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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat May 12, 2018, 05:50 AM May 2018

John Kelly Dons His Pointy White Hood Again



Fast forward to the distant future of less than one year later and Kelly has not only failed to lessen the chaos of the Trump administration, he's also come out of the closet as a white supremacist, smearing his own "honorable" reputation by spitting on the foundational concept of America as a nation of immigrants.

Here's his latest foray into ignorance:

Let me step back and tell you that the vast majority of the people that move illegally into United States are not bad people. They’re not criminals. They’re not MS-13. … But they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society. They’re overwhelmingly rural people. In the countries they come from, fourth, fifth, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm. They don’t speak English; obviously that’s a big thing. … They don’t integrate well; they don’t have skills.


"Modern society"? Does Kelly think immigrants will be confused by indoor plumbing and color television? Donald Trump is still amazed by the White House's phone system, his staff couldn't initially figure out how to turn on the fucking lights, and none of them apparently know how to use a spellchecker so perhaps Kelly should not cast aspersions on the "rubes" from other countries while being surrounded by a team of them himself.

But the incompetence of the Trump administration aside, Kelly seems to have forgotten that it wasn't all that long ago that his own people, the Irish immigrants of the 1800s, were once considered "overwhelmingly rural" and unwanted because they were "also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society." In fact, the Irish were considered slightly better than animals:


[link:https://thedailybanter.com/2018/05/john-kelly-dons-his-pointy-white-hood-again/|

21st Century and White Supremacists are running the USA. Fucking ridiculous
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John Kelly Dons His Pointy White Hood Again (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2018 OP
Archie Bunker mentality. nt oasis May 2018 #1
Assimilation is not his strength. GeorgeGist May 2018 #2
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