Politics of Hate category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David points out that the racism of today’s Republican Party is now out in the open.
Stray Question, American Stasi Dept. 0
Why would anyone, espcially a DA, expect ICE to cooperate with a law enforcement agency investigating ICE agents’ actions?
Inquiring minds want to know.
An Ailing Society . . . 0
. . . and Chauncey Devega offers a diagnosis. A snippet:
Real Big Men 0
Stephanie Hayes considers the who-shot-john over Shane Gillis’s SNL appearance and decodes de code.
Little Boy Playing Soldier 0
In a blistering editorial, my local rag opines that “Hegseth’s unserious address again shows his unfitness for office.” No summary or excerpt can to it justice; just go read it.
Similarly, via the Miami Herald, Kofi Mframa lambasts “Pete Hegseth’s comical crusade of military re-masculinization.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration thinks that Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is getting too uppity and needs to be shown who’s in charge here.
American Stasi 0
I’ve said this in an earlier post, but it bears repeating:
Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Apparently, that a lawyer with a long record of fighting for human rights won the Nobel Peace Prize toasted Trump’s marshmallow.
American Stasi 0
Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
American Stasi 0
If they can’t arrest the one they want, they’ll arrest the one they’re with.
Republican Thought Police 0
Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.
American Stasi 0
Bonnie Jean Feldkamp tells the story of another innocent swept up in the Trump maladministration’s mean for the sake of mean.
Legacy 0
David discusses Karl Rove’s statement that today’s Republican Party is being taken over by Nazis and posits that Karl Rove bears some responsibility, even if that was not Rove’s intent, because of the tactics he used in the George W. Bush years.
Methinks his arguements are worth a listen. (Warning: Short commerical at the end.)
The Man Who Would Be King, Red Scare Redux Dept. 0
Anita Chabria 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.