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The President* Is Rooting for a Bloodbath
Trump brags he's authorized the troops deployed to the border to shoot anyone holding rocks.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
NOV 2, 2018
Back when I thought I knew something about politics, and back when I thought I knew something about this country, I believed that, if a President of the United States made regular appearances as an utterly fact-free monster, it largely would be accidental. That was before 2016, when we discovered that a president* could get elected because he was an utterly fact-free monster. That was before 2016, when we learned that 40 years of a political party's constructing an utterly fact-free monster could be such a successful project.
On Thursday, the president* gave another completely non-political talk on his favorite among the things about which he knows less than nothing: immigration. It was entirely about scaring old white people that MS-13 is coming to dominate the town council and order them all to be eaten to celebrate some foreign holidayand he, alone, can save them.
Before we pay this performance the several seconds of attention it deserves, we should note another triumph for local journalism: The Sacramento Bee leaves the president*'s racist cartoon of a campaign ad as a smoking pile of meat in the breakdown lane. This likely will have no impact on anything but it's important to keep a careful historical record in advance of the president*'s going off into the haunted places of his mind again, the way he did Thursday afternoon. This was perhaps the darkest of the many dark corners.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a rock is a good guy with an M4 carbine. There are already reports that paramilitaries are gathering down at the border in anticipation of a turkey shoot. I suspect fire control will not be a priority. I suspect the president* doesn't care. He's rooting for a bloodbath.
Monstrous.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24528996/president-trump-caravan-rocks-military-shoot/
unblock
(52,317 posts)He is engineering it, fabricating it whole cloth out of a completely innocuous situation of a few unarmed people walking thousands of miles seeking only to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
He is supplying the troops and the weapons and authorizations and the completely inappropriate fear that will likely lead to trigger-happy troops, if not vigilantes.
He is not rooting for a bloodbath.
He is creating one.
That is exactly what he is rooting for.
mcar
(42,372 posts)I wonder what the military will do. We are in terrifying times, she.
Then he needs to be on trial for crimes against humanity. Yes, frightening times mcar.
rampartc
(5,435 posts)Who, presumably have more common sense than the tweeter in chief.
Maybe not. Remember isn't state.
mcar
(42,372 posts)What will the troops do if/when the Trump cultists open fire on immigrants nearing the border?
Iggo
(47,565 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)who will die or get hurt.
Every thing is just a big photo op to him. So a few poor, scared, hungry people get killed.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)every day he opens his mouth, tweets, and acts a fool and lies to the American people. He's running people away now.