Politics of Hate category archive
“We’re Just Following Orders” 0
The post title is quote from an ICE agent caught in the video.
Where have we heard that excuse before?
Why do I find no comfort in that realization?
A Trumpled Poem 0
Donald Trump is rewriting The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. Here’s an early draft:
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free,
And I’ll put them in concentration camps.
“Right Now, the Enemy Is Domestic” 0
From the Youtube page:
The drummer of the hardcore heavy metal band Claymore TX, who is also a combat veteran, went on a fiery rant denouncing Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and the cruelty being inflicted on immigrant communities across the country, proving once again that there are plenty of people from all walks of life willing to unite to protect the people that actually make our country great. Rick Strom breaks it down.
Going to Extremes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christopher Dwyer explores why political extremism seems to be on the rise. He makes three main points (emphasis added). Follow the link for a detailed exploration of each one.
- Having enemies allows us to pretend that all the badness in the world is a result of those enemies.
- Social identity theory tells us that we readily break people down into “us” vs. “them” groups.
- Anonymity on the internet facilitates a deindividuation where people say things they wouldn’t otherwise.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom finds a chilling precedent for the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision to greenlight the Trump maladministration’s decision to send undocumented immigrants to third-country exile.
Republican Thought Police 0
Mike Littwin reports that the Trump maladministration is now coming for Park Rangers who have the unmitigated gall to speak truth about America’s history.
“Alligator Alcatraz” 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes notes the Florida’s Governor DeSantis isn’t interested with draining any swamps. Rather, he wants to fill one–the Everglades–with immigrants imprisoned for being, well, immigrants.
Aside:
Sounds awfully like a concentration camp to me.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Chris Williams parses the three planks of the platform of today’s Republican Party.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Dis coarse discourse is clearly going to pot.
The Hostile Takeover 0
Gene Collier looks at the Trump maladministration’s attempt to stage a military invasion of Los Angeles and is not sanguine. A snippet:
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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Sam and the crew discuss a disgusting Xcretion from Utah Senator Mike Lee (then veer into a brief discussion of the split over Iran in right-wing what-passes-for discourse).
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Republican Thought Police 0
- A diller, a dollar,
No funding for scholars.