Hate Sells category archive
Normalization Nation 0
Methinks the Rude One makes some good points.
Aside:
I gave up on television news, whether broadcast or cable, a long time ago. (Except if there’s a snow storm, and, as the climates they are a-changing, it’s been several years since we had even a little one of those.)
Real Big Men 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini marvels at the machismo.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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Robert Reich argues that X has truly become the bullies’ pulpit, with Musk as the Bully-in-Chief.
Karen Karen-Like 0
Meet a Karen who flies the fiendly skies.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Dick Polman is fed up, or perhaps, more accurately, tired out. In his article bidding farewell to the political column he has written (and I have followed) for two decades he notes, almost in passing, the damage done by the disinformation superhighway:
I commend his entire piece to your attention.
Republican Family Values 0
Methinks persons could be excused for concluding that a primary Republican family value is mean for the sake of mean.
OH! And speaking of Republican family values, Idaho State Senator Melissa Wintrow has a question.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers hears a Thanksgiving rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron points out that the Trump administration plans to target not just immigrants, but naturalized citizens.
Establishmentarians Establishing Establishmentarianism 0
Sam and the crew discuss how establishmentarians prayer on the polity.
The Answer: Hate Feeds on Itself 0
The quandary:
Follow the link for the rest of the quandary.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I wish I could say I found this surprising, but, in these times in which one of our two major political parties has chosen bigotry and hate as part of their platform, I can’t say that I do.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini hears a rhyme swirling from the past.
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey argues that
Follow the link and get the points.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael Parker, writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, hears a rhyme from Down Under.
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*Mark Twain.
Immunity Impunity
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At the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan marvels at the teflon Don.
Misdirection Play 0
Robert Reich theorizes that Donald Trump by what I would call a misdirection play. Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added). Follow the link for context; it’s a worthwhile read.
Wrong. Trump has been able to channel the intensifying anger of the white working class away from the real causes of working-class distress — away from the big corporations, wealthy individuals, and denizens of Wall Street whose money has rigged the game against average working people.
It was not the first time in history that a demagogue has used scapegoats to deflect public attention from the real causes of their distress, and it won’t be the last.
Aside:
Where Reich says “wrong” in the bit I quoted, I might have said “right.” The elements cited in the first paragraph above were not irrelevancies.
They were the bait.
