Politics of Hate category archive
Occupation Nation 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Daniel Oppenheimer offers some thoughts as to how to respond if when Donald Trump orders the National Guard to invade your city.
Devolution 0
Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.
It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.
And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
(Syntax error fixed.)
Free Trumpled Speech, One More Time
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Ring of Fire looks at Donald Trump’s campaign to silence anyone who criticizes him. (Warning: Mild language.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Detroit Free-Press, Randy Essex reminds us that
He goes on to argue that this, well, let’s call it “Southern Strategy,” is still being pursued and that Donald Trump’s bogus claims that cities are rife with crime (which is Trumpian code for “full of black and brown persons”) is an updated tactic of said “Southern Strategy.”
I commend his article to your attention.
Stray Thought 0
Who other persons idolize can tell you a lot about the character and beliefs of said idolators. Indeed, they may even be said to hold up a mirror to said idolators.
For example, what can you induce about those who find this person to be admired?
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Michael in Norfolk runs the numbers.
Signs of the Times 0
When you don’t want to face factual reality, you can always remove any signs of the truth.
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Iced by ICE 0
Sam and the crew find themselves–er–somewhat taken aback by the brutality of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Mike Littwin hears a rhyme–a rhyme he did not expect.
What I didn’t know was that JD Vance, Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump team would go full McCarthy on us.
Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.
And, in related news . . . .
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
At SFGate, Paula Mejía writes of Angie ‘the ICE Chaser’ Vargas, a health care professional who has made an avocation of documenting the antics of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents in the Los Angeles area on her TikTok account.
In the course of the interview, she gets to the crux of what’s going on (emphasis added).
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Rick Strom discusses ICE’s detention of legal workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. (Warning: The first couple of minutes are a chilling vision of what this nation is becoming under the Trump maladministration.)
From the Youtube page (emphasis added):
By her own admission, MAGA supporter and Congressional candidate Tori Branum was supposedly responsible for calling ICE on the Hyundai plant in Georgia that saw hundreds of workers, including South Korean nationals there for business purposes, rounded up and held in ICE custody, effectively costing the country billions of dollars in investments in the process.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- I know this you don’t want to hear,
But realize, please, it can happen here.
Indeed, some would even say
It’s already well under way.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, neuroscientist James Hyman points out that
(t)he current (Trump–ed.) administration is clearly hostile to academia.
Follow the link for his discussion of his reasons for saying that and the implications of said hostility.
Aside:
Methinks the reason for said hostility is quite simple.
Facts, knowledge, and truth are inimical to Stephen Miller’s the Trump maladministration’s agenda.