Politics of Hate category archive
Market Forces 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that Donald Trump is applying market principles and giving his customers exactly what they want. A snippet:
Freedom from Fear, at Last* 0
Meet the people that Republicans demonize and remind yourself that a refugee is one who seeks refuge.
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Chris-Crossed, Kick ‘Em While They’re Down Dept. 0
Mike Kelly considers Chris Christy’s Bully’s Pulpit:
So listen up. Uncle Chris is talking. He had quite a lot to say last week.
Christie, who made his political bones and attracted national attention by picking on teachers, has a new and even weaker group to attack – refugees from war.
Do please read the rest.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Misdirection Play 0
Trevor Timm tries to track all the misdirection plays since the attacks in Paris. Two nuggets:
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As dishonest as the “debate” over encryption has been, the dark descension of the Republican party into outright racism and cynically playing off the irrational fears of the public over the Syrian refugee crisis has been worse. We now know the attackers weren’t Syrian and weren’t even refugees. It was a cruel rumor or hoax that one was thought to have come through Europe with a Syrian passport system, but that was cleared up days ago. But in the world of Republican primaries, who cares about facts?
Follow the link for the misdirection play-by-play.
A Nation of Scaredy-Cats 0
I am ashamed of my country and of its having a major political party that panders to, stokes, and relies on bigotry.
I shall stop now, because all I have left is profanity.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
Crank Bear has the profanity so I don’t have to.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook (and many others) seem to have forgotten that, 4,000 years before ISIS was an acronym, Isis was an Egyptian goddess.
We are a society of stupid.
Land of the Free, Home of the Ch**kenshit 0
Elsewhere, Werner Herzog’s Bear looks at America’s long history of chickenshit and Bad Tux marvels at the cowardice of right-wing banty roosters.
Video via Raw Story.