Category Archives: conservatives

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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How to Understand How the World Actually Works

Posted on Friday 26 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How pediatricians deal with Trump’s advice; How the shooters aren’t necessarily right-wing or left-wing, but simply internet trolls (and anyway, Trump is lying); While there are right-wingers vowing to take out “progressive leftism”; Headlines about Trump’s corruption, Hegseth’s warrior culture … Continue reading →

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More Cautionary Traits

Posted on Saturday 20 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How the right sees enemies everywhere; How Trump depicts immigrants as monsters; Remember what Charlie Kirk said about Simone Biles? Brief items; NYT’s Ross Douthat tries to explain the conservative principles behind the Kimmel suspension. – – –   Perhaps … Continue reading →

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How Transgenders Trigger Conservatives

Posted on Friday 19 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Two truths of Trumpists: nothing is ever their fault, their obsession with contamination; Heritage wants to designate trans people as terrorists; Republicans seem to have no principles except protecting the tribe: once they defended free speech, now, not so much; … Continue reading →

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Delusional, or Lying

Posted on Tuesday 16 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The DOJ deletes a study showing that most domestic violence is from the right; Trump et al knew this, but still pursue vengeance against the left; The attorney general thinks hate speech is not covered by free speech; The vice … Continue reading →

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So Many Villains

Posted on Sunday 14 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

More to the transgender-roommate story? Media Matters summarizes the situation up to a couple days ago; Despite the right’s affirmation of free speech, they are compiling lists of people critical of Charlie Kirk, and getting them fired; How SF/F writer … Continue reading →

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How the Right Is Crazy Desperate to Connect Charlie Kirk’s Killer to Things They Don’t Like

Posted on Saturday 13 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s been quite a display of shameless motivated thinking the past two days. Many people see what they want to see, but conservatives are especially prone to this. (That’s why they’re so easily fooled by Trump, about everything.) A better … Continue reading →

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Kneejerk Accusations

Posted on Friday 12 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

While yesterday there was much invective on the right against the left because the victim of Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a well-known MAGA figure. So the left must have done it! That’s their thinking. Vox, Eric Levitz, 11 Sep 2025: … Continue reading →

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The Real Americans?

Posted on Thursday 11 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

We live in a bizarre world in which many, perhaps most, Americans deify people who are against basic American values. (Because what really drives conservatives is not the Constitution, but the OT.) So many news posts and Facebook posts about … Continue reading →

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