While Maggie Haberman is enjoying the rush of publishing her background stories on Donald Trump’s Presidency, there was a nugget that CNN decided to share with the rest of us not wanting to reward Haberman by buying her book: bigoted former Chief of Staff Mark Kelly called Trump a “fascist.” What is so special about that fact is that Mark Kelly was fine with Trump’s racism, especially when it came to separating undocumented immigrant children from their families.
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane:
President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly defended the technique of separating undocumented immigrants from their children as a necessary evil in the administration’s effort to increase border security during an interview with National Public Radio Thursday.
Kelly told NPR that “the vast majority” of the immigrants “are not bad people.”
“They’re not criminals. They’re not MS-13,” Kelly said. “But they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society. They’re overwhelmingly rural people.”
He said they are poorly educated, don’t speak English — “obviously that’s a big thing” — and don’t have skills, so they “don’t integrate well.”
“They’re not bad people,” Kelly repeated. “They’re coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws.”
In the effort to enforce U.S. border laws, “a big name of the game is deterrence,” he explained. And separating families “could be a tough deterrent.”
Kelly disputed the notion that such action was cruel.
“The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever,” Kelly said. “But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.”
Emphasis is mine.
Rural people that are poorly educated, don’t speak English, and don’t have any skills. Except for the speaking English bit, the same description can be thrown at white rural Americans, at least some of the ones I know. The ones I know are not wealthy, and I know for a fact that most of their kids did not value education. I know because I tried to teach them as a high school teacher.
And while they could speak English, more than a few of them in Kentucky are functionally illiterate.
And believe it or not, it was the kids who couldn’t speak English who BELIEVED in education and wanted to learn English. The kids who were ESL (English as a Second Language) actually behaved in class and wanted to learn to improve their lives. Their parents wanted them to have a better life in America, so obtaining an American education was invaluable to those parents.
Oh, and those kids were primarily from war torn areas, so they were from all walks of life: urban and rural. It was a mixed group, but the one thing they all shared was that they want to be Americans and never go back to the violence they were escaping from. Their parents are not bums. They had the courage to risk their lives and save their kids.
And Mark Kelly is also a liar. “The childern will be take care of-”. How about we take care of Kelly like we did those kids? How would Kelly like to be put in a cage with a hard floor to sleep on? I’d imagine a man his age would not fair well, even if he was a marine.
But Kelly NEVER spoke out like this against Trump. I don’t remember him calling Trump a fascist. I think that would have made news before the 2020 Election. Instead, we get to read about it from CNN more than 18 months after Trump left office.
So you can see why I do not put a lot of value in Mark Kelly’s calling Trump a fascist. A cruel racist is calling another cruel racist a fascist. I’m sure we could get a childish rebuttal from Trump like, “You’re the fascist!”
Wasn’t that whatTrump did with Hillary Clinton during one of those debates? “I’m not a puppet. You’re the puppet!” Difference was that Hillary Clinton is a decent human being, while Mark Kelly disgraced his uniform working for a vile bastard like Trump.
So thanks Mark Kelly for confirming what we already know about Trump. Now, go fuck yourself.
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https://digitalalaskanews.com/dont-take-our-word-that-trump-is-a-fascist-his-bigoted-chief-of-staff-mark-kelly-called-him-one/
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