Can’t resist another round of political links this afternoon, about the Alice in Wonderland, mirror-universe that conservatives and Trump-supporters apparently live in. In which they, and those of us living in the real objective world, believe the other is the purveyor of crime and evil. While, to anyone with half a wit of sense, …. well, you can finish. It’s obvious. Let’s start with this objective reporting of an event.
NY Times, 28 Mar 2024: Trump, Attending Wake of Slain N.Y.P.D. Officer, Pushes Campaign Message on Crime, subtitled “Mr. Trump called the officer’s death a horrible tragedy and, as he often does on the trail, broadly called for a crackdown on violent crime without mentioning specific policies.”
As hundreds of police officers and family members stood outside a Long Island funeral home, former President Donald J. Trump attended on Thursday the wake of a New York City police officer who was killed in the line of duty days earlier.
Then, Mr. Trump, who is facing four criminal cases, including one in Manhattan that is going to trial in less than three weeks, stood in front of more than a dozen police officers and proclaimed the need for the country to “get back to law and order.”
The obvious reaction of many: let’s start with you, Donald.
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I’ve collected a whole bunch of links over the past two days, some about this Trump event, and some about the fallout from the Baltimore bridge disaster. Too many to detail. So here are some headlines, with my brief comments in parens.
- JMG: DeSantis: “Democrats Embrace The Criminal Element” (Because Biden held a fundraiser. And, as if Republicans are not embracing Trump? Are they that clueless?)
- JMG: Cohen: Trump Is Egging On Physical Attacks On Trial Judge, Judge’s Daughter, Court Staff, And Witnesses (What was that about embracing the criminal element? T is acting like a criminal.)
- JMG: Fox Host: “We’ve Always Seen Honesty With Trump” (Because “you know who he is. He is always going to be himself” even if that’s when he’s being a criminal.)
- JMG: Trump Hosts Screening Of QAnon/Pizzagate Films That Claim Democrats Kidnap Children And Drink Their Blood; also Media Matters: Trump appeared at a Mar-a-Lago event hosted for QAnon and Pizzagate supporter Mike Smith and his conspiracy theory films (Still pushing the long-debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory; i.e. lying. Because the gullible base still believes it.)
- Media Matters: Bridge collapse conspiracy theories highlight the deranged worldview of right-wing media, subtitled “The response to the apparent accident is a useful case study in how unhinged conservative media have become”
- JMG: Christian Site: Bridge Collapse Is Warning From God (Well, is it a conspiracy by [insert here any number of suspects] or is it a message from God? Is there any coherent story here? Well, of course not.)
- New Republic: MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse, subtitled “If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.” (They want to block funds for rebuilding the bridge unless their demands are met on any number of fundamentalist issues.)
- JMG: MI GOP Calls Baltimore Mayor “Colored Communist” (Racism bubbling under the MAGA surface, as always.)
- JMG: Tommy Tuberville: “The Democrats Are A Satanic Cult” (It’s not the Democrats who believe in demons. And no one believe in Satan — it’s a joke.)
- Salon: Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that’s exactly why MAGA will eat them up, subtitled “Faith without morality or theology, much less that “soyboy” Jesus? Sign MAGA Republicans up!” (The gullible are everywhere)
- JMG: Michael Knowles: Divorce Should Basically Be Outlawed (Conservatives are always so certain about how other people should live their lives.)
Well, this is a compact way to posting a bunch of links, but it looks rather ugly. So at least I will add the sources, in bold, at the head of each bullet…. Better? A bit. Note that JMG, Joe.My.God, is essentially an aggregate site, each of its posts is drawn from another source.
