He forgot to add "one year old brown babies" to the first list.
Dwane Powell
18 hrs ·
Excerpts from a Dana Milbank column in The Post today:
So Putin is fine, but Europeans are killing us. Using this distinction, we can extrapolate a taxonomy:
Things that Trump thinks will kill us:
● Free markets.
● Free trade.
● Democracy.
● Free speech.
● Free press.
● Opposition parties.
● Independent courts.
● The rule of law.
● Human rights.
Things that Trump thinks are fine*:
(* from the April human rights report on Russia by Trump’s State Department)
● Extrajudicial killings.
● Enforced disappearances.
● Torture.
● Arbitrary arrest and detention.
● Lack of judicial independence.
● Political prisoners.
● Severe interference with privacy.
● Severe restrictions on freedom of expression.
● Violence against journalists and bloggers.
● Blocking and filtering of Internet content.
● Severe restrictions on the rights of peaceful assembly.
● Increasingly severe restriction on freedom of association.
● Restrictions on freedom of movement.
● Severe restrictions on the right to participate in the political process.
● Restrictions on opposition candidates’ ability to seek public office and conduct political campaigns.
● Widespread corruption at all levels and in all branches of government.
● Thousands of fatal incidents of domestic violence, to which the government responded by reducing the penalty for domestic violence.
● Thousands of fatal incidents of child abuse.
● Trafficking in persons.
● Institutionalization in harsh conditions of a large percentage of people with disabilities.
● State-sponsored as well as societal violence against LGBTI people.
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