# The Washington Post: Democracy Dies With Us **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 25, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-washington-post-democracy-dies-with-us/1009210 "2024-10-25T17:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 249
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-washington-post-democracy-dies-with-us/1009210/249 "2024-10-29T18:08:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps he reopens the Japanese internment camps from the Second World War. The largest of those camps held somewhat less than 20k people, and all of the camps together only housed about 120k Japanese Americans. Setting up multiple camps on the scale of this proposed mass deportation, even temporarily, would dwarf that effort. One of the (previously extreme right-wing) conspiracy theories about the Federal Emergency Management Agency is that it was set up to do this sort of thing, and yet we can see how it fumbles every single time to respond to natural disasters dislocating even a few tens of thousands of people. Only the US Army Corps of Engineers could construct any kind of camp on the scale of housing tens of thousands of people relatively quickly, and they are so strapped for personnel and funds that it could only build such large camps serially. All of this is, of course, in addition to the massive logistical problem of rounding up undocumented immigrants, transporting them to “internment facilities”, processing them in some way, and then pressuring other countries to accept them or…otherwise somehow coming to some disposition for “internees”, and not accounting for the economic impacts of such an action, i.e. removing low wage agricultural and construction workers from the labor market. It’s such a fundamentally, obtusely, idiotically unworkable scheme that it would almost be entertaining to watch them try if it didn’t mean creating the mass incidence of human misery and economic disruption it would cause. > [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](#): > > The editorial board wanted to endorse Kamala, they planned to endorse Kamala, and they had (reportedly, supposedly) written the endorsement. But it was never published. Thus, in no “sense” was it withdrawn. We don’t need to strain the meaning of words to the breaking point here in order to make the point. The editorial board of a paper is typically the group that determines endorsements (or elects to not endorse a candidate). For the billionaire owner of the _Washington Post_ to direct the publisher and CEO to refuse the editorial board’s desire to publish an endorsement, especially in the case of one candidate expressing nakedly autocratic ambitions and the intent to persecute political opponents, is an exceptional and disturbing choice from a news outlet that is still (for now) regarded as a bastion of journalistic freedom. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-washington-post-democracy-dies-with-us/1009210)._