“Their criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called the death penalty. And when I asked President Xi, I said do you have a drug problem? No, no, no, I said you have 1.4 billion people, what do you mean you have no drug problem? No we don't have a drug problem. I said why? Death penalty. We give death penalty to people that sell drugs, end of problem. What do we do? We set up blue ribbon committees."
Donald Trump, February 15, 2019.
(Homage to Francis Bacon.)
Yes, it happened fast. You might have missed it. But the president of the United States just endorsed the mass execution of non-violent drug offenders. In a racist impression of broken English no less. Using as his exemplar a contemporary authoritarian regime currently holding more than a million people in concentration camps in its western provinces because of their race and religion.
Sometimes, one doesn’t have the words to express the disgust and contempt that a statement deserves. That’s when one turns to Francis Bacon.
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