Category Archives: conservatives

Disintegration

Posted on Sunday 26 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Pentagon Press Corps; Trump’s pardons; Charlie Kirk; The East Wing and the new ballroom, with an analysis that suggests the proposed ballroom is not real; Short items. – – – What’s new? \ Propaganda, not news. Slate, Molly Olmstead, … Continue reading →

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No Kings vs. Reality

Posted on Saturday 18 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump pardons George Santos, of course; The “No Kings” rhetoric from the Republicans, and the results today; With some thoughts about conservative thinking; Jamelle Bouie; Lunatic: MTG still obsessed about weather control; Science: how humans perceive only a tiny bit … Continue reading →

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Moral Collapse, or Moral Immaturity?

Posted on Friday 17 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Has MAGA’s morality collapsed, or has it always been this way — immature? With references to that hierarchy of morality, and Peter Singer’s expanding circle of morality; Karoline Leavitt says Democrats are made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and … Continue reading →

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Some People Hate

Posted on Thursday 16 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Young Republicans in those chats were not kids; Republicans excuse their vile comments while demonizing anyone who has said anything less than adulatory about Charlie Kirk — whose opinions were equally vile; Short items about demons, civil rights, mammals, … Continue reading →

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Art and Conservatives

Posted on Wednesday 15 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How a Christian Right talk show failed, and how MAGA’s fake Super Bowl halftime show is “pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture”; Thoughts about how conservatives have no sense of humor, and how conservatives dominate talk radio; Personal thoughts about resistance … Continue reading →

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How Tribal Loyalty Overrides Evidence of Incompetence

Posted on Tuesday 7 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA will never accept “I told you so”: Robert Reich on why Trump keeps dismantling agencies; Short items about overthrowing the government, primitive morality, yet another prediction of the rapture, Biblical morality to justify the killing of black men, … Continue reading →

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Shades of Autism

Posted on Sunday 5 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Andrew O’Hehir at Salon describes Trump’s war on reality, concerning Venezuela; Bits from JMG about Democrats, the Pope, a debate trophy named for Charlie Kirk; how Trump lies about Portland burning to the ground; and how the GOP doesn’t want … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Hegseth and Trump Speeches to the Military. And Christian Music.

Posted on Wednesday 1 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Reactions to the Hegseth and Trump speeches from Tom Nichols, David Ignatius, Paul Krugman, Heather Cox Richardson, and others; More examples of how the right, not the left, is promoting political violence; And Amanda Marcotte about how Christian music signals … Continue reading →

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Military Orders, and Coal Obsession

Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

About the Trump/Hegseth speeches today to US military leaders; Short items about how psychotic drugs are to blame for Charlie Kirk’s killing; how the Rapture has been rescheduled; and how marriage equality is to blame for Charlie Kirk’s murder; Paul … Continue reading →

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Medbed Fantasies and Trump’s Dementia

Posted on Monday 29 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Heather Cox Richardson, and Robert Reich on Trump’s AI video about “medbeds”; Reich explicitly links it to Trump’s dementia; Short items about the Michigan mass shooter, government enforcement of Turning Point Clubs; tariffs on foreign-made movies; and banning the … Continue reading →

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