"Donald Trump intensified his politics of nativism and xenophobia on Friday by announcing a sweeping plan to deport Venezuelans he claimed have 'infected' a once-peaceful city in Colorado."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Laughland interviews Pima County Republican chair Steve Selvey, who says that Democrats say their goal is to replace the white majority with [brown and black] immigrants.

When Laughland then repeats back the phrase Selvey has just used — "the white majority" — Selvey bridles and says that introduces racism into the discussion.Though he's the one who had used that phrase….

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thebratdragon Something tells me not. Nor Slovenian ones….

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@wdlindsy

can't imagine why not, could it be that skin colour is the criteria?

[nrmacdonald@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
...and Trump is still just the reality TeeVee clown loose canon let loose to woo the eejits and bigots to fuck the US up for the [set of global and domestic predatory money grubbers] that want to prey on the remains of the US once he and the eejit Federalist Society cum Project 2025 theocrats have done it in.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Then there's this: see the posting below shared by a Threads user. The TW whose BlueSky post is being used is a Thomas from Birmingham, Alabama, whose surname I haven't been able to track — to give him full credit for his posting.

The hard work being done to help western North Carolina recover from Helene depends on the hard labor of immigrants. We would be far poorer without them.

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Annie Watson-Johnson (@pebsie63) on Threads

Threads (www.threads.net)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nrmacdonald Yes, Trump would be nothing without millions of xenophobic, hate-mongering Americans standing behind him. He is their face in the mirror.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thebratdragon You may well be onto something!

[peachfront@toot.community]

@wdlindsy

these haters gonna be sorry if they chase out our immigrants because there are going to be PLENTY of other countries where people can be rebuilding

[virtualinanity@toot.community]

@wdlindsy and yet the Biden/harris response is “we deported more people than they did! We actually passed the Republican immigration plan!” I cannot emphasize enough how harmful centrism in America is when it’s call to action is “we’re like republicans but competent!”

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

Good GOOD people!!

[mbwood@toad.social]

@wdlindsy yes. Central and Mexican immigrants rebuilt NOLA after Katrina.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mbwood They absolutely did. Our cities would shut down and experience total chaos and hardship if immigrants were suddenly deported, as Trump promises and millions of Americans lust to see. The economy would be gutted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LaNaehForaday I agree. We never see trees being trimmed or taken down without seeing that all the workers are Hispanic men. It's the norm. Ditto for the hard work of street repair, and for most of the lawn and garden work in our area. Houses all through my neighborhood are cleaned by Hispanic women.

The country would shut down in an instant if all the immigrants in it were deported. And the economy would totally crash.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@virtualinanity Anyone who imagines that the Democrats represent a greater threat to immigrants than the Republicans is either sadly misinformed or wants to do the Republicans' work for them. I refuse to listen to that kind of misleading analysis designed to tear away at the Democrats while ignoring the real problem, which is the Republicans.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Absolutely. Our cities would come to a halt, the economy would crash. There's always a high price to be paid for unleashing social hatreds, and the people doing the hating usually end up paying that price.

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy
And aside from ALLLL of that, they all seem to be EXCEEDINGLY nice. The nicest, kindest people you would ever want to meet. And we trust them implicitly with all kinds of our details like giving us FOOD and taking care of our children.

[wallyapplebee@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy @LaNaehForaday not to mention they are decent human beings who not only contribute to a society they are part of, they helped create it

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Singling out an ethnic minority with “bad genes,” blaming them for crimes and other depraved acts, pushing for violence, and advocating for rounding up that minority and putting them in camps to get rid of them. There is not a single inch of daylight between the agenda as laid out in 1930s Germany by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and Donald Trump and the Republican Party in America today."

~ Oliver Willis

#Trump #Hitler #Nazis #racism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy
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Republicans Campaign From The Holocaust Playbook

Democrats Have To Beat Them

(www.oliverexplains.com)

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@wdlindsy the Canadians should be getting nervous.

How long before Trump demands “lebensraum” and annexes Canada?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peterbrown I understand they're already trying to hide that faucet they've constructed to keep their water from flowing to the US.