Donald Trump has adopted a peculiar and dangerous pattern in his second term, wrote Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Friday: moving to “delete” entire categories of people he doesn’t like or want to acknowledge from federal data whenever possible.
“For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images,” they wrote. “A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities.”
Almost half of the deleted images included racial minorities, the report found.
This is gonna impact voter registration, isn’t it?
Don’t worry, he’ll let you register again if you write a three page essay on what makes him amazing.
And that’s only partially a joke.
Will it also need to include 5 things I did last week that were patriotic?
Yay, no more taxes!
damn, he’s doing a “right to be forgotten”? Epic.
DELETE ME PLZ!
He wants to delete them from more than just the government data.
If I get deleted from government databases, that’s fine. I grew up in the swamp and have camped in probably 90% of the national parks. I have different tackle boxes for different types of fishing. I’ll be alright. (I do still suck a fly fishing but it’s fun so I’ll figure it out.)
He wants to make lists and gather data on undesirables one minute then delete it the next. Which is it, sir?
He wants to delete gov proof of legal citizenship of people he doesn’t like
He’s not deleting the ICE databases of whom to kidnap and torture next, just the public-facing records of anyone existing that’s not a cos-het-white-male.
