault weapons, or at least raise the age for buying them. They refused. Solution? Vote against them until they straighten out. (Note: Conservatives are explicit about why they, as private citizens, &[...]
How Texas plans to prevent more school shootings
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]