Hate Sells category archive
Underground Railroad Redux 0
Thanks to Der Spiegel, we are again reminded of Mark Twain’s statement that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Facebook Frolics 0
Merchants of hate who frolic on Facebook.
Honest to Betsy, Facebook is where all the cess goes to pool.
Twits on Twitter (Updated) 0
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Arizona right-wing extremists are mailing it in (and, in the process, dishonoring the memory of Benjamin Franklin).
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who celebrate cruelty.
Also, not on Twitter but on the campaign trail, Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin chimes in.
Afterthought:
I think that this is a quite logical result of Republicans’ amd right-wing media’s demonization of those who would dare to disagree with them.
But that’s just me.
Courting Disaster 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times confesses that he was wrong.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., answers some mail.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that Republicans have ripped off their hoods masks and shown their true colors. A snippet:
Aside:
It certainly worked for Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin.
Dis Increasingly Coarse Discourse 0
Methinks Atrios has a point.
Afterthought:
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, Walter Cronkite on CBS and Huntley and Brinkley on NBC could bring us the day’s important news in half an hour.
KYW-AM in Philadelphia, one of the first “all news” stations, advertised “Give us 48 minutes and we’ll give you the world” (I used to catch KYW on the skip while I threw the weights around in the back yard at Pine View Farm; before the station moved to Philly, back when it was still in Cleveland, I would listen to Harv Morgan on KYW Cleveland in the evenings on my first transistor radio which Santa Claus had given me as a Christmas present).
There’s just not that much significant news in a day–a lot, but not 24-hours worth–so the 24-hour television news channels fill the void time with vapidity and with vile (and, natch, some are more vapid and vile than others).
The Republican Platform 0
In a longer post responding to some farcical musings on the possibility that Donald Trump will testify before the House January 6 committee, Steve M. offers his synopsis of the concerns of Republican voters.
1. Winning.
2. Hurting their enemies, and making them howl in outrage.
That’s it. That’s the complete list.
I wish I could disagree, but I think he’s onto something. Heck, in the last presidential election, Republicans didn’t even have a platform . . . .
Follow the link for context.
The Lake Effect 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, plus a couple of other topics.
Devolution 0
David takes a look at how the Republican Party went from William F. Buckley to Donald Trump.
If you ignore most of the videos that I post, well, that’s your privilege. But I urge to watch this one.
The Mechanics of Hate 0
Bernard Cohen, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, explores the work of Aaron Beck, considered the father of cognitive therapy. Among the topics Beck explored was “the cognitive basis of anger, hostility, and violence”; Cohen focuses on that aspect of his work. Given the current state of dis coarse discourse, in which many folks don’t seem happy unless they are hating, I found this a worthwhile read. Here’s a bit (emphasis in the original):
Sounds familiar, does it not?
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Helen Ubinas is less than sanguine. She argues that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
