https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-27-swamp-inside-mind-donald-trump/
"Amid the vomitous fusillade Donald Trump spewed at the now-infamous rally
thrown by the “Buckeye Values PAC” in Dayton, Ohio—before the bit about the
“bloodbath” but after the one about how he would “save our country” by
releasing “those unbelievable patriots” who assaulted the Capitol on January
6th—America’s 45th president addressed a certain category of migrants: the ones
he wasn’t sure one could even call people. He was strikingly specific, citing
22 “who arrived from the Congo.” He pretended to address those 22 benighted
souls: “Where are you from in the Congo? What’s your address?” He answered for
them: “Prison.”
Same, he said, with “these people” supposedly being sent by Central American
governments: “And I would do the same thing if I had prisons that were teeming
with MS-13 and all sorts of people that they’ve got to take care of for the
next 50 years … We have so many people being hurt so badly and being killed.
They’re sending their prisoners to see us.”
Suckers that we are, America just lets them in.
In another of his most famous recent rants—the “poisoning the blood” one from
last December in Reno—he puked something similar, with one extra detail: that
blood-poisoning hordes had also been sprung from mental institutions—“all over
the world, not just in South America.”
These are surreal refrains, entirely invented, of course. But Donald Trump,
naturally, didn’t invent them. Nobody ever accused the Donald of being
innovative in his xenophobia, or of having a steel-trap mind (except himself,
of course). However, regarding one very specific sort of cognition, the guy’s
Mensa-worthy. When it comes to the history of racial panics that happened
during his adult lifetime, his brain is like flypaper."
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
