Hate Sells category archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who celebrate cruelty.
Also, not on Twitter but on the campaign trail, Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin chimes in.
Afterthought:
I think that this is a quite logical result of Republicans’ amd right-wing media’s demonization of those who would dare to disagree with them.
But that’s just me.
Courting Disaster 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times confesses that he was wrong.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., answers some mail.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that Republicans have ripped off their hoods masks and shown their true colors. A snippet:
Aside:
It certainly worked for Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin.
Dis Increasingly Coarse Discourse 0
Methinks Atrios has a point.
Afterthought:
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, Walter Cronkite on CBS and Huntley and Brinkley on NBC could bring us the day’s important news in half an hour.
KYW-AM in Philadelphia, one of the first “all news” stations, advertised “Give us 48 minutes and we’ll give you the world” (I used to catch KYW on the skip while I threw the weights around in the back yard at Pine View Farm; before the station moved to Philly, back when it was still in Cleveland, I would listen to Harv Morgan on KYW Cleveland in the evenings on my first transistor radio which Santa Claus had given me as a Christmas present).
There’s just not that much significant news in a day–a lot, but not 24-hours worth–so the 24-hour television news channels fill the void time with vapidity and with vile (and, natch, some are more vapid and vile than others).
The Republican Platform 0
In a longer post responding to some farcical musings on the possibility that Donald Trump will testify before the House January 6 committee, Steve M. offers his synopsis of the concerns of Republican voters.
1. Winning.
2. Hurting their enemies, and making them howl in outrage.
That’s it. That’s the complete list.
I wish I could disagree, but I think he’s onto something. Heck, in the last presidential election, Republicans didn’t even have a platform . . . .
Follow the link for context.
The Lake Effect 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, plus a couple of other topics.
Devolution 0
David takes a look at how the Republican Party went from William F. Buckley to Donald Trump.
If you ignore most of the videos that I post, well, that’s your privilege. But I urge to watch this one.
The Mechanics of Hate 0
Bernard Cohen, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, explores the work of Aaron Beck, considered the father of cognitive therapy. Among the topics Beck explored was “the cognitive basis of anger, hostility, and violence”; Cohen focuses on that aspect of his work. Given the current state of dis coarse discourse, in which many folks don’t seem happy unless they are hating, I found this a worthwhile read. Here’s a bit (emphasis in the original):
Sounds familiar, does it not?
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Helen Ubinas is less than sanguine. She argues that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Backfire, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
It’s almost poetic . . . .
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar’s certifications allow the mostly Venezuelan migrants to apply for special U-visas pending his department’s investigation of the Sept. 14 flight to Martha’s Vineyard, according to an ACLU Massachusetts statement Thursday. U-visas would allow the migrants to remain in the U.S. lawfully as the criminal investigation by Salazar’s department and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office proceeds.
In another statement, Salazar said that “based upon the claims of migrants being transported from Bexar County under false pretenses, we are investigating this case as possible unlawful restraint,” a misdemeanor.
Follow the link for the complete report.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
From the Daily Show, which reminds us that old times there are not forgotten:
Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Via C&L.
Dis Coarse Discourse, the Gulled and the Gullible Dept. 0
Sam and his crew discuss the Republicans’ demonizing of trans persons (who, again, are a minuscule portion of the population).
We will remain in peril as long as a significant portion of our polity eagerly laps up lies. And as long as “social” media persists in propogating prevarication.
Aside:
Why are Republicans so obsessed with sex?
Twits Who Would Own Twitter 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary phones it in.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Athens State University Professor Sean R. Busick is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
(snip)
Like some politicians from the 1850s, their extremism is selfish and short-sighted. Normalizing talk of political violence leads to political violence. Though the extremists who plague us may not be serious people, some of their followers take them seriously.
We too should take them seriously. We should recognize the danger they pose and vote them out.
