It’s what they always do: Demonize words and make them take on sinister meanings they doesn’t actually mean. Then beat us over the head with it until the meme takes.
Notice how they all start howling like coyotes in a chorus when they agree on whatever misdirection they’re going to undertake.
I watched some Republican House member today gish gallop away while being interviewed by Chris Hayes. He repeatedly brought up Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and implied that they are the true “criminals.”
This is the new “Benghazi.” Expect Bill Barr to attempt to prosecute both as election day approaches.
“Fake”. Anything Trump and his ilk don’t like, it’s “fake news”, “fake investigation”, “fake whatever”. Veracity has nothing to do with their use of the word fake.
Good call on using the word chorus. Over in the Trump admin cluster thread, I posted this pardoy (to the tune of Holy, Holy, Holy):
It’s far beyond obvious by now that Mexico is not going to pay for that fucking wall; however, many of his supporters–and Tan the Conman himself–still insisst that somehow the funding for that wall is actually coming from Mexico.
That’s been the right-wing playbook for decades. Lately, though, they’re undermining their own point, because all of these post-Cold-War Millennials/GenZ folks are seeing them calling pretty much everything that makes the average person’s life better or easier called “socialism” and thinking “Hey, this socialism thing sounds like a great idea!”
They don’t, really, any more than they value the Constitution or the Bible. In all three cases they say they do, but then you find them doing lots of stuff that directly contradicts those claims. Wearing the flag as a sweatband or boxer shorts or plastering it all over your bumper where it will get muddy and covered with dead bugs is virtue-signalling, not reverence.
(I will note that the conservatives I know with military backgrounds tend to take flag etiquette seriously, unlike their flag-humping brethren.)
If people want to desecrate the Confederate flag, it’s fine by me and I’m not aware of any laws or even rules of flag etiquette against it. Ditto the Nazi flag.
That said, I don’t think burning or otherwise abusing an American flag should be illegal. Deliberately doing so may, however, make you look like a dipshit.
Larry Sabato (The Crystal Ball) called that a “good thing” on twitter today, saying that Judge Roy was possibly the only Republican candidate that Doug Jones could beat.
