The invasion of our country

[yakov_a_jerkov]

Президент США на арене:

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.

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

Шутка. Это не Fox News, это Шепард Смит днем режет правду-матку.

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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[tijd.livejournal.com]

Вы, возможно, незнакомы с происхождением лозунга “America First”.

It is extremely unfortunate that in his speech Wednesday outlining his foreign policy goals, Donald Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan "America First," the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler. <...>
Seeking to brand itself as a mainstream organization, America First struggled with the problem of the anti-Semitism of some of its leaders and many of its members. It had to remove from its executive committee not only the notoriously anti-Semitic Henry Ford but also Avery Brundage, the former chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee who had prevented two Jewish runners from the American track team in Berlin in 1936 from running in the finals of the 4x100 relay.
Still, the problem of anti-Semitism remained; a Kansas chapter leader pronounced President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt "Jewish" and Winston Churchill a "half-Jew."
After Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee closed its doors, but not before Lindbergh made his infamous speech at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in September 1941. After charging that President Roosevelt had manufactured "incidents" to propel the country into war, Lindbergh proceeded to blurt out his true thoughts.
"The British and the Jewish races," he declared, "for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war." The nation's enemy was an internal one, a Jewish one. "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government," he contended. Booing began to drown out the cheers, forcing him again and again to stop, wait out the catcalls, and start his sentences over.
Lindbergh's unambiguous message was that Jews living in the United States constituted a wealthy, influential, conspiratorial foreign "race" that had seized "our" media and infiltrated "our" political institutions. They were the alien out-group, hostile to "us."
He put American Jews on notice that America's "tolerance" for them rested upon a fragile foundation.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/opinions/trump-america-first-ugly-echoes-dunn/