Politics of Hate category archive
Orderly Conduct 0
Carlos Lozada suggests that you can learn a lot about how Donald Trump sees the country and his job from a reading of the over 100 executive orders his has issued a pace of more than one a day. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added); follow the link, where he decodes the more of de code.
America was great until Biden ruined it. The economy is shackled by misguided regulations and must be set free. Trump’s opponents are ideological, while he relies on common sense. American values are always in danger and must be shielded from enemies, often enemies from within. The president is not just the head of the executive branch but also the sole interpreter of law and the lone representative of the people.
The Slog 0
At SFgate, Drew Magary describes getting through the day in these Trumpled times (and, almost as an aside, reveals the playbook),
No excerpt or summary will do his piece justice. Just go read it.
Word Salad 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini tries to make sense of the anti-DEI* bill passed by the Arizona legislature and finds that it doesn’t–make sense, that is.
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*Remember, that translates to pro-uniformity, pro-inequality, and pro-exclusion.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom’s caller hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
More mean for the sake of mean:
The story goes on to point out that, natch, he’s not illegal, he’s not an immigrant, and he’s not even of Mexican descent.
We have lost our way.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they’re not even trying to pretend about it any more.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
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Little Marco takes the time
To find himself a rhyme.
Now don’t you have a fit, Sir,
When you find it rhymes with Hitler.
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*Mark Twain.
Hair Fuehrers 0
Honest to Pete, I thought the hair wars were over by the time the Beatles broke up.
The Unwelcome Mat 0
Per truthout, foreign governments are responding to Donald Trump’s regime of mean for the sake of mean. A snippet:
The Rule of Lawless 0
Farron runs the numbers.
Republican Thought Police 0
The great erasure continues, and it’s looking more and more like an attempt to rewrite erase factual history. A snippet from the report at CNN (emphasis added):
At least half a dozen articles already removed are about the Holocaust and now have the word “DEI” in their URL.
Those include an article about Holocaust survivor Kitty Saks, which remembers the Holocaust as “the state-sponsored, systemic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry”; an article about Holocaust Remembrance Week; and an article titled “A Cadet’s Perspective: Holocaust Days of Remembrance.”
Via joemygod.
Republican Thought Police 0
Journalism professor Rob Miraldi looks at Donald Trump’s decision to punish the Associated Press for not bending to his will refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America; he fears that it is but a beginning. Here’s bit from his article:
Trump would not only go after freedom of the press. “Any effort to eliminate freedom of press,” he warns, “is the first step to eliminate freedom of speech.”
Republican Family Values, Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0
Natch, the result of the meeting is more mean for the sake of mean.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The PIttsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the complete article.