Trump’s Monster Memes at the Department of Homeland Sadism
About this episode
The episode discusses the controversial actions and propaganda of the Department of Homeland Security, particularly in relation to immigration enforcement during the holiday season.
The Jim Acosta Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Department of Homeland Security, a once critical arm of the federal government designed to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks in the aftermath of 9/11, is now in the business of doing the terrorizing. Even during the holiday season, DHS is carrying out its extremist mission with a distinct measure of glee these days, with memes and imagery that feel borrowed from white nationalist and neo-Nazi web sites, and even some of the darkest Hitler-era propaganda of the early 20th century. No, we’ve not reached that particular hell on earth. But you can see some of it from here. Witness the latest exploits from the X account run by DHS staffers who seem to delight in celebrating the department’s heinous operations of chasing down non-criminal migrants at home and at work, often ripping apart families on the spot, while occasionally body-slamming women, and pepper spraying innocent children. DHS touts the work of its masked ICE agents with memes tying their heartlessness to the holidays. “YOU’RE GOING HO HO HOME,” reads one recent DHS X…
People in this episode
Host: Jim Acosta
Topics covered
- Department of Homeland Security
- immigration
- political propaganda
- extremism
- family separation
- holiday season
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Department of Homeland Security, ICE
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