Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Ring of Fire looks at some of the latest racist and bigoted antics out of Florida.
Establishmentarians 0
Methinks the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun makes some good points in advocating that establishmentarians who want to use the government to conduct their inquisitions should pay to play.
Me, I’m a disestablishmentarian. I believe that established churches should be disestablished.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via WHYY, the AP looks at how the Republican thought police are leaning on learning.
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?