Category Archives: Conservatives

Anti-COVID Precaution Vice Signaling Has Real Consequences

Posted on September 15, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Unfortunately, those who fuck around really won’t find out. From the Great State of Florida (boldface mine): A large retirement community in Tamarac, Florida, has just announced that the clubhouse where hundreds of seniors gather on a weekly basis for … Continue reading →

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Fani Willis and the Failure of Conservatism as Policy

Posted on September 11, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

And by conservatism, I mean conservatism as it is espoused and done, not think tank white papers. A recent Messenger article describes how District Attorney Fani Willis, who has indicted Trump and many others on RICO charges related to attempts … Continue reading →

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Happy Labor Day from Michigan Republicans

Posted on September 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s like they wake up every morning and ask, “How can we be complete assholes today?” Seriously, this rhetoric about paid family leave is cartoon villain grade stupidity (boldface mine): That quote was courtesy of a “Messaging Points” memo aimed … Continue reading →

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Propaganda and City Safety

Posted on August 30, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Gallup has a very interesting poll, in which they ask people if various U.S. cities are safe–and they broke the responses down by political party: It seems Republicans are scared of most Democratic cities, especially when they’re in Democratic states … Continue reading →

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Trump and Biden Should Debate

Posted on August 28, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Admittedly, this assumes neither of them will be ill by the time the presidential debates roll around. At The Atlantic, Tom Nichols has a piece arguing that Trump shouldn’t be debated because he is beyond the pale: he is such … Continue reading →

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Bulk Sales and Tucker Carlson’s New ‘Book’

Posted on August 18, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Over at Mediaite, they’re taunting Tucker Carlson about selling just over 3,000 copies of his most recent book. This is good! One should never pass up an opportunity to mock that asshole. While the article chalks the poor sales up … Continue reading →

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Jack Goldsmith’s Silly Ant-Trump Prosecution Op-Ed and the Needed Corollary to Murc’s Law

Posted on August 9, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

The NY Times, continuing in the tradition of giving equal opportunity to stupid arguments, published an op-ed by conservative Jack Goldsmith, who argues that prosecuting Trump would (further) delegitimize the Department of Justice for a part of the population, and … Continue reading →

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The Trump Indictment Isn’t about Free Speech

Posted on August 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s about a conspiracy to unlawfully overturn an election. David Dayen notes the obvious (boldface mine): …they claim that you cannot criminalize free speech, even as special counsel Jack Smith took pains to say in the complaint that Trump could … Continue reading →

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The Crisis of Masculinity Within the Republican Party

Posted on July 18, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

With the crisis of masculinity having been a HAWT TOPIC in the Discourse last week, it struck me as unintentionally absurd to come across this Kaitlan Collins summary of an interview with Republican Governor Brian Kemp: Trump pressured him to … Continue reading →

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A Bad Supreme Court Decision Based on Ersatz Facts

Posted on July 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Might as well have fun with the 303 Creative decision, I guess (image from here) In case you missed it, last week the Republicans on the Supreme Court decided (in the ‘303 Creative’ decision) to allow a woman who claimed … Continue reading →

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