Politics of Hate category archive
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, discusses the Trump maladministration’s campaign against brown people immigrants.
All the News that Fits 0
Robert Reich reviews how the Trump maladministration is working to exercise its freedom of suppress. A snippet:
What does “cooperation” entail? Silencing Trump’s potential critics.
Follow the link for context.
Bringing Back the Cuckoo’s Nest 0
A mental health professional calls out the Trump maladministration’s latest foray into mean for the sake of mean.
Republican Family Values 0
Per an article by Mario Nicolais at The Colorado Sun, it would appear that lying about one’s family is a Republican family value.
Republican Thought Police 0
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more Orwellian, they up and do.
They’re Making a List and Checking it Twice . . . 0
. . . because they disapprove of how you’re living your life.
The EFF reports:
That’s what’s happening in Vero Beach, FL, where the Florida Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed a local restaurant, The Kilted Mermaid, demanding surveillance video, guest lists, reservation logs, and contracts of performers and other staff—all because the venue hosted an LGBTQ+ Pride event.
Details at the link.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
The Trump maladministration has rewritten Lady Liberty’s poem.
It now reads
- “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
And I will charge them a fee.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Austin Statesman, Hannah Strong hears a rhyme echoing across the sea from eight decades ago. She refers to the movie The Zone of Interest, which IMDB describes as
and asks
I commend her article to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
Republican Thought Police 0
Why educate when you can indoctrinate?
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
In a longer article looking at how hate metastasizes, Steven Stosny includes this fascinating and not at all surprising tidbit:
The common thread in most of the cultural and political posts sent to me by algorithms has been, you guessed it, hate.
Follow the link for context.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and the crew justifiably deride Tom Homan’s lamer attempts to justify ICE’s violations of the law, due process, and the Constitution.
(Warning: The last minute or so devolves into Sam stupidly making fun of Tom Homan’s speaking patterns. It’s so stupid I considered not using the video. Nevertheless, I think the larger point about the sophistries, misrepresentations, and lies used by the Trump maladministration to justify putting persons in concentration camps for being brown outweigh the stupid, so instead I’ll suggest that you hit stop when that silliness starts and forgive Sam for his lapse of judgment.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Afterthought:
It’s amazing and appalling that the racism of the Trump maladministration’s crackdown on rendition of immigrants to concentration camps is not getting the notice it deserves.
As David Ferguson points out on the Bob Cesca Show, they’re targeting anyoone whose skin is darker than a brown paper bag.