He literally did the thing where he goes, “yeah we were doing the same shit, but because it wasn’t in the news, I didn’t care, and so it was fine with me.”

I’ve seen the phrase scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, but I’ve never seen it admitted to quite like this.

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      It really cannot be understated how the democrats acted hand-in-glove with building and normalizing all of this. The precedence for not throwing Trump in jail for trying to overthrow the government was forged in the fire that decided to keep Nixon free. Personally I’m glad this inevitable bullshit blew up while Obama was still alive to see it. Can’t ask Gerald Ford for comments these days.

      Oh what’s that big thing you dems harped up? Russiagate? Money funneled through the NRA? The NRA headed by Ollie North, another guy from an administration that should have been emptied into a jail cell?

      If it looks like a pattern and quacks like a pattern…

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    In an alternative universe libs would be talking about how they were doing the holocaust within budget and ahead of schedule

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    Do they understand what deportation means?

    Lots of people just think it just means people who are not legally allowed to stay get sent back to their country. They’re not educated enough to understand what it actually entails. This information is kept “secret” and as long as the people are happy with their material conditions they have no reason to seek alternative worldview.

    They’re happy, they think their government is/was good, who treats/ed them well enough and they have no reason to doubt their government wouldn’t treat others well, after all it teaches that everyone is equal, that we are fighting for freedom, for equality, that our way of life is better than those sad people in the places with evil governments, that we are trying to save everybody and help everyone develop, be happy, we can’t save them because “bad people” won’t let us. Anyone who offers counter views is propogandist.

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    I know the guy I want fucking my wife deported more people than any of his predecessors and the corpse I insist was a good President actually kept his predecessor’s concentration camps open, but there’s no series of events so obvious it could be a straight line that lead us to today

    Liberals will, in the same breath, claim his worst scandal was the tan suit or whatever

    Also wasn’t this fucker literally paid by the democrats?

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    They lack the political education to even understand what they mean when they say shit like this. Either that, or they 100% genuinely think the violence of a police shooting outweighs the endless violence that goes into deporting immigrants

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    This Twitter poster’s phrasing may actually be good counterpropaganda.

    Subvert the Liberal expectation against the democrats, force them to drop their political amnesia - get them to call Obama the “Deporter in Chief” - and then agitate people against both the Democrats and the Republicans.

    Otherwise these ICE issues get swept under the rug as a Republican problem that will go away by voting Democrat.