An open letter to the President

If not “shithole country,” why “shithole country” shaped?

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Good morning! Bit of a wet day out there… so since golfing is off the table, I figured you’d have time to read some mail, yes? Throughout the past decade, you’ve made headlines repeatedly for your divisive rhetoric, especially in terms of “shithole” countries, and the “bad hombres” that come from them. Clearly, these nations are not- in your opinion- enviable or worthy of emulation. So why is it that your regime- *ahem* I mean, administration - constantly mirroring their historic judicial policies like the employment of death squads and extrajudicial executioners? Governments - specifically those in the southern hemisphere- have utilized state-backed paramilitary groups or covert forces to abduct and assassinate specific individuals, such as political rivals, union leaders, and journalists. During the Cold War, military dictatorships (notably in Argentina and Chile) systematically kidnapped, tortured, and "disappeared" tens of thousands of leftist activists and suspected subversives. Governments in places like El Salvador (during the civil war) and Guatemala tacitly or explicitly supported right-wing paramilitary death squads to eliminate political opponents without judicial recourse. Meanwhile, here in the United States, you routinely use your power to develop your own brute squads like ICE, Border Patrol, and your own little FBI factions to murder, arrest, detain, torture, and deny constitutional rights to: immigrants (both documented and undocumented), protesters, and dissenters. You’ve single-handedly created a system of abuse that rivals the worst of those “shithole” countries you claim to hate so much. Why is that? Asking for a nation.

▶ Created on July 16 by Nicole

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