#20 One of my favorite episodes. I was about 10 years old when I saw it the first time. It encouraged a long fascination with WW2 history and to be a History minor in college. One of the worst days in my life was the day our professor in The History of Nazi Germany course opened by saying he would play video for the next hour, and we were welcome to leave when we felt we had seen enough. He then ran the videos taken by the Allies when they liberated the death camps. No narration or music, just the raw videos. I stayed the full hour with tears rolling down my face wondering how humans could do that to each other. Now I realize we are in that same place, only this time the out group is not Jews but Latinos.
I saw a DHS briefing paper on TdA, the Venezuelan gang that is supposedly invading the US. There is no specific gang tattoo, instead DHS is claiming that tattoos of trains or clocks or clowns are gang tattoos. They supposedly also like to wear Chicago Bulls and Jordan gear. Literally tens of millions of people wear that stuff. JFC, they are sending people to a concentration camp torture prison in El Salvador based on a guess as to who is a gang member...brown skin, tattoo, Bulls hat, must be a ---------er. For years local police have tried to make inroads into immigrant communities by building trust. Now that our ranks in LE are getting browner, I see a real opportunity, except DHS is screwing that up. By causing fear and distrust in the Latino community ICE and DHS are hurting their efforts, because nobody will come forward to report suspicious activity to the police.
I'm hopeful that when the House and Senate MAGAts cut their foodstamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and SS so they can give Elmo a tax break and more contracts, and give Dotard and his billionaire cabinet massive tax cuts, that some in the MAGAt base will be able to put two and two together as they send their autistic children into the fields to pick vegetables for $5 an hour, and realize that this is not normal and NOT what the gawd king promised. His approval can and will go lower, to the point where he has to flee the country to avoid prosecution or winding up like Mussolini.