Politics of Hate category archive
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
Thom comments on the Austin bomber and other issues.
In Perpetuity 0
Bad Tux points out that Know Nothings are still a thing.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpled Walmart shoppers.
“My mother was fearful that he might pull out a firearm too. That’s what she told me afterward,” said Maria Meneses.
Meneses says the man was standing outside his car taking pictures of her family and their vehicle.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
. . . because nothing says “America” like desecrating someone else’s house of worship.
More Trumpling at the link.
Mourning in America 0
Steven M. suggests that it will never again be “morning in America,” to borrow Ronald Reagan’s slogan, for America’s right wing; he places the blame for that the right-wing’s own messaging. A snippet:
A Lie Too Far 0
San Francisco, California, ICE spokesman quits because he’s tired of lying for Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. A snippet (full story at the link):
A quibble: A “misleading fact” is not a fact. It’s a lie.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Trumpled campus:
Presidential candidates Blaine Thomas and Claire Jacobs dropped out of the race Tuesday and vice-presidential candidate Caius Gillen quit Wednesday after a student journalist publicized racist, sexist and homophobic tweets from their Twitter accounts, the Columbia Missourian reported.
Forget the racism. Whatever happened to how to behave in publ–on, never mind. (Anti)-“social” media happened. Persons forget that the internet is a public place, and behave as if they were in a private place.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
She’s standing strong on her right to proliferate poop.
More Trumpling at the link.
Tale of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Crashing the convenience store:
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Horsley, a 27-year-old who has served in the Marine Corps and is a former East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy, allegedly told police he damaged the store because he thought the owners were Muslim.
“He blamed Muslims for killing his fellow service members overseas,” Sheriff Jason Ard said in a news release Monday. “He was also upset that Muslims, in his mind, were having an easier time prospering than he was despite his time in the service.”
“Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge” 0
Dave Neiwert discusses how Donald Trump has fed the radical right.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Signs of the times.
In the original image, a student posing outside of the Duval County Courthouse holds a sign proclaiming “fear has no place in schools.” In the doctored images, however, the sign either shows a swastika and a racial slur or bears the slogan “women are property.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling high school students:
Stephon Chapman, a small forward for the Horlick High School Rebels, said fans in the Franklin student section made monkey noises when he lined up to take his free throw shots during the first half of the game Thursday night.
After the game, he said, a white male adult shouted a racial slur at players, most of them African-American, as they boarded their bus.