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  • The Insanely Racist Conspiracy Theory on Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse

    03/26/2024 10:53:47 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 58 replies
    New Republic ^ | Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
    Fox News is amplifying a racist conspiracy on the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Because of course it is. At about 1:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, a 1,000-foot cargo ship careened past large concrete obstacles ahead of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, colliding with one of its structural pillars and toppling it into the Patapsco River. Mere hours later, conservatives were already hurling their racist conspiracy theories against the wall to see what sticks. In an early morning broadcast, Fox Business attempted to tie the horrific situation—which was deemed a developing mass casualty event by the Baltimore City Fire Department—to...
  • What Is NBC News Even Thinking Hiring Ronna McDaniel NBC News seems willing to overlook all that former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel has said in the past—including fake claims of election fraud?

    03/22/2024 8:59:12 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 23 replies
    newrepublic ^ | Tori Otten
    NBC raised eyebrows Friday when it announced that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will join the network as an on-air contributor. McDaniel, who stepped down from the RNC at the start of this month, will provide conservative political analysis on NBC and its affiliate MSNBC. She makes her on-air debut on Sunday. NBC News political coverage chief Carrie Budoff Brown explained that McDaniel was chosen because she can provide “an insider’s perspective on national politics and the future of the Republican Party.” That insider knowledge is apparently enough for NBC to overlook the rest of McDaniel’s history. Although...
  • Pretty Much Everyone Hates Ron DeSantis Now

    09/22/2023 2:08:29 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 105 replies
    The New Republic ^ | September 22, 2023 | Tori Otten /
    Ron DeSantis’s struggles on the campaign trail have eroded his influence back home in Florida, and even once-close allies are revolting against his control. DeSantis was crowned early on as the natural successor to Donald Trump: A demagogic culture warrior, but younger and more disciplined—he was a figure who could appeal, in theory, both to MAGA diehards and Trump skeptics. When he launched his campaign, he was fresh off a series of victories at home. The Republican-controlled Florida state legislature had helped him pass multiple draconian measures limiting LGBTQ rights, educational freedom, and abortion access. While candidates backed by Trump...
  • Big Lie Two Is Here, and It’s Far More Insidious Than Big Lie One

    09/11/2023 9:11:17 AM PDT · by RideForever · 54 replies
    The New Republic ^ | September 11, 2023 | Michael Tomasky
    The Big Lie, as it quickly became known, was that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. He’s still out there peddling this nonsense, and a lot of people still believe it, though thankfully, they constitute a clear minority of voters. But now there’s a new lie being peddled. Call it Big Lie Two. Trump has been hawking this one for a while too, but it has been, to my mind, oddly little remarked-upon. That needs to change: Big Lie Two is more (Excerpt) ...
  • There Is No Democrat’s Case for Ron DeSantis

    06/20/2023 9:38:48 AM PDT · by proust · 20 replies
    The New Republic ^ | 19 June 2023 | Alex Shephard
    The case against Ron DeSantis from a Democrat’s perspective is straightforward and uncomplicated. For one thing, he’s a Republican. And not just any Republican: DeSantis has been one of the most odious and destructive governors in America since January 2019. He has been a vocal opponent not just of efforts to end the Covid-19 pandemic but of the vaccine that did more to control it than anything else; his anti-vaccine advocacy has also spurred on anti-vaccine activists’ assault on safe, protective measures to control diseases like mumps and polio. He has relentlessly attacked his state’s LGBTQ population, signing draconian bills...
  • Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Really Don’t Like Them; A bank run led to a wake-up call for America’s most coddled class of plutocrats. (a surprisingly decent read from New Republic)

    03/14/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT · by DoodleBob · 24 replies
    New Republic ^ | March 14, 2023 | Matt Ford
    The Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced on Sunday that they will guarantee all deposits that were still held at the ill-fated Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed last Friday. This is probably a good thing. SVB was the sixteenth-largest bank in the United States, with tens of billions in holdings still trapped behind its crumbling walls. Vaporizing that much money might have had dire implications for other parts of the American financial system—and for thousands of innocent customers who believed their money to be safe within SVB’s coffers. The actions these government entities have...
  • The Anti-Woke Right Is Losing Its Religion

    12/12/2022 2:21:40 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 50 replies
    New Republic ^ | December 12, 2022 | Charlotte Kilpatrick
    As conservatives increasingly turn to secular culture war outrages to fire up their base, it would seem that God is no longer their co-pilot.If a single image could encapsulate the Trump era, perhaps it is the infamous photo of the former president standing alone on a sidewalk in front of a boarded-up church with a stern expression and a Bible in his hand. The shot was captured in June 2020, shortly after police had used tear gas to clear Black Lives Matter protestors from Lafayette Park outside the White House, where they had gathered to voice their anger about the...
  • Liz Cheney’s Loss Is a Defeat for Conservatism. (Barf)

    08/16/2022 9:04:27 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 122 replies
    New Republic ^ | Timothy Noah
    Wyoming is a very conservative state. Forty-six percent of its adults self-identify as conservative, as opposed to moderate or liberal; only Mississippi claims a higher percentage. But in sending incumbent Liz Cheney to her premature retirement in Tuesday’s primary, Wyoming struck a blow against conservatism. Cheney’s defeat is just the latest demonstration that Trumpism now eclipses conservatism as the reigning faith of the Republican party. Compare the 46 percent of Wyoming’s adults who self-identify as conservative to the 57 percent of its adults who are Republican or lean Republican, according to Pew. That makes Wyoming more Republican than conservative; indeed,...
  • Fake News: Media Erroneously Tweet Steve Bannon ‘Guilty’ Before Closing Arguments

    07/21/2022 5:53:52 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 20 replies
    breitbart ^ | 21 Jul 2022 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    Several journalists erroneously tweeted that Stephen K. Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress in federal court in Washington, DC, on Thursday afternoon — before closing arguments in the trial. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted: “BANNON GUILTY.” His colleague Chris Hayes tweeted “Bannon found guilty,” citing a tweet by CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who was covering a different case. Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace warned others that they were getting the facts wrong: So, too, did Bannon biographer Joshua Green: O’Donnell apologized for spreading the misinformation about the verdict, as did Hayes, taking down their mistaken tweets: Others also apologized:...
  • Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia’s Race for Governor

    10/19/2021 11:40:50 AM PDT · by edwinland · 50 replies
    New Republic ^ | 10/19/2021 | Alex Shephard
    For a political press hopelessly addicted to speculation about the next big election, there are precious few data points to obsess over during the first year of a president’s term. New York City elects a mayor during this off-off-year, but it’s an election that’s typically too chaotic and too particular to really tell us much of anything about national trends. New Jersey elects a governor, but the Garden State has become so reliably blue that it hardly registers as a point of interest: Its days of electing gruff Republicans seem to be long gone. And so it must be periwinkle-hued...
  • Freak Out as Conservatives Exit Public Schools, Abandon Reform

    10/19/2021 4:23:55 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 95 replies
    Thenewamerican.com ^ | 10/18/21 | Alex Newman
    The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to “reform” government schools in favor of a mass-exodus strategy. Even powerful union bosses are starting to panic. The trend has been building quietly for years. But it has accelerated rapidly in recent months as a trickle of families fleeing the system became a tidal wave amid face-mask edicts, vaccine mandates, Critical Race Theory, Marxist indoctrination, extreme “sex education,” and other controversies. The first major shoe to drop in response came on September 30, when the fringe left-wing magazine New Republic...
  • Why This Anti-Science Fanaticism Is Dangerous for Democracy; The blue versus red vaccine divide is...terrifying from a democratic perspective (barf alert)

    06/28/2021 5:43:15 AM PDT · by DoodleBob · 50 replies
    New Republic ^ | June 28, 2021 | Michael Tomasky
    ...You’re probably thinking at this juncture that the point of this column is to make fun of red states. No. The point of this column is to denounce them. Their willful anti-science ignorance is going to prolong this pandemic by months (at least) and lead to thousands of needless deaths...Almost worse, though, is how this anti-science fanaticism is perverting the meaning of the concept of freedom. This is dangerous for democracy in ways most people aren’t even thinking about right now.... Incredibly, the right has now established the “principle” that people can engage in potentially harmful action without any expectation...
  • This Is How Trump Will Try to Take Down Kamala Harris

    08/09/2020 8:40:09 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 64 replies
    The New Republic ^ | August 5, 2020 | Osita Nwanevu
    Are the Democrats ready for grotesque attacks about the senator’s ex-boyfriend Willie Brown?
  • Sanders Supporters Shocked to Find Bias at CNN

    01/16/2020 7:18:53 AM PST · by Conserv · 28 replies
    When the CNN moderators gave Sanders the Trump treatment, the outraged ululations of the Left could be heard from sea to shining sea. Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi tweeted, “This is an unusually vile performance by CNN.” The Nation’s Elie Mystal raged, “Jesus Christ I hate these biased questions from the moderators. ‘How would you keep your plan from bankrupting the country?’ JUST ASK THE KOCH BROTHERS TO MODERATE NEXT TIME!” HuffPost’s Zach Carter griped about CNN’s post-debate panel discussion, “CNN’s crew is just straight bashing Sanders post-debate.” The New Republic’s Libby Watson whined, “CNN is truly a terrible influence on...
  • (What’s Left of) Our Economy: The Case that the Phase One Trade Deal With China Passes the Enforceability Test

    01/16/2020 7:06:23 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    Reality Check Blog ^ | 01/16/2020 | Alan Tonelson
    Not only has the “Phase One” trade deal now been signed by the United States and China, but official texts have now been released. And my initial read indicates that the Trump administration just might have come up with an effective enforcement regime – though success here will depend on U.S. governments (including this one) displaying nerves of steel. At the same time, the enforcement terms raise the question of why the President felt the need to reach this point via a treaty, rather than simply punish China unilaterally for economic transgressions – as his tariffs on hundreds of...
  • New Republic Writer Hilariously Triggered by Melania Trump's Christmas Decorations Video

    12/22/2019 1:56:45 PM PST · by PJ-Comix · 28 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | December 22, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick
    Once upon a time, the New Republic was a respected journal of political thought. Its decline accelerated under the ownership of Facebook-enriched Chris Hughes, and nothing has changed now that liberal banking heir Winthrop McCormack, bought the failing periodical three years ago.  Take, for example a December 19 screed by David Roth, who "was an editor at Deadspin," the left-wing sports blog. Roth's verbose critique of Melania Trump's Christmas-decorations video was titled  "A Unified Theory of the Trumps’ Creepy Aesthetic." Roth implies the Trumps have caused a rip in the fabric of the universe, as revealed in the subtitle: "The bloodless...
  • Texas Republicans bracing for a Blue Wave in 2020. Yes, Texas

    08/12/2019 9:57:46 PM PDT · by deek69 · 106 replies
    When Beto O’Rourke proclaimed, during the second round of Democratic presidential debates, that “there’s a new battleground state, Texas, and it has 38 Electoral College votes,” eyes rolled in unison across America. We’ve all heard that nonsense before! Pundits and progressives have been predicting that minority-white Texas would go blue for so long, it’s practically become a running joke. And while O’Rourke came tantalizingly close to knocking off Ted Cruz last fall, that race seemed to have all the hallmarks of a fluke—a Republican senator who even Republicans can’t stomach, running in a strong Democratic midterm cycle against a fresh-faced...
  • The Fetid, Right-Wing Origins of “Learn to Code”

    02/03/2019 6:18:28 PM PST · by dynachrome · 107 replies
    New Republic ^ | 2-1-19 | TALIA LAVIN
    Dozens of jobs were slashed at HuffPost that day, following a round of layoffs at Gannett Media; further jobs were about to be disappeared at BuzzFeed. It was a grim day for the media, and I just wanted to channel my tiny part of the prevailing gloom. Then the responses started rolling in—some sympathy from fellow journalists and readers, then an irritating gush of near-identical responses: “Learn to code.” “Maybe learn to code?” “BETTER LEARN TO CODE THEN.” “Learn to code you useless bitch.” Alongside these tweets were others: “Stop writing fake news and crap.” “MAGA.” “Your opinions suck and...
  • A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness (Robert Heinlein)

    11/18/2018 6:15:19 PM PST · by narses · 93 replies
    The New Republic ^ | June 8, 2014 | By JEET HEER
    By JEET HEER June 8, 2014 The science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once described himself as “a preacher with no church.” More accurately, he was a preacher with too many churches. Rare among the many intellectual gurus whose fame mushroomed in the 1960s, Heinlein was a beacon for hippies and hawks, libertarians and authoritarians, and many other contending faiths—but rarely at the same time. While America became increasingly liberal, he became increasingly right wing, and it hobbled his once-formidable imagination. His career, as a new biography inadvertently proves, is a case study in the literary perils of political extremism. MOST...
  • The Modern Automobile Must Die

    08/21/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 83 replies
    The New Republic ^ | August 20, 2018 | By EMILY ATKIN
    If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option. Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country’s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the kind of bold, aggressive climate goal scientists said was needed in all developed countries. If Germany could do it, it would prove the target possible. But with a little over a year left to go, despite dedicating $580 billion toward a low-carbon energy system, the country “is likely to fall short of its goals,”...