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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:24 PM Sep 10

You don't get to terrorize the nation as a party and get sympathy for the demise of one of your hate-mongerers

...not without the same people now expressing outrage and grief over Charlie Kirk, expressing ONE OUNCE of sympathy for the plights of the men, women, and children, working families, who have been falsely represented as criminals, murderers, and drug addicts who threaten Americans by this president and party.

I get that many people who aren't experiencing this trauma are carrying around the notion fed to them by their government and others that there's something migrants did to deserve the inhuman and degrading treatment that our law enforcement officers reserve for these dark-skinned foreigners; abusive behavior they know wouldn't be tolerated or accepted of fomented against white Americans.

Yet, coming to America to seek work, shelter, or safety isn't a threat to anyone, except, it seems, to the hapless migrants making that incredible and arduous journey to the U.S., only to be treated worse than animals.

And many have died in this process of apprehension and removal. Where is the sympathy for the victims, or outrage against our own government which treats these humans like the 'vermin' Trump has repeatedly characterized them as.

Are we really going to be berated for not genuflecting before the coffin of one of the people determined to destroy millions of immigrant lives just because they had some personal gripe against them, or because it suited some divisive, opportunistic political agenda?

What the hell is more important? An entire class of people in America under active and direct attack by this republican president and party?

Or someone's feeling getting hurt by making that clear before they make the domestic terror-participant into some kind of martyr to unity?

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