Gregory's ServerThe GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain
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@georgetakei Oh FFS! Every time I think they've done their worst they come up with something more awful. ๐  @annietime You've gotta be quite the piece of work if you leave a position under accusations of misconduct... during the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. @annietime @NovemberMan @BaronVonScrub @annietime @NovemberMan I donโt believe Hamas is allowing them to leave the area. @GeorgiaOnMyMind Oh, I'm aware. This is just noting the irony of them condemning the exact demographic they allegedly seek to support. @GeorgiaOnMyMind I Believe you're right. Terrible that they're pawns for one side, targets for the other.  @annietime @NovemberMan are these the same CSs who renamed French Fries, Freedom Fries? @NovemberMan @georgetakei @pomegranate_stew @NovemberMan @georgetakei Heโs the clown who dressed up in western cosplay and rode a goddamned horse to his first day on the job as Secretary of the Interior. He had his own flag raised whenever he was in the building. He eventually had to resign after he got caught handing his buddyโs three-man company a no-bid contract to electrify ALL OF PUERTO RICO after hurricane Maria. Then Montana elected him to the House because of course. @georgetakei my family at #Topaz. We never learn, do we? @georgetakei More information straight from the representative's a**: https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/zinke-introduces-bill-expel-palestinians-united-states These people are evil. And also very stupid. Palestinian passports do not exist. Palestinians are a stateless people under an illegal brutal occupation in which they have no rights. Not even to flee.  @georgetakei thst spunds blatantly illegal, especially if this includes palestinians who have US citizenship @gavinisdie @georgetakei I'm not sure where you've been the last few years, but the GOP really isn't concerned about the law. And even if they were called out for it, they'd just challenge the law. Seriously. Their messiah is trying to make the argument that a President does not have to support the Constitution, because the oath only says preserve, protect, and defend. Their response? "Hmmmm, you make a valid point, Orange Jesus!".  @georgetakei When are we going to introduce a bill to expel January 6th participants from the country? Asking for America.  @georgetakei @LeaBug What other country would want to admit our January 6th seditionists? Donโt think that even Putin would have them. @LeaBug @georgetakei It's high time that the US used our various out-of-the-way locations for political exiles. Trump and his co-conspirators should be exiled to Midway Island. Drop off food supplies weekly, and keep a medic on scene in case someone breaks a leg or gets bitten by a shark. No guards. A single solar powered Iridium phone for communication.   @georgetakei thosr christofacists can't stop trying to redo a Muslim Ban... Wait until they find out that not all Palestinians are Citizens of Palestine and that not all Palestinians are Muslims, because racists who want a white Ethnostate cam't comprehend the very concept of a pluralistic society, I guess... Also Evangelicals are evil! @georgetakei Their experience in the internment camps was the only thing my great-grandparents, Masao and Shizuko Mori, refused to talk about. Had they been expelled, my father, my aunts, my brother and I wouldn't be here now. @georgetakei @georgetakei@universeodon.com Which ones of the GOP introduced the Bill? I know it won't pass but just the idea to expel USA citizens, or even the Palestinians living in your country who are not citizens, is shameful. WAY back in 1999 I was in the hospital and shared a room with a lovely, 73 year old Japanese-American woman. We became friends. She shared all the horrible stories of only being able to take what they could carry from their home and then taken to a "camp" for years. I don't understand this racism and bigotry   Of course they did. They are not hiding their white supremacy anymore. In fact, Republicans seem quite proud of it   @CanadianCrone @RememberUsAlways @georgetakei U.S. allies should learn from the history of what the U.S. tends to do to its allies in the long haul and stop being allies of the U.S. @zdl @CanadianCrone @georgetakei That's exactly what China and Russia want. The problem is everyone dislikes China and Russia as sponsors of terror. We started watching "All the Light We Can Not See" tonight. If you need a glimpse of what our country will look like under the sociopath Trump and his fascist followers in the gop, I recommend watching it (Netflix) and seeing what courageous resistance looks like.  @georgetakei @georgetakei "Those who do not know history are cursed to repeat it." I cannot imagine that passing @georgetakei I understand your aversion to the bill, I share it as well. It is inhumane and anti-American, but it is performative and attention is what they seek. We should deprive them of that. @georgetakei Why don't more Irish Catholics rally to support and be in solidarity with the Palestinians? Irish Catholics have to support Palestinian statehood, because of Ulster and the six counties under British control.  @georgetakei Near where I was born and raised was a Japanese internment camp--Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Colorado. It's now Amache National Historic Site. I'm sorry that happened. #NeverAgain https://www.nps.gov/places/granada-relocation-center.htm @georgetakei The GOP seems to have invested a lot of energy in hate and Racial Prejudice. They no longer have the right to call themselves the Party of Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was a man whose honesty earned the respect of millions. @georgetakei These are AMERICANS โฆ.. as YOU are my loved and Admired Mr. Sulu . The GOP, any ReTrumplican congressman, any Trumpy supporters, etcโฆ are OUT of their FKing minds on virtually any topic of concern for the Amer. people and are clearly making their OWN screwed-up path of destruction. The good SANE people, like yourself, needs to VOTE BLUE if they would like SANITY to return to our Fed. gov. Hugs my friend โฆ.. ๐๐ @georgetakei how about a mass kilting in Congress. Iโd love to everyone of those MFs kilted @C0ppert0p @georgetakei Sorry, Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ reserves the right to deny all GOP members kilts - and make them all wear skirts instead, the wee fโing bastards. The Japanese were not the only one interned during World War 2, other groups were as well. @georgetakei Such a thing sounds un-Constitutional. But these days, the entire Republican Party is no friend to the Constitution, despite the lip service they pay to it. Trump recently said he wants to get rid of parts of the Constitution.  @georgetakei  @georgetakei Sadly it seems it's the norm for America to simply learn nothing from the past. In fact, we seem to have an amazing ability to *UNLEARN* stuff previous generations learned the hard way. @nazokiyoubinbou @georgetakei Not just the USA. Canada has a rising tide of reactionary asshole politicians. GERMANY, of all countries!, has a rising tide of populist fascists growing in power. (Indeed most of Europe is seeing massive rises of fascist assholes in government.) India has had a fascist in power for seemingly forever now (I know it's not that long, but 5 minutes of Modi is way too fucking long!). Turkey has Erdogan. Etc. etc. etc. We're on the brink of another world disaster. @zdl @georgetakei I'm afraid you're right on that. People failed to learn the lessons of the not even far off past and fascism is growing more and more dangerous. We've already seen what happens with that -- some may even still be alive who were alive then and know it first-hand -- yet here we are walking right into this face-first all over again.  @RodneyPetersonTalent @nazokiyoubinbou @georgetakei We are in the potential precursors to it. @zdl @nazokiyoubinbou @georgetakei Thatโs optimistic. There is virtually no reason to be optimistic about our political future and ability to avoid an apocalyptic draconian type of society or the survival future of carbon based beings on this planet. @georgetakei The tragedy of that phrase "never again" is that the "never again" to which it was first so publicly applied has happened again and again and again since. We humans kind of suck at learning from past mistakes.   @georgetakei That is indeed harsh. The world today is full of hatred towards people who are not exactly like us. Itโs a fascist world. @georgetakei I genuinely don't believe this particular red vs blue game can be sustained much longer, It's clearly in shambles numerically and logically. These clowns make Bush V. 2 look like a genius. The only thread still hanging on is the artificial tie through gerrymandering, which can't hang on forever.  Repugnicons to the max. This is not a Grand Old Party, it's an association of fascist murderers. @georgetakei it was my representative who introduced it. I am ashamed and angry and will be actively working to replace him in Congress.  @georgetakei @georgetakei It doesn't seem to be up on Congress.gov yet. Once it is, pay attention to who sponsors and cosponsors it. Sites like Ballotpedia can help you find their opponents. Sites like Open Secrets can help you find their donors. @georgetakei itโs what they always do. Never giving an inch towards understanding or growth. Just lugging around all that hate. This warning, taken literally, just the headline, not the country referred to in the actual article, would seem to be very appropriate: https://ktla.com/news/u-s-department-of-state-urging-americans-to-leave-this-country/ โAsk not who the shithole countries are. Ask why your country is a shithole country.โ โIโve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than todayโs Republicans. Nothing close.โ - Edward Luce, Financial Times โI agree. And I was the CIA Director.โ - General Michael Hayden Quite the shithole country these Republican shitbags have birthed. @RodneyPetersonTalent @georgetakei The CIA, naturally, does not count itself in this assessment. @georgetakei - Welcome to the new first world reality of โWhite born again Nazis.โ @georgetakei I'm Jewish and I find the idea of expelling people for their ethnic group repugnant as do most of my friends. |
@georgetakei This is absolutely disgusting behavior from the GOP. It's nothing but blatant racism.