I cannot believe how many people are saying, “Trump can’t overturn the 14th Amendment by executive order! It’s against the rules!” Don’t you fucking get it yet? This is the dawn of fascism and the rules don’t fucking matter anymore. The rules haven’t mattered since the election! He’s going to continue to grab power, and he’s going to get away with it.
Even if it doesn’t happen, he’s encouraging white Americans to view everyone else as a ‘foreigner’ who doesn’t belong here, and thereby condoning even more violence against them.. That the news comes so soon after the Tree of Life shooting is just confirmation – within two years of coming to power, Hitler put out the Nuremberg Laws which ultimately led to stripping Jews of German citizenship.
The rules only matter if people are willing to follow them, which includes enforcing them. Nobody in charge wants to follow those rules, unless it’s to hamstring an opponent (see: Republicans literally trying to pay women to make sexual harassment claims against Mueller). So they’re going to break the rules, or change the rules, and they’re in high enough positions that no one can effectively do anything about it.
It was a good try at checks and balances. Obviously, it hasn’t really worked–there’s no provision for actually stopping the executive branch or preventing entanglement; quite the reverse, since legislators frequently go on to be presidents, presidents nominate the judicial branch, and the entire military is under control of the executive branch, which makes declarations of war and so on essentially a formality. Turns out having the oldest constitution in the world is like having the oldest computer security in the world–it’s dangerous, not something to be proud of.
“fascism doesn’t have effects if you don’t value it or empower it”, wow if only the people who didn’t learn to not compromise with fascism knew that you shouldn’t normalize it but go against it always
The US pretending to bring democracy to other countries is so funny when we vote on a non-holiday workday where people can wait up to six hours for a machine that may record their vote incorrectly to defeat a minority party that controls all three branches of government.
Donald Trump sending thousands of troops to the border isn’t just ridiculous, it’s horrifying. What exactly does he plan to do with all those troops? He just recently said he is prepared to gun down people who throw rocks… it gives you a clue doesn’t it?
I’m genuinely worried that these people are going to get hurt, I don’t trust Donald Trump and I’m worried as to why we are comfortable with sending thousands of troops to greet families and children with guns… horrifying.
it’s also a massive breach in military deployment protocol, specifically the Posse Comitatus act and Article 10 of the United States Code. Donald Trump is breaking the fucking law
HE’S GONNA HAVE TROOPS GUN DOWN & MURDER WOMEN & CHILDREN.
I’m hoping that none of them get an itchy trigger finger as another commenter pointed out, but there is no other reason for them to be there and he’s talking about shooting people who throw rocks and it just sounds like an excuse to open fire. Let’s pray that nothing violent takes place against those people.
And they will all say “I was just following orders”
We can afford all these troops at the border but not 15 dollars minimum wage, free college, or Medicare for all.
I live on the Border. It’s peaceful, beautiful, and very nice overall.
He’s just afraid of brown people. Even women and children.
and we still have sent no aid to Puerto Rico, alright
I saw someone in the tags say this is fearmongering but there’s fearmongering, and then there’s actual fear. All of the comments on this post are reactions of genuine, sincere concern for the people at the border. Nobody is trying to fearmonger.
WE ARE ACTUALLY AFRAID.
Just to provide some context here since I haven’t seen a single soul talk about the Caravan online, I only know about it due to the controversy caused by several local Spanish news stations that decided to air coverage despite many stations in Mexico forbidding it;
There are currently thousands of people migrating in a Caravan up to the Mexican border. They are escaping poverty, and violence amongst other things from their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. They’re hoping to find a better life or apply for Asylum.
They’ve been walking for nearly a full month now having started October 12th of this year (2018 time stamp for anyone seeing this in the future.)
[Pictured above is the Caravan as it reached the Suchiate river at the border between Guatemala and Mexico]
[Pictured above is the first wave of the Caravan reaching the Tijuana border -not apart of the massive wave that was seen at the river.]
[Pictured above are several caravan men who decided to jump into the river when the crowds on the bridge got too dense when it was decided that only Women and Children could pass, most were fathers, brothers, and sons who didn’t wish to be separated. Many mothers with small children were also lowered down into the rafts to avoid the crowd that was stuck on the bridge for 24+ hours.]
The Donald Trump political campaign put out an ad that was as dehumanizing as you could imagine towards the immigrants, who again, at this point are largely unarmed women and children who are trying to escape the violence in their home countries.
Donald Trump has deployed 1,000 troops to the border in anticipation for the Caravans arrival. Promising to more than double the number to about 5,000 troops lasting until about December 15th, 2018.
[Pictured above are children waiting in line for their turn on playground equipment.]
[Pictured above is what sleep and rest has typically looked like for them, many only having a backpack or so left of their personal belongings to take with them.]
[Pictured above is man holding up a sign that reads, “Thank-you Mexico for opening up your hearts.” After the bridge and border were opened.]
These are the faces of the people Donald Trump is sending thousands of troops over to shoot down because he sees them as a threat.
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