Tee-hee!
The point being, what most sane readers know, is that Donald conflates āallā with MS-13 when he believes that he is only talking to like-minded people and the general press is mostly banned - so if only 1 or 2 write articles, he blows them off as āfakeā = news Donald hates.
Now is has tried a new gambit and attempts to pretend that this is so differentā¦apparently his groupies will buy this information, but the Internet is never supposed to forget - but then SARS arenāt suppose to disappear either.
This is certainly great news for that dead guy, John McCain!
I just donāt think he was paying that much attention. He was busy putting on his concerned face, nodding, concentrating on looking Presidential and remembering to act concerned even if he didnāt have a cue card, and then the trigger word āMS-13ā came down the pike and he started his usual response. I donāt think he had any awareness that it was a general discussion he was interjecting this into and not an MS-13 specific one.
(Not to say that he doesnāt have the general background feeling of illegal immigrants are bad, horrible people and we are only getting rid of awful people who are a drain at best on society, but I actually do believe he thought he was talking about MS-13 in his remarks.)
Why are they āanimalsā, but gangs consisting of white nationalists are āvery fine peopleā?
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At least he clarified that, regardless of what his original intent was.
The sad part is that his rhetoric really is Third Reich like. He is a fascist at heart. No doubt about it at all.
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I lived in Mexico for a time and where i live now is at least 46% Hispanic. Although i am not i still feel insulted by trumpās racist comments. He has called immigrants rapists and criminals and it is utterly without basis in reality.
I dearly hope Mueller levels a RICO charge at trump that costs him all his wealth.
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āSome are animals, and some are very fine people to whom Iām waiting to be introduced.ā
Lies Lies Lies, thatās all we hear from this Horrific man we call President Trump. Trump has committed so many crimes while running for and after being elected President that he must be indicted and stand trial. This BS that a sitting President canāt be indicted is only a memo written by the Justice Department, there is also another memo saying a sitting President can be indicted. This has never been taken to court and ruled on. I think Trumpās crimes make that move justified to go to court and decided.
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Iām willing to accept that Trump was talking about M-13 members. He was responding to a statement that referred explicitly to them. Not to say that it wasnāt a stupid comment, and a smart politician would have been careful to avoid generalizing. But hey, heās not that smart.
Speaking as a biologist, I would like to point out that we are all animals. It is an out-dated artifact of Judaeo-Christian theology that posits we are not. We are multicellular and we poop, therefore we are animals. We share a common ancestor with apes and monkeys. Itās not a bad thing. Trumpās comments are rooted in the racist notions of Christian exceptionalism that have been used over the millennia to justify all the horrible shit weāve pulled on each other over those millennia.
Based on current taxonomic hierarchies, the choices are: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. We may argue that Trump is a (Russian) plant or that Senate Republicans are slime molds, but those are merely metaphorical and should not be construed as aspersions on plants or fungi and their ecologically important roles in our ecosystem.
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Thank you, was going to point that out myself.
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Nous sommes tous des animaux; et je suis fier!
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
(well, the sapiens part is taken under advisement)
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The flow of refugees to the United States has slowed nearly to a halt, demonstrating that what President Trumpās administration could not achieve by executive order, it is accomplishing by bureaucracy.
In 1980 200,000 refugees were admitted, and in 2018, just 13,501 were admitted. Theyāll have to take down the poem on the Statue of Liberty pretty soon.
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Perhaps just decommission the entire statue and ship it back to France c/o Macron, postage paid by recipient.
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Monsieur Macron, la statue has outlived her usefulness. Merci, mais, non merci.
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I met a guy, great guy, from a terrible land, a failing land,
He saidāāTwo yuge legs, totally trunkless, made of stone, the best stone,
Just standing there, nothing. . . . And thereās sand, so much sand,
This guyās face is broken, really, I mean itās half sunk, heās got this frown,
And his lipās all like āmnnnnnnngggg urrrrghhhā, heās got this sneer, cold sneer, no command,
You know what it says to me? This guy, this sculptor knew his stuff, great sculptor, well-read,
Amazing job, getting recognised more and more, these things, no life in them these things,
Heās got a tiny hand, really tiny, big heart, yuge, heās fat, heās well-fed
And on the bottom thereās these words, you donāt even read āem, they just appear:
Hey! Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Wall, ye Mighty, and despair!
There isnāt even anything there. We screwed him! thereās just decay;
This whole Wreck, ruined, it goes on forever, really, miles, totally bare,
Flat as a golf course, and where even is the oil? Seriously, where? Far away. Far away.ā
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He canāt afford Bruno Maglis.
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