Politics of Hate category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via The Sacramento Bee, Jackie Calmes says, “By George the Third, it surely does.”
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Rebecca Watson unpacks the Trump maladministration’s lies about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
Or you can read the transcript.
On the same topic, SFGate’s Drew Magary minces no words.
The Me Veneration 0
Robert Reich sums up Donald Trump’s approach to governance–well, really, to just about everything–in eight points. Here are the four that I think predominate; follow the link for the others and for the rest of Reich’s article.
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(6) Personal enrichment by Trump and other officials is justified in pursuit of victory.
(7) So are lies, cover-ups, and the illegal use of force.
(8) Trump is invincible and omnipotent.
Foxy Shady 0
Sam and the crew delight in a Fox News interview that goes absolutely not how Fox wanted it to go.
American Stasi 0
He’s an American citizen, but he looked as if he might just possibly could be of Hispanic descent, so ICE agents rammed his car.
The Rule of Lawless, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, Robin Abcarian notices a pattern. Here’s a tiny bit from her article.
I think you can draw a line between Wednesday’s killing in Minneapolis and the Jan. 6 riot: People who do Trump’s bidding know they have nothing to fear from the justice system, and may even be rewarded for their behavior.
Republican Thought Police 0
In a longer article in which he details Republican efforts to squelch disssenting voices and curtain freedom of speech, Brit “Red” Schulte reminds us that
Afterthought:
I didn’t realize it until now, but I my father must have been antifa. After all, he fought Nazi Germany in WWII.
I wonder if Trump would jail him now, were he still with ut.
American Stasi 0
Farron demolishes J. D. Vance’s claim that ICE has “absolute immunity” to kill whomever they want.
Speaking of Gaslighting . . . . 0
Trudy Rubin notes that
I commend her entire piece to your attention.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s bit of the cadence:
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
The killing of a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, by an ICE agent this week, was a tragedy, due to a situation created by Trump as a political stunt and a show of force in a state that he lost in the last election, all aimed at getting revenge on Governor Walz, who has called Trump out as a dangerous, power-mad, corrupt and petty fascist.
While it is impossible to know what went on in the mind of the ICE agent as he fired multiple times, at close range, into Good’s car, I find Kristy Noem’s version of events hard to believe. Based upon what I saw on video of the event, I imagined my own narrative of what might possibly transpire in a similar situation. My version seems as likely as the version created and pushed by the government.
Both Sides Don’t 0
Steve M. is fed up with the false equivalence.
Afterthought:
Once evil becomes proven, presumption of good no longer applies.
American Stasi 0
The EFF warns us that ICE is ramping up its surveillance–and not just of immigrants. From their report:
- ICE had scanned the driver’s license photos of 1 in 3 adults.
- ICE had access to the driver’s license data of 3 in 4 adults.
- ICE was tracking the movements of drivers in cities home to 3 in 4 adults.
- ICE could locate 3 in 4 adults through their utility records.
- ICE built its surveillance dragnet by tapping data from private companies and state and local bureaucracies.
- ICE spent approximately $2.8 billion between 2008 and 2021 on new surveillance, data collection and data-sharing programs.
Follow the link for the full report.
And, in more news of the American Stasi . . . .
Misdirection Play, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Sal Rodriguez discusses that furor over welfare fraud in Minnesota. He notes that, though Somali immigrants are being targeted by the Trump maladministration, (emphasis added)
The founder of the organization, a white American named Aimee Bock, was convicted of her crimes. Dozens of others involved in the scheme have pled guilty. Most of those involved were of Somali background.
So why, one wonders, are Somalis getting all the blame publicity? Rodriguez suggests that the answer is quite simple:
Methinks the full article. is worth your while.