As terrorism against Muslims and minorities across the country rises, our Cheeto-in-Chief is set to further inflame racial and religious tensions with an executive order as early as tomorrow - one with absolutely extraordinary consequences. According to a leaked copy over at Huff-Po:
The White House intends to temporarily shut down travel from a wide swath of countries to the United States and implement dramatic restrictions on immigration and refugee admission, according to a draft version of a White House executive order obtained Wednesday by The Huffington Post.
Worth reading the entire list of actions in the order. A couple highlights:
The draft order, which is expected to be signed later this week, details the Trump administration’s plans to “collect and make publicly available within 180 days ... information regarding the number of foreign-born individuals in the United States who have been radicalized after entry into the United States and engaged in terrorism-related acts.” It also describes plans to collect information about “gender-based violence against women or honor killings” by foreign-born individuals in the U.S.
Trump’s initial campaign promise, that he would ban all Muslims from traveling to the United States, has been dialed back to a blanket ban on all travel from a smaller number of countries. But the focus is still on Muslims. The executive order says that priority will be given in the future to refugees who face religious persecution, “provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.” In other words, an exception will be made for non-Muslims in the Middle East, which undercuts the argument that the policy does not target Muslims specifically.
People who have lost everything and have nowhere to go will now be told they are not welcome here, through no fault of their own but because they live in the wrong place or pray to the wrong deity. Or, you know, have the wrong hue to their skin. Because I'm sure the white nationalists populating the executive branch will stop at giving immigration preference to "minority religions". They'd never use sketchy lists and red tape for racism or retaliation, no way. Remember, religious tests are next to impossible to implement, since its impossible to verify and easy to lie about - Just ask most "Christians" in Congress. Policy like this is designed to crack the door open for profiling/data collection and to give gullible people a scapegoat for the suffering in their lives.
This shit is real. I don't care about who supported who as long as you're against the very real results. Call it fascism, call it the revenge of the oligarchs, call it craziness but understand: This is government for profit. The State Department is set to become a subsidiary of Exxon - another arm of one of the richest international corporations in history as it gets set to make billions on Russian oil deals.
People are losing healthcare soon, too. Many will die. Our walking, talking death panel of a President will ensure it.
The wall. Silencing media, scientists, and entire parts of the government. Demonizing refugees and Muslims. Threatening Chicago with martial law. Kneecapping NATO. Hiring the most obviously corrupt cabinet in the history of modern democracy. The list grows by the minute.
I don't give one shit (forget two) if you voted for Hillary, Bernie, an independent, or Harambe. There's plenty of blame for this monstrosity to share amongst ourselves, with plenty left to heap on Putin, Comey, Assange, the complicit media and anyone else you need to be angry at.
But we're at least temporarily stuck with the narcissistic cheese doodle, whether we like it or not. He's destroying our government one day, one tweet, one executive action at a time. We may soon need to stop rehashing the past and refocus on RESISTANCE.