Month: March 2025
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We’re Not a Monarchy; We’re a Constitutional Republic
If you’ve discussed or debated politics, chances are that you’ve come across a MAGA who flexed his asserted political acumen with statements like “We’re not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.” That’s true, in fact, if “democracy” is taken to mean direct, unrestrained democracy in which a 50% plus one majority gets its way…
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Don’t Let MAGA Use Your Decency Against You
Or, Don’t Fall for MAGA’s Mind Games I’m sure that you’ve been gaslit before by MAGA’s talking-point judo. They will demand that you show inclusiveness toward them, so that they can more openly exclude others. They will insist that you be fair to them, so that they can more easily be unfair to others. They…
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Wait a Minute! I Thought MAGA Believed in “Free Speech on College Campus!”
We all knew that was a self-serving line of bull, but now it has proven itself to be such. The latest university to cave to Trump’s and MAGA’s war on campus free speech is Columbia University. One of MAGA’s censorship attempts is stifling the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian students. It wasn’t so long ago…
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MAGA is Literally Erasing the Humanity of Anyone Who Isn’t White, Straight, and Aryan
Where have we seen this movie before? In 1940s black-and-white newsreels, of course. While the outrage of the week may be MAGA’s removal of the famous WWII photo of raising the American Flag on Iwo Jima because it was “DEI,” this is just the latest of MAGA’s long march down the Nazi Germany path. Remember:…
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A Quick Clarity and Reality Check on “Women’s Sports”
Let’s cut right to the truth: MAGA’s scaremongering about trans women in women’s sports is another shiny object that does not require a big-government “remedy.” It’s just another MAGA way of persecuting a small, vulnerable minority while hiding behind a marquee of superficial “reasonableness.” It is competitive sports itself, not government, that identifies and addresses…
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From MCSweeneys.net: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
This time, someone has already done the legwork in spectacular fashion: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056 Archived copy: https://deannaslair.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/A-Catalog-of-Trumps-Worst-Cruelties-Collusions-Corruptions-and-Crimes-The-Complete-Listing-Atrocities-1–1056-McSweeneys-Internet-Tendency.pdf
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Human Rights Campaign: Look Back: Trump-Pence Administration Timeline
This is the annotated timeline of the 2017-2020′ administration’s disregard for the LGBTQ+ community: https://www.hrc.org/resources/trump-pence-administration-timeline Archived copy: https://deannaslair.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HRC-Look-Back-Trump-Pence-Administration-Timeline.pdf Also: Full Report: Trump’s Administrative Abuse and the LGBTQ Community https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/assets/resources/HRC-Trump-Administrative-Abuse-Sept2017.pdf
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Circulating on Social Media: A real question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are st*pid?’
There is a post circulating on social media that is useful but copies of it have broken links. I have fixed the links. A real question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are st*pid?’ THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:…
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MAGA Has No Defense Against This Kind of Attack
(Or, How to Immunize Your Children against Trumpism Through Good Parenting) Think you can stop MAGA in its tracks by pointing out their self-contradictions? Guess again. Think that blasting their latest outrageous lies on social media will make a dent? Forget it. MAGA takes it as a compliment. And never mind generating stupid memes. Memes…
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