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This is America, where we speak with y bravado and cower at invented threats. We're a bully in a bubble.
yep, they want a (Christian) West vs Islam Armageddon, an apocalypse.
Repugs' intentional war mongering, hate mongering, is exactly what the terrorists want, but the rightwinguts keep playing checkers vs the terrorists playing chess.
This is America, where we speak with y bravado and cower at invented threats. We're a bully in a bubble.
Conservative Politician Posts Pics of Corpses in Paris to Gin Up Anti-Muslim Hatred
Tom Tancredo, the man who founded a political action committee appropriately named Team America, recently took to Facebook to post pictures of corpses from Paris to gin up anti-Muslim and anti-immigration sentiments. Tancredo, a two-time loser in his bid to become governor of his home state of Colorado and an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, suggested “diversity” would lead to another massacre. He also accused the man who defeated him, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, of creating a “sanctuary state for Muslim terrorists.”
Tancredo’s first post, dated November 17, is a picture of piles of dead bodies on the bloodstained floor of the Bataclan concert hall, where CNN reports some 80 people were murdered. The photo is captioned at the top, “CELEBRATING DIVERSITY. One massacre at a time.” Beneath the image, “Coming to a concert hall near you!” It states the message is, “[b]rought to you by” ISIS and Taqiyya Productions, both of which are depicted as fake “branded” logos.
The second post features the same image with different wording. At the top is a quote from Hickenlooper saying the state of Colorado will work with the federal government and Homeland Security to ensure immigrants are vigorously vetted, and that “[w]e can protect our security and provide a place where the world’s most vulnerable can rebuild their lives.” Under the image, the caption from Tancredo states, “Great idea, John. What could ‘possibly’ go wrong?”
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/...ter1046025&t=4
Start Worrying: Trump Sees New Surge of Support After Paris Attacks
The GOP's anti-refugee sentiment in the wake of the Paris attacks also plays right into Trump's wheelhouse. The New York billionaire has made nativist—and sometimes outright fascist—sentiment a trademark of his campaign. He has garnered support among a cross-section of white nationalists and recently tweeted out an anti-refugee comment that reads like anti-Semitic agitprop from the 1930s.
Put another way: the Paris attacks play right into Trump's greatest strengths, white nativism and paranoia.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/start-worrying-trump-sees-new-surge-support-after-paris-attacks?akid=13672.187590.RYuqLA&rd=1&src=newslett er1046025&t=12
The Right Responds to Paris With Bible-Thumping, Scientific Illiteracy, Frat Boy Antics
The situation in Syria is very serious, but conservatives keep responding in idiotic and childish ways.
right-wingers rolling out the usual chest-thumping bravado from Republicans who have no personal worries about ever seeing combat. But never fear! Slobbering enthusiasm for war is far from the only right-wing neurosis that is being trotted out in response to the ISIS situation.
the overwhelming scientific evidence shows that allowing people refuge from war is not only safe itself, it actually decreases the chance of future terrorism. In fact, looking over the evidence, it suggests that the best way to keep people safe is to bring in as many refugees as you can.
This isn’t just because none of the two million refugees accepted into our country since 1990 have committed terrorism, which can be compared that to the almost routine terrorism committed by native born right wingers. Research also shows that a refugee’s chance of embracing radical views is much reduced if he moves to some place like the United States or Western Europe.
Republicans don’t think they need science because they have religion. The Bible-thumping has gotten completely out of control in the past week, with Ted Cruz proposing a religious test for Syrian refugees—if you’re Christian, you’re in, if you’re Muslim, you’re not—and Mike Huckabee pretending that Muslims are the only people that commit terrorism.
The frat daddy contingent of the right that is mostly motivated by the ever-present fear that you might forget they have penises has to have their say, as well. For that set, of course, you have the Daily Caller, which ran a piece aimed at those men led, “13 Syrian Refugees We’d Take Immediately.” (As it is a naked attempt to get traffic, I will not link. Rest assured my description will be enough.)
What follows is a bunch of photos from the Instagram account Syrian Girls Got Beauty, which is just what it seems to be, a fashion and beauty photo blog, presumably from Syria.
It’s all about them: Their bigotries, their need to be told their religion is the best, their need to remind you every five seconds that they are heterosexual.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...er1046025&t=14
Paul Ryan comes up empty when pressed on what's wrong with our current refugee screening process
That wonky wonk House Speaker Paul Ryan really needs to bone up on our refugee screening program, because he really doesn't get it. Steve Benen:
The trouble comes when pressed for policy details or any kind of substantive analysis. The New York Times reported today:
When pressed, most Republicans could not specify which aspects of the rigorous refugee vetting program that they found inadequate. [House Speaker Paul Ryan’s] staff members cited a Bloomberg poll of 1,002 adults released on Wednesday, conducted by Selzer & Company, that found that 53 percent of those surveyed said the resettlement program should be halted.
Of all the domestic coverage I've seen this week about U.S. politicians and their reactions to Paris, this might be my favorite paragraph to date. Republicans know they have a problem with the vetting process, but they have no idea why.
And when House Speaker Paul Ryan—a celebrated "wonk," according to much of the media – was asked about his concerns, his office pointed to, of all things, a poll.
Yep. That's Republican "leadership" for you. In the hope of providing some education to Ryan and his colleagues, here's how it works.Reality's got nothing on the polls, though, for Ryan and his maniacs.
Refugees apply for resettlement at American embassies or through the United Nations.
If they pass that first hurdle, they are screened by outposts of the Department of State all over the world.
They undergo investigations of their biography and iden y;
FBI biometric checks of their fingerprints and photographs;
in-person interviews by Department of Homeland Security officers;
medical screenings as well as investigations by the National Counter-terrorism Centre and by American and international intelligence agencies.
The process may take as long as three years, sometimes longer.
No other person entering America is subjected to such a level of scrutiny.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...28Daily+Kos%29
Obama will veto the Repug bill to increase vetting, and the Repugs will try shut down the govt, etc, etc.
The argument stands fine on it's own without ludicrous comparisons to the Pilgrims.
For one thing, pretty sure we don't want to be the Natives in that scenario.
@ boutons trying to spin this as strictly a Republican view
Most Americans oppose Obama's Syrian refugee plan
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/poll-obama-syria-refugees-216029
So you're terrified by your own definition.
How much more significant?less than 2,000 here now and we aren't going to round them up and send them back so I don't really care they are here. 65,000 more is a significant increase that brings a much more significant risk due to numbers alone.
How do you think the terraists will get through the two year process?
So the solution is to let terrorists in to our country?
The Natives probably should have protected their border, tbh.
Totally on board with more border security. That doesn't mean we close off legal entry.
750K refugees accepted since 9/11.
how many massacres by them? and how many massacres by white male Americans?
yet another fabricated outrage by Repugs, yet another example of Repug misgovernance and all politics all the time, refusing to accept the refugees the Repugs created.
Angus King just pointed out the 20M people come into the USA via visa waivers, IN ONE YEAR. How many of those 20M were Muslims?
Again, you rightwingnuts and all gullible assholes have been FUDed hilariously OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
Terrorists have ready access already and recruiting tools to boot. They've, obviously, been here for awhile. Closing the barn door is pointless and pulls resources away from where they're likely needed.
Glad we agree on not accepting these "refugees," then.
Department of Homeland Security report
https://homeland.house.gov/wp-conten...gee_Report.pdf
The commentators on my local radio stations and most people calling in are squarely AGAINST letting them in. Never have I heard such vitriolic on the radio against Obama (with some against Obamacare too). Hopefully they're all calling their representatives and senators. Bill Nelson better vote for the passed House bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88qV298bL1M
Robust interview and biometric analysis - LOL
Talk radio audience opposes Obama?
ZOMG!
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