Physician, heal thyself
A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
“Get smart” meaning what? What sure-fire action does he think there is that would prevent that? Rounding up all the “radical Islamic terrrorists” and expelling them? What sure-fire intelligence operation is there that can do that? Does he think we should round up and expel all Muslims? (He probably does, yes. He hasn’t quit put it that way yet, but it’s consistent with a lot that he has said, and with his temperament and “values” and love of bullying.) That would be logistically difficult and a violation of a whole raft of laws, national and international, plus it would be a leap into a moral abyss. And it wouldn’t do what he seems to think it would anyway.
It’s also ludicrous as risk management. It’s all the more ludicrous given the fact that the guy in Paris was stopped, by on the ground screening that did what it’s meant to do.
And then, it’s also shitty – given the fact that he hasn’t even publicly mentioned the terrorist attack by (allegedly) a white nationalist in Quebec that actually killed six men and injured more. Of course they were Muslims, so maybe he thinks it’s a start.
Maybe Trump should ban all visitors from La Belle Province. Which would piss off a lot of oiseaux des neiges with Florida condos, but you can’t be too careful, can you?
Yeah but in Québéc they don’t speak French, do they! (They do?) (Not if they are shot dead, no.)
What’s a moral abyss when you can FLYYYYY?
Nonsense, I’ve yet to meet a native speaker that would grant that the Quebecois speak French…
(Blinks…)
That’s the second stupidest tweet I’ve ever seen.
To a child, everything is simple. Trump has (had?) a plan to defeat ISIS. The generals somehow couldn’t come up with one, but Donald has one. Except now he’s asking for theirs. Anyway. Keeping out all the baddies is simple. Identifying all the baddies is simple. Fixing health care once and for all: simple. Bringing large-scale manufacturing back to the US? Simple. Only people who hate America could have failed to accomplish these simple tasks.
Perhaps he’s planning to bring back manufacturing by making the US persona non grata with the rest of the planet. No imports will mean that USAians will simply have to make everything themselves.
Back to wind-up telephones?
It seems that the attacker was Abdallah El-Hamahmy, an Egyptian national currently living in Dubai…
Two countries that are not listed on Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order…
Tigger, no imports also means trouble to those who eat bananas or drink coffee (I’m in both groups). How long is that going to go over with his base?
GET SMART
I guess he wants to put Agent 86 on the case.