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Politics of Hate category archive

The Rule of Lawless 0

Apparently, that a lawyer with a long record of fighting for human rights won the Nobel Peace Prize toasted Trump’s marshmallow.

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American Stasi 0

Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.

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Real Big Men 0

The cosplaying wannabe.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

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American Stasi 0

If they can’t arrest the one they want, they’ll arrest the one they’re with.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.

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Echoes 0

This reminds me of someone in the news.

Go read it and see whether it sounds familiar to you.

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American Stasi 0

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp tells the story of another innocent swept up in the Trump maladministration’s mean for the sake of mean.

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The Grand Inquisitor 0

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Legacy 0

David discusses Karl Rove’s statement that today’s Republican Party is being taken over by Nazis and posits that Karl Rove bears some responsibility, even if that was not Rove’s intent, because of the tactics he used in the George W. Bush years.

Methinks his arguements are worth a listen. (Warning: Short commerical at the end.)

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The Man Who Would Be King, Red Scare Redux Dept. 0

Anita Chabria looks at the political advertisements that the Trump maladministration recently released, paid for by our tax dollars and sees a pattern. Here’s a couple of bits from her article; follow the link for context.

“In authoritarian countries, all leaders, they try to completely blur the line between themselves and the state function,” said Konstantin Sonin, an expert in authoritarianism and a professor at the University of Chicago. “So basically, being ‘anti-me’ is being anti-state. In this Trump advertisement, there is this authoritarian scent.”

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Finchelstein points out that painting opponents as communists or socialists – an incessant refrain from Trump and the core of the commercials – is a common practice in non-democracies, turning enemies of the dictator into enemies of the state, and perhaps even criminalizing them.

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Republican Family Values 0

Judge ordering the deportation of a Spanish-speaking child without counsel or due process.

Via Job’s Anger.

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American Stasi 0

More mean for the sake of mean.

After all, it’s a Republican family value.

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Stray Question, Patriot Gamers Dept. 0

Why is it that those who wave the American flag most ferociously, who paint it on their pickup trucks and wrap it around their hair, also seem to ones who who most eagerly would deny its protection to persons who may not look like them?

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American Stasi 0

Your tax dollars at work. From The Guardian:

An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois, and left the man dazed and bleeding on the ground as they walked away after realizing their apparent mistake.

Needless to say, the U. S. citizen in question was not white.

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American Stasi 0

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:

In a blistering 127-page opinion, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said the inhumane treatment violated the Constitution, “not to mention any decent concern for the Golden Rule or the demands of humanity.”

“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.

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Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0

As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”

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American Stasa 0

Another person’s story.

If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.

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Suffer the Children 0

As is clear by now, that’s not scripture.

That’s a Republican family value.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Yet more evidence that Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the New Secesh.

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