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It seems that Republicans are launching another salvo in the culture wars, this time armed with “critical race theory.” In an oversimplified nutshell, the theory is a deeply academic look at how racism that has been baked into our nation is still impacting us all today.
You say “voting enhancement,” I say “voter suppression.” All across the country, Republican lawmakers are using Donald Trump’s election lie to pass voting restrictions. We’ve got to make voters more confident in our election system after we undermined their confidence by crying about a stolen election that wasn’t stolen, right?
Republicans in Congress are increasingly willing to have you forget all about January 6th and their culpability in the insurrection. Everything is fine, promise! In fact, according to Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, these people looked a lot like they were on a “normal tourist visit.”
How do you boil down the causes of the latest war between Israel and the Palestinians into five steps? Fairly easily, unfortunately. Of course, there are thousands of steps before these ones, but if you look back over the past month, the spark is obvious.
Whoever thought a Cheney would be a pillar of principle and democracy? Okay, so she hasn’t always been a pillar, but it is nice that one House Republican is trying to push back against Trumpism and the Republican Party’s antidemocratic mission.
Now that President Joe Biden has been in office for over 100 days, that means it has now been over 100 days since the insurrection. You know about “whataboutism,” now we are experiencing, “never-mindism.”
White supremacist “replacement theory” is working its way into mainstream Republican thought. Thanks to an unhealthy mixture of anti-immigrant fervor, nativism and old fashioned racism, a once obscure idea touted by mass murderers in crazed manifestos is now being spouted on Fox News.
It seems to have become conventional wisdom that there were no mass shootings over the past year of COVID. The return of gun violence appeared to begin with the attack on the Atlanta area spas in March that killed six women of Asian descent. Except that is not true.
Police shot another unarmed Black man, Daunte Wright, just across town from the trial venue for the policeman who killed George Floyd. Just like in the Oscar Grant killing, the officer who shot Wright claims she mistook her handgun for a Taser.
Climate change and weather have once again collided in a way that is impossible to ignore. The “heat dome” currently sitting over the Pacific Northwest in the United States — and above this cartoonist — are offering homo sapiens another taste of what our future is if we don’t change our ways.