MFA:

[I]n the months since Donald Trump lost the presidency, right-wing media and Republican members of Congress have leaned into so-called "cancel culture" as a way to make the case against Democrats without having to discuss policy or really anything of substance at all. Instead, Republicans have used insinuations that Democrats want to prohibit traditions that are central to conservative identities. In short, they're stoking the grievances of their base.

The last week has seen a couple noteworthy examples of this. Perhaps most absurdly, right-wingers spent days getting mad about Hasbro's purported cancellation of Mr. Potato Head.

It turned out that all the fuming over Mr. Potato Head rested on a misinterpretation of a Hasbro press release. While the brand is now being referred to as "Potato Head," Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head are not being "canceled" by the company--they will live on as characters in the broader Potato Head universe.

Yet even after Hasbro cleared up the confusion, conservatives at CPAC kept bringing up Mr. Potato Head's pronouns as an example of liberal woke-ism gone wild.

By Tuesday morning, the Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head claims had merged into a single object of right-wing performative outrage. During a Fox & Friends interview, for instance, Donald Trump Jr. used a question about Dr. Seuss to rail against liberal "cancel culture" in general.

This might seem silly--and it is. But Republicans and their media enablers use this sort of culture war grievance to avoid talking about real issues, including those they advocate for that are unpopular.

Oh, they places the won't go:

The FBI director dismantled Tucker Carlson's lie that white supremacists aren't a threat -- so Carlson ignored him

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has spent years telling his audience that white supremacists do not pose a serious threat to the public. Even as Americans motivated by racist ideologies committed acts of domestic terror -- including the January 6 sacking of the U.S. Capitol -- he was quick to scoff, arguing that Democrats and the press were exaggerating the threat for political gain. So after FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress the exact opposite on Tuesday, Carlson was left with three choices -- admit that he was wrong, lie about what happened, or ignore it. He chose the latter path, preferring to devote his show to issues he apparently considered more pressing, like the purported cancellation of Dr. Seuss.

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Glenn Beck weighs in the two topics du jour:

On the "banning" Dr Seuss books: "This is fascism."

"Buy Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head because it's the end of an era. It is the end of freedom in America."

#7 If they are falling for conservative propaganda, they aren't scared Democrats. They are stupid ones.

Sales of Chicken Little are skyrocketing. You'll notice the villain in the story is presciently named Foxey Loxey:

#19 Ha! Thanks for the vote of confidence, but if I was a public servant, I'd get jaded and cynical within a week and do a lousy job. Maybe not more lousy than a bunch of current public servants ;-) but still lousy.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner:

Because congress was investigating how trump and his cult intentionally prevented the insurrection from being stopped, and the testimony was damning.

"As I said in another thread, this is just a publicity stunt. A rather clever one, at that, since they've got people curious about some of the more obscure Dr. Seuss books and increased demand for them."

And apparently repeatedly in this one! (JK I have that problem too sometimes.)