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[CoopersDad]

1. K/R nt

[Solly Mack]

2. That's what they called the Tutsi in Rwanda before the genocide.

[keep_left]

5. Yep. At this point, I'm just waiting for the hate radio talkers...

...to start commanding the MAGA chuds to "cut down the tall trees".

[MLF1981]

14. Rwanda, 1994, the Tutsi people who were slaughtered are on average much talller than the Hutus.

It was a thinly disguised message broadcast by Hutus to their fellow Hutus to murder the Tutsi people.

[keep_left]

15. That phrase was supposedly the final genocidal command given...

...by Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines in Rwanda. I guess you could call it the Rwandan version of the political dogwhistle. Mille Collines (Thousand Hills) was the hate radio station for Rwanda, and it was held partially responsible for the genocide that occurred during the civil war there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines
(Sorry for the weird URL formatting; that's the way it came out when cut and pasted. It works on my browser, anyway).

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

[Solly Mack]

30. That's another phrase that comes rushing forward in my head when I read or hear what hate-mongers are saying now.

[H2O Man]

23. Thank you.

[Solly Mack]

31. Can't see/hear the word used against people without thinking of it.

Trump and his supporters are a lot of bad things, and I do see them as a collective danger in many ways, but they are human with all that means. Still human. Still people. Harming them or being the cause of their harm? No. Can't do that. Would be wrong.

Have a little fun at their expense (Vance/couches)? Yes. No couches were in danger ever. No makers of couches. No furniture stores. No one was threatening to burn down or bomb anything couches related.

But the attacks on all immigrants? At the border. Haitian immigrants in particular right now? That puts people in danger. Real and actual danger.

[H2O Man]

33. Exactly.

Very well said.

The felon and his cult remind me of Alex DeLarge & his droogs in A Clockwork Orange.

[brewens]

3. I watched this Texas sheriff from I think the Brownsville area testify to Congress about what was called the

Burn Program. It funded sheriff department helicopters they used to spot and destroy pot filed.

This inbred moron weighed about 400 lbs and sounded like a hawg shit in his mouth! It wuz A jobs progryaym! I knew it was coming.
He just wanted to keep that funding and his heleecopter! LOL

[applegrove]

4. I'm worried the GOP is opening up another front

after starting in Springfield and are going to dehumanized people around the country is a pre meditated fashion till they hit a critical mass. First they went after Haitian needed employees (what should be a success story) for 'ruinning' a small city and falsely claiming they were eating pets. Then they go after illegals as cochroches. They'll target a new group every week for dehumanization in hopes of hitting xenaphobic liftoff and suck many into the vortex just before the election. Won't work. Dems are wise to them. So is the public increasingly.

[Justice matters.]

12. President Biden is now immune and he must save democracy.

To restore the soul of the nation, the USSC gave him all the tools.

He's the only one immune and he has the pardon powers.

He must act preemptively before the fascist regime takes hold.

[onetexan]

27. Precisely, and also the reason why Vance said he'll keep creating stories like Springfield

[Maraya1969]

6. The infestation is this sheriff and his ilk. And trump and vance and the whole hoard of vermin need to go.

[pfitz59]

7. First comes the dehumanization.

Then come the camps. And when they are full, the ovens. It's an old script.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. If we have nuclear weapons, why aren't we using them?

President-elect T***p is alleged to have asked that question multiple times during a briefing on national security.

[hlthe2b]

29. You really should put your subject line in quotation marks, (lest someone misunderstand and alert)

--Just a fellow Duer trying to help you...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. Thanks. I did that at first and removed them because it's not a direct quote.

Something left over from journalism school, I guess. I had seen that statement in an article several years ago, but could not find it for this post. I think I'll go back to the way you suggested, which, while violating Strunk and White's Elements of Style, is a lot more understandable. I could have reworded it and gotten the same point across.

I try to be accurate in my posts, and provide links to sources. Since I could not find it in this case, I linked to a story which provided a discussion of TFG's fascination with things that go "boom!"

That actually was a near-verbatim quote. The briefer reported that TFG kept returning to that topic, asking about using nukes three times during the presentation.

This mad man must not be allowed near the nuclear codes. General Milley was correct in providing a buffer between T***p and the ability to launch Armageddon. During that unsettling period between the election and inauguration there was a non-trivial concern that he'd launch an attack to justify not letting go of the presidency in the middle of WWIII (which he started). What's a few million deaths when it keeps you in office and your ego intact?

[uponit7771]

8. But the DOJ will allow this PD to arrest people and put them in jail

[Inkey]

24. It wants to repeat itself

We are aware of it now. It can't hide, but it will morph into another form again. These are strange and dangerous times indeed !

[Mysterian]

37. The spirit of evil is human greed and lust for power

People like Musk, Trump, Putin, the Koch Bros., Leonard Leo, etc. wish to be monarchs. The "spirit of evil" is just depraved human beings.

[valleyrogue]

13. He is likely a "Christian reconstructionist" as well as a blatant racist and xenophobe.

These "Christians" believe in mass genocide.

What is pathetic is there would be no "undocumented immigrant" problem if employers didn't demand their cheap labor.

[kimbutgar]

16. And I bet that good ole xtian goes to church every Sunday.

But forgot the words from the Bible. I was a stranger in your land and you welcomed me.

[moniss]

20. Combine this with the Rich Lowrey statement today

and the other MAGA/GQP feeling of openness to use bigoted, sexist, homophobic etc. slurs openly in public and anybody can readily see where this is going. Literally because of JD "Cushions" Vance and the Orange Ruski a major city in Ohio is under terror threats and having to call for the National Guard. I hope Ohio voters remember who caused this in their community.

[flying_wahini]

21. He announced his retirement in August.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/23/texas-steve-mccraw-dps-director-retire/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

22. he is retiring. I guess he feels he can let his racism fly freely

[B.See]

25. As I keep saying, more evidence of

Trump's MAGA'S outright fascist Nazi shit. And they're growing bolder and bolder with it.

And if you think this sentiment applies only to undocumented immigrants, NEWSFLASH it's how they feel about ALL minorites

Including the silly ass mfkrs like Byron, Amber, Candace, Vivek and Patel - out there VOUCHING for that shit.

[RandySF]

26. I need to buy a punching bag.

[Blue_Roses]

28. This is the guy who tried to cover-up

the lack of response, by his state troopers, to the Uvalde School shooting. The troopers would not go into the school and it took a Border Patrol Agent to approach and kill rhe shooter. Before this happened, the shooter was free to go through the school and shoot at random. This went on for an hour. Parents finally said they were going in since nothing was being done to stop the shooter.

[GiqueCee]

35. Even more obscene...

... was the little bastard's mother saying the following day, "Don't judge my son. I'm sure he had his reasons." Now, THAT is seriously sick. Odd that nobody followed up on that.

[GiqueCee]

34. Sherilyn, that's Texas...

... that's how they roll under the dictatorship of the Terrible Triumvirate, Republican scum that they are.

[wolfie001]

36. White christian Nationalists are a menace to society

The Worst of us Americans! Absolute trash human beings.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Recall

during Covid, Trump sent tons of PPE and Equipment to Red States, esp Fla and Tx, and one of the states hit the hardest Mass got NOTHING.....They had to fly the PPE supplies in non-stop from China, by PRIVATE carrier, and have the Mass National Guard protect them from the Runway to the state distribution points.....

Trump in the past few days has said if elected President , he will NOT give California, any federal aid, tanker air support, or federally funded fire fighters, what-so-ever, to help with their wildfire nightmares or reconstruction.

[surfered]

39. The DPS guy was describing the Venezuelan Gang, not immigrants in general.

Here’s the quote.

"Tren de Aragua gangsters are like cockroaches," said DPS Director McCraw. "They multiply quickly; small intrusions into communities become infestations if not aggressively pursued. These Venezuelan thugs are highly combative, violent, and certainly adaptable."