This from David Brooks: you can tell what kind of conservative a conservative is by what era he wants to go back to. He says (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Lose? Are You Crazy?
08/21/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere is the essence of why the democratic principle that says you must be willing to lose does not work for conservatives: they believe they (Continue Reading)
What doesn’t matter in the U.S.
02/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsAmendments to the Constitution that some people don’t like e.g. insurrectionists cannot serve in offices under the U.S. Definitions are important but what would we (Continue Reading)
Complete with veiled women
11/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am still hearing about those caravans headed toward the southern border of the U.S. (which I consider starting at the Mason-Dixon Line). So as (Continue Reading)
T-shirts for sale
10/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhere are the T-shirts demanding, “Free the Fulton County Nineteen!” ????
I’ve been tracking the one third……….
08/27/2023 Pat Barrett 1 Commentfor about a decade now. About one third of the country will believe the White House is staffed by aliens or lizard people and that (Continue Reading)
Typically of conservatives………
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe Americans for Prosperity group calling itself a movement provides contact only to donate, not explain why this has all the hallmarks of a wealthy (Continue Reading)
Trumpers are overawed
08/10/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe court dates for Trump’s indictment on charges leveled by Jack Smith fall around Christmas, thus providing opportunity to delay matters, which is the Trump (Continue Reading)
The MAGA defense of a killer
07/22/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe harrying of John Wilkes Booth by the government was a deep state operation. What did he do? We have to understand his frame of (Continue Reading)
SCOTUS has delivered on the Conservative Dream
06/30/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMassive blows have been struck by SCOTUS to revert to control by White men over women and Blacks.
What Libertarians Believe = What Libertarians Don’t Know
06/28/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am using ‘libertarian’ loosely, applying it to any economic political thinking that believes everyone thrives if everyone is on his own. Mitt Romney is (Continue Reading)
Give Him a Gun Without Bullets
06/28/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe MAGA crowd likes to present themselves as tough and aggressive. They sport weapons. That means so much to them. So…..let’s give them guns, all (Continue Reading)
Jose, can you see?
06/23/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentSomeone assured me that all the game broadcasts in southern California have commentary mandated to be in Spanish. Better get out your Spanish for Dummies, (Continue Reading)
Our very own Golem
06/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)
With both hands……..
05/04/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn ad popped up: Relieve stiffness…. etc. Hey! I need stiffness and whatever I have I’m holding onto with both hands!
One solution
04/21/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentGiven the gradual turning of the U.S. population toward a non-White majority and its attendant racial strife, why not give free birth control devices to (Continue Reading)
An old, old story……..
12/27/2022 Pat Barrett 1 CommentA couple looking for a place to stay in cold weather in a strange city on Dec. 24……….. we see it portrayed everywhere. The governor (Continue Reading)
The Link Between Autocracy and Conservatism
10/20/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe link is authority, the principle of authority. Conservative writings are replete with the citing of authority as essential to order and order they consider (Continue Reading)
Make-up of SCOTUS along originalist lines
08/14/2022 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsI note that only one signer of the Constitution was Roman Catholic. So do the Catholic originalists on the SCOTUS now contend that less than (Continue Reading)
Time to replace the top leadership of the Democratic Party
08/05/2022 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsToday on the Bulwark a piece was written by Charlie Sykes quoting Josh Barro. Neither Charlie nor Josh care much for leftie-talk and Josh put (Continue Reading)
Is this something we should encourage?
06/30/2022 Pat Barrett 1 Commentfully half of Republicans in the former Confederacy (plus Oklahoma) support secession. Where’s my old blue uniform? – recent poll
Guess what, Clarence.
06/25/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentBreaking news from SCOTUS: As Clarence Thomas was compiling his list of targets for the next session, all dealing with marriage and sexual behavior, Roberts (Continue Reading)
Have You Ever Noticed….. (warning: sex)
04/18/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentHave you ever noticed that the big issues in the GOP have to do in some way, no matter how great a stretch, with sex? (Continue Reading)