All the world is a stage, including social media (maybe especially there):
There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries. And then there were the deported prisoner and the American senator, sitting and chatting.
That senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, accused El Salvador’s government on Friday of aiming to paint the picture of a leisurely respite for the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia by staging their meeting with drinks appearing to be alcohol, and angling to set the meeting by a hotel pool.
Van Hollen referred to the stagecraft with a term that had ricocheted around social media for much of the day: “Margaritagate.”
“Nobody drank any margaritas or sugar water or whatever it is,” the Democratic senator said, calling the whole situation “a lesson” in “the lengths that President Bukele will do to deceive people about what’s going on.”
Dictators dare you to ignore the context and accept their frames. Are their images improbable or too good/convenient to be true?
Well:
That clearly depends on what they want you to believe, and what you want to believe:
Government attorneys have never referenced the tattoos in court filings to support their claims that Abrego Garcia is a gang member. Their allegation rests on the word of a confidential police informant who in 2019 claimed the Maryland father was a member of MS-13’s “Westerns” clique, which operates out of New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived.
Several social media users expressed doubt over the authenticity of the image of a hand Trump held in the post.
Call me agnostic regarding the finger tats. But I know that, say, white supremacists on trial have covered their ink to keep them from being pre-judged at trial and cases have been overturned because of a focus on them, because a cornerstone of our system is the presumption of innocence regardless of appearances.
So I take that with a grain of coarse margarita salt.
2 comments:
Based on the pictures those are some weak margarita's. I guess if one used the clear tequila but still, looks like water with a fancy rim to me.
As for the "preponderance" of evidence gathered against Mr. Garcia, well, where was this evidence when he first immigrated? Where was this evidence when he applied for his work VISA. Are you saying, FOTUS admin, that he's that good at hiding stuff? From the Federal Government and all their trillion dollar fancy spy gear they usually use on us?
Insert Brady Bunch meme here: Ok Jan, ok.
What would anyone expect from a third rate troll like Bukulele.
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