Isn’t the phrase “permanently pause” an oxymoron? I thought the word “pause” implied temporary.
If Democrats had spines, their response should be “Nothing Trump does will be permanent.”
It does imply temporary, but this time it’s permanent? 😅
The 19 countries in question:
Afghanistan
Burma (Myanmar)
Chad
Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Haiti
Iran
Libya
Somalia
Sudan
Yemen
Burundi
Cuba
Laos
Sierra Leone
Togo
Turkmenistan
VenezuelaSounds like a Muslim ban.
Where have I heard that before?
9 of these countries are majority Muslim, 7 are majority Christian, Eritrea is about half and half, and two are Buddhist… And Qatar is opening a military base on US soil.
That’s a move from religious coding (“Muslim”) to openly hierarchical, civilisational coding (“poor,” “Third World,” “non-Western”).
The U.S. helps create or worsen crises (Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti), then shuts the door on people fleeing those crises.
It’s a structurally racist, classist ban that turns poverty and Global South nationality into a security threat, while giving legal cover to a broader project of fortifying a rich, imperial core against the people its own system has helped impoverish and displace.
By dropping the religious coding, liberals can silently get on board by not being pressured to voice their discontent for racism. There will be way less push back from Democrats than the Muslim ban.
Trump is just the tool, this is an American imperial classist war.
Except for whites from those countries, right Donald? It’s the South Africa exception.
