The New York Times is an obscenity

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Mr. Trump, as we all should know, promises a military- and police-driven mass deportation effort, expelling millions of people. As will be inevitable in all such ethnic purges – and has happened in the previous cases of such purges in the United States – many other people seen as “undesirable” will be simultaneously expelled.

It is an evil, hateful plan, the sort you would expect from someone who pledges to be a “dictator on day one.” There will be concentration camps, as a sheer matter of logistical necessity. There will be mass suffering and deaths. Mr. Trump has been working on inuring his base at his rallies, telling them that they will see “terrible things” but that “we gotta do it,” as if there were no choice in the matter.

All of this has been extensively documented and is a matter of simple fact. If someone wishes to contest these realities, then my most polite reply is go to hell you evil motherfucking son of a bitch, because this is what he, himself, has been saying and doing. These are his promises.

How does The New York Times choose to characterise this plan today?

As Trump’s housing affordability plan.

[Harris and Trump’s] two visions of how to solve America’s affordable housing shortage have little in common. … [Trump] pledges to deport undocumented immigrants [and lower] interest rates…

(Because, you see, if you purge 15 or so million people, that opens up a lot of housing, increasing supply and driving down rents.)

Their biggest stated qualms are that economists doubt its efficacy as it might reduce the labour supply in construction, thus driving up housing prices later.

Not the brutal police-and-military occupation of blue states and ethnic purge. That’s not even worth a mention.

Naturally – seriously, naturally, as one would expect in this era of grim brutality and hate – this is literally one of the benefits the Nazis ascribed to their purges of Jews in Europe. It’s Trump’s lebensraum, but without even having to leave home.

You can even see it accurately portrayed at the beginning of the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, Schindler’s List. Mr. Schindler’s lovely new home in occupied Poland – after the Nazis have dragged its owners and occupants off to the camps, to be tortured and murdered – is an example of exactly this kind of housing affordability.

Trump’s mass expulsion is what The New York Times calls a housing affordability plan. The fact that it’s literally the o.g. Nazi plan isn’t even an afterthought.

The Times was sympathetic to the Nazis last time, too. But this… this is…

I don’t have words to describe how absolutely, unmitigatedly evil this is. I literally don’t have words to describe how evil this is. I keep reaching for some and grasping off the edge of a cliff, into the void, and it’s not the nice comfy void I’m used to screaming into, it’s an entirely new and worse one.

The Old Grey Lady is long dead, and my gods, this has to be the final nail. If you’re still a subscriber, fucking stop, and tell them why. It’s time to bury the corpse, and spit on the fascist simulacrum that remains in her place.

My gods. Ethnic purges as a housing affordability plan.

No excuse. No forgiveness.

My gods.

66 days remain.

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