Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

Yes, that struck me as well.

. That contradiction is the thing. And though such divergences between moral pose and actual life lived does not always wreak the sort of damage it should, very commonly it does limit or even remove such individuals from positions of high standing.

Except… there is no such divergence here.

Progressive delusion is no substitute for reality.

The conservative delusion that progressives are deluded is the real irreality.

Neither of your two premises are correct, it seems to me, neither motivation nor consequence. It wasn't the motivation of the Republican associate of his who wrote the piece nor is it mine. I don't (in most instances) care who is ******* whom. If a priest is gay, I am unmoved. If however he's a leading member of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops moving to deny Communion to Biden found frequenting gay bars, then let's make that known.

As to your suggestion that no consequences follow from dissemination of credible accounts of such individuals' acts and hypocrisy, I think that's wrong as well. The Catholic Bishop mentioned above has lost his position. Dinesh D'Souza is now pretty much limited to right wing media which was not the case previous to his sexual dalliance and felonious misuse of funds. The "hiking the Appalachian Trail" dude is pretty much invisible. Jerry Falwell Jr is a dead duck that some muscular pool boy will have to scoop up. Jimmy Swaggert is long gone and Jimmy Bakker is relegated to small time cons. This is a long long list.

Edit: and we really shouldn't forget how many principles at FOX are no longer there because their sexual cruelties were unmasked.

And that's really the important point in my view and it's precisely why I posted the item. As there is no silver bullets available to kill off anti-Asian bigotry or anti-black racism or the fascist tendencies of modern US conservatism or the theocratic goals within Catholicism and Protestantism, all we can hope for is to chip away at the consensus within their supporters/believers.

I conceded the point to Hightor that unearthing the dirt could lead to good results, and I do so to you as well.

Guess I just hadn’t looked at it closely enough.

However…
When we’re talking about a figure like Ken Starr, whose days in the public eye or government service are long past, what are the potential good results of bringing out all his skeletons?

Yet I'm the one who can always back up my claims and you've never been able to back up your claims even once.

Thanks. And no problem. When I go to bed at night, I'm as exhausted from rethinking **** as from anything else I might have been up to.

He remains highly visible and active - a respected intellectual/legal celebrity - within the right wing media universe.

This from one of my favorite writers

You do not backup your conservative delusions, you just repeat them.

Lying doe not become tou.

It's a good thing I never do it then.

You are confusing "never" with "always" again.

Nope. You are the only person here who is doing that.

So how come you can't provide any examples of me ever failing to provide a cite when someone asks me to back up my facts?



And how come you can't provide any examples of anything untrue in my posts?



So long as you keep repeating falsehoods, it is reasonable for me to keep replying with the truth.

The truth and reality are total strangers to you, always have been, always will be.

I'm the one who always backs up my claims when people ask for cites, and you are the one who never backs up your claims.

Clearly I'm a tad verbose this morning. It will soon wane.

It appears that the Jan 6 Select Committee hearings will begin with a note from the chair followed immediately by opening remarks from ... Liz Cheney.

It's the obvious smart move by Pelosi and agreed to (thank you Jesus) by Cheney.

The reason I mention this is that it speaks precisely to my earlier point about the strategy of chipping away at some previously created and destructive consensus.

I've been thinking a lot about consensus recently. That is, about the psychological appeal of consensus we humans often manifest. Watching attendees at Trump rallies or during the insurrection on Jan 6 or at school board meetings where they scream about the Marxist tide of Critical Race Theory or in anti-mask demonstrations you can see how excited, happy and energized these people are. This dynamic process between the self and a community of other selves is very powerful and hugely compelling. Through it, we can do great good and great evil.

Both of your claims are as always untrue. The maximum number of people in the universe who think your claims are true seems to be5 one and his grip on realitty is questionable.

Your failure to provide any examples to back up your claims about me is pretty obvious.

And appeals to the crowd are logical fallacies even when they are untrue.