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It's pretty amazing to watch the POTUS accuse the FBI of plotting against him ... but then doing zero about it except hitting the Twitter app on his phone.

 

Considering the hypocrisy of people like Scarlett Johannsen, who castigate James Franco but still keep quiet about Woody Allen, I think Clinton would have been fine. Hell, Trump is fine, at least on the measure of sexual inappropriateness.

 

Yes, where would any reasonable person have ever got the idea this president's immigration proposals have anything to do with race?

Analysis | ‘They’re rapists.’ President Trump’s campaign launch speech two years later, annotated

https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Immigration-Reform-Trump.pdf

 

You’ve got some catching-up to do ...

 

Someone is doing the raping.

As the number of Central American women and girls crossing into the U.S. continues to spike, so is the staggering amount of sexual violence waged against these migrants who are in search of a better life.

According to a stunning Fusion investigation, 80 percent of women and girls crossing into the U.S. by way of Mexico are raped during their journey. That’s up from a previous estimate of 60 percent, according to an Amnesty International report.

This year alone, immigration authorities expect more than 70,000 unaccompanied minorsto come through the United States unlawfully, the majority of whom are from Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The number of unaccompanied Central American girls caught at the Southwest border has rapidly outpaced the number boys, according to a July Pew Research study.

80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S. | HuffPost

 

Is Dick Whitman a better writer than ... Neil Gorsuch? Finally we have an apples to apples comparison we can make.

Neil Gorsuch Is a Terrible Writer

 

OK.

All caught up.

 

Sigh ... I give not a fuck for (or even about) the tangerine buffoon. I give a fuck about the vapidity of the it’s all about being shitty to brown people “argument.”

 

And yet you've yet to meaningfully refute it. The best you've come up with is that hypothetical approaches that aren't currently being employed could theoretically not be racist, that illegal immigrants in the 1990s could have been 1-for-1 swapped with other non-white people somehow but also we're not actually doing that, and it can't be racist because racist ideas wouldn't be able to use the same words as non-racist ideas.

"Being shitty to brown people" continues to be the only motivation that all of the current immigration debate actually follows from logically. Every other attempt at explanation so far has been a shitty patchwork of ad hoc explanations that don't apply over the broad spectrum of cases.

 

The question sure does seem to be a favorite of the people fixated on making America whiter again. That's the only reason immigration is a major national debate at the moment. I'm sure that in some bureaucratic theorycrafting sense, it could always be made better on the margins. But the only reason immigration is taking center stage in national policy is because of the "Everything's going to hell in a handbasket since we started letting *those* people in" crowd.

 

Of course not. And I agree.

Trouble is, he's the one driving that argument, such as it is. In fact he ran on that argument and won on that argument.

Whether or not there's some subtle, pragmatic calculus to a new US immigration policy, the overwhelming impression is one of unsubtle racism.