Summary
Donald Trump, who attended the national prayer service following his inauguration, and his allies attacked Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde after her sermon criticized his treatment of marginalized communities.
Trump called her a “Radical Left Trump hater” and criticized her sermon as “boring” and “nasty.”
Fox News and GOP Rep. Mike Collins joined in, with Collins absurdly calling for her deportation.
Critics noted the hypocrisy in Trump’s selective embrace of religion, celebrating faith only when it aligns with his political agenda, and warned of the Streisand Effect amplifying Budde’s message.
It’s feels like it’s because deep down they all know ‘deport’ means ‘forced work camp’ since no country will actually take them.
It’s so transparent and yet so few really do pause on this moment and understand the severity of what this means for this kind of talk to be normalized so soon. For a Seig Heil to be normalized so soon and excused as “misunderstood.” They have no principles, none, there is no bottom and they find a perverse joy in hurting those they have power over.
People need to be aware of just how deep in this we are.
I don’t think it’s that complex.
People recognize it isn’t a crime, they still aren’t so far gone to suggest criminalizing it… But they still don’t like it and just want the person removed from their society. Putting them on a plane or bus out of the country and not letting them back in fits the bill.
I really really don’t think people think that deported means you go to a concentration camp somewhere. If they did, there’s no reason to not just criminalize the behavior. Make them do slave labor in jail in the USA for the benefit of the USA, if that’s the case.
It’s not like people aren’t happy to suggest criminalizing ALL KINDS of behavior anyways. It’s not like they’re not happy to chant “lock them up!”. Why not just go that route in these cases? Why even bother with deportation as word?
Deportation I think is just “banishment” in the brains of everyone who suggests it.
Yeah. I think the predictable trajectory of “We deported all the Mexicans, oh no who will work the fields for $10/hr, oh wait we have all these prisoners, problem solved, oh wait we don’t have enough prisoners” needs to be getting talked about a lot more than it is.
That will only happen when they run out of children for labor. Republicans in Iowa, for instance, want to lower the fine for child labor from an already low $10k down to $2500.
Even children you have to pay. Prisoners are 100% cheaper, and also don’t come with any health and safety limitations. You can just send them out in the hot sun without much water, and if they die, you have more.