Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron explains how the Trump maladministration is starting to come after persons who say things it doesn’t like, even when said things said are well within the bounds of legal free speech.
Read the news report that Farron discusses.
American Stasi 0
At NJ.com, Ted Sherman runs the numbers and concludes that they do not support ICE’s public statements for its crackdown on immigrants, whether they be illegal or legal. An excerpt:
Comparisons with previous years actually show the increasing numbers of apprehensions were due to more arrests of those who had not been convicted of any crime, the analysis showed.
Read the whole thing. Methinks it supports the claims of those who believer this is not primarily–or, for that matter, in any way–about criminal behavior, but is all about skin color and ethnicity.
(Slightly edited for clarity.)
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, Lorraine Ali tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s “social” media posts the senseless. A snippet:
Unlike the fictional Kurtz or the real Churchill, Trump has no military experience. He avoided the Vietnam War draft with four student deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs. An area where he is experienced? Baiting foes. Antagonizing enemies, genuine or imagined, is a Trump specialty, be it from the Oval Office, on the campaign trail, or in the before times, as a reality TV personality.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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If the truth hurts, why, just make it go away.
Establishmentarians 0
LZ Granderson has a couple of questions for persons who would use public schools–and therefore public moneys–to proselytize:
And why place public school teachers, many of whom are not Christians themselves, in a position in which they may have to explain that religion’s doctrine?
Follow the link for his answers.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Farron argues that Trump’s current acting Attorney-General, Todd Blanche, just said the quiet part out loud. (Warning: Language.)
Read the news report that Farron discusses.
American Stasi 0
Also at the Colorado Sun, attorney Mario Nicolais tells the story of what he had to deal with in securing the release of a teenager who fled to the United States to join his family after having been tortured in his home country, only to be snatched up by ICE and sent to a detention center concentration camp for being.
Frankly, this is not how I would like to see my tax dollars at work.
American Stasi 0
At The Seattle Times, Danny Westneat notes that many Washington state farmers are hurting because ICE has rounded up their workers and sent them to–let’s use the proper term–concentration camps. He also points out that many of them, who voted for Trump, didn’t see this coming.
And Westneat wonders where they were during the 2024 campaign.
Here’s a tiny bit from his article.
It couldn’t have been clearer, could it?
The Rule of Lawless 0
Via the USA Today Netowrk, Andrew P. Napolitano has few questions about current events. Here’s one of them:
Follow the link for the rest.
War and Mongers of War 0
David debunks Karoline Leavitt’s bunk about Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Aside:
Karoline Leavitt uses the term “experts at the White House.”
Given the actions antics of the Trump maladministration, methinks that term an oxymoron.
Republican Thought Police 0
Now it seems that they are going after the Pope for having the unmitigated gall to criticize the actions of the Trump maladministration.
War and Mongers of War 0
Sam and the crew talk with Heather “Digby” Parton about why Trump decided to go to war with Iran.
Mongers of Hate, Reprise 0
At the Psychology Today website, John Tsilimparis argues that “(t)he recent social media outburst from the highest levels of leadership is a result of narcissistic rage.” He then goes on to explore how such outbursts and the type of you-can’t-really-call-it thinking behind them helps poison dis coarse discourse.
His article is well worth the few minutes it will take to read it.
Mongers of Hate 0
Thom discusses how today’s Republican Party has weaponized hate and faction over the last four decades.
Aside:
I think that Thom is quite correct about the legacy of Ronald Reagan, but I think he should also have included as a contributing factor Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy, which has turned the party of Lincoln into the party of Jefferson Davis.
Honest to Pete, if Ev Dirksen or Nelson Rockefeller came back from their graves, they would be ashamed of what their party has become.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. Rather, it’s a Republican family value.