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Trump Suggests Immigrants Have ‘Bad Genes’ [Q&A] (theonion.com)

submitted 2 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/theonion@midwest.social

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Former President Donald Trump suggested that migrants have “bad genes” while criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for her policies on the southern border, claiming that many immigrants have a genetic predisposition for murder. What do you think?

“I heard that 100% of illegal immigrants bring DNA with them.”

Janeen Fry, Loafer Shiner

“Still, it was nice of him to consider them human.”

Mitchell Slota, Carbon Reducer

“Just the kind of ignorant statement I’d expect from someone of Bavarian breeding stock.”

Jesus Alonso, Keyboard Optimizer

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love that The Onion has never changed these pictures.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

as in these are recurring characters?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

Yup. It’s a great running joke.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

They aren't recurring characters like the other guy said. They just reuse the same photos

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No, they're carefully selected by the Managing Editor of the Onion, Ted K.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok. This is cheating. The Onion, you can't keep being The Onion, if you're just going to report things he's actually said, and has said for years. At that point, it's no longer absurd satire. It's just real life absurdity. That's cheating.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Plagiarism from reality.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

I was going to make a joke about how the immigrant Friedrich Trump definitely had bad genes, but they've basically already done it.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if Jesus likes his job as a keyboard optimizer..

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

At least he doesn't shine loafers for a living.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

What, no Systems Analyst?

-A fellow Analyst

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Given their occupations, it seems all of them are descended from immigrants from Golgafrincham. Not sure if these are the best people to be weighing in on this topic.