Post AiR0bbVKWcGeErGWxc by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AiQwkzddlUZxsXNGzY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-31T00:35:59Z
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Was there any story, or example that started this Trump line that he keeps repeating about people from "prisons and mental institutions" "flooding the country" ?I mean he has a point, there are so many they are even former presidents...But seriously... was there anything that started it or is it just totally made up without even a single distorted example?
(DIR) Post #AiQxPxZCN8FXKIpai0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-31T00:43:23Z
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Normally the things he talks about have a kind of right wing "lore" about them that starts with something at least half true, that happened maybe once... sort of. And there are whole media cycles about it on right wing media, so his "people" know what he's talking about. But this line just sounds absurd and I never even hear anyone bother to point out just how absurd it is. "They are emptying prisons" he's said. Without even saying what country?
(DIR) Post #AiQxvi8hGZzokIZjGa by peterbautista@hachyderm.io
2024-05-31T00:49:07Z
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@futurebird Maybe when people were being released from prison during the height of the pandemic? 🤷‍♂️
(DIR) Post #AiQy6iVIFfIt3sOPAm by trachelipus@masto.ai
2024-05-31T00:51:03Z
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@futurebird A lot of Trump's thinking seems stuck in the 1970's and early 80's. I suspect, therefore, the allegation comes from the Mariel boatlift during the Carter administration. Short version is Fidel Castro allowed and/or encouraged political dissidents to flee from Cuba to the US. Allegations at that time said he used the opportunity to get rid of ordinary criminals as well as political prisoners.
(DIR) Post #AiQzqZ6hcVvpC3JgjQ by queenofnewyork@newsie.social
2024-05-31T01:10:36Z
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@futurebird I’ve never seen anything. I suspect it is to muddy search results for “immigrant asylum seekers” so people see the fear-mongering rather than that people have a legit right to seek asylum in the US.
(DIR) Post #AiR08vFE3Ivf423Z0i by Mazzo@chaos.social
2024-05-31T01:13:55Z
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@futurebird he is eventually realizing whats coming, a bit stressed and just replacing the words like "thugs and rapists" from his former speeches with new terms? wonder if the gag order could be extended to public speaking.. well, 3 trials to go
(DIR) Post #AiR0LwglzfTBJA9SUK by bramboro@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T01:16:16Z
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@futurebird See "Effect on Political Attitudes"... The Cuban boat of 1980 was mythologized by Republicans as full of criminals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
(DIR) Post #AiR0NTKO810kpFPQHo by LeftCoast@freeradical.zone
2024-05-31T01:16:24Z
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@futurebird My theory is that older people remember the Mariel boatlift in the 80s and the rumors about Castro emptying his prisons and asylums. It worked then, so...
(DIR) Post #AiR0bbVKWcGeErGWxc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-31T01:19:08Z
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@LeftCoast Real old people. That was before my time, and I followed political events from a rather young age.
(DIR) Post #AiR2HsZ5aHfFGfkJt2 by cholling@social.sdf.org
2024-05-31T01:37:57Z
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@futurebird @LeftCoast The rest of us learned about it from watching Scarface.
(DIR) Post #AiR2Zf5SQwLSgBMjKq by LeftCoast@freeradical.zone
2024-05-31T01:41:10Z
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@futurebird I'm old enough to remember OMG, I just got carded tonight buying beer!
(DIR) Post #AiRNvsYx6rupsjb4Hg by lufthans@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T05:40:29Z
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@futurebird it seems that he often just makes stuff up and then people backronym a story to fit it