Politics of Hate category archive
Parler Talk 0
A New Jersey school board member didn’t know that insults could be, well, insulting.
Left Dangling (on the Hook) 0
E. J. Montini has a idea as to why the previous federal executive did not preemptively pardon the January 6 insurrectionists, despite requests from many of them. He cites two of them:
Likewise, Adam Newbold, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL who boasted on Facebook about “breaching the Capitol,” told ABC News, “I would like to express to you just a cry for clemency, as you understand that my life now has been absolutely turned upside-down.”
Follow the link to see Montini’s theory as to why their pleas were ignored. Methinks he is onto something.
Aside:
Yes, I know that they should have known better than to fall for a pitch from a serial con artist who’s failed at everything he’s ever tried except acting a part on television. But they didn’t.
See below.
Facebook Frolics, No, You Can’t Unsay That Dept. 0
Connie Schultz looks at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook frolics and reminds us that, despite Greene’s recent (and likely less than sincere) repudiation thereof
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Lies and Lying Liars, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
Rachel reads Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “lasers from space” Facebook post, after citing Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s statement that Greene told him she knows nothing about it.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
A Reader Writes . . . 0
. . . a colorful letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article cataloguing the many Capitol rioters who outed themselves on “social” media during their brief time in that building, the AP includes what I think is a telling comment:
On that same topic, can you do soul-searching if you have no soul?
Patriot Gamers 0
Franita Tolson explores the pretzeled words of the seditionists telling themselves that they are patriots. A nugget:
Not coincidentally, the language of revolution reemerges when white Americans feel threatened by the rise of minority political power.
Parler Talk 0
A federal judge unsurprisingly rules that the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech does not convey the right to violate a private hosting provider’s terms of service.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A woman from India, now a Bollywood star, remembers the racist bullying she experienced attending high school in the United States.