🖕 🍊 🤡 A Continuing Round-Up of Trumpian Events 🖕 🍊 🤡

[alahmnat]

At certain scales of distance, weren’t we all “down there also”, really?

[ficuswhisperer]

That’s some great Republican logic there.

“Technically all of us that were alive during 9/11 are both victims and first responders so the 9/11 victims fund shouldn’t get funded or else it will just be abused.”

[DonatellaNobody]

Yep, I was on the North American landmass when 9/11 happened. And I even made it to New York City shortly after.* I’m not saying I’m a first responder, I’m just saying.

*about ten years after

[anon48584343]

[FGD135]

Trump Finds the Worst Possible Thing to Say to 9/11 Survivors

[ficuswhisperer]

I typically try to avoid Kinja comment threads like plague but this one caught my attention because it just hits home for me.

[Nightflyer]

ThePriceofEggsInMalta is an excellent commenter! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve skimmed comments, found something excellent, looked up to check the name, and yup, it’s them.

[anon67050589]

I did a quick google search, hoping to learn a new colloquial turn of phrase, but only got literal answers:

https://www.costtotravel.com/cost/egg-in-malta

[Nightflyer]

I have no idea how that Kinja screen name came to be. It got my attention, since I’m Maltese from Mom’s side of the family.

I can’t get to it immediately, but I’ll see if I can post a link to her Kinja page later tonight. (I’m still not 100% good with that commenting system, and what I do learn changes or develops bugs without notice. I prefer Discourse, or bbcode, or basically anything that isn’t Kinja.)

[mr_raccoon]

Papa Roach (paparoach)

[anon75430791]

Oh man. I LOL’d at that. So brutal, so self effacing.

[anon67050589]

Trump signs 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund — but doesn't invite bill's...

[RickMycroft]

Just when you think Trump can't sink any lower, he does

After all this time, does anyone really think that Trump can’t and won’t find ways to sink lower? Anyone?

[gatto]

@RickMycroft

After all this time, does anyone really think that Trump can’t and won’t find ways to sink lower? Anyone?

at long last, today was the day donald trump became president.

Analyzing 800 daily tweets that say "Today was the day that Donald Trump...

[anon67050589]

Republicans Planning Annual Retreat in “Rodent Infested” Baltimore

[DonatellaNobody]

It wouldn’t truly be rodent infested without him

[alahmnat]

Jacob Soboroff (jacobsoboroff)

At least they’ve finally decided to just be honest about it.

[DonatellaNobody]

@alahmnat

My mantra has persistently been presenting aliens with multiple unsolvable dilemmas to impact their calculus for choosing to make the arduous journey to begin with.

“Take us to your leader… Seriously? Fuck it, let’s go home”

[Wanderfound]

@alahmnat

At least they’ve finally decided to just be honest about it.

“Louder” rather than newly honest.

“Create death and suffering to deter immigration” has been official policy for decades.

Death as ‘Deterrence’: the Desert as a Weapon - Alliance for Global Justice

A March 2010 Congressional Research Service report entitled “Border Security: the Role of the Border Patrol” candidly details government policy goals and strategies in recent history. In 1994, the report explains, the U.S. adopted a “new policy” of militarizing urban border areas in order to reroute and steer anticipated human migration into “geographically harsher,” “more remote and hazardous border regions” (mostly through the Arizona desert), as a way of “deterring” migrants from crossing.

The new “vision” of the deterrence strategy to bring the border “under control” is outlined in a July 1994 Border Patrol planning document entitled “Border Patrol Strategic Plan: 1994 and Beyond”. The perception of the border environment is explicitly used to demonstrate that migrants “crossing through remote, uninhabited expanses of land and sea along the border can find themselves in mortal danger.” The document bases the strategy on the “prediction” that migrant “traffic will be deterred, or forced over more hostile terrain, less suited for crossing and more suited for enforcement.”

Forgoing any subtly, “enforcement,” in this instance, is a euphemism for “mortal danger” as a premeditated method of death by example to deter human beings from crossing unauthorized into the US.

The strategic use of the “hazardous” border environment is not obscured by government officials. Six years after the strategic plan appeared, former Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Doris Meissner, admitted that “we did believe that geography would be an ally to us. It was our sense that the number of people crossing the border through Arizona would go down to a trickle once people realized what it’s like.”

[anon48584343]

In plain site

Trump’s intel pick collaborated with a fierce Russia foe

Yo collusion