Culture Warriors category archive
Monetizing Sadism 0
Republicans are fundraising on being mean for the sake of mean.
The irony is that, unless they are descended from Native Americans, they are descended from immigran–oh, never mind. They are beyond irony.
They are, indeed, beyond caricature.
We are a failing state.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom and Chris Lehmann of The Nation discuss the possible implications of Florida Governor DeSantis’s kidnapping and transportation of immigrants who were legally seeking asylum in the United States.
Thom is less than sanguine.
While we’re on this topic, the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun offers its opinion.
Suffer the Children 0
As Michael in Norfolk points out, that’s the policy of our own Governor Trumpkin.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Writing about Florida Governor DeSantis’s kidnapping and transportation of immigrants (again, most of whom, if not all, were legally seeking asylum and abiding by the rules), Leonard Pitts, Jr., gets to the heart of the matter (emphasis added).
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Just when you think America’s bigots and racists have reached the bottom of the pit of vileness in which they dwell, they dig deeper.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson suggests that Florida’s Governor DeSantis’s stunt of kidnapping and transporting refugees who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression* (and who were here legally, by the way) may have backfired on him.
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*Only to find themselves kidnapped by a tyrannical oppressor, but that’s a topic for another day.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell raises a question (emphasis in the original):
Why did the governor of Florida use migrants from Texas for his political theater?
Florida, after all, is chock full of undocumented citizens — an estimated 800,000 or more. So instead of playing games with migrants from Texas, many of whom were reportedly legal asylum-seekers, why didn’t Florida’s governor choose some of the many people known to be illegally living and working in his own backyard?
Probably because that would highlight an embarrassing reality for DeSantis — that Florida is a hotbed for illegal immigration, thanks partly to GOP lawmakers who have given companies the greenlight to employ and exploit undocumented workers here.
Follow the link for details
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk is aghast at the mean for the sake of mean.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is a soulless monster.
And, in further proof that “social” media isn’t, there’s Florida Woman.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Stephen discusses Governor DeSantis’s human trafficking of immigrants, plus a couple of other matters.
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Republican Family Values 0
When did causing suffering become a family value?
DQAnon 0
Well, I guess if you could think a pizza joint is some kind of sinister gathering place, you could think the same of a Dairy Queen.
But only if your thinker is misfiring.
We are a broken society.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet more hate-full twits.
“Social” media isn’t. Rather, it compounds the coarseness of dis coarse discourse.
Establishmentarians 0
Sam and his guest discuss the threat posed by Christian nationalist establishmentarianism.