You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:19
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Everybody focuses on the Ten Plagues when discussing Exodus.
The plagues in the story were divine retribution though.
Divine retribution for what?
In the story, the people of Israel, the family of Jacob goes to Egypt as refugees. They are immigrants. They simply pick up their tents and their herds and they go to Egypt because there is a famine in the land of Canaan.
And like most immigrants, they work hard and they prosper.
And like every petty tyrant, the Pharaoh in the first chapter of the story is jealous and frightened of the stranger and the migrant. So he enslaves them.
And he tries genocide and ethnic cleansing. All of the male children are supposed to be thrown into the Nile to drown or be eaten by crocodiles. The river is full of the blood of the innocent. So the first plague of turning the river to blood and the last plague of killing the first born are divine justice in that sense. The rest of the plagues attack the wealth of the people and the land. The people have benefited from the exploitation of labor, so they suffer retribution and lose everything.
So when it says later to be kind to immigrants and strangers, it invokes the story of Exodus. It tries to appeal to the empathy of the reader. You were a stranger once and you were treated poorly. Be better than that.
Our ancestors were strangers here once. And if they weren't wealthy and Western European, they were treated poorly.
So be better than the people who hurt your ancestors, the command would read today.
Because if you're not kind to immigrants and strangers, if you welcome the tyrant who is cruel to them, you might be on the receiving end of that cruelty, you might lose everything... and there will be no one who cares or will mourn for you. In fact, the people you hurt will sing songs about your downfall.
I presume that they’ll be making these PSA’s in each country’s language? How many news agencies overseas will allow them to buy ads? If they don’t, will we sue them?
He did say that this term that he would be “their retribution”. Yet one more way to humiliate America globally.
I doubt this is about reaching and convincing illegal immigrants, but rather it’s about reaching Trump supporters to tell them Trump just did awesome things and they should love him as his father never did.
“Criminals are not welcome in the United States.” If so, why did Trump pardon the J6ers? Several of them are already back in jail. Not to mention this whole administration is one criminal enterprise. Pot meet kettle. 🙄
Because the MAGA Nazis don’t consider the J6 insurrectionists ‘criminals.’ They think these convicted domestic terrorists were unjustly persecuted and imprisoned — “political prisoners” who deserved to be let loose. They’re Trump’s brown shirts.
These criminals don’t give a shit about that! They’re out and about, merrily continuing their perceived mission of chaos and violence in the name of MAGA. That’s all. Do you think such concepts as “forgiveness” or “guilt” matter at all to them?
Performative sadism is no way to run a country in an effective way. But it's great when you have an unreconstructed ethnic nationalist movement in control to take us back to the 1870s.
I think we all know this is going to end up transitioning into crimes against humanity, especially given how slapdash (even deliberately) this maladministration is.
But of course, Americans (unless tampering is substantiated) voted for this because they wanted to believe blood libel about their immigrant neighbors. The way Ohioans left their Haitian neighbors twisting in the wind told me all I needed to know. Comforting racist fanfiction was more enjoyable to follow than the truth Democrats were telling them.
Gee I recall when Kamala Harris was ridiculed for her attempt to stop border crossings by telling Hondurans “dint come here.” I guess it’s only genius when two shriveled fascists do tough guy cosplay videos saying the same thing.
No one is serious about deterring illegal immigration because too much business depends on it, and ironically Democrats do a much better job deporting people, but because there’s not enough gleeful cruelty in it they get no electoral advantage from this.
There's a lot that Dems do properly that gives no electoral advantage. I think the story of modern American politics can be summed up as "perverse incentive."
That said, because the Dems also do not serve the unreconstructed as their priority, there's a lot more consequences that would accrue if Democrats do something bad (at the very least, Democrats always face political accountability even for things other people do). And McCain's Law also stipulates that Democrats just cannot get positive coverage for positive actions and/or metrics.
Yep—chalk it up to “do it for the sake of good governance but you’re not getting credit for it so long as your party is considered the open borders party.”
I will never cease to be amazed at the ability of Trump to attract and empower the absolute worst people amongst us. And I will also never cease to be amazed at the mental convolutions necessary within those people to justify what they do. It's Opposite Day each and every day as they contort the true meaning of words and ignore facts to justify their attitudes and actions.
It feels so good for the people who do this. They feel righteous as they seek to torture others, especially small minorities they can easily blame for their problems. Of course these are the same ones that are all upset when they end up getting some of the consequences. It's always a surprise to them to find out we're all connected. "Hurting the right people" will always blow back on them.
Musk is still here illegally, in spite of having bought his citizenship and having bought trump (as Putin owns trump too, it will be awkward for trump when his owners' agendas conflict, but for now, both owners want the same thing - to destroy the country). If Musk was really looking for waste, he would cite trump's golfing and going to sporting events, and this ad campaign. You are right that President Biden should have been more aggressive in telling the American People about his accomplishments. Noem is right, I have to admit, about the media not telling the truth, because trump would have never been elected in the first if they had, and certainly not in the second place. She's saying it to justify the expense of the ad campaign, and probably because cons have whined about the media for over 40 years, so it's a habit for them, and it's worked, because trump was elected twice, thanks to the media being all in for him.
On the uppish side, the democratic party is far enough into the shitter that we can start taking chances with much more progressive candidates...Great time to primary the dead weight...Clean house during the down time...As time goes on, even the once centrist dems will be ready for an opposition party...
Well this IS Virginia, and we've had a very good track record of sending Democrats to the Senate...Our GOVERNORS OTOH is like a goddamn tennis match...back and forth back and forth
"there’s little evidence that DHS can enforce a tough border policy while maintaining the most basic respect for human life."
It's not clear to me they can enforce a "tough border policy," in the sense of actually excluding and removing many more migrants than previous administrations, at all.
But they can sure "market" their efforts as tough, in the sense of being brutal to those who are caught up in it.
You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:19
_______________
Everybody focuses on the Ten Plagues when discussing Exodus.
The plagues in the story were divine retribution though.
Divine retribution for what?
In the story, the people of Israel, the family of Jacob goes to Egypt as refugees. They are immigrants. They simply pick up their tents and their herds and they go to Egypt because there is a famine in the land of Canaan.
And like most immigrants, they work hard and they prosper.
And like every petty tyrant, the Pharaoh in the first chapter of the story is jealous and frightened of the stranger and the migrant. So he enslaves them.
And he tries genocide and ethnic cleansing. All of the male children are supposed to be thrown into the Nile to drown or be eaten by crocodiles. The river is full of the blood of the innocent. So the first plague of turning the river to blood and the last plague of killing the first born are divine justice in that sense. The rest of the plagues attack the wealth of the people and the land. The people have benefited from the exploitation of labor, so they suffer retribution and lose everything.
So when it says later to be kind to immigrants and strangers, it invokes the story of Exodus. It tries to appeal to the empathy of the reader. You were a stranger once and you were treated poorly. Be better than that.
Our ancestors were strangers here once. And if they weren't wealthy and Western European, they were treated poorly.
So be better than the people who hurt your ancestors, the command would read today.
Because if you're not kind to immigrants and strangers, if you welcome the tyrant who is cruel to them, you might be on the receiving end of that cruelty, you might lose everything... and there will be no one who cares or will mourn for you. In fact, the people you hurt will sing songs about your downfall.
I presume that they’ll be making these PSA’s in each country’s language? How many news agencies overseas will allow them to buy ads? If they don’t, will we sue them?
He did say that this term that he would be “their retribution”. Yet one more way to humiliate America globally.
I doubt this is about reaching and convincing illegal immigrants, but rather it’s about reaching Trump supporters to tell them Trump just did awesome things and they should love him as his father never did.
“Criminals are not welcome in the United States.” If so, why did Trump pardon the J6ers? Several of them are already back in jail. Not to mention this whole administration is one criminal enterprise. Pot meet kettle. 🙄
Oh, the irony! trump is a convicted criminal, maybe he doesn't want any competition in the criming department.
Because the MAGA Nazis don’t consider the J6 insurrectionists ‘criminals.’ They think these convicted domestic terrorists were unjustly persecuted and imprisoned — “political prisoners” who deserved to be let loose. They’re Trump’s brown shirts.
True, but pardons “symbolize forgiveness for the crime, but they usually don't wipe out guilt”.
These criminals don’t give a shit about that! They’re out and about, merrily continuing their perceived mission of chaos and violence in the name of MAGA. That’s all. Do you think such concepts as “forgiveness” or “guilt” matter at all to them?
I’m just making the point that they’re still criminals. I don’t disagree with your points.
In Trump’s America, no one is a criminal unless he says so. These labels mean nothing anymore.
ROFL at Trump thinking he needs to do anything besides becoming President again to discourage people from coming here.
Performative sadism is no way to run a country in an effective way. But it's great when you have an unreconstructed ethnic nationalist movement in control to take us back to the 1870s.
I think we all know this is going to end up transitioning into crimes against humanity, especially given how slapdash (even deliberately) this maladministration is.
But of course, Americans (unless tampering is substantiated) voted for this because they wanted to believe blood libel about their immigrant neighbors. The way Ohioans left their Haitian neighbors twisting in the wind told me all I needed to know. Comforting racist fanfiction was more enjoyable to follow than the truth Democrats were telling them.
Gee I recall when Kamala Harris was ridiculed for her attempt to stop border crossings by telling Hondurans “dint come here.” I guess it’s only genius when two shriveled fascists do tough guy cosplay videos saying the same thing.
No one is serious about deterring illegal immigration because too much business depends on it, and ironically Democrats do a much better job deporting people, but because there’s not enough gleeful cruelty in it they get no electoral advantage from this.
There's a lot that Dems do properly that gives no electoral advantage. I think the story of modern American politics can be summed up as "perverse incentive."
That said, because the Dems also do not serve the unreconstructed as their priority, there's a lot more consequences that would accrue if Democrats do something bad (at the very least, Democrats always face political accountability even for things other people do). And McCain's Law also stipulates that Democrats just cannot get positive coverage for positive actions and/or metrics.
Yep—chalk it up to “do it for the sake of good governance but you’re not getting credit for it so long as your party is considered the open borders party.”
I will never cease to be amazed at the ability of Trump to attract and empower the absolute worst people amongst us. And I will also never cease to be amazed at the mental convolutions necessary within those people to justify what they do. It's Opposite Day each and every day as they contort the true meaning of words and ignore facts to justify their attitudes and actions.
It feels so good for the people who do this. They feel righteous as they seek to torture others, especially small minorities they can easily blame for their problems. Of course these are the same ones that are all upset when they end up getting some of the consequences. It's always a surprise to them to find out we're all connected. "Hurting the right people" will always blow back on them.
I reiterate. I hate these fucking people.
Kristi Noem is the stuff of nightmares
She got her plastic surgery on the discount plan and has been taking her rage out on everyone ever since.
She got the Kimberly Guillfoyle lite
It’s just so unpleasant to look at, though maybe that’s my bias because she’s also an awful person.
Musk is still here illegally, in spite of having bought his citizenship and having bought trump (as Putin owns trump too, it will be awkward for trump when his owners' agendas conflict, but for now, both owners want the same thing - to destroy the country). If Musk was really looking for waste, he would cite trump's golfing and going to sporting events, and this ad campaign. You are right that President Biden should have been more aggressive in telling the American People about his accomplishments. Noem is right, I have to admit, about the media not telling the truth, because trump would have never been elected in the first if they had, and certainly not in the second place. She's saying it to justify the expense of the ad campaign, and probably because cons have whined about the media for over 40 years, so it's a habit for them, and it's worked, because trump was elected twice, thanks to the media being all in for him.
Tim Kaine gave her the thumbs up for her appointment
he's toast...
go away Tim
I get requests everyday to donate to his campaign.
its gross
Read the room Tim...Read the room...
On the uppish side, the democratic party is far enough into the shitter that we can start taking chances with much more progressive candidates...Great time to primary the dead weight...Clean house during the down time...As time goes on, even the once centrist dems will be ready for an opposition party...
We'll see what Republican replaces him, I can see him getting thrown out for sure.
Well this IS Virginia, and we've had a very good track record of sending Democrats to the Senate...Our GOVERNORS OTOH is like a goddamn tennis match...back and forth back and forth
More waste of taxpayers time and money by the Trump administration.
PROPAGANDA
"there’s little evidence that DHS can enforce a tough border policy while maintaining the most basic respect for human life."
It's not clear to me they can enforce a "tough border policy," in the sense of actually excluding and removing many more migrants than previous administrations, at all.
But they can sure "market" their efforts as tough, in the sense of being brutal to those who are caught up in it.