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EarlG

(21,949 posts)
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 01:07 PM Nov 2015

Pic Of The Moment: The Deportation Force Awakens



Here's what's wrong with Trump’s deportation plan

Obama ridicules Trump's plan for a 'deportation force'


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Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
2. That's a good concept photo
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 01:13 PM
Nov 2015

Generalissimo Trump looks like he's addressing a "political rally" from a balcony, protected from those assembled by a private army.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
4. This idea evokes a different image for me
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 01:57 PM
Nov 2015

Warsaw Ghetto, 1943, tends to spring to mind.




Let's face it: Star Wars storm troopers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from three feet away.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
10. Right from the get-go. The more he talks, especially the 95-minute rant, the more he resembles....
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 05:57 PM
Nov 2015

... any of numerous dictators throughout history.

Part of his latest, delivered to robust cheers from the audience, was to declare that the US couldn't have any more "nice guys" as POTUS just now, that what the US needs is for Trump to get in there and clean things up (with explicit references to foreign policy and deportation of Mexicans) and then maybe, just maybe, we could have someone in the office who would be nice.

He's not funny. He's scary as hell.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
16. yes sadly, but T says he'll round them up "humanely"
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 01:10 PM
Nov 2015

He said he'd call them up before he comes for them! That will result in 0 deportations and then he will have to resort to methods such as the Nazis used. How anyone can be duped by these statements is beyond me except that we desperately need to improve our educational system.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
9. Oh, thank you! I thought I was the only one who saw similarities
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 05:19 PM
Nov 2015

His gesticulations and the tonal inflections while he speaks.
His ideas that -- to intelligent, caring people -- are outrageously offensive.
The "bodyguards" ejecting journalist Jorge Ramos from a news conference, which was wholly reminiscent of brown-shirts' tactics in the 1930s.
And then there's the vacant look on the fans/followers' faces as they listen to their leader.
<shudder>

President Obama has endured years of comparisons to Herr Schickelgruber by right-wing nut-jobs, but the resemblances between der Führer and tRump are uncanny. And terrifying.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
11. Believe me, you are not the only one who sees this. America thought the little corporal was funny...
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 06:02 PM
Nov 2015

...even as the guy mesmerized crowds back in his own country. Lest we forget, he had some admirers here, too, just as Putin has some fans in the US today.

It chills me to the bone how very attractive some humans -- especially Americans, since that's who we're talking about just now -- find the classic strongman-bully to be.

Roy Rolling

(6,918 posts)
7. job creator
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 02:58 PM
Nov 2015

He asks for volunteers to drive the busses to Mexico, with luck, to where they will be dropped off at a Trump-brand clothing sweatshop.

 

captainarizona

(363 posts)
8. democrats stand up against racism now"
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 03:25 PM
Nov 2015

I have written a screenplay about the plight of the undocumented children in arizona to help inform americans what is going on here. You can read it at my web site: thealamoisavenged.com people tell me the title is a little off setting till they read the screenplay and then it makes sense. Please read it and tell me what you think of it.

NonMetro

(631 posts)
13. Trump is just shooting his mouth off - again.
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 09:29 PM
Nov 2015

Currently, we already deport about 1,000 people every day, and about 2 million+ have been deported during the Obama Administration, and almost an equal number during dubya's presidency. So, I really wonder now about this 11 million figure that's been thrown around now for years. It just has to have gone down some considering the massive deportations that have taken place, but it's always reported as 11 million. Even the science on that number looks kind of fishy to me. How could anyone know what the number was to begin with of people who didn't want to be detected at all? And I understand this number counts people who have been here for 25 or 30 years! I think they're guessing - and the Trump's of this world are using it to demagogue.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
20. Mussolini quote
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 11:11 PM
Nov 2015

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”

What a better person to lead the charge than someone tied up in the corporate world?

polynomial

(750 posts)
14. More Junk Politics
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 02:03 AM
Nov 2015

It’s reasonable to fathom that as a general that stopped the Nazi culture in Europe, Eisenhower, understood immigration and migration distribution issues along with the odor of death camps.

It isn’t difficult to understand intuitively that relocation of a million people means a commitment had to be agreed upon by the Mexican government at the time to meet and furnish a return of its citizens, however, for various reasons continuously ignored obligations as done today.

The flavor of this rhetoric and its quality is what we all should call
“GOP Junk Politics”

It’s apparent Trump is the very core, the essence of a politically oriented mental exploiter. The very kernel of hate based culture that characterized the Nazi movement. In that time a clear historical warning given by Eisenhower as being the military industrial complex that is not American.

All that parallels todays modern creation by the GOP Bush war crime administration in the what many see as coined in American bribe money as a cultural mental disease Al-Quedaisis, especially typified by the latest Paris terrorism.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
15. Mika also asked him to explain his "I used the laws of the US" statement re: bankruptcies
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 01:07 PM
Nov 2015

He clearly did not want to answer and in fact, got angry/flustered and then changed the subject.

Connecting the dots: He said early in the campaign that when he was a big donor, he got "what I wanted" in exchange for the donations. The reporters don't get it. He used the laws + got what he wanted = he got laws that he wanted that benefited him in bankruptcies. No doubt he bought pols in xchange for those laws.

But the reporters never pound away at these questions. I will say that Chris Matthews is one who does, but he hasn't interviewed Trump yet I don't think. He should.

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