Remember when kids online were swallowing spoonfuls of cinnamon and setting their genitals on fire for likes and clicks? Adults like me would shake their heads, sigh, and be thankful to be a boomer because we just licked frogs and ran naked through mud-filled parks on acid trips. Those terror-filled...
Islamophobia
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words, terrorism? 9/11? ISIS? The Taliban? While these examples are certainly just, they don’t always represent terrorism in its entirety. Dan Brown said, “History is always written by the winners”. Stereotypes and generalizations often cause the public...
More “bad days” ahead. We’re not going to throw up our hands even as social media now shifts to predictable Islamophobia. Notable is that the shooter in Boulder bought his gun on the evening of the Atlanta shootings. A Brady Bill might have stopped him. By the end of February, people around...
This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the place known for its association with William Faulkner. Oxford Mississippi is a place where the nostalgia for a lost cause remains a kind of delusion. When injuries are imagined and retribution seems easy, this happens where...
The GOP national convention will be even more Trumpist than 2016 as many major party figures will not be participating. The list of speakers is more about trying to spin Trump success from so many failures as well as a brand promotion for post-presidency Trump enterprises. This infomercial will feature more...
A “virulently racist” Trump has made the nation seem like Stockholm Syndrome’s identifying with the terrorist, as Mary Trump doesn’t underestimate the Trump family’s vindictiveness. The last question by Rachel Maddow was concern for Mary Trump’s personal safety, now that the book is now generally available; she’s taken precautions. Denial is...
More Trump whining and preparing for the post-Trump days by building that Trump media channel audience for more grifting with many minor outlets beyond Fox News. In the midst of a pandemic he has time on his hands. x pic.twitter.com/iS2lXlQbc9â liberal Dajuana (@LiberalForever5) July 5, 2020 x Now that OANN...
Considering there are as many tweets as lies and falsehoods, perhaps we could do with four years of no tweets (other than actual official WH tweets). A candidate who would promise not to be so stupid might actually get votes for simply promising not to tweet after election day 2020....
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: The Republican nominee for PA Senate District 33 has no plan to help Pennsylvania. What he has instead is a scare-campaign built on bigotry, lies, and lunacy. Just in recent days, he's repeated dangerous lies about abortion, spread homophobia and Islamophobia, and...
From Crooks and Liars, Jeet Heer of The New Republic rips into the political establishment which McCain was a party to that HELPED produce Trump. There is a link to Heer’s Tweets on McCain’s funeral. Now, fair warning, Obama gets criticsm too. WTF? How can Obama be responsible for Trump...
ICE was created from the ill-conceived “Patriot Act” in 2003. In the wake of rampant Islamophobia, immigration changed overnight from being an economic/labor issue to a national security issue. The newly created ICE was headed by men who had spent years working anti-terrorism, and brought this mind-set to overseeing immigrants and...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com. That guy up there is Wayne Bradley (or “Wayne WB Bradley as he calls himself), the Michigan Republicans' State Director of African American Engagement. He runs the GOP office in Detroit that opened two years ago with a special visit by Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul. You would...
There is a rather disconcerting idea touted by so-called progressives on the order of: Islamophobia is on the rise in the West: most particularly in Europe and the United Sates. The idea itself presupposes that there is such a phenomenon as Islamophobia and that it is some nefarious and specious...