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Laffy

Via Marc Elias from his newsletter…

What to expect from #Trump:

Expect a flood of executive orders, policy announcements and personnel appointments all pointing in the direction of chaos and revenge. There will be healthy doses of self-enrichment and spoils delivered to his friends old and new alike. And, of course, there will be lies. Big lies, small lies, clever lies and obvious lies. As dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned in 1974 about the Soviet Union, "the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State." So too here, it will be a pillar of Donald Trump's second term. Most importantly, pay attention to democracy's most important guardrails being dismantled individually and altogether. Expect attacks on the professional civil service in general and specific departments in particular. He will try to replace nonpartisan government employees with partisan operatives. I expect him to gut the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and turn it into a grotesque version of itself. Among Trump's first tasks will be the perversion of our criminal justice system. He will pardon his loyalists for their crimes on Jan. 6 while directing the power of his government to pursue his political opponents who stood for democracy.
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Wiley Miller

@GottaLaff

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

― Thomas Jefferson

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Laffy

@Wileymiller I never agreed with that though. THEY elected him, THEY deserve him, we don’t.

Reay

@GottaLaff @Wileymiller And there will absolutely be those who voted for him who will come to regret doing so — the likes of that lady in his first term whose illegal alien husband was deported and she was explaining that she thought Trump meant OTHER illegal aliens, which was why she voted for him — but yes, to your point, meanwhile, everyone who didn’t vote him has to deal with him, too.

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Laffy

@reay @Wileymiller Friendly reminder: “Illegal aliens” is a slur used by Republicans. Our government (under Biden) no longer uses that phrase.

People are not illegal, acts are.

Aliens otherizes them, dehumanizes them. They’re people.

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Wiley Miller

@GottaLaff @reay

Thanks for pointing that out. "Illegal aliens", and worse, "illegals", is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. The sole purpose of this political framing is, as you pointed out, to dehumanize a group of people, mainly, people with brown skin. Repeating it only serves to legitimize it.

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Mike OBrien

@Wileymiller @GottaLaff @reay I remember my son telling me that we were being invaded by aliens from outer space. When I questioned him about it he said he heard it on the news

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Reay

@GottaLaff @Wileymiller Thanks for the correction.

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NotMaddie!

@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller
I also believe that these “illegals” include the 40% of undocumented people here who are LEGALLY awaiting asylum hearings. They are documented. They are legal. I’m scared that many of my students will stop coming to school.

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Laffy

@madrobin @reay @Wileymiller Exactly, MadRobin. Fear is part of the goal.

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Dave P. ☑️

@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller I've ALWAYS used common sense and hoped my fellow Americans would as well. How can they be "illegal aliens" if they have crossed the border (not boarder) been accounted for. Placed on a bus and shipped to NYC by hot wheels. Given housing and stipends to live on until their status could be validated or not. Where is the illegal part? It's just a name to vilify them.

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Ken Walker :caflag:

@GottaLaff @reay @Wileymiller And if I have it right for most of those they include, even their presence is not an illegal act.

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