Politics of Hate category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme that sends ICEy SShivers down his back.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
After Stephen Miller’s most recent antic, it’s difficult avoid the obvious: the Trump maladministration’s campaign against immigrants is about the color of their skin.
Claims to the contrary are just hoods to hide the truth.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Jodi Bondi Norgaard expresses concern over the ethnic and national slurs, invective, and insults that have become routine under Donald Trump and his maladministration. She has qualms about what this behavior may portend.
Methinks her concerns may not be misplaced. A snippet:
So we must ask, as citizens and as humans: What kind of society do we want?
The Rule of Lawless 0
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman argues that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Family Values 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, reminds us that mean for the sake of mean seems to have become the overriding Republican family value. Here’s how he opens his piece:
The entire article is worthy of your attention.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In what I consider a quite appropriate follow-up to the previous post, I must say, it is not surprising that University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huq argues that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Cui Bono? American Stasi Dept. 0
Who’s making money from the racist crackdown by the New Secesh? Truthout follows the money. A snippet:
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they’re coming for the Smithsonian.
The Nutcracker Suet 0
This is the official dance in celebration of Republican family values.
Rogue State 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones draws upon his own experience in combat during the war in Viet Nam to discuss the Trump maladministration’s overt and willful violations of the rules of war in their campaign against Venezuelan fishing boats.
Just read iit.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more confirmation that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the behavior of Tommy Tuberville, who wants to be Alabama’s next governor, and sees George Wallace rising again.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
For some fool reason, I seem to hear a rhyme in this statement of the Commander of the U. S. S. Gravely upon its return from patrolling the Caribbean against the dangers posed by Venezuelan fishing boats (emphasis added):
“I follow the news. I also follow the orders of the Secretary of War and the President of the United States, and so that’s what we carry out,” he said.
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*Mark Twain.