Reagan/Bush: Iran-Contra successfully covered up in part because of pardons
Bush II: let’s look forward, not back at torture, lying into war
Y’all, I’m not sure “let’s just move past Republican wrongdoing and let history judge them” creates good incentives.
Things are shitty now in part because whenever Republican presidents dabble in fascism, media and political elites quickly insist on letting them off the hook, stupidly certain that the fever has broken and it’s time to unite.
This is an extremely bad paragraph.
what if we let the historians deal with pot dealers and graffiti artists so the cops and prosecutors had more time to handle the white collar fascists and grifters
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The media also doesn’t want to admit that this is in part due to decades of incitement by conservatives and Republicans that the news media treated as the equivalent of Patty Murray or Dick Durbin.
Michelle Mallon wrote In Defense of Internment; cable bookers put her on TV. Pat Buchanan praised Hitler; CNN and MSNBC both hired him. CNN hired Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs, too. (Trust me I have a million examples.)
On any given weeekend for the last 30 years there have been more racists on the Sunday shows than black people.
This is not an accident: Republicans have illegitimately seized control of the judiciary specifically so they can use the judiciary to destroy democracy, because they know they are a minority party.
Did NBC explain the audience screen for this event? The woman over Trump’s left shoulder nodding along to everything he says, wearing the red face mask … that seems kinda suspicious, for the record.
“I have to say, you have a great smile … you’re so handsome when you smile,” a supposedly Biden-leaning woman wearing a red shirt, red mask, red glasses, says to Trump.
He’s wrong about the basic-human-rights part, and he’s wrong about the we-can-all-agree-about-education-and-taxes part. He’s a fool with neither moral compass nor the most basic understanding of topic he’s discussing and he can fuck right off.
Keillor’s position is basically that if the womenfolk and the gays would just accept their subjugation, the men could get the economy on track. Like I said: nobody’s looking to this clown for guidance, and that’s a good thing, because he’s wrong and bad on every dimension.
I don't think you're supposed to rush through a Supreme Court justice in the middle of a pandemic, 20 days before Election Day, just so you can use the hearing to raise money from a Senate Office building, but what do I know?
Oh look there’s a law and everything. Who knew? (Everyone knew, Lindsey knew, he doesn’t give a damn.)
AMY CONEY BARRET: *pretends not to know if voter intimidation is illegal*
FECKLESS REPORTERS: Oh my god she isn’t using notes. She is our most impressive thinker since Aristotle!
If a liberal black woman showed up at her SCOTUS confirmation hearings and said she didn’t know something as basic as whether voter intimidation is illegal you can be damn sure the media wouldn’t hyperventilate about how her lack of notes means she’s brilliant.