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21 September 2016

By Alex Khalil

Yikes. That photo is basically Emperor Palpatine and Darth Maul. Except far more terrifying… and with more fake tan.

“Don” Trump, first son of the demon himself, and Ivana, the daughter of said demon, released an image on their Twitter of well… this:

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The message behind it would be that anyone who isn’t voting for Trump is an ‘outsider’. That and the unironic #millennialsforTrump.

The main theme for the meme that took off from this was American Psycho:

Phew, glad we got that out of the way.

Oh wait you thought it was over? No. It gets worse. Much worse.

You know what’s coming:

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Obviously his point is totally invalid. Of the near one million refugees who settled into the USA since the 9/11 attacks, only two have been detained in regard to terror acts, according to The Economist. Along with this, Kathleen Newland at the Migration Policy Institute, one think-tank saw that refugee resettlement was the least likely way for terrorists to conduct attacks.

Corporate Affairs VP told Hollywood Reporter:

“Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.”

Oh yeah, cause nothing says “eat some got darn Skittles®” like veiled xenophobia and stupidity.

Heck, even if all of those Skittles were poison I’d eat them.

Especially the purple ones.

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