Originally published at: Making America Deportable Again - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Bluster is such an inherent part of Trumpian policymaking that it can be hard to know what’s real and what’s merely being said for rhetorical punch. I’ve struggled with this in particular around Trump’s immigration proposals: he’s calling for something obviously impossible — rounding up all undocumented immigrants in the country and deporting them —…
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Georgia Republicans would bring back the poll tax if they thought they could!
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Maybe they could just require blacks to guess the number of jelly beans in a mason jar.
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Will Donnie host a picnic and witness the hosing down of the carts??
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GOP insists on hand-counting ballots in Georgia. No chance of MAGA election interference there, right?
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As Vance points out in his remarks, most of the migrants in question are in the U.S. legally through programs like mass parole due to urgent humanitarian issues and/or temporary protective status, a temporary status given to nationals of specifically designated countries that are confronting an ongoing armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions. The key word here is legal.
Calling them illegal aliens because you want to attack the candidate that’s running against you is not only racist and xenophobic but also an extremely dangerous line to cross.
The other day, someone on Bluseky said that the GOP, who once upon a time railed against postmodernism’s distrust of grand narratives and its arguments in favor of the indeterminacy of the linguistic sign, has now become the masters of that very idea. True, the law isn’t some object that one can point to like it’s a rock, but it can’t/shouldn’t be changed, to borrow Vance’s image, with the wave of a wand. You’d think “conservatives” would be opposed to that kind of thinking.
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And Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has consistently criticized the board and the rules, saying most recently, according to CNN: “We’re 50 days out before we have our election. In fact, we’re really just three weeks before we start early voting, and it’s just too late in the cycle.”
So does Georgia also have a rule that votes cannot be counted or tabulated until Election Day? I am not certain about this rule in its entirety, but can early votes be counted prior to the day of the Election? A paper count could legitimately be performed upon receipt without opening the ballots, no?
Calling them illegal aliens because you want to attack the candidate that’s running against you is not only racist and xenophobic but also an extremely dangerous line to cross. We’ve seen the results of that very racism and xenophobia play out in real time in Springfield for the past week.
Just another day in GQP world. Not at all surprising.
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I wish I could understand the mentality of the nincompoops that fall for this crap.
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Racism is animalistic in nature. Reactionary and utterly without basis in reason.
To paraphrase Martin Luther King:
If you think you can tell the content of someone’s character by the color of their skin - you’re the monkey.
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The whole thing is lit.
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I have zero doubt that the Georgia Elections Board is looking to fuck up the presidential election. I also have zero doubt that they have not thought this through. MTG wants to go back to Congress, y’all. She’s on the same damn ballot as your orange god-emperor. You can’t just not count the presidential votes while declaring everything else is fine.
Morons.
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And in caps! He’s effing nuts.
Also, I feel poorer, really sick and tired of listening to him, less safe because of his fascist plans, depressed and unhappy because of the chance (growing smaller by the day) that he could win again.
Dump Trump. Vote Blue.
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The previous Trump administration had family separations and children in cages. The next would be more aggressive/transgressive, we can see that in their planning. And, some of Trumps’ people are literal Nazis.
Of course, even so, this always seems so over the top.
But, repeated, reliably, humans learn nothing from the teachings of history.
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I am wondering which countries they’re planning on invading/colonizing with their deportee expeditionary force. Can’t imagine which ones will invite them in.
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I think he just figured out he has a major gender gap problem with women. This oughta fix it…
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Horrifying.
…2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.”
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Only he can fix it.
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How is “YOUR LIFE SUCKS. BELIEVE ME” anybody’s campaign? And how is anyone dumb enough to hear it and don a red hat?
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It’s also very sobering to consider how many people are oblivious to the efforts of Republicans to tamper with voting and vote-counting, and have no concept of the fact that efforts in other states like Georgia may have hugely consequential effects on the national election results.
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