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Idiots Slander US [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 23 June 2019 | John Semmens

Posted on 06/21/2019 5:07:21 PM PDT by John Semmens

This week the profoundly ignorant Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asserted that persons illegally entering the United States "are being held in concentration camps." Among the atrocities inflicted are "widespread boredom and inappropriate menus. Few know that there is a serious shortage of TVs and that meals are prepared without considering the ethnicity of the recipients."

When critics objected to her characterization, she alleged that "most people don't know that the government put Japanese people in concentration camps during WWII." This slander was joined by nattering nincompoop George Takei. The aging Star Trek actor and gay-rights agitator alleged that "I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again."

A few months after Japan's unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government rounded-up Americans of Japanese descent living on the west coast and held them in internment camps until after a 1944 US Supreme Court decision ruled that while their removal from the west coast was a lawful use of the president's war powers, their detention was unwarranted. The US eventually paid financial damages amounting to $1.2 billion to former detainees in 1988.

While conditions in these internment camps were spartan they were nothing akin to the concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany. Internees were neither worked to death nor murdered in gas chambers. The policy was to keep families together and treat them humanely. These stark differences failed to blunt Ocasio-Cortez's slander. Instead, she added her assertion that "only Nazis oppose open borders" and joined other Democrats in Congress to oppose funding that would improve the living conditions in the illegal immigrant detention centers.

Meanwhile, the horror of incarceration at the hands of Germans was once again demonstrated by the revelation that Ali Bashar, the convicted rapist and murderer of a 14-year-old girl, is being held in a facility with access to only 23 TV channels. United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Coly Seck has promised "to investigate this potential abuse of prisoners' human rights."

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/263361-2019-06-21-semi-news-semi-satire-june-23-2019-edition.htm


TOPICS: Government; History; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: concentrationcamps; detention; illegals; nazis; oasiocortez; satire

1 posted on 06/21/2019 5:07:21 PM PDT by John Semmens
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2 posted on 06/21/2019 5:09:15 PM PDT by John Semmens
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Don Lemon has repeatedly used or enabled the Hitler reference on his shows. Jewish groups wrote to him more than a year ago that they found these comments offensive when Dem Rep Clayburn called Trump Hitler on his show. If someone says something offensive and you tell them it offends you, the decent thing to do is at least reign it in a bit. But not Lemon. He went on to use this same analogy several times over the next year, most recently he was on Chris Cuomo’s show and used the analogy as he explained how he felt Trump’s rhetoric is offensive and dangerous.

In other words, Lemon continued to offend people deliberately as he explained how offended he was. At least Cuomo had the decency to call him out on it - comparing a person who’s policies you don’t like to a genocidal maniac is over the edge of derangement. But more than that it is also dangerous. In the last year 2 Synagogues were shot up by Trump hating anti-Semites. In NYC, there is a 55% increase in attacks on Jews and Jewish places. Lemon says that Trump’s rhetoric is “dangerous” referring to himself as an African American - which I believe is categorically false - but Lemon is completely oblivious to the danger of diluting the absolute horror of the Nazi regime.

AOC is another matter - she is still a total ditz. But when called out on her comments she became even more strident.

It is not at all a coincidence that these comments were uttered by two hacks on the exact same day Trump launched his 2020 re-election bid. This is a coordinated effort by partisan hacks to malign Trump. They even trotted out a series of experts to defend their comments. The Democrats are throwing the Jewish community under the bus in the effort to slander Trump. They have made it clear by these comments and the comments by Omar and others in Congress that the effort to slander and libel the POTUS with false and offensive analogies is more important than the opinion of the Jewish American community - which supports the Dems by a greater than 2:1 margin.

Keep in mind that this all ties right into Hillary’s “deplorables” strategy. I never saw the wisdom in insulting the voters when you’re trying to win their votes but that is what she did. And now, the Dems are doubling down on stupid - they are effectively calling Trump supporters Nazis and Brownshirts by drawing these analogies. I won’t even bother explaining how they are actually, factually, wrong, immoral and hypocritical on these issues of the day - it is enough to just note that these are not random this is a campaign strategy. I can’t believe even mainline Dems would want to vote for people who don’t think twice about offending people and dividing the country in the most stark terms - probably since the Civil War. The Dems were on the wrong side of that one, too.

The Dems are totally off the rails. They have accomplished nothing and want to advance nothing other than to deny Trump anything that would be perceived as a policy victory. Personally I think this is all a losing strategy - but they think it will work for them.


3 posted on 06/21/2019 5:51:34 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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I would house them in tent cities. Good enough for our troops good enough for illegals. Don’t like it, don’t come here.


4 posted on 06/21/2019 10:43:24 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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Here's hoping Shatner outlives the rest of TOS cast!

5 posted on 06/22/2019 12:26:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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