Em Adespoton

That’s a positive spin.

Pessimistic me expected this all along; the goal is to make immigrants feel unsafe no matter where they are, even if ICE only targets some areas when they feel like it.

It’s the same way Trump approaches everything else.

Well, Trump can’t forgive anything.

I think this is the point - headline will be

“<demographic to be vilified> attacks and kills VA nurse/doctor/etc. Government to investigate risks from <demographic>”

And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda comes to mind for me…. The Aussies already learned the lesson Americans are going to have to learn very soon.

He pre-dates ALL CAPS. For him, that means it’s a new paragraph in a legal document or he forgot to turn off caps lock.

He’ll underline it instead.

If we will all die anyway, is there anything wrong with killing the wealthy and powerful?

Or does the tune change then?

Yeah; for any faith system, you’ll get someone attempting to exploit it to maintain their wealth and power.

Eventually, the entire underlying belief structure that’s usually based on something real becomes overlaid with a prescriptive ideology designed to help a small group of people get their way.