The Border Patrol has checkpoints along highways. This is OBVIOUSLY cause for alarm.
Border Patrol has set up check points on Rt. I-95 in New Hampshire and Maine, and are asking people, “What country are you a citizen of?” We are a few steps from The Handmaids Tale. https://t.co/nlM8cBq3c4
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 26, 2018
OH MAAAAHHHHH GAAAAAAWWWWD.
3,000+ retweets for the person that didn’t know that checkpoints within 100 miles of the border have been a regular part of immigration enforcement since the 1970s.
They are not, contrary to Siskind’s claim, a new feature of “Trump’s Gestapo.” https://t.co/eqGkGcWMZh
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 26, 2018
It went to SCOTUS!
(But also, this is something that residents of border states simply know as routine, but that non-residents might never even have heard of.) https://t.co/2nCVhRsBg4
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 26, 2018
F’real. I live in Arizona. My boyfriend and I drive to San Diego about once a month. We get stopped and we giggle about it and carry on with our lives. It’s just normal here.
They’ve been doing this for years. NH is within the 100mi “border” zone. Were we “steps away from the Handmaid’s Tale” under Obama too? https://t.co/JjIzO3UHnw
— Matthew DesOrmeaux ⚜ (@authoridad) June 26, 2018
STOP SAYING FACTS, FACTS ARE EVIL. OH MAAAAHHHHH GAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWD.
Anyway, in a remarkable turn of events, even CNN’s Brian Stelter had to call this one out.
We are not “a few steps from The Handmaids Tale.” I don’t think this kind of fear-mongering helps anybody. https://t.co/EmxDNNeeML
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 26, 2018
GOOD JOB, BRIAN!!!!
Predictably, the libs are FURIOUS.
Your reaction is not disgust at what they are doing? But to dig at Amy? Gotta say that’s a bit disappointing. Do you think you’d feel that way if you were Latino?
— Neera Tanden 🌊 (@neeratanden) June 26, 2018
I’m Latina! I feel this way. HOW ‘BOUT DAT?!?!?!
oi have lots of reactions, lots of feelings, but i think we should keep a sense of perspective. Gilead is hundreds, thousands, of steps away. BTW i’d love to have you back on “reliable” soon, it’s been too long. easier to discuss on air than on here…
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 26, 2018
Brian has lots of feelings… but like 10% of his dignity left.
Unlike this droolstain:
BRIAN pic.twitter.com/uYzQENN6vO
— scamandrio (@scamandrio) June 26, 2018
great contribution, smart dialogue!
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 26, 2018
F’real though. GO AWAY WITH YOUR FACTS. WE WANNA BE OUTRAGED, DOG NABBIT!
Also, racism:
try putting yourself in the shoes of a non-white guy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2018
i try. but let’s both take a step back here. we are hundreds or thousands of steps away from what’s actually depicted on that show. how is it helpful to claim otherwise?
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 26, 2018
Lying to women to manipulate them into having children they don’t want to have is not hundreds nor thousands of steps away.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) June 26, 2018
Also tearing babies away from their mothers. Sometimes literally from their breast.
— Anna Maltese 🏹 (@MalteseAnna) June 26, 2018
…really, though?
Yes, all those things. The more we downplay these atrocities the more we invite them to worsen.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) June 26, 2018
The fact that it can be challenging to even keep track of them all is just as much a sign of how close we’re getting.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) June 26, 2018
It’s exhausting. And guys like Brian, who can afford to sit back and “tut tut” at people who can’t, then have the nerve to trot out that condescending “how is it helpful?” bs when we’re rightfully alarmed.
— Anna Maltese 🏹 (@MalteseAnna) June 26, 2018
WHAT KIND OF ACID ARE THESE DELUSIONAL MOONBATS SUCKING ON?!?!?!
For f*cks sake! This is out of control.
You people are f*cking daft. I’m a New Englander and they’ve always had border control in these locations. It’s less than 100 miles from Canada. Bunch of liberal psychopaths. To make it easier for you:”Such immigration checkpoints on highways have been used by the Border Patrol”
— sroute (@scenic_route819) June 26, 2018
BUT ALSO TRUMP IS USING A HAREM OF WOMEN TO BREED A BUNCH OF BABY TRUMPS.
Duh.