I know it's getting lost in the shuffle, but a reminder that it's not just the "They're killing and eating pets in Springfield" that's a racist lie. The whole thing about "Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora" is a lie a slumlord told to get out of fines, and that our local MAGA set amplified.

Y'know, I've heard that story amplified more & more for weeks - Trump's now making it a centerpiece of his hate & panic campaign - & this is the first I've run across any mention that it's a fabrication. That isn't meant to suggest I'm doubting you. I'm not.

Scumbag greedy asshole !!!

Aurora cops take a break from their regular routine off beating down demented old ladies to crawl to a racist slumlord. ACAB, but Aurora’s are special

Oh Jesus Christ, I only just made the connection that of course Donald Trump is amplifying a racist slumlord, because that's his whole fucking deal. Alright. Alright. I'm furious enough. I'm going to go be *anywhere else* for a while.

One of the big ones they were telling was that the gangs had supposedly vandalized the Aurora Mall and filled it full of trash, that happened 3 years ago when the In-N-Out opened. I watched it happen.

Its remarkable how many witch hunts and pogroms have an inciting incident of "an influential community member wanted to steal some property from less powerful people"