This week we have lurid verbal attacks on immigrants and grotesque physical attacks on immigrants. He’s still the one.
During congressional testimony yesterday, a GOP congresswoman rolled out one of those patented Trump storeid about a violent immigrant who hurt a Real American and demanded that he tell her how many more people have to be kidnapped before he decides to “take action.”
He was rightly offended by the implication, saying it was “extraordinarily disrespectful … disrespectful not only to me, but disrespectful to the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security and to all the front-line personnel across this country who dedicate themselves to the safety and security of the American people.” She was unmoved, so assured of her (white) righteousness that it didn’t mean a thing.
Meanwhile, we had a white, religious fanatic, gun nut kill 7 people in Atlanta, five of them Asian women, because they “tempted” him. And he was able to buy a gun that day to carry out his demented plot because people like this women demand that we allow violent, right wing freaks like him to have easy access to lethal weapons.
I don’t think I have to remind anyone of the multiple other mass shooting that have taken place over the last few years in which the perpetrators were regurgitating all the disgusting racist, misogynist, xenophobic, eliminationist rhetoric these people spew. Maybe they should take a look at their own record. The body count is massive.