Keith Rollin
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Trump is telling his followers that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country. This is straight out of the Hitler playbook. It’s an open nod to white supremacy, and it has no place in our society. And he has threatened to round up 11 million undocumented immigrants. That means attacks upon whole communities. Raids in the night. No due process. We can’t let it happen again.
maya_b 🇨🇦
Emma@maya_b @georgetakei Our democratic institutions need to wake up!
Guy Holmes
Skeptic@georgetakei
The problem is not the immigrants. The problem is Trump and his cult.
The problem is not the immigrants. The problem is Trump and his cult.
Mx. Dudula the Dud@georgetakei So let's see if I understand this correctly: The descendent of an immigrant is telling the descendents of other immigrants that immigrants are a danger to them. Is that right?
⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩@BackFromTheDud @georgetakei
You're very clever young man(sic), very clever. But it's immigrants all the way down!
You're very clever young man(sic), very clever. But it's immigrants all the way down!
acm@BackFromTheDud classic Pulling Up The Ladder Behind You behavior...
Studio 8502 
@georgetakei So long as conservatives are treated as equals, instead of the inferiors they are, you will always have this problem.
Julie Smith
Bruber CloudSecOps 
@georgetakei This is exactly what happened with the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. Trump was beating the anti-immigrant drum, and some whackjob decided to take matters into their own hands. This individual discovered that a Hebrew Immigration Aid Society meeting was once held at Tree of Life, so he decided to kill 11 worshippers.
Jargoggles@georgetakei the classic...
"create an <<other>> for followers to fixate on & blame for anything & everything >>they<< aren't "happy" about" combined with...
Impractical & heartless, magical, "solution" which would "fix" <<everything>> without damaging or harming... said >>followers<< 🙄🤦♀️
Tom Shafer@georgetakei Let's also give due credit to Stephen Miller, one of the architects of Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy. Both deserve to be exiled from the public square.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@TomShafShafer @georgetakei Stephen Miller doesn’t just look like Herman Göring, he thinks like him, too.
Grandpa Don
Maggie Maybe
Gid@georgetakei
I'm a German so I may missed something about American history? But aren't all people living in the US, except the native Americans, immigrants from the last few hundred years? 🤷♂️
And yes, we Germans have bad experiences with a guy talking such a BS.
I'm a German so I may missed something about American history? But aren't all people living in the US, except the native Americans, immigrants from the last few hundred years? 🤷♂️
And yes, we Germans have bad experiences with a guy talking such a BS.
Ted@Mr_GHARice You’re definitely not wrong but, for some absurd reason, a lot of people here just can’t fathom this fact.
Miguel Tavares@georgetakei how’s that guy still not in jail?
territory wrestling nerd@georgetakei he thinks people won't fight back, which is laughable, as he was in cahoots with the NRA during his first term. He'd be hoisted by his own pitard at that point.
Simon ⛵️@georgetakei Well he is, apparently, an avid reader of Hitler’s speeches… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-used-to-keep-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-according-to-his-exwife-a6765391.html
Donna@georgetakei I couldn't agree with you more. He's a potential dictator that must be stopped.
xs4me2Simply unacceptable… this is how fascism looks and sounds.
TAJ@georgetakei When GOP reach into "the vermin" and all you know the GOP cannot be trusted to good pursuits or good intent.. work for DEM WINS AHEAD
Stu Duerson, machina exo deus
Green Roc Thoughts@georgetakei Please not again. Trump is inhumane.
Clare Harris 🍁
Simon Brooke@georgetakei well, seeing that all (without exception) white people are the descendants of immigrants, presumably he thinks all are poisoning the blood of the United States and should be "sent home"?
I have to say, I do not believe either Germany or Scotland would willingly accept the Trump family back.
Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦@simon_brooke @georgetakei Well, when he visited the city of his forefathers here in Germany, the reactions were rather muted, to say the least.
Peter Brown@agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei well when his grandfather returned to their village in Germany, having made his fortune running a bar in the gold rush, the village refused to take the family back as they had escaped the draft for the war. So they had to go back to America, and they changed their name from Strumpf to Trump to sound less German and the whole family developed a pathological dislike for the Germans. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=merkel+lecturing+trump&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.r29static.com%2Fbin%2Fentry%2Fd9a%2F0%2C0%2C2000%2C1050%2Fx%2C80%2F1978772%2Fimage.jpg
@agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei and when Trump called at his mother’s family house on the Isle of Lewis it was not a lengthy visit. I think it was less than 10 minutes.
Edit: “this was the briefest of stopovers. He spent 97 seconds inside his mother's birthplace” 🤣
@peterbrown @simon_brooke @georgetakei Well does that mean that his last resort is Slovenia and his inlaws?
Maggie Gordon@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei
Shout out for Karine Polwart’s sublime song on this matter: I burn but I am not consumed. Memorably she performed the song in a Tiny Desk Session in New York - magnificent!
@barfilfarm @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei why have I never heard of this before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oBXOIbAtZw
I Burn but I Am Not Consumed
@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei
She is a sublime wordsmith and storyteller with a stunning voice. The whole album is worth some of your time. She is performing with others at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh on the 22nd to raise money for MAP
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-for-map-tickets-746915362957
@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei
My mistake: Tiny Desk performance was in Washington DC - but by way of an apology, here’s the link. Enjoy:
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/711244527/karine-polwart-trio-tiny-desk-concert
@simon_brooke @georgetakei if anything, Scotland might extradite them
@keith_t @simon_brooke @georgetakei Germany already refused to receive the Strumpf grandfather & family back into the country, which is why they went back to the USA, changed their name to Trump and have a pathological dislike for Germans
Patricia Kayden@georgetakei Immigrants like both of his parents? Wasn't his Dad of German descent and his Mom of Scottish descent? Two of his wives were Eastern European. Which immigrants?
Anny@kaydenpat The "not mail order brides of rich white people" kind, usually.
@kaydenpat @georgetakei correct on both! It’s in the thread.
Don Gray@georgetakei There are 3 categories of people currently in the USA.
1. Descendents of Native Americans.
2. Descendents of slave.
3. Descendents of immigrants.
Technically Trump is correct. As an immigrant, he’s “poising the blood” of the country.
Lady Homealot 🖖 not going back@georgetakei @DemocracyMattersALot And he won’t stop at immigrants.
Sane Thinker@georgetakei Native Americans might have a problem with immigrants, and justifiably so.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@georgetakei He is public enemy # 1
@georgetakei I feel the same, see my post
Joe Beehammer (🐝 🔨)@georgetakei if he escapes this round of legal proceedings, he’s just going to call on his followers to eliminate his opposition and walk into an empty White House.
yunchtimeyou're 100% right, George! the Christian fascist movement has gone insane, as demonstrated by the corrupt mobster who they have anointed as their leader.
Todd Katz@georgetakei Here's the original German:
„Diejenigen, die versuchen, diese lächerliche Behauptung aufzustellen, sind eindeutig Schneeflocken, die nach allem greifen, weil sie unter dem Trump-Derangement-Syndrom leiden“, sagte ein Wahlkampfsprecher Steven Cheung, „und ihre traurige, elende Existenz wird zerstört, wenn Präsident Trump zurückkehrt.“ Weißes Haus."
Wir werden die Kommunisten, Marxisten, Kapitalisten und die linksradikalen Schläger ausrotten, die wie Ungeziefer in den Grenzen unseres Landes leben. Die Bedrohung durch äußere Kräfte ist weit weniger unheimlich, gefährlich und schwerwiegend als die Bedrohung von innen.“
Die Trump-Kampagne wies die Kritik zurück, dass er mit seinem Versprechen, seine politischen Gegner wie „Ungeziefer“ auszurotten, die Sprache faschistischer Diktatoren wiederhole. „Die traurige, elende Existenz derer, die solche Vergleiche anstellten, würde ‚zerschlagen‘, wenn Herr Trump zurückkehrt.“ zum Weißen Haus.“
Eva@georgetakei the one that has poisoned the country is Trump
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧He needs the thugs on board for his next coup attempt. He’s out for vengeance. A large portion of Americans are stupid enough to permit it, many will scream and clap for it. We are in serious territory.
JohnWA bit hypocritical of Trump, since he can be viewed as an undocumented lawmaker yet uses power as if he were still president.
Gretchen Vasen Corbin@[email protected] My Dad came to US from pre-Nazi Germany in 1928. Wouldn’t it be ironic if I returned to Germany almost 100 years after him.
I have family there. It would be full circle.
I have family there. It would be full circle.
Chusi@georgetakei Trump’s Grandfather was a German immigrant. So then Trump and his family are also immigrants to America. Why does this sick, disgusting illegitimate and illiterate man not pack up and just leave already. He hates everything about the American people.
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ
@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈@georgetakei I want to know HOW TO STOP IT from happening!
Our vote doesn't seem to be enough to equal the strength of the GOP evil in operation
Our vote doesn't seem to be enough to equal the strength of the GOP evil in operation