Racism is alive and well, Thanks Trump and his supporters!

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We have infrared satellites, drones, the most sophisticated military, and most advanced law enforcement in human history.  If we're just talking about the border from Brownsville-to-Tijuana, then fucking fund it.  The Border Patrol need funding.  They need manpower.  I don't happen to believe that immigrants, legal or not are a problem for America.  Honestly, I'll even come right out and say the very concept of "You're not welcome here" is intrinsically unAmerican.

But, from a practical standpoint?  It would cost $Trillions less to secure the border with technology than to not secure it with the Mongol's plan.  (To keep out the Hun.)  We learned that, from China, in the Ming Dynasty!  Walls don't work.  Period.  Hell, Romulus (Mythically) demonstrated that shit.

If you ask me, we should devote more resources to ensure that they can get across the border, safely, and legally integrated into society.  The problem with that is Racism.  European Americans don't want America to become more Latin American.  

[Jed_]

Making the analogy to the Great Wall of China.

+1

Even thought the Great Wall of China failed to keep out invaders, the invaders were quickly and very successfully assimilated.  Go figure.

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Even thought the Great Wall of China failed to keep out invaders, the invaders were quickly and very successfully assimilated.  Go figure.

Right.  The only way to eliminate illegal immigration is to facilitate legal immigration.

Also, if you make America great again, then everyone will want to come here, again.

Cause, and affect.

[psiberzerker]

Alex Ocasio-Cortez has the balls to call a racist a racist.

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Only six immigrants in terrorism database stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018

The low number contradicts statements by Trump administration officials, including White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who said Friday that CBP stopped nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists from crossing the southern border in fiscal year 2018.

Not 4,000.  Not 400, Not 40.

6.  S-i-x.

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Charlottesville: Ex-Mason student sentenced to 3 years in prison for 'vicious' beating

#Resist

[psiberzerker]

Rick Borden said his so picked up a weapon in "Self defense."  1 Black man against how many white guys?

I wonder where he learned to defend himself against an unarmed black man, with a weapon, and countless men on his side?

I wonder who taught him to be such a coward.  1 man, got 3 years, for multiple counts of Attempted Murder.  He had Killer on his cap.  "I wasn't trying to kill him, it was self defense!"

The truth is, to white supremacists, blackness is a threat.  They feel threatened by black people, to the point that they feel justified, trying to beat them to death, in gangs, with weapons, because he was black.

It's sick, but we know where he got it from.

[Athos_131]

#Resist

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I know, maybe he should build a wall around Florida to keep the hurricanes out!

[Athos_131]

So don’t go blaming the 4th Estate. They are doing their job.

Eh, I'd say yes and no.  There is no reason for the major networks to put Trump on television tonight -especially after they wouldn't for Obama in 2014, claiming his address was partisan.  

Then this morning I saw this come across my timeline:



I found that to be horseshit.  Their job is to find the truth and report it, I believe.  It's doubtful any of the major networks are going to call Trump out on this in real time, or cut him off when inevitibly starts lying.

Most people, if they watch, are going to shut it off after he's done talking anyway.  Basically the major network television executives are giving Trump airtime to promote racist lies, in order to protect the tax cut they were given last year.

#Resist

[psiberzerker]

There is no reason for the major networks to put Trump on television tonight -especially after they wouldn't for Obama in 2014, claiming his address was partisan.

There's no reason for them not to.  He's dominated the news for a couple years now, even when he wasn't addressing the country directly, instead of via twitter.

Honestly, showing up to speak in person, instead of via twitter is newsworthy enough for me.  There's no reason to cover the NFL either, other than they know that people will watch it.

[Athos_131]

Pence Blabbers Like a Moron When Asked About Past Presidents Supporting Trump's Wall

Well, you, you, you...[audible sigh]... I I know the president has said that that was his impression, uh, from previous administrations, previous presidents. I know, I know I’ve seen clips of previous presidents talking about the importance of border security, the importance of addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Each and every living president, for the record, has denied telling the president that they’re on his side when it comes to walling off the U.S.’ southern border.

#Resist

[Lois]

I loved it when folks in MAGA hats were asked if we should build a wall along the Atlantic coast to keep Muslims and Africans out and they said yes.

[Elizabeth]

I loved it when folks in MAGA hats were asked if we should build a wall along the Atlantic coast to keep Muslims and Africans out and they said yes.

No Matter where you look (or try not to look)....there they are......"Idiots".

Love,
Liz

[Athos_131]

Arizona High School Ref Fired For Asking If Basketball Team Had Their Green Cards

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall

#Resist

[Athos_131]

The Tucker Carlson advertiser boycott continues, and what's wrong with that?

Programs such as Carlson’s and Laura Ingraham’s — to mention a prior target of ad boycotters — espouse a monochromatic viewpoint. Carlson isn’t reporting news, but slathering an ideological spin over it. It’s impossible not to identify an advertiser with his viewpoint, because his show is nothing but viewpoint.

As we observed earlier a propos of Ingraham, companies have been comfortable advertising on these shows for two reasons. One is they covet their viewership, which is among the strongest on Fox.

They other is that they’re confident that customers who are disturbed by the shows’ views won’t even know the companies are advertising on them, because they don’t watch the shows. How many moderates or progressives even knew that Bowflex advertised on Carlson’s show, before its association was threatened with being made public?

The goal of the boycott advocates is to let those customers in on the secret. The advertisers bail, because they know in their souls that Carlson’s and Ingraham’s audiences aren’t big enough to compensate for the loss of customers nauseated by the Fox talkers, once the association becomes broadly known.

#Resist

[Athos_131]

Trump Tries to Get Over Horrible Weekend With Some Vicious Racism

#Resist

[Athos_131]

A brief guide to Steve King’s ‘long history of racist statements’

On Saturday, after King’s lament in the New York Times that “white nationalist” had become a pejorative term, the Congressional Black Caucus said Republicans need to use more than words to denounce King.

The time he claimed “our civilization” can’t be restored with “somebody else’s babies”

In 2017, King tweeted that he agreed with far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders that “our civilization” cannot be restored “with somebody else’s babies.”

As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump wrote after King made the statement, the idea that national identity and racial identity overlap is at the center of white nationalism.

“The formulation of ‘our’ civilization being at risk from ‘somebody else’s babies” is a deliberate suggestion that American civilization is threatened by unnamed ‘others.’” Bump wrote.

The time King retweeted a message by a Nazi sympathizer and defended it for weeks

In June, King retweeted a post by Mark Collett. King declined to delete the retweet and spent weeks defending it.

Collett is a British author who, as The Post’s Avi Selk wrote, “questions the Holocaust, wants to separate the continents by races, blames slavery on Jews, mocks interracial children, wrote a book embracing National Socialism, and once called himself a ‘Nazi sympathizer.’”

On neo-fascist message boards, users celebrated a U.S. congressman’s endorsement of an overt National Socialist, Selk wrote.

The time he met with a far-right group with Nazi ties on a trip sponsored by a Holocaust memorial group

In October, during a trip financed by a Holocaust memorial group, King spoke to the Unzensuriert website. As The Post’s Mike DeBonis wrote, Unzensuriert is associated with Austria’s Freedom Party, was founded by a former Nazi SS officer and is led by Heinz-Christian Strache, who was active in neo-Nazi circles in his youth. The Freedom Party has embraced a hard-line anti-immigration stance, one that was echoed by King when he was there.

“What does this diversity bring that we don’t already have?” King said in the interview with the site. “Mexican food, Chinese food, those things — well, that’s fine. But what does it bring that we don’t have that is worth the price? We have a lot of diversity within the U.S. already.”

The time he said blacks and Latinos will be 'fighting each other’ before the United States becomes a majority-minority nation

Shortly after King was criticized for his comments about rebuilding Western civilization, King responded to a conversation between Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos about whites becoming a minority in the United States by 2044.

“Ramos’s stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race,” King told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson on 1040 WHO.

“When you start accentuating the differences, then you start ending up with people that are at each other’s throats. And he’s adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in America. I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens.”

The time he said black people could afford abortions if they stopped buying iPhones

In a September 2016 congressional hearing, King said that even if he succeeded in taking away Medicaid funding for abortion, blacks would find a way to end their pregnancies anyway.

According to Rewire, after saying that abortion was a “tragedy for any life, no matter what color,” King also responded that “they chose to have an abortion. I would give you even money that a vast majority of mothers who say they can’t afford an abortion have an iPhone, which costs more.”

#Resist

[psiberzerker]

House resolution to condemn White Nationalism.

America is not a white nation.  It never was.

#GoBackToEurope.