For all the Trump administration’s talk of saving money and increasing “government efficiency,” the president demanded that huge amounts be appropriated in the Republicans’ recent budget bill to fund his mass-deportation program.

In all, $170 billion was set aside to be spent over the next four years for border and immigration enforcement. This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons), $30 billion for ICE operations, $46.6 billion for more border wall construction, and, as if that weren’t enough, a new $10 billion border patrol slush fund.

This level of funding is unprecedented. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. And that fact raises a question: What exactly are they going to do with all that money?

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      they’re saying america’s version will be broad daylight lynchings. he’s translating not the german to english, but the nazi to maga

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          It’s from The Turner Diaries. If you follow Stormfront/4chan spaces, they specifically want the day of the rope. In the novel, it’s described how they hang “race traitors.”

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              Storefront, the Neo Nazi hate forum. It predates both the comic and the TV series - was founded in the 90s by KKK leader Don Black. It’s a superspreader of Holocaust denial and its members have killed people.

              It used to be fun to troll by posting pictures of attractive women who looked “white” but were actually Jewish or whatever. 4chan, before it was actually racist, was usually mocking and trolling these guys.

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          nah no worries. it was a little subtle. i’m glad to have gotten to illuminate what i thought was a solid bit of… humor’s the wrong word…

          solid bit of something