Politics of Hate category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
Charles Parrish has a question.
The Bad Bunny Hop 0
Rick Strom discusses how comedian Josh Johnson ridicules the furor over Bad Bunny at the Superbowl while also pointing out the bigotry behind it.
Republican Thought Police 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz pretty much nails it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:
Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.
The Rule of Lawless 0
David suggests that we are seeing
. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Grunge_e_Gene hears a rhyme that sounds a lot like “Blackwater.”
You remember Blackwater, do you not, the security firm mercenaries from the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq?
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0
Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”
“Look in the Mirror, Boy!” 0
This article describes as clear a case of psychological projection as we are ever likely to see.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In an article about the mean for the sake of mean that the Trump maladministration is displaying toward immigrants, persons who look like immigrants, and even natural-born American citizens who happen to be brown, Gustavo Arellano hears a rhyme:
That’s one step away from “The Eternal Jew,” the infamous Nazi propaganda movie that compared Jews to rats and argued they needed to be eradicated.
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*Mark Twain.