Politics of Hate category archive
The Man Who Would Be King, Red Scare Redux Dept. 0
Anita Chabria sees a pattern 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.
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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.
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?
American Stasi 0
Your tax dollars at work. From The Guardian:
Needless to say, the U. S. citizen in question was not white.
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:
“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.
Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”
American Stasa 0
If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.
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.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently this Republican believes that teachers must be spied upon so as to ensure that do not waver from his party’s line,
Aside:
As far as I can tell, “woke” is Republican newspeak for “not racist and not bigoted.”
“Show Us Your Papers Please” 0
Thom talks with Greg Palast about strategies Republicans may be intending to use to gut out the vote.
(There seemed to be some audio gliches when I watched the video, so I recommend turning on the closed captions.)
American Stasi 0
AL.com’s John Archibald tells another family’s story. An excerpt:
Leaving those grandchildren, scarred by heartache, to wonder again what would become of them, and the people they love.
Again we are reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Republican Thought Police 0
A U. S. District Court Judge has ruled that (gasp!) that it’s within the bounds of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech to criticize the American Stasi. Here’s a bit from the report; much more at the link.
“Streever has a right to express his political views through non-threatening speech, however degrading the speech might be,” (Judge Rudolph–ed.) Contreras said.
Real Big Men 0
At the Psychology Today website, Ross G. White explores the appeal of the “manosphere,” yet another “social” media construction that is polluting the polity and poisoning dis coarse discourse. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Yet conspiracy theories can be psychologically attractive.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A New and Improved Poem.
In Fact, the Greatest Poes of All Time.
As Revised by President DJT et. al.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breather free,
And I will deport them to some place where they don’t even speak the language becauase that are not white like me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Jackie Calmes hears a rhyme. A snippet; go read the rest.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
University of Dayton professor Art Jipson looks at the right-wing’s response to the Trump maladministration’s farcical indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to fight against prejudice, bigotry, and racism and argues that
Follow the link, where he decodes de code.