Politics of Hate category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
Detroit’s WDIV 4 reported Friday that attacker John Deliz, a recently-discharged patient, came up to the 19-year-old woman wearing hijab while she was checking in to see if she had broken her jaw when falling on ice earlier in the day on February 20.
The American Dream ix now the American nightmare.
Return of the Words 0
The Las Vegas Sun reports that someone listened to Donald Trump. Trump probably wishes he hadn’t.
A snippet (emphasis added):
But in his order rejecting the motion to dismiss, Garaufis pointed directly at Trump, noting that his numerous “racial slurs” and “epithets” — both as a candidate and from the White House — had created a “plausible inference” that the decision to end DACA violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
“One might reasonably infer,” Garaufis wrote, “that a candidate who makes overtly bigoted statements on the campaign trail might be more likely to engage in similarly bigoted action in office.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumplers like violence because they smell so nice:
This phenomena is unique to Trump rallies. “Things got vicious, no matter how much Mr Trump liked to claim his events were ‘love fests,’” one observer noted in The Independent.
Follow the link for the rest.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
Thom comments on the Austin bomber and other issues.
In Perpetuity 0
Bad Tux points out that Know Nothings are still a thing.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpled Walmart shoppers.
“My mother was fearful that he might pull out a firearm too. That’s what she told me afterward,” said Maria Meneses.
Meneses says the man was standing outside his car taking pictures of her family and their vehicle.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
. . . because nothing says “America” like desecrating someone else’s house of worship.
More Trumpling at the link.
Mourning in America 0
Steven M. suggests that it will never again be “morning in America,” to borrow Ronald Reagan’s slogan, for America’s right wing; he places the blame for that the right-wing’s own messaging. A snippet:
A Lie Too Far 0
San Francisco, California, ICE spokesman quits because he’s tired of lying for Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. A snippet (full story at the link):
A quibble: A “misleading fact” is not a fact. It’s a lie.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Trumpled campus:
Presidential candidates Blaine Thomas and Claire Jacobs dropped out of the race Tuesday and vice-presidential candidate Caius Gillen quit Wednesday after a student journalist publicized racist, sexist and homophobic tweets from their Twitter accounts, the Columbia Missourian reported.
Forget the racism. Whatever happened to how to behave in publ–on, never mind. (Anti)-“social” media happened. Persons forget that the internet is a public place, and behave as if they were in a private place.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
She’s standing strong on her right to proliferate poop.
More Trumpling at the link.
Tale of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Crashing the convenience store:
(snip)
Horsley, a 27-year-old who has served in the Marine Corps and is a former East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy, allegedly told police he damaged the store because he thought the owners were Muslim.
“He blamed Muslims for killing his fellow service members overseas,” Sheriff Jason Ard said in a news release Monday. “He was also upset that Muslims, in his mind, were having an easier time prospering than he was despite his time in the service.”
“Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge” 0
Dave Neiwert discusses how Donald Trump has fed the radical right.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Signs of the times.
In the original image, a student posing outside of the Duval County Courthouse holds a sign proclaiming “fear has no place in schools.” In the doctored images, however, the sign either shows a swastika and a racial slur or bears the slogan “women are property.”