for 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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
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 Add 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 Add CommentI 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)
You gotta feel sorry for them…….
10/26/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentThose poor guys who attacked the Capitol trying to overturn a free and fair election are just running into all sorts of problems. One dropped (Continue Reading)
The Trump Presidential Library
07/25/2021 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThe Trump Presidential Library is not yet in the offing but it might be on the horizon and what will it look like?A long wall (Continue Reading)
How are those leeches workin’ for ya?
01/29/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe need to revamp our concepts of just desserts. For example, when Todd Aikens said, “Doctors tell me that women have a way of shutting (Continue Reading)
Up to here
01/16/2021 Pat Barrett 8 CommentsMaybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
Bring your bullhorn to Trader Joe’s
01/14/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentAnti-maskers showed up at a Trader Joe’s to demand entry sans mask. The manager said no. They argued, saying they were there just to shop, (Continue Reading)