But I'm kicking this.

I would have missed it otherwise.

With cuccinilli and Alyson Camarata totally got in his face about all of this nonsense too!

is Donald Trump. It's so farcical. At times, I still think I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone.

But reading some of his opinions, sometimes he hits the nail on the head on an issue, but when he's wrong, he is horribly off mark. Like if he is playing darts, he will get a few bullseyes, but the rest of the throws fly off into the bar sticking innocent bystanders.

Like, you can't even make fun of that, it's so wrong-headed.

...which also describes the Trump concentration camps.

My word, what bee got in his bonnet? Usually Friedman requires the intermediary services of a taxi driver or a food cart worker to figure out what he wants to say. But in this case, well said, sir.

Thomas Friedman is kicking ass!

He should go back to Hell, where he came from.

Which used to be a beautiful place, but now is being reduced to shithole status, since one of Trump’s despotic friends has assumed power there.

...of making even the most devoted decide to pack what they can into one bag and leave. I don't know what was going on in Hungary when your people left, but Hungary to America is an awful long way to go.

I think of my college friend Diane whose family was Serbo-Croatian. The precipitating event for one side of the family was the Influenza epidemic that killed 20 million worldwide. It pretty much killed everyone in their village, so that when g-grandma awoke from her fever with all her hair having fallen out, a man of her acquaintance said (in Diane's words, I don't know how it sounds in Serbian), "There's nothing left here for us. Let's blow this pop-stand." And thus a marriage and a journey to America were launched.

England's a fine and lovely place, but my ancestor probably would have been hung for his dissenting religious beliefs had he remained in the 1600s. The Irish tale of the 1800s is too well-known to repeat, but for generations after the Great Hunger Ireland's biggest export was people. Beautiful, beautiful countryside. Charming people, mostly. I'm glad I missed The Troubles and I'm glad to have missed living in what the Church wants to be a theocracy.

Sorry, I strayed.

Hid in a traveling hay wagon

Swedish military around WWI and came to this country. Other grandfather served in the Swedish army.

...the old European war-cries about Blood and Soil. I don't know who suggested it to him, but in his feeble brain I'm sure all he saw was the syrupy sentimentality.

Bush the Lesser did a lot to appease and encourage the Religious Right and the RW generally, and he appears to have been ahistorical, living in the Eternal Now without reference to what came before. "Homeland" was pretty much tailor-made for white nationalists should they want it -- and oh, they do.

Tom Friedman is calling out the result. Trump is xenophobic, racist, and nationalist. He actively encourages the hate of fringe groups. Where Dubya was just dimwitted, Trump is intentional and malignant.

Friedman is right. America used to be called a melting pot for a reason. Out of many, one. Unity in our diversity. The nation belongs to all of us, not just one group. And as for bleephole countries (as Nicolle W calls them), almost nobody travels lightyears from all they know without a good reason.

The first time I heard the word Homeland, I instantly thought of the word Fatherland. It makes my skin crawl to hear it.

I cringed when I heard that and that there would be a Department of Homeland Security. I just knew that twenty years later we'd still have the same department and name. It just reminded me too much of of Nazi Germany.

I'm pretty sure we were in the minority at the time though because most Americans are lemmings.

day in and day out for a couple years now, someone should ask him if he knows what those weird little words mean.

she laughed and said Iowa.

(Jake was referencing this twitter thread asking people if they have ever been told to go back where they come from, he was not asking seriously)

Link to tweet

My mother's family were Austrian and Czech Jews. Many of them were murdered by the Nazis that Trump considers to be "fine people".

I, myself, was born in England.

All four grandparents were born in shithole places like South Carolina and New York! Lindsey Graham AND Donald Trump!

But wait--also James Clyburn and Sonia Sotomayor. Not so shitty after all............