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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It must be nice to get paid real money for basically having a hissy fit and then setting it down in writing.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I'mo call that dude David Serious Errors French from now on. Oh, and what is it with all these freaks thinking they speak for god? That's some serious errors right there. I advise each and sundry of those spokeswidgets to wait by their telex machine for the real word from the real One, whoever that may (or may not) be...

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I was going to say something else but the thinking tired me out (age; some degree of some sort of long Covid maybe) so I'll leave it at this: Why does this even matter, panderers pandering to those who don't care about facts, just that they're paid attention to, get their dopamine hits, and so on and so forth?

I will note, too, that French actually nails it: The GOP primary voters chose the most repulsive candidates possible yet they can still be trusted to deliver. Even the most unfit can be trusted to vote the party line. So of course they now have to vote for them in November. Being told they can't because their candidate is too odious or unhinged or whatever is a no go. Goals gotta be met and all that. Of course, in another cycle or two this won't matter...

Meanwhile, I'm concerned that Roy's overthinking all this and it's, you know, not healthy.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Agreed on preferring Erickson to French. When you piss on my back, I don’t care if you are trying to make me believe it’s rain as long as YOU know you’re actually pissing. But when you’ve also convinced YOURSELF it’s only precipitation, that’s a bit too much to take.

I’ve always said David French and Ross Douthat are the guys who want to chain pregnant women to beds in Birthing Jail just like the other fascists, only they’d feel enough of a twinge to their consciences they’d also lobby for the very best mattresses, highest thread count sheets, and for the TV in the room to provide all the premium channels.

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We all know French is well aware he is not fooling himself -- the sign of a true con artist is one that lets you know they are not to be trusted, that their line is utterly fake, yet insists you'll buy it anyway. This the key to Chaucer's Pardoner, whose pardons & relics are absolutely fake—he knows it, he tells you how he cons the people, then launches into his glorious performance, trying to land the sale at the end of it all. No wonder the Host loses his shit at the end. Roy certainly has, ever time DF shows his po-face round these parts.

Thou woldest make me kisse thyn olde breech,

And swere it were a relyk of a seint,

Though it were with thy fundement depeint! (CT, VI.948–50)

[You'd have me kiss your nasty drawers

And swear they were the relic of a saint, [pun: relic means "something left behind"]

Even though your butthole had painted them well!]

"Shit-heels" indeed...

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"decades of patient and courageous pro-life advocacy and democratic participation "

Jesus, reading that sure pissed me off.

I woke up this morning and thought about how quaint and almost cute the Tea Partiers seemed all those many long years ago. And then a bit ago I thought

about how the white gravy was doing a number on Ham Face's arteries and if I could just hang on long enough I'd get to enjoy reading the obituary.

Happy Monday, right?

Good column.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"Look at what you made me do!" ad infinitum does not a political philosophy make.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

No, David, I don't expect Republicans to vote for Warnock, and nobody else does either. What I do expect is that some small number of people (and possibly an election-deciding number of people) will STOP being Republicans and THEN vote for Raphael Warnock. Is that clearer?

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Thanks for Readers Digesting these assholes for me so I didn’t have to spend any minutes of the last warm weekend of the year reading them. All these guys have two arrows in their quiver: lies and projection. That 50% of Americans can’t see that says more about the quality of American education than any ACT scores.

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For the record, the "serious errors" found in the 1619 project by a "group of America's leading historians" boil down to a number slightly smaller than two, and the leading historians are some guys who have failed to abandon the feelgood Whig history that ruled in the 1950s, led by Sean Wilentz: it's Nikole Hannah-Jones's allegation that "preserving racial slavery was a prime motivation for declaring American independence,"which she defended by citing planters' fear that Britain was going to abolish slavery after a London judge ruled in 1772 that a slaveowner called Charles Stewart could not send his slave James Somerset to be sold in Jamaica because "chattel slavery has no support in English common law."

I'm not going to give you the whole story, but a wonderful essay by William Hogeland shows conclusively that whether or not Hannah-Jones is wrong (that's complicated), Wilentz's rebuttal is both wrong and deeply dishonest. You can read it here https://newrepublic.com/article/160995/consensus-approach-history or check out my summary http://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/2021/01/lectiones-american-historiography.html

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Oct 24, 2022·edited Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“But they’re not even offering us anything, in exchange for voting against the depraved moron we nominated!” So French is asking us to believe that principle or tradition teaches us that the worse our candidate is, the more the opposition should abandon its own ideals. Needless to say, he doesn’t believe this; nobody could possibly believe this. If it were true, then the path to victory for progressive legislation would be clear: Democrats would just nominate doctrinaire Stalinists who’ve been convicted of child murder, and the GOP would then be forced to support Medicare for All in exchange.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Yeesh! I picked up an actual physical newspaper yesterday (I know, right?), I think our local Saturday fishwrap, and the big story above the fold was a proliferation of right-wing tweets from The Usual Suspects denouncing the Dems for Satanism and paganry and kicking dogs, hell of a thing to see two weeks before the midterms. Wonderful indicator of decent politics in the 21st Century.

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Oct 24, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

“Is It A Sin to Vote For That Party?”

I have to tell you, that dog whistle is giving me tinnitus.

Back in the before-times, when the Former President Barack Obama was running for his first term, I had an epiphany that my dear ole' Dad with his innocuous racist jokes I'd been hearing all my life, was actually an unreconstructed racist. I had suspected for years he was a closeted Republican't, in a family of liberal Democrats, but something he said cinched it: "I cannot vote for THAT man!"...

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Shorter French: Herschel Walker is a brain-damaged imbecile, so shame on Dems for not making it easier to not vote for him.

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Erick bin Erick wants to be Rush Limbaugh when he grows up. David French is pro-slavery.

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Extra love for the subhed!

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