Are we winning yet?

Posted by jtylersingletary

15 comments
  1. Reagan, HW Bush, GW Bush, Donnie Jon. Clinton, Obama, Biden. It’s mind-blowing how competent Democratic presidents are compared to those dipshit conservative ass clowns.

  2. The civil war and crushing of blue states is the point. The deportations are needlessly violent and cruel to spark protest. Yeah, there are racist true believers for whom the deportations are the end game, but for the Steve Bannons and Steven Millers, the accrual and consolidation of power is the real end game.

  3. Yes, but Obama skipped the most important part — stoking American bigotry! Sheesh.

  4. Remember when Obama federalized the Texas National Guard to invade Dallas? Oh right, it never happened.

  5. Wait, so you support the mass deportations, you just don’t like how they are going about it? Gross.

    Yeah, Trump’s ICE is clearly worse, but you shouldn’t be touting this a a win. This was a bad thing.

    Mass amnesty not mass deportation.

  6. Trying to cater to the conservative agenda is a fool’s errand.

  7. Trump is the reality tv president, everything is about the entertainment value- that is how he maintains his popularity with the base, by entertaining them as if they were living in a non-stop thriller movie. 

    Threatening civil war is the whole point of this latest mess, it keeps his viewers from tuning out. This is a problem in television- you constantly need to keep people from getting bored, which leads to jumping the shark.

    The problem is that jumping the shark in real life means playing around with civil war or at least creating an enduring cultural divide in America that will take decades of active effort to mend. 

    Republicans don’t want results, they want to be entertained. 

  8. Excerpts from the book **Still Life with Bones** by Alexa Hagerty
    >
    >”**FIRST WE WILL KILL** all of the subversives, then we will kill all of their collaborators, then those who sympathize with subversives, then we will kill those that remain indifferent, and finally we will kill the timid” said the governor of Buenos Aires province, describing El Proceso [from 1976-1983]. There were few people whom these circles of hell didn’t encompass. It was dangerous for men to grow beards because it made you look like a leftist; it was dangerous for women to wear jeans because it made you look like a feminist. It was dangerous to read Marx or even *The Little Prince.*
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    >The junta held book burnings, consigning the works of Julio Cor-tázar, Marcel Proust, Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Sigmund Freud, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the flames.
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    >They declared, “Just as this fire now destroys material pernicious to our Christian way of being, so too will be destroyed the enemies of the Argentine soul.” General Videla proclaimed, “A terrorist is not only someone who plants bombs, but a person whose ideas are contrary to our **Western, Christian civilization**.”

  9. Trump doesn’t even come close to matching Obama’s record for deportations. Obama did everything quietly and peacefully and got much better results than Trump ever did.

    Trump craves attention and ratings, so he has to do everything violently in front of TV cameras. He wants to put on a show, but his actual numbers suck. He ramps up the cruelty to make up for his inability to match Obama’s deportation numbers.

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