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yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2018-10-29 08:41 pm
yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2018-10-29 08:41 pm
The invasion of our country
Президент США на арене:
У Benjy Sarlin сегодня хорошая цепочка твитов. Начинает он так:
Конечно, сейчас все эти люди рассказывают о том, что нельзя винить президента, both sides и все такое. Benjy Sarlin спрашивает:
А, вообще, предельо ясно о караване написал Adam Serwer:
Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!"Invasion" -- звучит знакомо. Где-то я это слышал совсем недавно. А, да, вот где:
У Benjy Sarlin сегодня хорошая цепочка твитов. Начинает он так:
You can't directly attribute any one act of violence to Trump. But what I find interesting is lots of people -- and not just anti-hate groups like ADL -- explicitly warned that Trump raises the risk of violent extremism. I hear this less explicitly from some of them now.Дальше он приводит прошлые высказывания видных республиканских политиков как раз на эту тему. Я их не буду приводить, посмотрите по ссылке, процитирую только Рика Перри, который сейчас у Трампа Secretary of Energy трудится.
Конечно, сейчас все эти люди рассказывают о том, что нельзя винить президента, both sides и все такое. Benjy Sarlin спрашивает:
What I'd like to know is what changed about their dire warnings of Trump's unique role now that we see scenarios similar to what they warned about. Did he stop spreading hateful conspiracies? Did he stop invoking violence? Did he extend an olive branch? Did he apologize?А что касается "каравана", то вот Fox News излагает все как есть.
Шутка. Это не Fox News, это Шепард Смит днем режет правду-матку.Shep Smith on FOX: "The migrants are 2 months away if they make it here at all. Tomorrow is one week before the midterm election, which is what all of this is about. There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There is nothing to worry about." pic.twitter.com/6sxT6g4Y74
— Holly Fιɢυeroα O'Reιlly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 29, 2018
А, вообще, предельо ясно о караване написал Adam Serwer:
In reality, the caravan was thousands of miles and weeks away from the U.S. border, shrinking in size, and unlikely to reach the U.S. before the election. If the migrants reach the U.S., they have the right under U.S. law to apply for asylum at a port of entry. If their claims are not accepted, they will be turned away. There is no national emergency; there is no ominous threat. There is only a group of desperate people looking for a better life, who have a right to request asylum in the United States and have no right to stay if their claims are rejected. Trump is reportedly aware that his claims about the caravan are false. An administration official told the Daily Beast simply, “It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 percent accurate … this is the play.” The “play” was to demonize vulnerable people with falsehoods in order to frighten Trump’s base to the polls.Кто же мог предвидеть, что "the play" сыграет не сосем так, как предполагалось? Да много кто мог предвидеть, как видим, -- многие нынешние трамписты совсем недавно еще могли.
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Через неделю несколько мини-Трампов успешно переизберутся в Конгресс и продолжат неутомимую борьбу с расследованием Мюллера.
Why haven’t the Kings and Gaetzes of Congress been ejected from the caucus, or at least censured in some way, for encouraging ethnic hatred?
The answer, at least in part, is that the GOP learned all the wrong lessons from the 2016 election.
A Trump loss, as the polls predicted, might have taught Republicans that they could no longer exclusively cater to old, white, racially anxious men (as the 2012 GOP “autopsy” report warned). It might have forced Republicans to stop indulging the crazy things that many in their base believed; it might have learned that all that Fox News fearmongering was counterproductive to actually being a governing party.
Instead, by the narrowest of margins, Trump managed to claim the White House. And the cost-benefit analysis for a Republican demagogue considering saying something racist or incendiary — or for a partisan colleague contemplating criticizing such — never changed.
In short, the GOP never cleaned house, and the mess just keeps getting worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/be-angry-at-trump-but-dont-let-republicans-off-the-hook/2018/10/29/22bd0b96-dbb8-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html