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Daily Bread for 9.17.22: The Secret History of Family Separation

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:37 AM and sunset 7:00 PM for 12h 22m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.4% of its visible disk illuminated.   On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia sign the final…

Bigotry, Conspiracy Theories, Covidiocy, Crackpots, Disinformation, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trumpism, U.S. Senate, Unfit

Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘An all-access purveyor of misinformation’

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Ron Johnson, one of the two United States senators representing Wisconsin, has earned a new epithet: BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Senator Ron Johnson incited widespread outrage when he said recently that he would have been more afraid of the rioters who rampaged the Capitol on Jan. 6 had they been members of Black Lives Matter and…

Bigotry, Culture, Education, Law

Responsibility for Students, Patients, or Clients

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Yesterday, Georgetown Law fired an adjunct law professor after publication of a Zoom call in which she deprecated the abilities of many of her Black law students. See Georgetown Law professor terminated after ‘reprehensible’ comments about Black students.   Here’s the most objectionable part of her remarks from the video call: “I hate to say…

Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Law, Libertarians, Liberty, Never Trump, Trump, Trumpism

The Libertarian Remnant

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Shikha Dalmia is a libertarian, and as a libertarian who is true to those beliefs, she is necessarily opposed to the authoritarianism of Trump and in Trumpism. Because the definition of libertarianism has been distorted beyond any true meaning by opportunistic or ignorant rightwing donors, she’s lost her job Reason magazine. Conservative donors pay the…

Bigotry, Sloth

The Villages as a Dystopian America

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Much has been made – understandably – about an elderly golf-cart-riding resident of The Villages retirement community shouting ‘white power’ during a pro-Trump parade. (The man’s bigotry is wrong, but his grasp of the meaning of Trumpism is right on target.) It’s impossible to excuse the bigotry, but one can look at other vices within…

Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit

Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards

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It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy.  One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…

America, Bigotry, History, Mendacity, Politics, Race, Wisconsin, WISGOP

WISGOP Treasurer Brian Westrate ‘Well Understands’ Nothing

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A horde of ignorant, but racially motivated, men infest the Wisconsin GOP.  Brian Westrate is a good example of playing to this bad condition: in an attempt to discourage racist Republicans from displaying Confederate banners at a protest, he erroneously (and outrageously) contended that he did “well understand that the Confederacy was more about states…

Bigotry, Trump

Trump Criticizes Trump

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One can – rightly – despise the Chinese government as a dictatorship without – wrongly – blaming the Chinese people for a pandemic. Trump, however, is a crude bigot, and so he delights in ridiculing those of races other than his own.