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With a border deal hanging in the balance and the Iowa caucuses a month away, Donald Trump amplified his attack on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday.
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”
While in the White House, Trump sought to deter immigration by building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, building some 450 miles of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile border, much of which replaced existing barriers. In addition to strict border security measures, his administration also implemented a travel ban for people from several predominantly Muslim countries.
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“poisoning the blood of our country”
This country was brown before the Europeans got here, and Trump’s family didn’t even get here until the early 1900’s like the Irish and Russian portion of my family. He’s a second generation American basically shit talking his own grandfather, yeah yeah I know, his grandfather is white so his immigration “doesn’t count”.
Racist prick just keeps showing who he is, while millions of black and brown folk ignore the racism and still vote for him and his MAGAklan homies.
It’s even worse than that, only 1% of people in America don’t have an immigrant ancestor even as far back as one great grandparent.
Every single one of his supporters save maybe for some very desperately confused indigenous folks is a hypocrite of the fucking first order.
And I’ve seen video of plenty of instances of MAGA telling them “go back to your own country”, it’s like “motherfucker, this is their country, same as all the Mexicans you complain about”, the entire southwest from Texas to Cali used to belong to these people.
Not really, the folks that cross the borders and the folks for whom the old north was home are two VERY different groups of people.
In fact the latter are pretty liable to despise the former for a lot of mostly racist reasons.
It’s just typical dog bites man shit for him. He was probably talking about his three wives anyway. His apologists will trot out and say, “He didn’t really mean it”, like always.
Literally copying Hitler.
Hitler went to jail for a failed coup attempt before taking power
This dipshit has miscalculated his age in his grand copycat dicktater plot.
He’s much older than Hitler was. He ain’t gonna last the prison time he’s getting.
Will be the most glorious of days when evil incarnate finally dies.
Glorious until they start mythologizing him more than they already do.
Living under the ghost of Reagan has been bad enough; I shudder to think what living under the ghost of Trump would be like.
It can’t be any worse than living with the real thing. I’ll take a dead Trump over a live one every time.
This isnt even a thinly-veiled comment. This is openingly White Nationalist language.
The blood ? Wow.
And the soil.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Israel, Argentina, Trump, just full blown fascism without a hint of irony. It’s like they read the stories of the past but were incapable of learning from it. They better learn quick because the last guy that made an earnest effort went to sleep on the cold concrete of a bunker with his wife and kids. They’re delusional if they think it’ll end differently.
I remember when this guy told America to drink bleach to cure Covid.
Clown.
Injecting bleach, wasn’t it?
As I watch the Muslim community threatening Joe Biden, I really truly wonder if they could actually cut their own noses off and vote for this clear threat to their existence in America.
That anyone can stand up and say this to a crowd of Americans and still legitimately have a chance to win the presidency is terrifying.
Understanding this phenomena is part of tolerance. Muslims are very hierarchal culturally. Generally new immigrants see themselves as on the lower end of the hierarchy with several layers of people above them who are within their rights to oppress them. Unfortunately, Muslims tend to see LGBTQ+ as belonging below them. Biden might be saying “we’ll make America better for you”, but until they see LGBTQ+ people as worse off than them, someone with a hierarchal mindset will not feel better off.
Trump might say “we’re going to oppress Muslims”, but he’s also saying “we’re going to oppress gays and trans much more”. Someone that’s hierarchal minded will see that as improving his position in society. Their position isn’t absolute, it’s relative.
To beat this we have to understand that most immigrants, not just Muslims, have a hierarchical mindset. We need to fight against social hierarchy as a mindset, and include that in the messaging we give to new immigrants. We also have to understand that LGBTQ+ rights are going to lose us considerable immigrant vote and time our pushes accordingly to ensure the best chance of success and the fastest possible progress.
The trick is really to give Joe as much hell as possible so hes scared we won’t. Doesn’t mean we have to keep our word.
It beats the other message of Americans second. People are watching Chicago and NYC go down the tubes under the burden of illegal immigration. Marginalized communities are also seeing thier hand outs get taken by said groups.
So yea an American first message is very compelling and every day more people are flocking to it
This is not a coherent position. You’re basically just talking about feelings, not actual facts or policy.
Also, where can I find this “Americans second” message you speak of? Where did you see or hear that? Are you sure you’re not making it up?
Read up on new york. Illegal migrants are now taking poor new Yorkers food and shelter spots.
Go look at Chicago and the black marches against the mayor.
As long as the souther border is open then bidens message is Americans second.
Obama is more American than Trump. Don has just one natural born US ancestor, Fred Sr. He married two immigrants, most of his kids have just two natural born US ancestors, himself and Fred Sr.
Trump hire a bunch of undocumented workers at his properties because he can’t afford to pay market rates for his employees.
Trump doesn’t give af about the blood of our country, just another fascist using bigotry to gain power.
Is there any republican who isn’t saying similar things? I live in Iowa, so I have the potential to attend a republican caucus, but so far they are all some variation on the drill for oil (Iowa has no oil and is second in the nation for wind power), and immigrants bad (nearest border is 500 miles north). As a self described right wing liberal I’m not seeing anyone on the national stage speaking about issues I care about and immigration is one where I’m hostile to the dominate position.
Anybody from immigrant families votes for this guy…WTF.
WTF?
Pretty sure Niki will if the orange one is nominated.
Just inject some bleach and it’ll clear that blood right up.
Interesting choice of words. This could be an excerpt straight out of Mein Kampf. Hitler wrote that “jews were poisoning the blood of germans”. Germans with jewish ancestry were not considered to be “pure blooded”. The Nuremberg Laws even had a classification based on blood “pureness”. [1] German nazi propaganda used to play a lot with these words. Take for example the children’s book Der Giftpilz (the poisonous mushroom), in which the book explains how the jews are secretely “posioning” the country. [2] Very interesting rhetoric.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Classifications_under_the_laws
Reminds me of the fact that the only book Trump is known to possess is one with Hitler’s speeches.
With all of it being fucking bad, him screeching like that means there’s no other option. He’s helpless, so he tries to contact the deepest fear of his base. It’sa good sign.
How is unabashed fascism a good sign? How blind do you have to be to think that he’s somehow losing the run for president?
It’s not good he can go for it, right.
It’s good he is so struggling he goes all-in into faschism to clutch these last percents of his userbase.
And I hope - losing others while doing so.
The funny thing to me is that this is in New Hampshire, which is 88.8% non-Hispanic white while the national average is 58.9%. There aren’t a lot of immigrants in New Hampshire, but there is a lot of empty space. When I lived there, a guy down the road had a bumper sticker on his car saying something to the effect of “this country is full”. All around his house were just trees.
(But don’t get the wrong idea about New Hampshire. The southern part of the state has a lot of conservatives who weren’t happy in liberal Massachusetts, but overall the state is about 50/50, and it voted for Hillary back in 2016.)
He gonna make Mexico pay for it, too!1!!
lol only suckers support such a fool.
