The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Rev. Rye]

Non-citizen criminals? A non-negligible number of the people Trump sent there haven’t even been accused of a (serious*) crime by anyone else but the Trump administration. Indeed, some people seem to have just been rounded up by ICE just because they were there.





I can remember an old talk by Ben Shapiro where he balks at the idea of mass incarceration because (at least prior to 2020) we weren’t just taking minorities and rounding them up with lassos. Now, we’re getting cases of exactly that, and I picture him saying “mmm… still doesn’t count because there’s no lassos involved.” Clip is 16 minutes in.





Hell, this has happened in my own hometown. Granted, that particular block of Oakton Street isn’t one of my stomping grounds, but the fact that it’s happening so close to me is terrifying.





Thank fuck I’m just a white boy.

* I admit that, technically, some (maybe a majority) weren’t here legally. That said, getting a look at how Byzantine the actual process of getting a green card is disabused me of any notion that this was a malum in se.