Politics of Hate category archive
American Stasi 0
No, that’s not hyperbole. From Truthout:
Much more at the link.
Birds of a Feather, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
Warning: Short commercial at about the 2 1/2 minute mark.
Republican Family Values 0
When you read these stories of persons renditioned by the Trump maladministration without cause or due process, but simply because IDE didn’t like their looks, you will find it difficult to deny that mean for the sake of mean is a–if not the–Republican family value.
Metamorphosis 0
David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Chaos Agents 0
Writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier is not sanguine. He notes
Follow the link for context.
“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Donald Trump is suing universities, attacking news media, and honoring slaveholders.
Douglas Rooks* sees a pattern in all this. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
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Yes, David Rooks. Not David Brooks. Clearly.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Trump maladministration has another concentration camp in the works.
But, according to the local Republican state representative quoted in the report, it’s a boon to the local economy, because of all the jobs it will create.
Never mind that confining persons without due process violates the very notion of the rule of law.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Mary Ann Larson hears a recent rhyme from across the sea.
Aside:
I know someone who has relatives in the land Larson refers to. What she says is quite correct.
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*Mark Twain.
What’s in a Word? 0
David Masciotra argues that, in today’s Republican Party, the word “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Here’s how he starts his article:
That might have seemed like hyperbole during the year Mitt Romney became the Republican presidential nominee. But it rings truer as we pass the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term in office.
The entire article is worth your while.
American Stasi 0
Thom discusses the random arrest of a U. S. citizen and wonders whether ICE has been transformed into Donald Trump’s own secret police.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seton Hall law professor Lori A. Nessel is distressed and dismayed by the Trump maladministration’s policies of mean for the saek of to immigrants. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trish Fontana, whose family survived Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, hears a rhyme with what’s happening in the U. S. today. She notes that
. . . fascism has become a polarizing force in our own nation today.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
Actions . . . 0
. . . have consequences.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump sounds a warning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.
Courting Disaster 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s attack on an impartial federal judiciary and the impllications thereof.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.