"Twenty Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kamala Harris"
National Review
Alan: National Review's list of 20 "revelations" about Kamala Harris is, of course, subject to partisan debate.
But notice this categorical distinction. Harris elicits neither hint nor whiff of felonious activity, treacherous collusion with bad actors, or traitorous sympathies.
National Review's "list" does not merely call to mind the comparison of "apples and oranges" but of "match sticks and dynamite" - "sparklers and nuclear detonations."
"When Xenophobia Fails, All That's Left Is War"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-xenophobia-fails-all-authoritarian.html
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-xenophobia-fails-all-authoritarian.html
We all have our blind side, but "American" "conservatism's" self-imposed benightedness - particularly in face of Trump's frank malfeasance - is not just questionable, it's pathological; as loony toons as "The Good Germans" during Hitler's rise.
On this National Review list, item #4 goes to the heart of conservatives' passion to locate statistically-irrelevant, inflammatory instances of "government programs gone bad" in order to damn the program altogether. (Remember Solyndra? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra Despite their brief "strutting on the stage," all these celebrated causes eventually occupy the trash bin of history. Solyndra, for example, means NOTHING now.)
Scott Pruitt: How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Alan: At least in America, the lion's share of "conservative" stupidity arises from religious orientations that cannot admit political, historical and cultural truths without "losing one's religion."
Since the "core values" embedded in religion lie at the heart of individual identity, "losing one's religion" is as threatening -- and perhaps more threatening -- than losing one's identity to Alzheimer's Disease: often a fate worse than death which is why American Christians are so eager to flirt with Armageddon.
It is better to be dead -- it is better for homo sapiens to be extinguished -- than for precious conservatives to lose their religion.
To keep their religion, "conservatives" resort to "fake news," "alternative facts" and "conspiracy theories."
Anything - any God-damned thing - to validate doctrinaire orthodoxy.
Don't like Reality?
Make one up.
Whole cloth.
"The Top Ten Reasons Sandy Hook Is A Hoax"
Posted By The Thinking Housewife
Why Conspiracy Theories Are Malarkey
While Trump causes more damage daily than all left-wing "exceptions-to-the-rule" taken together, "conservatives" come out of their silos just long enough to circle jerk over images of Willie Horton and illegal immigrant Alexander Izaguirre.
4. As San Francisco district attorney, Harris created “Back on Track,” an anti-recidivism program that she expanded as state attorney general. The program received $750,000 in federal funding and quite a bit of praise from crime-policy experts. But it faced criticism early in its history, when illegal immigrant Alexander Izaguirre, who had pleaded guilty to selling drugs, was selected and graduated, only to later grab a woman’s purse and run her down in an SUV, severely injuring her.
As the Los Angeles Times put it, “Harris’ office had been allowing Izaguirre and other illegal immigrants to stay out of prison by training them for jobs they cannot legally hold.” Harris said she had been unaware that Back on Track had been training illegal immigrants and that they would no longer be eligible for the program.
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
"The Psychiatric Diagnosis of American Conservatives Folie a Plusiers"
"The Psychiatric Diagnosis of American Conservatives Folie a Plusiers"
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