It looks like Rupert and company have had it with her. Au contraire Marjorie: Of course it’s partisan. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
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But he isn’t entirely stupid either This lede from The New York Times could be defined as an understatement but I’m not inclined to slam it. At least they aren’t sayihng Mike Johnson is the new Winston Churchill like some people are fatuously contending: The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his party and allowing an aid bill for Ukraine to move through the House might have seemed a tad excessive. After all, a speaker’s entire job is to move legislation through the House, and as Saturday’s vote to pass the bill demonstrated, the Ukraine measure had overwhelming support. But Mr. Johnson’s feat was not so different from that of another embattled Republican who faced a difficult choice under immense pressure from hard-right Republicans and was saluted as a hero for simply doing his job: former Vice President Mike Pence. When Mr. Pence refused former President Donald J. Trump’s demands that he overturn the 2020 election results as he presided over the electoral vote count by Congress on Jan.
These people were not better off. And there were many more to come. Death Notices Published by digby on April 21, 2020 CNN reports: Sunday’s edition of The Boston Globe contained a shocking visualization of the coronavirus pandemic: page after page after page of death notices. The obituary section in Sunday’s print edition spanned 16 pages. This time last year, there were seven. The increase is a stark illustration of the devastating toll the pandemic is having on Massachusetts and New England.”It’s literally showing it in black and white how deadly this virus can be,” said Jaclyn Reiss, the Globe’s digital editor, in an interview with CNN. And while Reiss noted there was no immediate way to determine how many of the death notices that filled pages A-13 to A-28 came from coronavirus victims — death notices don’t always say how the person died — several of them mentioned a battle with the virus.
When they finally get around to it Churchill may not have said, “The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” And given the history of the 21st century so far, “always” is way too generous. But occasionally we come up for air after deep dives into the primitive ooze. Well, the ooze eagerly awaits Speaker Mike Johnson after Saturday’s House vote to furnish $61 billion in American aid to Ukraine’s fight to free itself from Russian aggression. More Russophile Republicans voted against the measure than caucus members less cosy with the Moscow’s Make Russia Greater Again dictator. But it passed over the MAGA extremists’ objections. So if they are on-brand, they’ll be coming for Johnson’s seat. Later, if not sooner. The last time Congress approved aid to Ukraine was December 2022, and Democrats held both houses of Congress.
And I mean that Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I have been very critical of MSNBC and CNN for making what seemed to me to be a rather self-righteous decision not to show Donald Trump to their audience. They talked about him incessantly but they refused to show him and that was a mistake. Yes, he lies but people needed to be reminded that he’s a disgusting narcissistic sociopath. Many of them seem to have forgotten. Anyway, Nate Cohn of the NY Times has observed the phenomenon: Donald J. Trump appears to be a stronger candidate than he was four years ago, polling suggests, and not just because a notable number of voters look back on his presidency as a time of relative peace and prosperity. It’s also because his political liabilities, like his penchant to offend and his legal woes, don’t dominate the news the way they once did. In the last New York Times/Siena College poll, only 38 percent of voters said they’d been offended by Mr. Trump “recently,” even as more than 70 percent said they had been offended by him at some point.
I feel I should acknowledge the death of Daniel Dennett, a philosopher who had the rare gift of communicating his interesting ideas very well. Even now, many years later and although I disagree with some significant bits, I would recommend … Continue reading
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