An exercise in psychology

I was gonna say “an exercise in futility,” and I know we’ve beaten this dead horse enough times to the point of rigor mortis, even petrification, but I gotta ask one more time…

Why do people still support Trump?

Take a walk on the wild side and put yourself in the mindset of a Trump supporter.  Explain that kind of "Trump loyalty" to me like I’m a five-year-old (a la Denzel Washington in “Philadelphia”).  Because I really don’t get it.  It’s foreign to me.

Thanks for posting and explaining it to me.

Republican climate change demagoguery

The New York Times writes:

Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action

But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against rash action in response to the burning planet.

“I don’t want to be lectured about what we need to do to destroy our economy in the name of climate change,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.

One Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, last week blocked what could have been the country’s most far-reaching American response to climate change. But lost in the recriminations and finger-pointing is the other side of the aisle: All 50 Republicans in the Senate have been as opposed to decisive action to confront planetary warming.

Few Republicans in Congress now outwardly dismiss the scientific evidence that human activities — the burning of oil, gas and coal — have produced gases that are dangerously heating the Earth.

But for many, denial of the cause of global temperature rise has been replaced by an insistence that the solution — replacing fossil fuels over time with wind, solar and other nonpolluting energy sources — will hurt the economy.

On the one hand, it is encouraging that America’s fascist, staunchly pro-pollution, pro-global warming Republican Party no longer outwardly dismisses the scientific evidence that human-generated pollution is causing the planet to burn up. That's a good thing. Progress has been made! Not long ago, they all denied that climate change was real and that humans had little or nothing to do with it. Some very powerful Republicans publicly claimed it was God’s will and humans should not and/or could not interfere with his plans.

But on the other hand, the fascists are hell-bent on not doing a damn thing about it. They will continue to successfully block all efforts to try. There is just too much damn money and power in not doing anything about it.

As usual, fascist Republican demagoguery relies on the same propaganda and lies tactics that got us into this mess. They ignore the cost of not doing anything, an intentional lie of omission. They claim trying to do anything about it will destroy the economy, a lie of commission.

As a reminder this is short blast of blithering nonsense the only thing that fascist Republican elites had to say about climate in the lying crackpot Rick Scott’s 11 point plan to wreck America:

The weather is always changing.[1] We take climate change seriously, but not hysterically. We will not adopt nutty policies that harm our economy or our jobs.

That’s it. That is literally all the GOP has to say about it. That’s worse than pathetic. It’s evil.

For the pro-pollution party, there is honest seriousness about climate change. The seriousness is about blocking efforts to do anything about it. That would be hysterical. That is exactly what Scott, the rest of the GOP elites, wealthy pro-pollution Republican Party donors and their propagandists are saying to the American people. There is no subtlety about this. The GOP and big polluters are hell bent on turning Earth into literal hell as best they can because they are making a hell of a lot of money doing it. With that money comes serious power.

This is all about money and power for corrupt, callous fascist elites and nothing but money and power.

Footnote: 

1. Weather is not climate. Weather reflects climate. Fascist polluters put that statement in there to con people into a belief that even if it is real, climate change is no big deal. This is called propaganda. It is intended to deceive, distract and confuse the public.

The Republican Party’s anti-democracy cancer is spreading globally

The New York Times writes:

President Jair Bolsonaro elevated his vote-fraud claims from a matter of domestic politics to foreign policy, heightening international fears that he would dispute the coming election.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil called dozens of foreign diplomats to the presidential palace on Monday to tell them that he believed the country’s voting systems could be rigged, a potential preview of his strategy for an election that is 75 days away and that polls forecast he will lose in a landslide.

While Mr. Bolsonaro’s presentation was not new — he has repeated those claims for years — his audience was. He had invited officials from most of the embassies in Brazil’s capital, Brasília, elevating his claims from a matter of domestic politics to foreign policy.

Note that the fascist Republican Party’s democracy killing cancer seems to be of a single kind. Unlike over 100 different human cancers, the GOP’s cancer and close variants all have common pathologies. Prominent pathologies of radical right democracy killing cancer include:

• Attacks on, and subversion of, elections based on fabricated claims of voter and/or vote fraud
• Relentless demagoguery, including outrageous lies and slanders about political opposition 
• Tolerance of corruption
• Contempt and disregard for inconvenient facts, truths and sound reasoning
• Open attacks on the LGBQT community, immigrants, civil liberties and/or democracy, with praise for authoritarian leadership accompanying attacks on democracy 
• Alignment of politicians with wealthy and power elites in business and sometimes religion too

At least the Christian fundamentalists can claim authority from God to destroy democracy and impose his righteous tyranny. What’s the authority the laissez-faire capitalists reply on? Originalism, strict constructionism, deceit, division and opacity are the kinds of things they use to do their dirty work.

Textgate?

As those of us know, who follow politics, the Secret Service did a “phone migration” (update) of all its agents' phones, wiping them clear of data and text messages, after the Inspector General requested that their data from the 1/6 event be turned over to him.  Uhh, say again??

What do you think?  Accident?  Purposeful?  Cover up?  Incompetence?  Oopsi-Daisy?  Nothing to see here, move along?  Other?

Link here

What’s your opinion regarding this "phone migration" event?  

And thanks for posting.