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lostnfound

(17,634 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 10:16 AM Aug 2019

Is the GOP trying to REWARD white terrorism with "immigration reform"? [View all]

He says he wants to link immigration reform together with some type of gun control measure.

isn’t he basically saying that he wants to give the terrorist what the terrorist supposedly wanted? To “stop the invasion“?

Of course there’s the politics: Trump would win whether it’s by letting gun control die on the vine and blaming the Democrats, or forcing Democrats to sacrifice either gun control or protections for DACA kids or asylum-seekers.

But maybe what he means by “letting something good or even great” come out of these tragedies is even worse. Is Trump feeling sad that his peep Crusius is gonna end up in jail for life or executed, and wants to make something good come of it? The message he would be sending — is it that the shooter was a martyr for a good cause?

Shoot up a Walmart and your president will give you what you want, you young white supremacists. Because your president is sympathetic to your pitiful fears and angst, and your delusions of glory. Cause enough pain, and the Congress will be lured into passing some lame little halfhearted gun control measure but it will be accompanied by anti-immigrant measures to make America whiter again.

The content of the measures would be irrelevant. It would set up a reward system for domestic terrorists.

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