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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:26 PM Jun 2018

He's calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants"...

...that will "infest" the USA.

And fucking Republicans just sit there.

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He's calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants"... (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2018 OP

He doesn't know the difference, and wouldn't care if he did. RockRaven Jun 2018 #1

Probably a bit better than what he uses in locker room. If in locker room, GOPers would all laugh. Hoyt Jun 2018 #2

Republicans don't see POC, foreigners, immigrants, anyone who is different, procon Jun 2018 #3

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)

1. He doesn't know the difference, and wouldn't care if he did.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:31 PM

Jun 2018

I'm not sure which of those two things is more damning...

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Probably a bit better than what he uses in locker room. If in locker room, GOPers would all laugh.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:38 PM

Jun 2018

The whole thing is disgusting. Sadly, the alternatives likely to be enacted aren't much better.

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Republicans don't see POC, foreigners, immigrants, anyone who is different,

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:43 PM

Jun 2018

as real people, genuine human beings. By using a term like "infest" Trumps is telling his white supremacist fans that he is targeting animals, not people like them, encouraging the bigots to continue supporting his racist policies.

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