Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2026
Monday, May 4, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
After WHCD shooting, Republicans blame Dems for political rhetoric - POLITICO
“Instead of politicizing the shooting, Republicans should look in the mirror first. If they were actually serious about public safety, they should allow a vote on the bipartisan legislation the Senate passed to re-open DHS,” Viet Shelton, a spokesperson for House Democrats’ campaign arm, said in a statement.
Democratic operatives working on battleground campaigns argued that Republicans were being hypocritical, pointing to Trump and GOP lawmakers who’ve mocked acts of political violence against Democrats and worked to rewrite the history of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. They also cited Trump’s suggestion last year that the actions of a half-dozen Democratic lawmakers who encouraged servicemembers not to follow illegal orders were “punishable by death.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/correspondents-dinner-political-violence-rhetoric-00892635
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
It’s Never the Guns (Conspirituality podcast #275)
Less than two weeks after a shooter unloaded 500 rounds at the CDC in Atlanta, RFK Jr gutted that agency's violence prevention research by firing 100 employees. Less than a month later, Charlie Kirk was shot in front of a crowd of 3K at a Utah university. Millions saw the graphic clip online, which ignited a propaganda and disinformation culture war. Meanwhile, yet another child shot his classmates at a Denver high school that same day.
It's not the guns though, say the GOP pundits and politicians, it's the violent rhetoric from the left, and those hateful transgender antifascists. Just ask RFK Jr. He'll confirm that it's not the guns, but all those kids overmedicated on dangerous antidepressants.
What are SSRIs anyway, do hurt people hurt people, and do gun laws have any effect?
Interview:
It's not the guns though, say the GOP pundits and politicians, it's the violent rhetoric from the left, and those hateful transgender antifascists. Just ask RFK Jr. He'll confirm that it's not the guns, but all those kids overmedicated on dangerous antidepressants.
What are SSRIs anyway, do hurt people hurt people, and do gun laws have any effect?
Interview:
Sunday, October 20, 2024
A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
Founder of polling firm that conducted survey says: 'That language is straight out of Mein Kampf … it's Nazi rhetoric'…
Monday, September 30, 2024
Weekly Roundup: Protecting Women or Policing Bodies? Trump’s Latest and the Fallout (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
In this week’s roundup, we take on Donald Trump’s latest claim of being the “protector of women” and the outrage it sparked.
We dive into the growing threats to women’s rights and healthcare in America, with abortion bans and reproductive health restrictions leading to shocking maternal and infant mortality rates.
We also discuss how political rhetoric turns into real-world consequences, and they expose recent voter suppression efforts in Oklahoma and Texas.
There’s a look ahead to Trump’s 2024 campaign strategy and a hopeful note on local support for Kamala Harris.
Interview:
Friday, July 19, 2024
Convention speakers ramp up anti-Democrat rhetoric despite campaign promise of unity
Florida senator Rick Scott, meanwhile, levied an inflammatory – and false – accusation at Democrats, whom he accused of rigging elections by allowing "all the non-citizens to vote".
Immigration reform has become a rallying cry for Republicans, with Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely accusing Biden of supporting "open borders"…
Ted Cruz, the Texas senator, doubled down on therhetoric, invoking a series of anecdotal examples of women killed by undocumented immigrants…
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Trump invokes Nazi rhetoric during Mar-a-Lago event
Former President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on Democrats at a private luncheon hosted at Mar-a-Lago, during which he referred to Democrats as “running a Gestapo administration” — equating President Joe Biden’s administration to Nazi Germany, according to three attendees
Friday, March 22, 2024
Opinion | Donald Trump’s outrageous rally speeches should be taken seriously - The Washington Post
Political rhetoric is heated and hyperbolic by nature. Mr. Trump's fans say he's just counter-punching against over-the-top Democratic attacks. As the above examples illustrate, though, Mr. Trump's stump speeches fall into a completely different category of demagoguery. And, we repeat, these are excerpts from just one. It can be psychologically costly to keep track of his constant verbal outrages. But it can be politically costly not to do so...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
GOP rhetoric on energy production increasingly detached from reality
Marsha Blackburn's rhetoric notwithstanding, domestic oil production is actually higher now, under Joe Biden, than when Donald Trump was in office...
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Liz Cheney: Speaker Mike Johnson can’t be trusted to defend the constitution
She also spoke about the need to take Trump's blunt and public proclamations about how he would bring authoritarianism if he won a second term after his re-election run failed against Biden.
Trump's allies have publicly said they would go after the media and prosecute political rivals if he returns to power. He has also described opponents as "vermin" in language that echoes Nazi rhetoric...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Trump Told Reporter He Hopes Fans Act On His Fiery Rhetoric | HuffPost Latest News
Jonathan Karl said the ex-president told him he wanted his followers to take his words to heart and added, "I believe the press is the enemy of the people."…
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Trump Isn’t Merely Unhinged - The Atlantic
Many of his recent statements illustrate a profoundly un-American set of ideas...
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes the fascist commitment to a destructive and bloody rebirth of society
Fascists, then, see violence as noble and intoxicating...
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Trump’s violent rhetoric seems to be escalating - The Washington Post
In an interview with The Post, Klaas said Trump's long history of shocking commentary has created "a dangerous double standard" in news coverage: Trump's latest outrage draws less attention because it's typical or expected, but minor flaws in other candidates and officials receive disproportionate attention because they're novel.
Hence, Klaas said, the inordinate coverage last week of President Biden's dog biting a Secret Service agent.
Since leaving the White House more than 30 months ago, Trump has rarely been out of the news. But the media's focus has been on his reelection campaign and his cascading legal troubles, including 91 felony indictments — not so much on the escalating and alarming nature of his comments...
Trump ramps up violent rhetoric in recent weeks as Fox host urges U.S. towards civil war
Donald Trump has ramped up his violent rhetoric in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Fox host has urged the U.S. towards civil war and claimed that voting does not work. "The endgame of election denial is not just claiming that this or that election was corrupt," expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells Joy Reid. "It's that we shouldn't have elections."…
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