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kpete

(72,901 posts)
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:25 PM Apr 2023

Dear God. He wants to build concentration camps.

Trump says he will outlaw homelessness and arrest everyone who refuses to comply. He will then give them the option to get out of jail to be relocated to new tent cities elsewhere where he will take care of their needs.


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Dear God. He wants to build concentration camps. (Original Post) kpete Apr 2023 OP
Didn't they hang people in Nuremberg for doing that? Ray Bruns Apr 2023 #1
Not enough of them BonnieJW Apr 2023 #45
He is only escalating a proposal he made while in office. Eugene Apr 2023 #2
Trump is a narcissistic psychopath agingdem Apr 2023 #15
Yup. And it showed before he ran and while he was campaigning. Hortensis Apr 2023 #26
behold the contempt for the suffering! GenXer47 Apr 2023 #3
He was POTUS for 4 interminable years maxsolomon Apr 2023 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2023 #58
Why DU wants to share his every flatulence is beyond me. maxsolomon Apr 2023 #60
Outlaw homelessness? Shouldn't he just build houses then? sinkingfeeling Apr 2023 #5
Especially would expect a grifting real estate developer wnylib Apr 2023 #7
Maybe he's too dumb to grift cities by building housing IronLionZion Apr 2023 #39
What counts as homeless? Johonny Apr 2023 #6
Probably any POC walking down the street. wnylib Apr 2023 #8
California has a potential site in the Owens Valley DBoon Apr 2023 #14
Trump's probably more of a Death Valley sort. He would want to apply "pressure". xocetaceans Apr 2023 #41
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2023 #59
Dictators love concentration camps. sarcasmo Apr 2023 #9
This is some seriously scary shit here. Initech Apr 2023 #10
Typical Republicon solution: hypocritically take away rights from someone. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2023 #11
Next step shower houses. Emile Apr 2023 #12
With zyklon B showers.. Permanut Apr 2023 #32
The miserable sadist BigMin28 Apr 2023 #13
It's a kinder, gentler fascism. He could put Joe Arpaio in charge of the tent cities. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2023 #16
His intent is clear. EndlessWire Apr 2023 #17
That's when the bullets start flying. Mr.Bill Apr 2023 #27
And what, pray tell, happens to the "many" that won't comply? MustBeTheBooz Apr 2023 #18
Surprised he didn't mention the ovens. IrishAfricanAmerican Apr 2023 #19
The camps came close to 10 years before the ovens. TheRealNorth Apr 2023 #20
Freedom!! bullimiami Apr 2023 #21
The Deplorable Qbots are gonna love this idea. Most being safe in Moms basement ya know. NoMoreRepugs Apr 2023 #22
typical. move on. where to. sorry move on. AllaN01Bear Apr 2023 #23
That will actually be popular with the GOP base. progressoid Apr 2023 #24
Yes, you're right. It will be very popular with them. xocetaceans Apr 2023 #40
i ask every one on this thread to please AllaN01Bear Apr 2023 #25
Link to Past Tense: area51 Apr 2023 #61
That Fucking Asshole BlueIdaho Apr 2023 #28
Well, he is German geardaddy Apr 2023 #29
Will an aneurysm please cap Motherfucker? Aviation Pro Apr 2023 #30
I've been rooting for cholesterol to take MontanaMama Apr 2023 #48
And he'll have his pal, asshole Joe Arpaio run it, including pink jumpsuits Hassler Apr 2023 #31
Hasn't someone official apologized for the Japanese internment camps and criticized the law for Karadeniz Apr 2023 #33
The strategy of the Repughs ..... ificandream Apr 2023 #34
And each offender should have a number tattooed.. Permanut Apr 2023 #35
America does have a reputation for what he describes. twodogsbarking Apr 2023 #36
NO! You all have it wrong! infullview Apr 2023 #37
And 25% of the country would cheerfully go along with this. CanonRay Apr 2023 #38
What's next? The Zyklon B showers? Texin Apr 2023 #42
Back in the Depression, they called those places Hoovervilles. Texin Apr 2023 #43
Trump is one of those amazing people who can spew shit out of either end. patphil Apr 2023 #44
Well, he does have a sphincter where his mouth should be FoxNewsSucks Apr 2023 #50
looks like mud all over his face, and darker hair dye. niyad Apr 2023 #46
This ONE statement will garner him tons of votes.... Ferrets are Cool Apr 2023 #47
Well of course he does. He just wants to bring all of Obama's FEMA camps out of mothballs ... marble falls Apr 2023 #49
And how many people COL Mustard Apr 2023 #51
The big tell in this: johnnyfins Apr 2023 #52
He never shuts the f*ck up. Never. Joinfortmill Apr 2023 #53
Re-education camps like in ChIna !! nt TeamProg Apr 2023 #54
And most people won't care. They will say they do, but Covid has been a test run on the indifference liberal_mama Apr 2023 #55
Soylent Green is homeless people! roamer65 Apr 2023 #56
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2023 #57

Eugene

(67,101 posts)
2. He is only escalating a proposal he made while in office.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:33 PM
Apr 2023

He proposed a similar roundup of California's homeless persons, while blaming them for all manner of pollution.

This fascist has shown us who he is for a long time.

agingdem

(8,843 posts)
15. Trump is a narcissistic psychopath
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:21 PM
Apr 2023

he lacks empathy, compassion, and remorse...he had no problem "disappearing" 300,000 covid deaths, separating families, and caging babies...and because he's a malicious revenge-fueled sadist, rounding up the homeless and transporting them to tent cities
(a la Hitler ), well, life doesn't get any better than that...

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
26. Yup. And it showed before he ran and while he was campaigning.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:53 PM
Apr 2023

Not that more is needed, but because it came to mind -- shortly before he was nominated for president he said he didn't care that the "Central Park Five" he'd tried to get "lynched" and were wrongly convicted in 1989 were proven innocent, they should be executed anyway.

But, hey, Tweedledum, Tweedledee.... What is the strange power charismatic liars have?

 

GenXer47

(1,204 posts)
3. behold the contempt for the suffering!
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:34 PM
Apr 2023

I've seen this before - "successful" people with a sibling whose life was ruined by drugs and alcohol. Some will respond not with compassion, or the usual feelings of guilt and loss - but hatred. Contempt. This is the inner core of the dark conservative heart.

maxsolomon

(38,711 posts)
4. He was POTUS for 4 interminable years
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:36 PM
Apr 2023

and did Jack Shit about homelessness.

Nothing he says means anything. He is a gaping void. A giant black hole of narcissism.

Response to maxsolomon (Reply #4)

maxsolomon

(38,711 posts)
60. Why DU wants to share his every flatulence is beyond me.
Wed Apr 19, 2023, 11:14 AM
Apr 2023

"... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

wnylib

(26,008 posts)
7. Especially would expect a grifting real estate developer
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:41 PM
Apr 2023

to build more homes - and charge the government outrageous fees for the work.

IronLionZion

(51,267 posts)
39. Maybe he's too dumb to grift cities by building housing
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:31 PM
Apr 2023

so he's going to fill up jails and tent cities instead.

wnylib

(26,008 posts)
8. Probably any POC walking down the street.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 02:44 PM
Apr 2023

Location - any one of the US deserts in CA, AZ.

xocetaceans

(4,442 posts)
41. Trump's probably more of a Death Valley sort. He would want to apply "pressure".
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:43 PM
Apr 2023

After all, what's the old GOP maxim about having "skin in the game"?

Response to xocetaceans (Reply #41)

Permanut

(8,390 posts)
32. With zyklon B showers..
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:13 PM
Apr 2023

Dear God we thought we'd never see anything like this again.

BigMin28

(1,859 posts)
13. The miserable sadist
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:01 PM
Apr 2023

Would probably choose Joe Arpaio to run the camps. He does have experience.

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
17. His intent is clear.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:30 PM
Apr 2023

If this creature gets "elected" once again, we will be in a world of hurt. He's on video as saying he admires the earth's worst living authoritarian figures, because of the crushing obedience they demand from their people. That is what he will do to get us to obey the rules that he will make all on his own.

He will arrest those that oppose him, execute some of them, and dispose of those that get in his way, or spoil the optics of his male, "Christian" world. The GOP is in place to help him. He has the SC. He's not kidding.

What will we do? Look the other way? Take Germany as our example of how not to handle it. Hitler arose with the consent of most of the people, who preferred to look the other way rather than say no, you can't treat my neighbor that way. They felt like he was bringing prosperity to them, so as long as they fell into the right box, they didn't care.

Hitler shot the physically ill. He totally deprived Jews of the ability to exist, and those that didn't leave, died. This was evil personified, and look what happened to Germany. His last orders were to decimate the infrastructure of his own country. Only the disobedience of his officers prevented that from happening. But, he wanted all of Germany razed to the ground, that's how much he hated his own citizens.

Donald Trump is the single most threat to our country. The GOP has chosen, G-d knows why, to support him like he has Hitler-like power. There is no excuse for these idiots.

Donald needs to be convicted and thrown into jail. If he gets reelected, the most we can hope for is Civil War 2.

Mr.Bill

(24,906 posts)
27. That's when the bullets start flying.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:54 PM
Apr 2023

There are 320 million of us and we own 400 million guns. And they know it. Trump will have to live in a vault ten stories underground.

MustBeTheBooz

(361 posts)
18. And what, pray tell, happens to the "many" that won't comply?
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:30 PM
Apr 2023

Do they simply get shoved into an already overcrowded prison system? Sent to Gilligan’s island until they repent for their homelessness? What the fork? This is straight up Nazi madness!

xocetaceans

(4,442 posts)
40. Yes, you're right. It will be very popular with them.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:39 PM
Apr 2023

It's a simple, straightforward "solution", which they can easily imagine will have the desired effect of eliminating the need to see or interact (ever) with anyone who is homeless. His main selling point is their removal. So, it does not take much of an imagination for the plan to be "attractive".

After all, why actually solve a problem when you can suggest a mind-numbingly simple "solution" that can possibly benefit one's "friends"? "Build a wall!"

Someone has to buy land in the middle of nowhere. Someone has to build the tent cities. Someone has to cater the food. Someone has to provide sanitation. There is a lot of room for no-bid contracts being issued Jared or the ilk that Trump runs with.

This will even be dual purpose. He can pivot later and claim that this could be used to house "the illegals";i.e., more money, more contracts, and more grift.

This is Trump trying out "Build a Wall!" version 2.0 . Is it enough to get him re-elected, though? I don't know. Maybe, but that depends on Fox News and how much they demonize homeless people and immigrants in the next two years. They have immigrants covered.

If Trump's rhetoric continues in this vein, it probably means that he is getting a positive response from his crowds and base, a response large enough that he wants to amplify the message. Time will tell.

AllaN01Bear

(29,485 posts)
25. i ask every one on this thread to please
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:52 PM
Apr 2023

watch the star trek deep space nine episode called
"past tense ". the crew has a transporter accident and goes back to the past 20 years after the trump admin even if u arnt a trek fan. this is to the point.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
28. That Fucking Asshole
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 03:54 PM
Apr 2023

Has lost his fastball. He will come in third or fourth place at the Iowa Caucuses.

Karadeniz

(24,746 posts)
33. Hasn't someone official apologized for the Japanese internment camps and criticized the law for
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:15 PM
Apr 2023

permitting them? But, if there are plenty of uneducated people for
Jerkwater to spout such a debunked idea to, the GOP desire to curb knowledge makes perfect sense.

ificandream

(11,837 posts)
34. The strategy of the Repughs .....
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:16 PM
Apr 2023

... is to outdo each other in over-the-top craziness to appease their lemmings. I suspect DeSatanis will say something even more outrageous. It's all political theater. They know nothing about leadership.

infullview

(1,128 posts)
37. NO! You all have it wrong!
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:26 PM
Apr 2023

This is how you crank up the property values! Pure self aggrandizement in mind for someone who see himself as a real estate mogul.

CanonRay

(16,171 posts)
38. And 25% of the country would cheerfully go along with this.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:28 PM
Apr 2023

They could use their guns to help round them up.

patphil

(9,065 posts)
44. Trump is one of those amazing people who can spew shit out of either end.
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 04:53 PM
Apr 2023

Almost all of what he says will get flushed as soon as he is elected.
Clue: homeless people don't vote, so they don't matter at all to him...not worth more than an empty gesture (or should I say jester?).

The jester speaks and his base listens, but he knows they will never remember.

Ferrets are Cool

(22,956 posts)
47. This ONE statement will garner him tons of votes....
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 05:05 PM
Apr 2023

from IDIOTs who will already vote for him, regardless of the garbage that comes from his maw.

marble falls

(71,919 posts)
49. Well of course he does. He just wants to bring all of Obama's FEMA camps out of mothballs ...
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 05:05 PM
Apr 2023

... he got the idea from Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

johnnyfins

(3,767 posts)
52. The big tell in this:
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 05:23 PM
Apr 2023

He throws in: "Many of them don't want that(rehabilitation)"

That goes right in line with the takers and gamers of government help. They don't want to work, etc. Meanwhile, the BIGGEST takers are in all the red states. Fucking unbelievable.

How does he even know that many of them don't want that? He's just whining because NY hates his loathsome, old, wannabe nazi, carcass.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
55. And most people won't care. They will say they do, but Covid has been a test run on the indifference
Tue Apr 18, 2023, 08:54 PM
Apr 2023

Americans have regarding the preventable death of vulnerable and elderly people.

Thousands of Americans are still dying of Covid every week and people who claim to care about human life are running around spreading it without a care in the world.

I just saw a tweet from a children's hospital that they would no longer require masking. At a hospital! Where very ill children have to get treatment. This is a culling at this point. Anyone old, weak, sick, immune compromised is marked for death. No one speaks up for them anymore.

Everybody needs to read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning before it's too late.

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