Hate Sells category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Las Vegas Sun, Charles Parrish tells of hearing an echo.
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*Mark Twain.
The Republican Veepstakes 0
Robin Abcarian has a wonder:
Slaughtering wolves from helicopters?
Castrating hogs?
Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons?
Murdering misbehaving puppies?
Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to be a credible candidate for higher office?
Follow the link, where she explores the Republican politics of mean for the sake of mean.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
They call themselves news hawks, but they are actually carrion crowers.
Republican Thought Police 0
The SPLC tells one teacher’s story.
Afterthought:
The Republican Thought Police have a motto:
Don’t educate. Indoctrinate.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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Above the Law reports that Elon Musk seems ill-deposed.
An Alternate Reality 0
The Inky’s Will Bunch tells what it was like when he visited a Trump rally over the weekend. A snippet:
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
Establishmentarians 0
Disestablishmentarian readers of The Denver Post weigh in on the threat posed by establitarianism.
(I have so wanted to use “disestablishmentarian” in a post.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now comes Charles Dew, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, documenting an echo.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
Megaphones on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
Steve M argues that a strong factor for the spread of mis- and disinformation is not necessarily the often anonymous liars who make it up, but rather well-know persons provide megaphones. A snippet:
But we’ve known for years that disinformation spreads most rapidly when high-profile people spread it. Thirty years ago, false rumors about Bill Clinton were spread widely in a video called The Clinton Chronicles, which featured an appearance by Reverend Jerry Falwell, who was a hosehold name at the time; Falwell also promoted the video. In 2004, the false attacks on John Kerry’s service record in Vietnam were made openly by named right-wing operatives. And the most famous promoter of many right-wing lies — that Barack Obama wasn’t born in America, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged — was Trump, who is very much not an anonymous figure.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
