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Joe Biden LITERALLY PASSED AN EO that shuts down asylum requests once the average number of daily encounters tops 2,500
THE BORDER HAS ALREADY BEEN HALF CLOSED BECAUSE YOU FUCKING CRAVEN DIPSTICKS TRIED TO EARN THE 'PROUD KKK MEMBER' VOTING BLOCK
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Hillary and her 2016 campaign people DO NOT get enough shit for their pied piper strategy. They're the ones who MADE Trump.
It says a lot about how overconfident they were that they figured a wild card would be easier to beat than a bog standard republican man.
Since when did they need an excuse?
H5N1, we have to close the border to protect Mexico.
What do you mean by sanewashing?
Trump is creating a 2025 "brown peril" equivalent of the yellow peril of the late 1800s and early 1990s. Immigrants from certain countries are dirty, unclean, and bring disease. The Times is pretending that's not true and Trump is merely using the law to further his legislative agenda.
Seems like they're reporting that Trump is seeking a legal figleaf for his racist policy.
I guess we just read it differently.
I guess we just read it differently.
Yes we do. The media and DC dems are going big on sanewashing what clearly is racism.
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way | The New Republic
The immigration bill the Senate is taking up has some horrible provisions. With worse on the way, Democrats should not be caving like this.
And more sanewashing there is - the more openly racist and hateful Trump and the GOP will be.
I think the confusion is coming from "sane" vs "insane", rather than "sanetising"
Sanewashing is the act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience. The term was initially coined in online discussions about defunding the police in 2020, but has come to greater prominence in critique of media practices relating to Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election. Journalism organizations and media commentators have suggested actions both readers and writers can take to mitigate sanewashing.
It's a terrible term, that much is certain