Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Shorter Dick Polman: Kirstjen Nielsen fired for being insufficiently sadistic.
A Nation of Immigrant Haters 0
A recurring pattern in U. S. history is that some members of each generation of immigrants have tried to close the “golden door” behind them. Donald Trump, a second-generation American, is not unique in this.
He recently ludicrously claimed that “the country is full.” (Really, Donald? Have you been to say for example Montana or New Mexico?)
Field explains that the country is not full, but Donald Trump is full of it.
Jonesing for Jones 0
Dick Polman delights in the videoed deposition of hate-monger Alex Jones. A snippet:
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump loves the guy; during an appearance on Jones’ show in 2015, candidate Trump gushed: “Your reputation is amazing! I will not let you down…My audience, 90 percent of them, they support you.”
Do please read the rest.
Courted Disaster 0
Congressman Ro Khanna discusses Donald Trump’s anti-refugee policies.
“Ins” and “Outs” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Elizabeth A. Segal explores tribalism. After explaining that humans lived for centuries in small, homogeneous groups because geography and (lack of) means of traveling and mixing with others mandated it, we evolved with a predisposition to identifying with our “tribe.” But there is downside. Here’s a nugget (emphasis added):
Trumpling Puerto Rico 0
Words fail me.
Suffer the Children 0
Seth wonders just what is a “fake asylum seeker.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
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The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.