Nikki Haley, as you may have heard, couldn’t answer a question about the cause of the Civil War. Her brilliant explanation is that of course she knew — and besides, she has black friends!
Haley’s admirers in this article trot out a number of bad excuses for Haley’s answer: the war wasn’t about slavery, and it was a “gotcha” question. Funny, most people would think “what’s the cause of the Civil War?” is a softball question. And yes, as I’ve mentioned before, Southerners never hid that they were seceding over slavery. Paul Krugman makes the same point. Nor were they really into limited government — when Jones County Mississippi opted out of the war, the CSA response was not “cool by us.”
An Iowa book ban was so broadly written a judge concluded it would have banned all pronouns.
Kari Lake claims the “globalists” used covid to stop Trump. Which is a euphemism for “the Jews.” And it would be a stupid idea — if Trump had handled this competently instead of screaming that it was no big deal and recommending horse paste, he’d probably have made it to a second term. Crises are great for presidents, but he blew it.
Speaking of which, we’re still stuck with Ron DeSantis appointing an anti-vax Florida surgeon general.
Believing anything that comes out of Gateway Pundit is a very bad idea.
“Why are we just sitting idly by and allowing corporate America to give all the jobs to nonwhite people, and the destruction of meritocracy?” says lying liar Charlie Kirk. We’re not doing that, but Kirk’s not going to win a right-wing audience by admitting white people aren’t oppressed.
Repub Marya Flores claims she uses Qanon memes because she doesn’t support Qanon. Well, I’m convinced.
Now that early Mickey Mouse is out of copyright, pundit Michael Knowles says it’s right-wingers’ chance to punish Disney by tying Mickey to Nazism. Given Knowles is ignorant of history and abortion clinics, I’m not sure this would work out (there’s also trademark law to consider) but given Disney has millions to spend on legal fees, I suspect anyone who follows’ Knowles advice will not enjoy the outcome.
While it’s not up to Nikki Haley’s level of Bad Excuse, “we don’t want free food aid for kids because kids are too fat” isn’t much more intelligent.
Nor is the guy who dismisses questions about AI bias by babble about DEI and wokeness.
Florida’s current homeowners insurance market.
Trump didn’t “fix” Obamacare in his four years in office. Didn’t even offer a plan. He won’t do better if he’s re-elected. He does, however, believe he could have negotiated a way to prevent the south seceding in 1860 and promises to carry out the anti-missile SDI plan Reagan promised (he’s more likely to fix Obamacare — contrary to his lies, we do not have the capacity to pull it off).
I’ll end with a media bad idea: that Trump and Biden’s differing interpretations of J6 are both matters of political framing.
