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This week on CounterSpin: The Trump administration planned massive ICE workplace raids for the first day of school that included no plans for children coming home to empty houses; they tried to find a way to block undocumented kids from going to public schools; they refuse to give flu vaccines to migrant children in custody, even after several deaths; and they’ve just announced a new rule dictating there be “no limit“ on how long migrant families can be detained. When that same administration announces changes to “public charge” rules that link visas or deportation to an immigrant’s being deemed likely to possibly rely on government aid—what’s the point of relaying earnestly, as does the Washington Post, the Trump team’s claim that it’s “seeking to bring precision to an existing tenet of law that has lacked a clear definition,” or of typing the words, “The administration has portrayed the rule as a way to promote sufficiency and independence among immigrants,” as they did at The Hill? Orwell’s 1984 may be overquoted, but one to hold on to: “The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” So who, at this point, is served when corporate media consider Trump’s cruel attacks on immigrants in any context other than cruelty?
We’ll talk about changes to the “public charge” rules, and the multi-front fightback, with Sasha Abramsky, regular writer for The Nation and TheAbramskyReport.com, and author, most recently, of Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.
Transcript: ‘It’s an Attempt to Impose a White Nationalist Vision of What America Is’
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent coverage of the Amazon fires, the Gannett/Gatehouse takeover and anonymous attacks on progressives.
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Do these media outlets listen to FAIR?
What is “reality”?. There’s no such thing as reality, only one’s own perception of reality.
At no time in the planets history has the world or any sector thereof was fair.
The folks that are attempting to force us to all get along and tolerate everything
is not realistic.
God created Man and Woman to become one flesh and populate the earth. How is
Men/Men or Woman/Woman marriage supporting that? Of course we all have choices
in life, but not all our choices are positive.
As Jesus said, love the sinner; hate the sin. I love everyone, however I will not be
coerced into accepting and most of all “celebrate” our differences. So hypocritical
and simple that you don’t see it.
Don’t allow emotional hysteria to rule your life and subsequently make yourself the
uneducated buffoon you are. Once they control your emotions, your mind, heart
and soul will follow. Good luck with brothers and sisters.