So after Ivanka’s petulant meltdown with Cosmo after her Dad’s phony childcare ponzy scheme gets called out, and Donald Jr’s latest bigoted tweet attacking Syrian Refugees following the NY/NJ bombing spree which was apparently committed by a legal immigrant from an entirely different country who became a fully naturalized citizen it seems that Senior isn’t really that a SuperDad after all. And like so many things Republican, the closer you look at it, the worse it gets.
So you see this here?
Hey buddy, we. don’t. have. a. Syrian. refugee. problem. Not after they get vetted both by the UN and the US for 18-24 months. But that’s beside the point. The first thing is the reference of “three will kill you”, apparently that comes from this.
MPI analyzed the number of refugees resettled through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, and found just three people were arrested on terrorism charges. Two were Iraqi refugees arrested in Bowling Green, Ky., in 2011 on suspicion of plotting to send weapons to insurgents to kill American soldiers abroad. The third is an Uzbek refugee who was arrested in 2013 in Boise, Idaho, accused of conspiring to support a terrorist organization, gathering explosive materials, and plotting to carry out an attack on U.S. soil.
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In an article on Oct. 18, 2015, the Economist further explained: “If a potential terrorist is determined to enter America to do harm, there are easier and faster ways to get there than by going through the complex refugee resettlement process. Of the almost 750,000 refugees who have been admitted to America since 9/11, only two Iraqis have arrested on terrorist charges; they had not planned an attack in America, but aided al-Qaeda at home.”
There’s your deadly “three” — two of whom weren’t planning attacks on U.S. soil at all — out of a pool of 750,000. Pardon me, but that’s a really big bowl. Really really big. Like enormous.
You’d be more likely to get poisoned going into your local Chipotle.
Oh and why does it have to filled with Skittles pray tell?
The analogy isn’t new, and has been used for years by white supremacists to overgeneralize about various minority groups. “It is often deployed as a way to prop up indefensible stereotypes by taking advantage of human ignorance about base rates, risk assessment and criminology,” wrote Emil Karlsson on the blog Debunking Denialism. “In the end, it tries to divert attention from the inherent bigotry in making flawed generalizations.”
A basket of “Flawed generalizations.” Yeah, yet another name for the Trump campaign. Anywhoo….
The analogy, which has been used on message boards and shared as social media memes, originally used M&Ms as the candy in question — but that changed after George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin while the unarmed black teen was walking home from buying a drink and some Skittles.
A Google image search of “skittles trayvon meme”reveals a horrible bounty of captioned images mocking the slain teenager, whose killer was acquitted after claiming self-defense under Florida’s “stand your ground” law.
But the poisoned candy analogy goes back even further, to an anti-Semitic children’s book published by Julius Streicher, the publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer who was executed in 1946 as a war criminal.
Get it? Skittles are all colored. They don’t come in White, so a bowl full of Skittles is a bowl fully of colored non-white people. Colored non-whites who just might kill you, maybe, but only if you pick the one, or three, out of 750,000. Obviously the risk is just too high. We can’t afford to take a chance, best to just chuck the entire bowl out and keep them out, with a wall, a great big beauiful $2-25 Billion Wall that’s has above and below the ground monitoring and extreme ideological don’t you truly Lurve America enough in an Uber Non-Reichstad burning I’ll stay a virgin forever I swear purity test vetting.
Way to stoke the White-Panic there Donnie.
And I’ll just bet Junior knows nothing about how Skittles is a code-word. Just as he knew nothing about how America hasn’t had an operating gas chamber for decades, let alone exactly where you might find the plural “gas chambers” other than Nazi Germany, and he knows nothing — NOTHING — of Pepe the Frog when he retweeted “The Deplorables” meme.
Donald Trump Jr. has no idea what Pepe the Frog is, the eldest son of the Republican presidential nominee remarked Friday, as he also defended himself after some accused him of referring to the Holocaust using the term "gas chamber" in a radio interview earlier this week.
Rejecting that he was making a Holocaust reference, Trump Jr. faced more questions on ABC's "Good Morning America" from George Stephanopoulos, who asked him about an Instagram post he shared last weekend featuring a Trump version of Pepe. In that photo, Trump Jr. is among the faces superimposed on the bodies of characters from "The Expendables" as "The Deplorables," a reference to Hillary Clinton's comment about half of Trump supporters. Along with Trump, Trump Jr., and the Pepe Trump, other people appearing in the photo included running mate Mike Pence, surrogates Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie and Ben Carson, and others, including InfoWars' Alex Jones, Roger Stone and Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos.
Calling the frog meme a "well-known symbol of the white supremacist movement," Stephanopoulos referred to the company of others in the photo who have propagated various conspiracy theories.
"I've never even heard of Pepe the Frog. I mean, bet you 90 percent of your viewers have never heard of Pepe the Frog," Trump Jr. told Stephanopoulos, adding, "I thought it was a frog in a wig. I thought it was funny. I had no idea there was any connotation there."
Part of the reason the alt-Right use little coded characters and memes like Pepe, or tattoos with “88” (which is for the eighth letter in the alphabet which is “H” — indicating “HH” or “Heil Hitler”) is so that they can talk their jive and the “norms” just don’t notice. If everybody knows the code, it’s not a code anymore is it? So, no, 90 percent of George Stephanopoulos viewers don’t know it, and that’s on purpose.
So we’re left with two options. Donald Trump Jr. is a blatant white supremacist who is so arrogant he thinks the rest of us are meat-ball brained idiots, or he himself is a gall darn Moran who keeps stepping in the same puddle of shit-stained alt-right supremacist bong water and tracking it all up and down twitter over and over again.
I guess that would be par for a member of the same family and campaign that continues to pretend that Donald Trump didn’t send out 37 Birther Tweets AFTER the President released his long form birth certificate in 2011 and that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign — not some of her supporters — started and promoted that entire ridiculous rumor in the first place, while at the same time saying they take no responsibility when 61% of their own supporters think Obama is an illegal alien, 66% of them think he’s a Muslim, or the fact that many of them are not very closeted racists who occasionally sucker punch and cold cock people at Trump rallies.
Apples. Not falling that far.