{"id":32194,"date":"2021-07-20T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32194"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:13:59","slug":"in-todays-news-and-my-nominee-for-the-new-kind-of-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32194","title":{"rendered":"In Today&#8217;s news&#8230;.and my nominee for the new kind of Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will try to be brief so I can move on to writing more columns for my series on education in the Reader. I would like to resume regular blogging after a nearly two year hiatus to study French and clear my head.<\/p>\n<p>To begin. Those in shock at the state of the GOP should look with very cold clear eyes at what is has become &#8211; the party of John Wilkes Booth. Yes, the Anti-Lincoln mentioned at the end of the previous post yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I have been meaning to write a piece about the long history of the US. undermining democracy abroad when people we didn&#8217;t like got elected. The legacy of such democratic undermining boomeranged on us in places as Disparate as Iran, Guatamala, Venezuela and by the French in Algeria. Sometimes a strong democracy needs to let idiots like communists and radical religionists win if only to let their voters know how inept they are. But that is a column for another day. Today I nominate the WaPo editorial urging Biden not to let Belarus&#8217;s dictator get by with his chasing out of the woman who defeated him in the last election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/07\/19\/belarus-democracy-biden-svetlana-tikhanovskaya\/\">I concur with the Post&#8217;s Editors<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I urge cold, clear eyes because every thing Republicans are now doing reflects the urge to destroy our democracy in the name of democracy. Like a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/20\/power-up-mccarthy-taps-jim-jordan-3-big-lie-supporters-jan-6-committee\/\">ppointing Congressman Jim Jordan<\/a> who supported the January 6th overthrow of a legally elected Biden to the committee to investigate the failed putsch. BUT NEITHER JORDAN OR HIS APPOINTER MCCARTHY ARE MY NOMINEES<\/p>\n<p>Cold, clear eyes are needed for nasty people like the Trump lover who has put up Fuck-Biden signs all over her residential neighborhood. BTW I was really irritated with WaPo because its story wouldn&#8217;t tell me which offensive word got her neighbors to try to take her signs down. T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/union\/2021\/06\/trial-set-for-nj-homeowner-charged-for-displaying-f-bomb-anti-biden-flags-on-property-near-school.html\">his story from New Jersey shows the signs<\/a>. BUT THIS F-BOMBER IS NOT MY NOMINEE<\/p>\n<p>Cold, clear eyes are needed to deal with self described Christians of the Promise Keeper variety of male dominance who will positively crap in their pants over this story of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/07\/20\/sports-illustrated-transgender-swimsuit\/\">transexual model<\/a> who is being put on the cover of Sports Illustrated&#8217;s swim suit edition. BUT OUTRAGED CHRISTIANS ARE NOT MY NOMINEE EITHER<\/p>\n<p>In a world in which Republicans froth at the mouth over an acronym for teaching about historic racism, ignor the truth of a seven million majority for Biden, revel in supporting the overthrow of our democracy, and try to turn back the clock to a time that never was: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/07\/20\/tucson-fire-shooting-first-responders\/\">THIS IS MY NOMINEE FOR A NEW KIND OF REPUBLICAN<\/a>. Outraged, incoherent, nihilistic, triggered and well-armed.<\/p>\n<p>Cold, clear eyes are needed by everyone who wants America to survive our current state of undress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will try to be brief so I can move on to writing more columns for my series on education in the Reader. 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