Chinese president Xi Jinping is amassing an alarming amount of political power. If only his propaganda videos made the idea of unrestricted authority seem as troubling as the concept of singing children.
11,785 children are now in the care of Donald Trump’s HHS, according to HHS
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 18, 2018
Ivanka’s eyes open wide and her mouth begins to salivate as she tries to figure out how to get those little hands stitching polyester cardigans. https://t.co/5CbHKKwC4p
— Molly Jong Un Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 18, 2018
“No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or for eventually reuniting them.” @JonathanBlitzer on an unfolding nightmare https://t.co/pEL5mrdft0
— Patrick Radden Keefe (@praddenkeefe) June 18, 2018
re: #1 Interesting Times
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“Hey Daddy, I have an idea for what we can do with all those kids just sitting around!”
I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.https://t.co/he1uw1E96A
— Laura Bush (@laurawbush) June 18, 2018
Sometimes truth transcends party. https://t.co/TeFM7NmNzU
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 18, 2018
Three former first ladies have now spoken out on the Trump administration’s child separations. This tweet from Michelle Obama and @HillaryClinton speaking now (live on @MSNBC if you’re near a TV). https://t.co/Jj7sxNu6N5
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 18, 2018
re: #1 Interesting Times
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From last thread.
To add to your point, it may have already happened, and we do not know.
re: #533 Eclectic Cyborg
Make no mistake: Children will die before this is all over.
ICE will try to claim it was “exposure” or “heat stroke” or “an unfortunate accident”.
We can’t let them get away with it.
re: #2 Single-handed sailor
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This isn’t a humanitarian crisis caused by war or conflict. Not one caused by a major natural or manmade disaster. It’s one that was created by evil men who see these children as nothing more than bargaining chips at best, a blight upon the “purity” of their nation at worst.
Of course @marcorubio is cool with children being torn from their parents. He didn’t seem to do much when it happened at Stoneman Douglas.
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) June 18, 2018
re: #4 JordanRules
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I’m sure Laura’s MiL were she still with us would be among them too. And I’m sure Mrs. Carter agrees. Melania’s consent with the policy given her own history is repulsive.
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Marco Rubio is one of the biggest cowards I’ve ever seen not just in the Republican Party but in any field.
re: #4 JordanRules
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Meanwhile the current First Lady is trying to talk about everything but the crisis that her husband has created.
🚨 After hearing from folks at the border this weekend, there are a few additional groups working at the border who need funds to keep doing their work: @fuerzadelvalle @lawlab @netargv @FlorenceProject @AlOtroLado_Org @theyoungcenter
Donate ASAP: https://t.co/lplNG22yke pic.twitter.com/MkDeQLGfC3— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) June 18, 2018
re: #8 JordanRules
Punch him again, Cameron. Over and over.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
Ivanka is one of the biggest monsters in the administration.
She takes after her dad.
re: #13 Belafon
Punch him again, Cameron. Over and over.
Yep, don’t stop. Shame that feckless wanker.
re: #8 JordanRules
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re: #5 HappyWarrior
Ivanka is one of the biggest monsters in the administration.
She’s certainly Daddy’s Girl.
The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
Another Big Lie. The truth is that crime in Germany is way down. But also note: this rhetoric about “changing the culture” is straight from the fascist, ethno-nationalist far right. It’s the language of Nazis. https://t.co/xrGgFG0JXx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 18, 2018
re: #17 HappyWarrior
She I’d argue is worse than the older boys.
She has a brain which sets her apart from her brothers. Ivanka is an uncaring narcissist, just like he daddy,
re: #19 Winston_Smith
She’s certainly Daddy’s Girl.
In the worst way. The boys piss me off too but Ivanka tries to portray herself more than either of them as this kind hearted person.
re: #19 Winston_Smith
She’s certainly Daddy’s Girl.
A ragged intake of breath. “Have you seen those nimble fingers? HAVE YOU, DADDY? How can you deny me their clever brown hands at work for my mid-priced TJ Maxx purse line?” https://t.co/OmRqJgoFC0
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 18, 2018
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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It’s always fun when random people lash out for no reason.
WTF are you talking about with “now you notice?” Have you read anything else I’ve ever written about this gang of fascist goons for the past 2 years?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 18, 2018
re: #21 b.d. (De-ICE the USA)
She was a brain which sets her apart from her brothers. Ivanka is an uncaring narcissist, just like he daddy,
Yes, unlike the other two, she’s actually got some brains about her. Ivanka would never be as stupid to RT calling the Parkland kids crisis actors. No, she’s cynical enough to pretend to care about mental health issues while doing nothing to dissaude her father from making those cuts. Samantha Bee wasn’t wrong about her.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
It’s always fun when random people lash out for no reason.
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Yeah I don’t know why people do this to you Charles. It’s stupid.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
And there were people who wanted him to be President.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Yes, unlike the other two, she’s actually got some brains about her. Ivanka would never be as stupid to RT calling the Parkland kids crisis actors. No, she’s cynical enough to pretend to care about mental health issues while doing nothing to dissaude her father from making those cuts. Samantha Bee wasn’t wrong about her.
Family first. https://t.co/UDYfreoHPp #Quote @realmikefox pic.twitter.com/snHL1pc6W4
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) December 25, 2015
Not even two years into his presidency, and Trump is dragging children away from their families and throwing them in concentration camps. Fascism comes at you fast.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 18, 2018
In which the Crazification Factor® strikes again:
YouGov poll: 56% disagreed that it’s appropriate to separate parents & kids who cross the border illegally in order to discourage others from crossing the border illegally. 27% agreed.
Quinnipiac poll: 66% oppose separating parents-kids to discourage others. 27% supported.— Geoffrey Skelley is watching the World Cup⚽️ (@geoffreyvs) June 18, 2018
Too bad these sickopaths are the ones running the country :/
re: #28 plansbandc
And there were people who wanted him to be President.
Because they cynically wanted him to be Republican Obama when he’s too stupid to know what a tool he really is. Ted Cruz is actually pretty intelligent. A cynical asshole of the worst kind but Rubio’s a fucking moron who just does whatever the R establishment tells him to do in the hopes that they’ll make him their great hope. Marco’s never going to be President because even the bigoted morons in the GOP base see what a tool he is.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
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If only we’d had somebody to warn us on the campaign trail…
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dude, emails…..emails!!!!!
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Too bad these sickopaths are the ones running the country :/
That’s why I worry. This madness isn’t for the fringe. At least 1/4 accept this crap and that number rises when you get to white people in certain areas.
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This is why Donny is trying to thump his chest while changing the subject: He’s losing on this subject badly and the efforts to shift the blame are falling flat.
Get rid of Trump guys and I hope to God we do. But you still have a good percentage of the country that accepts this. I’ve said it before but I worry about a truly global economic crisis that allows these guys to really rise. Trumpism is a different phenomenon than Nazism. IT did not rise out of economic troubles, it rose out of prosperity in one of the most powerful cities in the world.
BREAKING: Trump announces he’s directing Pentagon to create ‘space force’ as independent service branch.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 18, 2018
The president told a US general to create a new Space Force as 6th branch of military today, which generals tell me they don’t want. Thankfully the president can’t do it without Congress because now is NOT the time to rip the Air Force apart. Too many important missions at stake. https://t.co/uYzqg1W8nE
— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 18, 2018
re: #37 Jenner7
Today’s @WhiteHouse briefing with @PressSec has now been kicked back to a 15:30 EDT start time.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) June 18, 2018
Sorry, should have looked first.
From the last thread:
My thoughts on the child separation policy.
Read here: https://t.co/rZo4dFEszM— Senator Ben Sasse (@SenSasse) June 18, 2018
Short version:
While there’s much to say about how catch-and-release policies led us here, family separation is wicked & needs to be stopped https://t.co/tYepaf2MQe— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 18, 2018
Hey Sen. Sasse. I’m a constituent of yours. Read my letter on that from a couple days ago in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
Ivanka is one of the biggest monsters in the administration.
She’s wholly complicit with her father’s bigotry, bullying and fascism.
re: #40 JordanRules
Once again, Trump undermining US national security and spewing nonsense that only creates chaos that ultimately serves his Russian masters.
A reminder that the “Compromise” immigration bill is only a compromise between the full blown Nazi Republicans and the Republicans who want the same thing as the Nazis, but just don’t like the current optics.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 18, 2018
New Quinnipiac poll:
55 percent of Republicans *support* stepped up prosecutions that separate children from their parents.
Notably, the question wording focuses only on families seeking asylum.
Among all voters, 66 percent oppose the policy:https://t.co/ERpFCM9Xmq pic.twitter.com/8tGhb8Vc4c— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 18, 2018
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
She’s wholly complicit with her father’s bigotry, bullying and fascism.
Yep but because she doesn’t look like Nosferatu’s kid- Miller and portrays herself as a decent person, she gets a lot of passes. George and Laura Bush’s daughters were and are good people with hearts. Ivanka meanwhile is the kind of person that smiles at you as she screws you. A true snake.
Thread.
Once they had a new administration in place, and contracts with suppliers, it wasn’t hard to establish permanent camps for detaining those the state considered its enemies.
Dachau opened a few months after the Nazis took power. It began by taking in dissidents. pic.twitter.com/xLvOeRm6q8— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) June 18, 2018
A reminder that the “Compromise” immigration bill is only a compromise between the full blown Nazi Republicans and the Republicans who want the same thing as the Nazis, but just don’t like the current optics.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 18, 2018
Hillary Clinton on Trump’s talking point that family separation is a Democratic law: “That is an outright lie and it is incumbent on all of us, journalists and citizens alike, to call it just that.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 18, 2018
JUST IN: “That is an outright lie,” Hillary Clinton says of Trump White House saying separation of families at the US border is mandated by law. pic.twitter.com/iTMEmzRzss
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 18, 2018
HILLARY: “I’ve studied the Bible, both the old and the new testament. And what is being done using the name of religion is contrary to everything I was ever taught. Jesus said, ‘suffer the little children unto me.’ He did not say, ‘let the children suffer.’” pic.twitter.com/koTf4TE6Gk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2018
She’s been literally fighting for kids her whole life. No way she wasn’t gonna speak out.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
While pretending to be nice.
re: #46 Single-handed sailor
Asylum is a legal immigration process. Persons seeking asylum can do it upon entry, or they can claim it as a defense against being deported.
Either way, Trump is doing what white supremacists have been seeking for decades and he’s going after legal immigrants (which is what those seeking asylum are doing).
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She’s been literally fighting for kids her whole life. No way she wasn’t gonna speak out.
We could use her as President right now but I don’t mind if she says fuck you guys, you should have listened to me in November.
Maybe one of the Twitterati here can put my letter up on Sen. Sasse’s Twitter feed?
re: #40 JordanRules
‘Infrastructure Week’
“According to a White House pool report, the president signed the executive order establishing the Space Force at about 12:36 p.m. EST” #spaceforce w/ our @ValerieInsinna and @AaronMehta https://t.co/kZOTh0FIg8
— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) June 18, 2018
re: #51 JordanRules
Preach on it, Secretary Clinton!! So glad that she won’t just go away and is still using her voice to pull us in the right direction.
re: #47 HappyWarrior
Yep but because she doesn’t look like Nosferatu’s kid- Miller and portrays herself as a decent person, she gets a lot of passes. George and Laura Bush’s daughters were and are good people with hearts. Ivanka meanwhile is the kind of person that smiles at you as she screws you. A true snake.
Without all the surgeries she would look more Beavis or Butthead like.
Has Biden said anything yet? He’s rumored to be running in 2020. Good time to speak out Joe.
re: #45 Kragar
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Blimey, I hope Germans tweeps respond to that like Scots did to his Brexit tweet a couple of years ago. (I’m assuming the German language has the equivalent of words like “cockwomble” and “fucktrumpet”…)
I got fifty Iraqi dinars that says Huckster doesn’t do the press conference today.
re: #59 JordanRules
Without all the surgeries she would look more Beavis or Butthead like.
I don’t disagree with that lol. It’s just as Michelle Wolf said, she looks like she doesn’t fart in the elevator so the media ignores that she’s her father’s daughter in teh worst ways. IIRC she really tried to screw over her half sister Tiffany.
re: #57 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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“It’ll dominate space for America!”
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“Well, with satellites…”
“Air Force already does that.”
“Missiles…”
“They do that too…”
“Astronauts…”
“That’s NASA’s job.”
“Spaceships!”
“Are you even listening?”
re: #64 HappyWarrior
I don’t disagree with that lol. It’s just as Michelle Wolf said, she looks like she doesn’t fart in the elevator so the media ignores that she’s her father’s daughter in teh worst ways. IIRC she really tried to screw over her half sister Tiffany.
Indeed. She’s got PWG privilege.
I’m old enough to remember what she used to look like.
re: #57 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
‘Infrastructure Week’
“President Trump, upon finding out that people were disgusted with his policy of separating children, tries to change the subject.” I will buy whatever I can to support any news org that makes that statement.
“This is not happening because of the ‘Democrats’ law,’ as the White House has claimed. Separating families is not mandated by law at all. That is an outright lie. And it is incumbent on all of us, journalists and citizens alike, to call it just that.” — @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/8jZpkBB9j5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2018
New: @KamalaHarris calls on @SecNielsen to resign. pic.twitter.com/ece3KmtYmO
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 18, 2018
re: #68 gocart mozart
“Why doesn’t HRC just go away?”
“How come HRC hasn’t said anything about policy X, news development y?”
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The GOP are a bunch of feckless cunts.
Trumpworld is filled with a bunch of feckless cunts.
And anyone who defends those feckless cunts are themselves feckless cunts.
Oh, and I being rude?
The barbaric policies Trump’s imposed to satisfy his white supremacist/nativist base deserves the coarse language use. I will not stand idly by and do nothing.
No good people should stand by while people seeking lawful entry to the US via asylum are treated like animals. Trump made it clear that he thinks if you’re not a white European Christian coming into the US that you’re an animal who’ll bring crime and violence with you.
It’s straight out of the Nazi playbook, which was used against the Jews in Germany, and used by America First Nazis here in the US to prevent Jews fleeing Germany from being granted safe entry here.
This is a really good piece from one of my favorite writers.
Read @fivefifths on Jeff Sessions’ America. https://t.co/pQU4uE0op2 pic.twitter.com/X6Ulalnw5o
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 18, 2018
Pure evil.
Ann Coulter on Fox News calls crying immigrant children “child actors” and looks directly into the camera to warn Trump not to fall for it. pic.twitter.com/SIjrocmxKB
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 18, 2018
Boston Children’s Hospital weighs in on the family separation:
Boston Children’s stands for keeping families together
Dear Friends,
It seems like it should go without saying that Boston Children’s Hospital does not support the U.S. government’s current practice of forcibly separating children from their parents as they seek asylum. While we recognize that the broader debate over immigration policy is complex, Boston Children’s can never support practices that tear families apart. To divide these families, even temporarily, is to rob children of their primary safety net and undercut their potential for a healthy and successful future.
At Boston Children’s, we have a mission: to provide children with the tools, treatments, care and support they need in order to grow into healthy adults. The responsibility to offer comfort and care to those who need it is a value that has guided this hospital for nearly 150 years. We pride ourselves on providing a safe, welcoming and respectful environment for all who come through our doors, and we do not believe it’s too much to ask the same of our country.
All our best,
Sandra L. Fenwick
President and CEOKevin B. Churchwell, MD
EVP of Health Affairs and COO
The fact that you compare this to hitler and his concentration camps shows what a horrible human being you are.
— Taylors Politics (@PollsAndPolitic) June 18, 2018
Pictures of President Trump and Kim Jong Un in the West Wing of the White House. A few weeks ago, these frames surrounded pics of Trump with Emmanuel Macron, president of France, one of America’s closest allies. pic.twitter.com/RZja99SDnJ
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) June 18, 2018
re: #80 Charles Johnson
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UN Human Rights commissioner:
“In the United States, I’m deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions … The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable.” pic.twitter.com/Yxo75s3fwO— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 18, 2018
re: #80 Charles Johnson
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re: #81 JordanRules
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Sorry to squick some of my fellow Lizardim, but I have some important things to share.
I know what happened to some of the girls of Litzmannstadt kinder-kz.it is not a comfortable place to be, because some of the girls survived, but are still to this day ashamed to speak out, and it still isn’t politically correct to speak of what happened in Poland.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 18, 2018
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truth is truth
it always transcends party
sometimes truth transcends party politics
re: #80 Charles Johnson
Earlier today the President of the United States lied about crime statistics in order to exhort the Chancellor of Germany to put greater priority on racial purity in her policymaking.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 18, 2018
re: #81 JordanRules
God, how I miss Pete Souza’s eye. Those photos are garbage.
Today, more than ever, I am proud to be a member of the Democratic Party. We are deeply imperfect but we fight for the right things.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 18, 2018
Me af!!!
re: #82 Targetpractice
I’m just glad he was pointed out so I could block his ignorant ass.
re: #89 Ace Rothstein
God, how I miss Pete Souza’s eye. Those photos are garbage.
They are bad at everything. Can’t do anything well.
re: #86 Teukka
Sorry to squick some of my fellow Lizardim, but I have some important things to share.
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Thank you for sharing those resources.
re: #92 JordanRules
You’d think they would want to have an excellent photog versed in the proper propaganda techniques. Thankfully they are incompetent in every way.
re: #93 JordanRules
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I often describe it as Democrats might not have all the answers, but at least we ask the right questions.
Inspector General Horowitz tells Feinstein that the IG’s work is “ongoing” re: alleged leaks from FBI related to Clinton’s emails in the runup to the election.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 18, 2018
re: #97 JordanRules
Yes, we must get to the bottom of the corrupt FBI’s conspiracy against Tump…oh this is about leaks regarding HRC? Oh, let’s wrap this up, OK, it’s gone on long enough.
My God.
A 16-year-old girl at a detention facility who had been taking care of a baby she didn’t know inside of a cell for 3 days. The baby had been taken from her mother.
She had to teach other traumatized girls how to change the babies diaper. https://t.co/Lfr2BVLHZu— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 18, 2018
Supposedly, this is as accurate as can be made collection of the locations of immigrant detention facilities: freedomforimmigrants.org.
re: #100 Belafon
Government sanctioned child abuse.
re: #100 Belafon
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What you think #spaceforce will be VS what it actually will be pic.twitter.com/Uz6N5AR64I
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 18, 2018
re: #104 Kragar
…but the latter we be expensed as though it’s the former.
New York Gov. Cuomo: “New York will not be party to this inhumane treatment of immigrant families. We will not deploy National Guard to the border, and we will not be complicit in a political agenda that governs by fear and division.”
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 18, 2018
re: #100 Belafon
Shaun King is another one who needs to show contrition and apologize for his nonstop Clinton is as bad as or worse than Trump bullshit he spewed all through 2016.
We wouldn’t be dealing with Trump’s white supremacist purity party slouching towards fascism at an ever increasing pace.
BEES!
As if print journalism didn’t have enough problems https://t.co/wOuCqc6OMI pic.twitter.com/xRJJiQ4llg
— Stuff Journalists Like 📰✏️ (@JournalistsLike) June 17, 2018
re: #108 lawhawk
Not a fan. Blocked him awhile ago.
re: #108 lawhawk
Shaun King is another one who needs to show contrition and apologize for his nonstop Clinton is as bad as or worse than Trump bullshit he spewed all through 2016.
We wouldn’t be dealing with Trump’s white supremacist purity party slouching towards fascism at an ever increasing pace.
Oh he still fully believes it. He tweeted some dumb shit about Dems and Bernie just the other day. It was ridiculous.
But I will definitely support some of his social justice work. Other stuff he has done is suspect and I will be discerning with him and his works.
re: #81 JordanRules
Not only do the photos suck, those god-awful gold frames are even worse.
When Dems take over the WH and eventually the house and/or Senate, ICE and border patrol need purging. Somehow.
I think Hilary haters are just about as contemptible as Trumpsters. I block them both with equal vigor.
Small child in signing queue: Why are you writing YOUR name in MY book?
Me: That’s the book I wrote. I was going to sign it for you
Child: It’s MINE
Me: OK. Shall I write your name?
Child. Yes. Then *I* will sign it— Abie Longstaff (@AbieLongstaff) June 17, 2018
Aidan turns 2 today! For his birthday, we gave him balloons, books, we’ll have a cake later & I just contributed in his honor to @RAICESTEXAS. Please, do not tell me to not politicize my son’s birthday. I hope Aidan grows up understanding that we’re citizens every single day.
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 18, 2018
Don’t politicize your sons birthday. That’s pretty low. But then again, you are a Clinton.
— Stewart 🌎 (@PAStewartFL) June 18, 2018
Hi Stewart - I believe we teach our children by what we do, what we say, what we give, what we stand for and what we stand against. I know today Aidan loves his number balloons most. Over time, I hope he’ll value our support for @RAICESTEXAS more. Have a blessed day. https://t.co/YmALdXBJRJ
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 18, 2018
The most patient woman on that damn app.
Were gun-toting children photographed on the United States border?
No. The @DRUDGE_REPORT used my photo of children holding toy guns in Syria without credit, a description, or attribution to illustrate a story about immigration to the US. More at @Snopes: https://t.co/FJHWCxMpwY— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) June 18, 2018
The @DRUDGE_REPORT’s use of the photo is an obscene misrepresentation of what the photo I took actually depicts, I told @germanrlopez, who also did a good write-up on @voxdotcom. https://t.co/KIZp0OwbRG
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) June 18, 2018
re: #114 GlutenFreeJesus
When Dems take overbthe WH and eventually the house or Senate, ICE and border patrol need purging. Somehow.
I propose what the Rs do to healthcare as the solution.
Take the ICE force and remove it from HHS. Then institute block grants to local/state governments for the sole purpose of holding their own immigration agents. Then watch the states spend that grant money in places it needs rather than on a force of thugs. Then after that bleeds itself recreate an Immigrant Rights and Assistance group in the HHS and call it a day.
re: #119 JordanRules
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Stewart really needs to get laid and stop trolling the former first daughter in a pathetic way. Happy B-Day to Aidan. Great name choice btw!
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Wait … Trump gave Kim Jong Un his personal cell phone number? That’s what Sen. Dick Durbin just said (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing).
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 18, 2018
12…
— Citizen Lea (@citizen_lea) June 18, 2018
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #112 JordanRules
Oh he still fully believes it. He tweeted some dumb shit about Dems and Bernie just the other day. It was ridiculous.
But I will definitely support some of his social justice work. Other stuff he has done is suspect and I will be discerning with him and his works.
Shaun King is just a wannabe Glenn Greenwald. Maybe a bit less cynical and more naïve, but with the same underlying reckless know-it-all-ism, distain for pragmatism and willingness to condone the obvious harm that results from his in-the-moment tactics. Both men advance their unbending principles through an absolutist unilateralism that stems from an absolutist perception that theirs is the only possible way to achieve the greater good.
About to see the children at Casa Presidente. The youngest is 1 year old. #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2018
The youngest child (boy) I’ve seen here so far who was separated from his family is 8 months old and has been here over a month, according to administrators. #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2018
We visited the Infant Room where four very young children, including Roger the 8 month old, were being looked after by staff. We picked up and carried the children. #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2018
Casa Presidente is in Brownsville
Not sorry
Me tryna fold a fitted sheet pic.twitter.com/3ujoIZYG7Z
— la’derrick (@khaleezy) June 17, 2018
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I can’t even think of the words for how much this angers me. A child that young needs their parents!
U.S Border Patrol ran over an O’odham man today on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
This is an example of the fear O’odham have to face everyday because BP ravage our communities & are careless with our lives. pic.twitter.com/ZEbVlIe5cl— Indivisible Tohono (@Indivisible_TO) June 15, 2018
re: #132 Kragar
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You know, maybe if conservatives complained about this kind of big government instead of expanding health care and social programs, they might actually have a point but they love this kind of shit.
re: #114 GlutenFreeJesus
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Whatever you thought you might do in 1935 Munich is what you are doing now.
We aren’t in theoretical territory anymore. We are building fucking concentration camps in the fucking desert in the fucking summer.
For children.
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Detention officer arrested for sexually assaulting 4 year old and threatening mother with deportation.
[blockquote]Salazar said the victim’s mother reported the sexual assault Saturday night after the child made an outcry to her mom. It’s believed the sexual assault had been going on for the past few months, possibly years. Sheriff Salazar said the victim’s mother is an undocumented immigrant and Nunez allegedly threatened her with deportation if she reported the sexual assault.
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re: #136 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Detention officer arrested for sexually assaulting 4 year old and threatening mother with deportation.
[blockquote]Salazar said the victim’s mother reported the sexual assault Saturday night after the child made an outcry to her mom. It’s believed the sexual assault had been going on for the past few months, possibly years. Sheriff Salazar said the victim’s mother is an undocumented immigrant and Nunez allegedly threatened her with deportation if she reported the sexual assault.
After further investigation and questioning, 47-year-old Jose Nunez was arrested and charged with super aggravated sexual assault.[/blockquote]
There’s a special place for people like this. But hey don’t ever kneel for the national anthem folks!
re: #127 goddamnedfrank
Shaun King is just a wannabe Glenn Greenwald. Maybe a bit less cynical and more naïve, but with the same underlying reckless know-it-all-ism, distain for pragmatism and willingness to condone the obvious harm that results from his in-the-moment tactics. Both men advance their unbending principles through an absolutist unilateralism that stems from an absolutist perception that theirs is the only possible way to achieve thethe greater good.
I have no argument there. Some of my areas of critical (life and death) concern are so voiceless that I stretch on them to hear something. Maybe that won’t always be the case and please believe that it will be easy as hell to completely cancel the fake weed smoker.
re: #134 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
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Periodic reminder. If Trump’s child abduction policy was MANDATED by some law, as he says, then ICE’s lawyers would be making that argument in court.They’re not.They’re explicitly and repeatedly arguing that it is a DISCRETIONARY action & not reviewable because of that fact. pic.twitter.com/koxM56RTRu
— Intl. House of franks (@goddamnedfrank) June 18, 2018
The reason, by the by, that ICE’s lawyers aren’t parroting Trump’s claims about this policy being required by law is that there are harsh professional consequences for lawyers who lie to the court.
— Intl. House of franks (@goddamnedfrank) June 18, 2018
LOL
BREAKING: President Trump orders US military to form a “space force” military branch: “We must have American dominance in space.” pic.twitter.com/hmpUdUJ2VS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 18, 2018
did everybody in the air force get fired? https://t.co/OsfOTB8DER
— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 18, 2018
FYI: there is already a space force. It’s called Air Force Space Command @AFSpace pic.twitter.com/YV6xRt3Qbs
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 18, 2018
no, no.
better to reinvent the wheel.
in fact, that’s the actual, lesser known expression: better to reinvent the wheel. https://t.co/PejAMd60eJ— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 18, 2018
re: #130 Stanley Sea
With all the bullshit going on, I needed that.
Charles, seeing this on the YouTube video.
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Ann Coulter, sitting on her throne of privilege, says that asylum-seeking kids are “child actors.” Seems to be a pretty common term thrown around lately…
It is revolting to see a person dismiss someone else’s pain as “fake.” I sincerely hope Ann finds her morals one day.— Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) June 18, 2018
re: #132 Kragar
Border Patrol runs over Native Americans on their own tribal lands, but federal law enforcement allows sovereign citizens to take over a national wildlife refuge they have no right to do, and lets them occupy that land for months causing significant resource damage.
White privilege rears its ugly head in so many ways.
re: #130 Stanley Sea
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re: #145 JordanRules
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I hope Ann finds poverty, loneliness, and pain. I mean that.
Today’s WH briefing, originally scheduled for 1:15pm, rescheduled for 3:30pm, now delayed again to 4PM. pic.twitter.com/kXU0oUoPz0
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 18, 2018
re: #148 HappyWarrior
I hope Ann finds poverty, loneliness, and pain. I mean that.
I’m thinking that is more likely.
re: #150 JordanRules
I’m thinking that is more likely.
I still remember Maher chiding all the liberals who criticize her. It’s another reason why I don’t like him. I don’t want her criminalized for the hateful things she says but I want her to feel the same pain she wants in others.
re: #148 HappyWarrior
I hope Ann finds poverty, loneliness, and pain. I mean that.
Morals would lead to that with her past.
re: #152 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Morals would lead to that with her past.
She should be remembered how people like Father Coughlin are today.
Here is a transcript of Secretary Clinton’s remarks on immigration in New York this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/3V9tDvljeG
— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) June 18, 2018
re: #148 HappyWarrior
I hope Ann finds poverty, loneliness, and pain. I mean that.
I hope that shrew winds up pushing a shopping cart on Skid Row.
The meeting, first reported by @chrislhayes , came just weeks after Trump’s inauguration. https://t.co/D69ugDhb56
— NBC Investigations (@NBCInvestigates) June 18, 2018
A financier interested in developing business opportunities in North Korea approached Jared Kushner with a proposition to set up a backchannel with North Korea. Because it always seems to come back to profiting off of this presidency.https://t.co/xntynSCLwc
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 18, 2018
Tim Kaine: Child immigrant detention center is “the real Trump Hotel” https://t.co/cbwtG311Xz pic.twitter.com/g1HW32oHaX
— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2018
re: #149 JordanRules
Kelly: Let’s try this again, Sarah. If a reporter asks “How would you like it if your kids were taken from you?” you say—
*simultaneously*
Sanders: I wouldn’t like that at all.
Kelly: Anything for the glory of the administration.
New: ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing.
Border Patrol agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” https://t.co/pkmD8DKYmo— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
NO words, only tears
meanwhile in Kentucky:
A troubled Kentucky nursing home was sued for medical malpractice last year. At the trial, its lawyers insisted the jury must not be told any of the following things by attorneys for the injured plaintiff. ^JC pic.twitter.com/PzB8SCEaDz
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) June 18, 2018
re: #163 Jenner7
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If ever the Dems can get control of the WH and Congress, there’s a whole lot of folks in ICE and the BP that need to lose their fucking jobs.
You know the bad press is getting to Trump when he’s creating ENTIRELY NEW MILITARY BRANCHES as a distraction. “Zero to space force” is the new freakout scale. pic.twitter.com/LwXt7k6h8P
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 18, 2018
Here’s what Matthew 18:6 has to say about the Trump policy of putting kids in cages: “…whoso shall offend one of these little ones…it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 18, 2018
— TedStriker (@talon_262) June 18, 2018
I just spent the better part of two hours on Facebook, going back and forth with a nephew who argued that taking kids away from their parents at the border was equivalent to putting the child of a drug dealer in protective custody.
He’s a smart kid, so I went step by step with him. Things he didn’t know:
- that applying for asylum is legal, and people applying for asylum have up to a year to actually file after getting here
- that Border Patrol was denying people their applications for asylum, thereby turning them into ‘border jumpers’ and arresting them
- that none of the camps where people were allowed to inspect had any girls or women in them, only men and boys
- that some immigrant children had been handed over to human traffickers
It was a long walk, but I actually got him to conceded that his initial point was wrong and had he known what I told him, he never would have posted it. And he said that he agreed that this has to be stopped.
It got me thinking about how many people are watching this and just assuming that everyone showing up at the border is illegal. And then this song came on the radio and the words really hit home.
The actors and jesters are here
The stage is in darkness and clear
For raising the curtain
And no-ones quite certain whose play it isHow long ago, how long
If only we had listened then.
If we’d known just how right we were going to be.For we dreamed a lot
And we schemed a lot
And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart.If everyone was listening you know
There’d be a chance that we could save the show
Who’ll be the last clown
To bring the house down?
Oh no, please no, don’t let the curtain fallWell, what is your costume today?
Who are the props in your play?
You’re acting a part which you thought from the start
Was an honest one.Well how do you plead?
An actor indeed!
Go re-learn your lines,
You don’t know what you’ve done
The finale’s begun.If everyone was listening you know
There’d be a chance that we could save the show,
Who’ll be the last clown
To bring the house down?
Oh no, please no, don’t let the curtain fall.
Remember basic human decency? Good times.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 18, 2018
Look for an important announcement TONIGHT on @allinwithchris re *major protest against family separation* in DC & nationwide. @RepJayapal, one of our utmost champions, will share plans. All hands on deck. @chrislhayes @MoveOn @domesticworkers @waltshaub #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Anna Galland (@annagalland) June 18, 2018
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
I keep wondering why were not hearing from the Women’s March people. This ought to be something they should be getting people out for.
The Republican bible is Atlas Shrugged.
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) June 18, 2018
re: #149 JordanRules
Today’s WH briefing, originally scheduled for 1:15pm, rescheduled for 3:30pm, now delayed again to 4PM.
please dont make me go out there
please……
re: #163 Jenner7
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I can’t even make it all the way through this.
re: #57 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
‘Infrastructure Week’
“According to a White House pool report, the president signed the executive order establishing the Space Force at about 12:36 p.m. EST” #spaceforce w/ our @ValerieInsinna and @AaronMehta https://t.co/kZOTh0FIg8
— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) June 18, 2018
The opposition response so far seems to be based on an assumption that this will be something wholly new, created from scratch at vast cost. We can count on Trump to screw it up, of course, but the creation of a separate space branch does not necessarily entail any substantial new expenditure. It basically separates the existing Air Force Space Command and some related activities into its own branch, separate from the Air Force as a whole. As such this proposal is similar to the separation of the Army Air Force into the independent US Air Force in 1947. This has been on the table for many years and there are valid arguments both pro and con. Hysterical assumptions that it will automatically be a huge new drain on resources are just not going to help.
“I do not believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt.” - @FBI director Chris Wray to @senjudiciary just now.
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) June 18, 2018
re: #177 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
According to a White House pool report, the president signed the executive order establishing the Space Force at about 12:36 p.m.
The opposition response so far seems to be based on an assumption that this will be something wholly new, created from scratch at vast cost. We can count on Trump to screw it up, of course, but the creation of a separate space branch does not necessarily entail any substantial new expenditure. It basically separates the existing Air Force Space Command and some related activities into its own branch, separate from the Air Force as a whole. As such this proposal is similar to the separation of the Army Air Force into the independent US Air Force in 1947. This has been on the table for many years and there are valid arguments both pro and con. Hysterical assumptions that it will automatically be a huge new drain on resources are just not going to help.
Trump will give them the task of making it so he can stare at the sun during an eclipse. Or all the time.
re: #175 dangerman
What? You think SHS has ever had any compunction about making more smoky eye makeup? No, I think something else is going on, possibly something involving throwing furniture, threats of/actual resignations or more Infrastructure Week entertainment.
What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 18, 2018
Those who selectively use the Bible to justify this cruelty are ignoring a central tenet of Christianity. Jesus said “Suffer the little children unto me.” He did not say “let the children suffer.”
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 18, 2018
re: #176 Scottish Dragon
I can’t even make it all the way through this.
I don’t know if I can even start.
God forgive ushttps://t.co/Z4gp2tIm6q
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 18, 2018
This is beyond forgiveness.
— roxane gay (@rgay) June 18, 2018
New: ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing.
Border Patrol agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” https://t.co/pkmD8DKYmo— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
This audio’s playing off someone’s laptop in the White House briefing room. (Reporters had gathered in here, awaiting briefing, before this story posted.) @PressSec has not arrived yet. https://t.co/dZyLWj0RhO
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) June 18, 2018
It’s like they are dealing with some massive crisis they totally created for themselves or something.
— Dave *Space Force Terminal E-4* Bledsoe (@TheHell_Podcast) June 18, 2018
New: ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing.
Border Patrol agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” https://t.co/pkmD8DKYmo— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
This audio’s playing off someone’s laptop in the White House briefing room. (Reporters had gathered in here, awaiting briefing, before this story posted.) @PressSec has not arrived yet. https://t.co/dZyLWj0RhO
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) June 18, 2018
I remember hearing Bayard Rustin sing this and I was moved to tears!
Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!
When Israel was in Egypt land
Let my people go!
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go!
So the God said: go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!
So Moses went to Egypt land
Let my people go!
He made all pharaoes understand
Let my people go!
Yes the lord said: go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!
Thus spoke the lord, bold Moses said:
-let my people go!
if not I’ll smite, your firstborn’s dead
-let my people go!
God-the lord said :
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!
Tell all pharaoes
To let my people go
re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember hearing Bayard Rustin sing this and I was moved to tears!
Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!When Israel was in Egypt land
Let my people go!
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go!So the God said: go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!So Moses went to Egypt land
Let my people go!
He made all pharaoes understand
Let my people go!Yes the lord said: go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!Thus spoke the lord, bold Moses said:
-let my people go!
if not I’ll smite, your firstborn’s dead
-let my people go!God-the lord said :
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell all pharaoes to
Let my people go!
Tell all pharaoes
To let my people go
Me? The bridge in in the Soundtrack version of “When you believe” moves me to tears at times, even tho it is in Hebrew and I don’t understand a word.
Just In: these are pictures of the tents that are set up in Tornillo (West Texas) to house children who’ve been separated from their families after crossing the border illegally
Source: Administration for Children and Families at the US Dept of Health and Human Services pic.twitter.com/830ydULf5g— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) June 18, 2018
We don’t deserve forgiveness at this point. We deserve judgment.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) June 18, 2018
The White House is struggling to get on the same page on immigration. Heated conversations in West Wing. The 1:15 briefing delayed until 3:30. The 3:30 briefing postponed until 4. And as I type this, the podium remains empty without explanation. pic.twitter.com/4iQHWSHUZU
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 18, 2018
re: #177 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The opposition response so far seems to be based on an assumption that this will be something wholly new, created from scratch at vast cost. We can count on Trump to screw it up, of course, but the creation of a separate space branch does not necessarily entail any substantial new expenditure. It basically separates the existing Air Force Space Command and some related activities into its own branch, separate from the Air Force as a whole. As such this proposal is similar to the separation of the Army Air Force into the independent US Air Force in 1947. This has been on the table for many years and there are valid arguments both pro and con. Hysterical assumptions that it will automatically be a huge new drain on resources are just not going to help.
I know that, for most of the public, the chaos that followed in the wake of the creation of the Air Force and the need for “consolidation” of the services is lost to the mists of history. To them, I advise to look up four words: “Revolt of the Admirals.”
re: #189 Teukka
Me? The bridge in in the Soundtrack version of “When you believe” moves me to tears at times, even tho it is in Hebrew and I don’t understand a word.
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Another one is “Deliver us”:
re: #188 JordanRules
Oh shit. I wonder if they will cancel.
Odds are good. They’re about to go head-down on all of this. They can’t fucking justify it.
As bipartisan outrage grows over the administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy, the White House briefing has been delayed from 1:15 to 3:30 to 4:00.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 18, 2018
Sarah Sanders just now: “The briefing will be delayed until 5pm so that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen can join me and answer questions regarding immigration. Thank you for your patience.” https://t.co/b3kdzH7sVB
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 18, 2018
re: #191 Scottish Dragon
We either deal with it or we will be judged.
re: #192 Jenner7
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Two years later, the press are still paying rapt attention to an empty podium.
Happening now: @HouseDemocrats are holding a press conference on today’s trip to the border and the impact of @realDonaldTrump’s #FamilySeparation policies. #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether https://t.co/ToXhx6RJel
— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez) June 18, 2018
Looks like we’re still waiting on this one to start too.
Trump administration files stay request at #SCOTUS seeking to halt nationwide injunction in sanctuary cities case out of Chicago. Docket number is 17A1379
— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) June 18, 2018
Kagan has asked for a response by 5 pm, Wed. 6/27 #SCOTUS https://t.co/dmnlImSGgz
— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) June 18, 2018
re: #196 Jenner7
Sarah Sanders just now: “The briefing will be delayed until 5pm so that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen can join me and answer questions regarding immigration. Thank you for your patience.”
Does this mean we get three hours of shots of an empty podium?
re: #196 Jenner7
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Translation: “Nielsen, get your ass out there! And don’t forget your sword!”
re: #197 Belafon
We either deal with it or we will be judged.
Second that.
We need to act swiftly or the blood will be on our hands.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 18, 2018
Now taking bets on how long Nielsen lasts before Donny lops off her head to add to the collection.
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
You’d think with all the whining about Mueller and Comey that Dumpster does, that more people would begin to wonder what exactly he’s hiding.
re: #205 Targetpractice
Now taking bets on how long Nielsen lasts before Donny lops off her head to add to the collection.
Why am I getting emperor Cartagia vibes (Babylon 5 reference)?
Any word from my Senator @SenCoryGardner or my Congressman @RepTipton? No. Not a fucking word. My Senator and Congressman are nazi scum.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 18, 2018
As the @ProPublica audio of crying migrant children started, my dogs looked around urgently, trying to find the children in need of comfort. That’s the instinct of fucking dogs, but not of the president. 😭 pic.twitter.com/WeJ3jmTQVc
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 18, 2018
re: #192 Jenner7
I wonder why they’re even bothering. All they care about is their base.
re: #207 Teukka
Why am I getting emperor Cartagia vibes (Babylon 5 reference)?
Stephen Miller always has a couple Shadows on either side of him.
I’m waiting for Trump to give Eva Kirstjen a basket filled of figs with a surprise inside…
Donny never accepts responsibility for his actions, so Nielsen’s days are pretty much numbered. She’ll be “asked” to resign in order to give him cover for ending this godforsaken policy, with all the blame for such being heaped upon her as he makes sure to avoid putting any blame on ICE.
re: #210 Sir John Barron
I wonder why they’re even bothering. All they care about is their base.
and this is where it could backfire…the base is pleased but nearly everybody else is finding this all too inhumane, even those who generally agree with his immigration and asylum policies.
Here are some of the cages where Trump is holding immigrant children he took from their parents.
Oh, sorry, “not cages,” according to the Trump administration. https://t.co/1fUzxTVgnn pic.twitter.com/6qY0x8qQn2— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) June 18, 2018
[VIDEO] Watch as dozens protest outside a building in New Orleans today where Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke inside about immigration policy. Read more: https://t.co/FldqZephoK pic.twitter.com/jMLpTgCqtA
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) June 18, 2018
re: #213 Targetpractice
Donny never accepts responsibility for his actions, so Nielsen’s days are pretty much numbered. She’ll be “asked” to resign in order to give him cover for ending this godforsaken policy, with all the blame for such being heaped upon her as he makes sure to avoid putting any blame on ICE.
If she had a shred of decency, she’d be resigning right now, after that performance this am. They’re sending her out there to dance.
re: #215 Charles Johnson
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How long before “Those are not gas chambers, those are aroma therapy rooms!”?
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 18, 2018
The reason that the administration is careful not to show faces in the photos from the concentration camps is not privacy, but in fact they don’t want somebody to recognize their loved ones.
Look for “leaks” in the near future about how Nielsen’s the one who totally sold Trump on this policy, promised him that DHS was totally ready to handle the whole thing, and it work as a means of dissuading “illegals” from entering the US.
This is embarrassing
“Big Rocket Man: President Trump *boldly* vows to create ‘space force’” pic.twitter.com/tpdxcnj7jH— Lis Power (@LisPower1) June 18, 2018
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
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NASA: “So we can expect greatly increased funding and Congressional support?”
GOP: “HAHAHAHAHAHahahaha…oh, wait, you’re serious? Fuck no, we need that money for bombs and missiles! Now get out!”
re: #220 Targetpractice
Look for “leaks” in the near future about how Nielsen’s the one who totally sold Trump on this policy, promised him that DHS was totally ready to handle the whole thing, and it work as a means of dissuading “illegals” from entering the US.
Every reporter needs to then ask why Kelly and Sessions announced it last year.
And what do you think the odds are that some of the older kids will become radicalized, and go straight from the concentration camp to Gitmo?
Our country is tearing kids from their moms and dads. I can’t believe it. Can you imagine it happening to your family? pic.twitter.com/pQ33aAfIvr
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) June 18, 2018
Fuck you, you fucking nazi scum. https://t.co/Au0dy8Lx3f
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 18, 2018
She actually did it.
REPUBLICAN Ann Coulter called abused immigrant children torn from their parents arms by Trump: “child actors.”pic.twitter.com/gXpoBCS9pA— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 18, 2018
We can all agree it’s sad that these children’s criminal parents are abusing them and exposing them to the horrific dangers involved in entering another country illegally. https://t.co/xqeXeDLapz
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 18, 2018
You’ve never escaped a war.
You’ve never fled abuse.
You’ve never spent ONE NIGHT of your life without food or shelter or the protection of a country that tells mediocre people like you your ideas are right because you are white.
From the bottom of my heart, fuck you. https://t.co/En1QQtpWLT— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 18, 2018
re: #218 Teukka
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Congratulations Republicans. You’re now the American version of the Nazis, Khmer Rouge, and Interahamwe.
I hate to even think of the practical effects of the confinement of children. The fact that we are committing child abuse on an industrial scale just doesn’t seem to sink in to the powers that be.
“We have an orchestra here.” pic.twitter.com/lNWIoh9xdg
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2018
All this hand wringing among Republicans about kids in concentration camps is for shit. Laura Bush said this is bad? Fuck her, I might forgive if she took a picture of her new Democratic voter registration and posted it to social media, until then Republicans of all stripes can take a long walk off a short pier, nazi scum!
We are warriors of the universe. We are here for a reason. pic.twitter.com/e6z1b75gXq
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) June 17, 2018
re: #230 teleskiguy
I hear that you don’t like the Bushes, but it does matter that GOP members refuse to accept what’s happening at the border right now. Promote the hell out of anything that may wake people up about how unacceptable this is. These children matter more than your ideological purity.
— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) June 18, 2018
A White House official tells @jeffzeleny that @PressSec didn’t want to do the briefing today amid questions on child separation policy, so @SecNielsen is being flown in from New Orleans to take questions.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 18, 2018
What a coward.
re: #232 Belafon
If they were in federal office or running for reelection they wouldn’t be saying jack shit. Fuck the Republican Party, no quarter.
re: #233 Jenner7
What a coward.
The press had better never let her off the hook, then. It’s not like it’s going to go away tomorrow.
So we’re keeping track here on DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Saturday: NYT reports she’s uncomfortable and clashed with Trump on the policy.
Sunday: says the policy doesn’t exist.
Monday: Defends the policy publicly.— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 18, 2018
so which nielsen is showing up with sarah today https://t.co/EI0rILKIfE
— darth™ (@darth) June 18, 2018
re: #233 Jenner7
Actually I think that’s a good thing. Sanders is just a spokesperson without any authority. Nielson has authority, so let her face the music.
re: #233 Jenner7
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What a coward.
In other words, Huckaboo didn’t want to face any more questions about her hypocrisy from the press.
Here’s what I have to say about Trump’s Space Force:
He’s separating children from families and putting the children in prisons, cages and tents.
That’s the story. Just like the thousands of dead in Puerto Rico is the story. Fuck Space Force.— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 18, 2018
re: #234 teleskiguy
If they were in federal office or running for reelection they wouldn’t be saying jack shit. Fuck the Republican Party, no quarter.
If Laura Bush called me up and told me to meet her for a news conference to speak out about the separation of families, I would. Because, as the tweet says, it’s about getting those families back together.
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She’s being set up as the scapegoat. This policy is crashing and burning, so the White House is desperately scrambling to set her up to take the fall.
Democrats are running more women. Republicans are running more Nazis.
— Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) June 18, 2018
re: #246 Targetpractice
She’s being set up as the scapegoat. This policy is crashing and burning, so the White House is desperately scrambling to set her up to take the fall.
Let them do it. And when they fire her, we start demanding to see those families put back together and demand to see a plan to take care of them.
NEWS: The Trump admin is planning to roll out of a lot more immigration moves this summer, ahead of the mid-terms, by using executive authority and under-the-radar rule-making. Miller + team of top agency officials been planning for months: https://t.co/AzWZfJqLYY
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) June 18, 2018
re: #180 I cannot.
What? You think SHS has ever had any compunction about making more smoky eye makeup? No, I think something else is going on, possibly something involving throwing furniture, threats of/actual resignations or more Infrastructure Week entertainment.
well sure. after the injection…
Now Rosalynn Carter speaks out — meaning all five living first ladies have weighed in on the family separations, all within the last day pic.twitter.com/9pGdW4Rjkb
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) June 18, 2018
re: #249 JordanRules
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Weren’t both things the subject of endless wingnut screaming during the Obama years? That Republican obstructionism wasn’t an excuse for failing to wait for Congress to act?
re: #249 JordanRules
And the only way to stop these is protests, because they aren’t going to listen to the courts.
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Once again, with feeling, seeking asylum is not illegal.
#SpaceForce??? I say #SpaceGhost!! pic.twitter.com/IPMRwFZFHu
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 18, 2018
Another day, another 20 pints of human blood. pic.twitter.com/qYztdMyn5V
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2018
re: #177 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The opposition response so far seems to be based on an assumption that this will be something wholly new, created from scratch at vast cost. We can count on Trump to screw it up, of course, but the creation of a separate space branch does not necessarily entail any substantial new expenditure. It basically separates the existing Air Force Space Command and some related activities into its own branch, separate from the Air Force as a whole. As such this proposal is similar to the separation of the Army Air Force into the independent US Air Force in 1947. This has been on the table for many years and there are valid arguments both pro and con. Hysterical assumptions that it will automatically be a huge new drain on resources are just not going to help.
this is the concerning part, not the money:
“It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,
As much as I’d like to mock the Space Farce, it’s only there to distract from the national child abuse program.
Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help.
A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Listen to the full audio here: https://t.co/pLg65q3O41— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
Boost to @maddow. https://t.co/Ui8XeNXvGI
— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) June 18, 2018
Already booked.
More on this tonight at 9pm ET. https://t.co/LjgjuVXLDt— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) June 18, 2018
re: #252 Targetpractice
Weren’t both things the subject of endless wingnut screaming during the Obama years? That Republican obstructionism wasn’t an excuse for failing to wait for Congress to act?
This is different because
re: #196 Jenner7
Sarah Sanders just now: “The briefing will be delayed until 5pm so that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen can join me and answer questions regarding immigration. Thank you for your patience.”
for the love of all things, someone please ask “what is the specific law?”
Trump: Space Force will be “separate but equal” to Air Force https://t.co/88ksMIijBP pic.twitter.com/M0EHqNmBzB
— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2018
*chef’s kiss* https://t.co/eM15shF8HB
— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 18, 2018
re: #206 Sir John Barron
You’d think with all the whining about Mueller and Comey that Dumpster does, that more people would begin to wonder what exactly he’s hiding.
Roger Stone Met with a Russian Offering Dirt on Clinton
And at this point, the preponderance of evidence makes clear that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. There is no other explanation for why so many people would have so many meetings and then would find a need to lie about those meetings. There is no other explanation for why Trump himself would need to spend so much time and energy challenging the legitimacy of the investigation and the coverage of his conduct.
re: #261 dangerman
for the love of all things, someone please ask “what is the specific law?”
SHS: The law passed by Democrat Party
Press: Which law?
SHS: That law
P: When was it passed?
SHS: In Congress
P: When?
SHS: Whenever Congress meets
P: Who signed the law?
SHS: All of them
P: All of who?
SHS: Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton
So this is what you are suppose to do when children arrive in your county
https://t.co/45bYJtVajI— Karen Sevcik (@kfsevcik) June 18, 2018
re: #233 Jenner7
A White House official tells @jeffzeleny that @PressSec didn’t want to do the briefing today amid questions on child separation policy, so @SecNielsen is being flown in from New Orleans to take questions.
What a coward.
ahem
re: #175 dangerman
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here’s what I have to say about Trump’s Space Force:
He’s separating children from families and putting the children in prisons, cages and tents.
That’s the story. Just like the thousands of dead in Puerto Rico is the story. Fuck Space Force.
everything is a distraction
from this
from puerto rico
from russiagate
everything
Press briefing right now.
“The children are being well-taken care of.” Bullshit.
We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.
— Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen (@SecNielsen) June 17, 2018
Nielsen is literally standing at the WH podium listing all the different reasons she will separate families at the border right now. https://t.co/bh84JdONfX
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 18, 2018
Nielsen keeps saying “alien child”
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) June 18, 2018
“Claiming these parents and children are being mistreated is untrue.”
Wow!
“Illegal entry is a crime.”
Yeah, a fucking misdemeanor.
Now she is just lying her ass off that it is illegal entry. They are asylum seekers.
DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen says that the people complaining about the policy are responsible for it, which is a total lie. pic.twitter.com/hxboCw3CZW
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) June 18, 2018
If you’re just tuning in, Nielsen has
- blamed parents for seeking asylum with their children
- defended separation policy as ‘the law’
-described critics thereof as people who do not respect the law
- said that there is no separation policy— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) June 18, 2018
Shorter Nielsen.
They are all criminals. We then treat them as such.
jeebus
Nielsen: separating children from parents accused of crimes - in this case illegal border crossing - “is not a controversial idea”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 18, 2018
seeking asylum is not illegal
DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen says child inmates in Trump’s kiddie concentration camps have it good because they get food and their parents can call them or video conference. pic.twitter.com/uZqzsxwqSp
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) June 18, 2018
Oh, boo hoo. Don’t be mean to the Border Patrol agents in your reporting.
I am glad I voted against Secretary Nielson.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 18, 2018
re: #247 JordanRules
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— Steven Walsh (@baltophoto) June 18, 2018
What’s nice about @SecNielsen is that she’s lying soooooo Fast it’s hard to keep up. Basically the gist of it is that all babies are part of Ms-13.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 18, 2018
More from @SecNielsen, “we are awesome and bilingual and no one goes to jail except those people who we send to jail. Lie lie lie lie. Should I be trump’s fourth wife? No kidz jails! Okay but they’re so nice. I want to go to one. They’re like spas!”
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 18, 2018
Answer the question! Is it cruel?
How is this not child abuse?
Excellent question!
Big Majority Oppose Trump’s Separation Policy
its a 4 line synopsis so im quoting the whole thing
A new Quinnipiac poll finds that American voters oppose the policy of separating children and parents when families illegally cross the border into America by a wide margin, 66% to 27%.
However, Republican voters support the separation policy 55% to 35%, the only listed party, gender, education, age or racial group to support it.
American voters also support 79% to 15% allowing immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, so-called “Dreamers,” to remain and ultimately to apply for citizenship.
A new CNN poll finds 67% of Americans opposed the policy while just 28% approve.
go to the link above for links to the polls
Jesus Christ.
Nielsen describes critics of separation policy as being responsible for the ‘unraveling of democracy’ because they do not respect the government’s ability to enforce the law.
— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) June 18, 2018
Probably better for my blood pressure right now I’m not watching the presser live. I might have to hit something.
Didn’t answer the question.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says children who are brought over the border illegally with their parents “are criminals.”
She literally thinks babies are criminals. This is abhorrent.— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 18, 2018
re: #293 Targetpractice
Probably better for my blood pressure right now I’m not watching the presser live. I might have to hit something.
Same. This filter already has my blood boiling.
Where are the girls?
Neilsen: ‘I don’t know.’
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Sec. Nielsen just said adults who seek asylum at legal ports of entry won’t be separated
Rep. Carolyn Maloney told me @MSNBC she spoke with one father detained in New Jersey who applied for asylum after entering through a legal entry point and was separated from his daughter— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 18, 2018
re: #63 Ace Rothstein
I got fifty Iraqi dinars that says Huckster doesn’t do the press conference today.
Told ya.
re: #292 I cannot.
Jesus Christ.
Nielsen describes critics of separation policy as being responsible for the ‘unraveling of democracy’ because they do not respect the government’s ability to enforce the law.
will somebody please ask which fucking law?
Evangelicals: Listen to these children crying. You STAND for this. If you have anything in your soul that you claim, STOP Trump from doing this. Matthew 18: 6-7 you blazing hypocrites. If you believed ANY of Christianity, u would fear hell for this.https://t.co/YGoC4bCWmn
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 18, 2018
re: #293 Targetpractice
Probably better for my blood pressure right now I’m not watching the presser live. I might have to hit something.
im about to head for the bourbon
Nielsen says she is “not in any position to deal with hearsay stories.”
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 18, 2018
FFS, she CREATES hearsay stories. #NielsenLies https://t.co/XdTdWPToTW
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) June 18, 2018
re: #301 dangerman
will somebody please ask which fucking law?
They just did and she is lying her ass off.
Oh, and she’s fucking chuckling at the question. OMFG!!!
Asked how the separations aren’t abuse, Nielsen responds with a non-sequitur, noting that many children are sent to the U.S. without their parents.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018
I’m sorry…I am angry. I’m in tears.
With a smug look on her face, she’s lying and has zero compassion.
re: #303 MsJ
This fucking bitch is horrific. She is a liar.
she’s obviously taken lessons from some very accomplished ones
If she’s being set up as the scapegoat, it’s obviously not against her will.
We’ve been taken over by soulless evil fucking subhuman pond scum.
Remember when you were mad at Michelle Wolf for calling Sarah Huckabee-Sanders a liar?
Remember when YOU lied and said Wolf was making fun of Sanders’ looks?
Remember when you and Joe fawned over Trump for months during the campaign?
You are a gigantic part of the problem Mika— Intl. House of franks (@goddamnedfrank) June 18, 2018
Asked why Trump doesn’t just pick up the phone and change a policy he claims to hate, Nielsen says, “I think what the president is trying to do is find a long-term fix…Congress could fix this tomorrow.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018
Someone in the briefing room: please just confront her with comments from Kelly, Sessions, and Miller about how this was an intentional policy change. This isn’t hard.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 18, 2018
Anyone know who is setting up marches/protests? I’m in.
Had to turn it off. 10 seconds more and I’d have smashed my laptop.
Evil bitch.
re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth
Asked why Trump doesn’t just pick up the phone and change a policy he claims to hate, Nielsen says, “I think what the president is trying to do is find a long-term fix…Congress could fix this tomorrow.”
100% dem senators on board
0% republicans
re: #303 MsJ
This fucking bitch is horrific. She is a liar.
That’s why she got the job.
And those little half smiles she keeps emoting tell me she likes being in this job and doing what she is doing.
Kirstjen Nielsen insists family separation is “not a policy.” Stephen Miller calls it a “policy.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 18, 2018
I had to turn it off. I can’t listen to this evil fucking bitch anymore.
These sick, right-wing, maniacs always project.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 18, 2018
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen brings up “terrorists” and “drug dealers” when asked why Trump hasn’t expressed any compassion towards the children who have been ripped from their parents.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 18, 2018
.@SecNielsen’s argument is: If you are a child crossing the border, you are with a trafficker, a smuggler, or a gang member, period.
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) June 18, 2018
‘We are not turning them away, we are telling them to come back.’
MSNBC’s @kwelkernbc asks Nielsen where are the girls? Where are the toddlers? Why aren’t we seeing photos of them?
Nielsen dances around with bullshit and does not answer the question.— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 18, 2018
re: #234 teleskiguy
If they were in federal office or running for reelection they wouldn’t be saying jack shit. Fuck the Republican Party, no quarter.
nielsen is why the above has to be true
you condoned every step of the entire shit show from way back in 2015 to yesterday.
if you are a republican after her performance today you embrace this
Nielsen insists children are being well cared for, but she cannot answer where the young girls are being held, or where very young children are being held. Refers those questions to HHS. pic.twitter.com/rduyEEVWjO
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 18, 2018
Asked if she’s seen the photos of children in cages or heard the audio that came out today, Nielsen says, “I would reference you to our standards.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018
I don’t care about North Korea.
And Trump has hit 45% approval in the latest Gallup poll.
re: #281 teleskiguy
Worth noting that she’s John Fucking Kelly’s pick to run DHS - Kelly’s they guy who floated the separation policy over a year ago while he was at DHS.
Also, if you’re gonna send someone to defend Nazi policies, try not sending an Aryan Princess.
Things are off the chain in here. Someone is playing the sound of that child in the back. We hear it. I wonder if Madam Sec is heating it?
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) June 18, 2018
Nielsen has left. That was very dishonest.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018
And Nielsen… NIELSEN… was offended. JHC. https://t.co/SIlgNgsNuc
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) June 18, 2018
Tom Carper.
Chris Coons.
Joe Donnelly.
Heidi Heitkamp.
Joe Manchin.
Claire McCaskill.
Bill Nelson.
Jack Reed.
Jon Tester.
Mark Warner.
These are Democratic senators that voted to confirm that fucking ghoul Secretary Nielsen.
re: #313 teleskiguy
We’ve been taken over by soulless evil fucking subhuman pond scum.
That’s an insult to pond scum. At least pond scum (i.e., algae) has its usefulness to the natural world.
re: #334 Ace Rothstein
And Trump has hit 45% in the latest Gallup poll.
I suspect that will go lower this week. Lots of folks taken in by Foreign Policy Theater in Singapore.
re: #338 teleskiguy
Tom Carper.
Chris Coons.
Joe Donnelly.
Heidi Heitkamp.
Joe Manchin.
Claire McCaskill.
Bill Nelson.
Jack Reed.
Jon Tester.
Mark Warner.These are Democratic senators that voted to confirm that fucking ghoul Secretary Nielsen.
*heavy sigh*
The Aryan race has just arrived to tell us everything is cool… pic.twitter.com/Ul12akfdz4
— Secret Scully Sullivan 💀 (@scully_sullivan) June 18, 2018
DHS Secy: Heartbreaking photos show the bias of those posting them on the internet. pic.twitter.com/63Q3IeIHlS
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 18, 2018
The only photos released so far were LITERALLY PROVIDED VG THE GOVERNMEMT!!! omfg
— alexa corcoran (@akcsocial) June 18, 2018
Why aren’t the reporters pointing out that Congress has a GOP majority and they could do this without any Democrats?
Looked up Stephen Miller’s bio on wikipedia.
I see that he was born in 1985, meaning that I have socks older than he is.
He is an OG disciple of none other than bloody-handed Wayne LaPierre:
Miller became a committed conservative after reading Guns, Crime, and Freedom, a book against gun control by National Rifle Association Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre.
He was also a conservative contrarian brat in high school:
While attending Santa Monica High School, Miller began appearing on conservative talk radio. In 2002, at the age of 16, Miller wrote a letter to the editor of the Santa Monica Outlook, criticizing his school’s response to 9/11 in which he stated that “Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School.” Miller invited conservative activist David Horowitz to speak, first at the high school and later at Duke University, and afterwards denounced the fact that neither of the centers would authorize the event.
He also had an aversion to Latinos from an early age:
Miller was in the habit of “riling up his fellow [high school] classmates with controversial statements” and telling Latino students to speak only English.
His career follows a now familiar pattern from there. It is a real mind-bender to me that this fascist pissant was still in high school on 9-11, but is now making national policy.
When your morale is at an all-time low, but you have to believe things can get better. pic.twitter.com/zxpIiAczF7
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) June 18, 2018
ok it is time for that little pup who can not believe the big pup just walks down the stairs
remember that anything can be new and amazing pic.twitter.com/DEL4Iz7I94— darth™ (@darth) June 13, 2017
twitter in action pic.twitter.com/kAF7G0tcTC
— darth™ (@darth) June 18, 2018
I have to go bake cookies with my girls and get away for a bit. My anger is palpable and I need to calm down.
Nielsen says the idea that this is a deterrent is offensive. “Why would I ever create a policy that purposely does this?”
John Kelly, her mentor, last year: “I am considering, in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network, I am considering exactly that.”— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 18, 2018
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
That’s my dad right now. He’ll be 70 in November. It was his last year teaching high school, he got a lot of mileage out of telling HS kids his age.
re: #334 Ace Rothstein
And Trump has hit 45% approval in the latest Gallup poll.
This country is smoldering garbage.
I see by the Twitter reaction of the news folks I follow that they’re pretty much burning Nielsen alive.
Good.
Nielsen comes out smiling
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 18, 2018
“Meet it is I set it down. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
I wrote a check to the US State Dept. today. To renew my passport. So I can get a driver’s license that doesn’t say ‘NOT FOR FEDERAL PURPOSES’. Because the name on my birth certificate does not have the diminutive ‘ie’ on my first name. My (expired) passport has it. My last driver’s license has it. My Social Security card has it. My library card has it. I can have my birth certificate altered to have it (who knew?). I did sign a statement when I was getting my first license in California to the effect that I am not trying to defraud anyone by putting that ‘ie’ on my name. Not good enough for New Mexico. NM was among the last to comply with the REAL ID act, so they are making up for lost time in hassling people. It was, is, my turn.
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nielsen says the idea that this is a deterrent is offensive. “Why would I ever create a policy that purposely does this?”
John Kelly, her mentor, last year: “I am considering, in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network, I am considering exactly that.”
so, motives aside, you did create this policy
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
69 is not innuendo. Innunendo is something else. Completely different position.
(He said, fulfilling the prophecy…)
It’s not even four o’clock and I’m three beers deep. And I’m mad. Need to smoke some weed.
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
maybe it does, and maybe it doesnt
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
So…
No changes, right?
:P
re: #355 teleskiguy
Nah. Worse.
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This country is the Centralia underground fire. It smolders underground for decades, making the entire place smell bad, and occasionally erupts into life threatening blazes.
Sanders and Neilsen won that battle. They steamrolled the press. No real pushback. No calling them on their lies.
This is why they will be re-elected. Our press continues to fail us.
im gonna go cook some salmon
and edamame (in pods)
and heat some rice
and drink some bourbon
these fucking people republicans
re: #363 Jenner7
Sanders and Neilsen won that battle. They steamrolled the press. No real pushback. No calling them on their lies.
This is why they will be re-elected. Our press continues to fail us.
the press conference was the usual disappointment
this one time im gonna hold judgement for just a few hours and see what they actually report
re: #367 MsJ
Can’t speak to anyone who is not a follower. Can’t call dicks, dicks. Lies, lies. And fuckers, fuckers.
We should never even have to debate whether children are being used as pawns at our southern border.
— Michael Bennet (@SenBennetCO) June 18, 2018
I never thanked you for voting to deny confirmation of @SecNielsen. Thank you, Senator. https://t.co/WKP892GtJX
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 18, 2018
So, apparently one of the selling points of electric cars is that you can set the regenerative braking so that you mostly don’t have to perform the onerous task of moving your foot to the brake pedal when you want to slow down.
Wow.
I mean, you already don’t have to shift gears, or use a clutch. And now switching pedals is just too much work.
BREAKING: Homeland Security secretary won’t apologize for enforcing laws that result in children being separated from parents.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 18, 2018
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU AP THERE IS NO FUCKING LAW! https://t.co/2NeFhbnMsR
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 18, 2018
re: #365 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
AAARRGGGHHH!
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So is HE speaking out against family separation? If not, he can fuck right the fuck off.
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
Being a year older than you, I can say from experience, enjoy it while you can—sexual innuendo is far superior to being totally, officially, fucking OLD at 70.
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Thursday is my birthday. I will be 69 years old, which condemns me to a whole year of living in a sexual innuendo.
Buy the T Shirt. You won’t be there again.
re: #365 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Todd is apparently shopping for a GOP sugar daddy who will finance his future political campaigns. He lost badly when he ran for mayor a couple of years ago, and blamed inadequate financing compared to his personally wealthy opponent. He did have much better name recognition, though, and my take is that this more than evened things out. I think he lost because voters perceived him as a weasel. His friendship with local fascists and conspira-liars did not help once “somebody” pointed this out to his opponent’s campaign. With any luck he will get together the funding to run for Congress or Governor just as Texas turns blue and drowns his ill-conceived ambition in a Democratic tsunami. He will not be welcome if he tries to re-invent himself yet again and slink back to the Democrats
News: Sen. Ted Cruz is apparently introducing emergency legislation that would keep illegal immigrant families together at the border
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) June 18, 2018
re: #379 teleskiguy
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it will have serious strings attached.
poison pills, if you will…
re: #379 teleskiguy
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“Word’s come down: Manchin crossed the line. All the Dems are onboard with Feinstein’s bill. What do we do?”
“*sigh* Alright, everybody, gather round so we can draw straws to see who walks the plank.”
Kirstjen Nielsen saying she hasn’t seen the distressing images that DHS has provided to the public, therefore can’t speak to it is unacceptable. Either she’s a liar (I’m leaning toward this one) or worse, she’s incompetent and doesnt know what her Dept is doing. #ResignNielsen
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) June 18, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: #LDS Church issues statement on separation of families at the border. @fox13 #utpol pic.twitter.com/e0csFXpmln
— Ben Winslow (@BenWinslow) June 18, 2018
Just for reference.
Utah 2016 Presidential Election Results:
Donald Trump - 515,231 or 45.5%
Hillary Clinton - 310,676 or 27.5%
Evan McMullin - 243,690 or 21.5%
Nielsen walked out while the media still wanted to ask questions.
There is no way she would answer any question she didn’t want to answer, And, she bends the answers the way she wants them to be heard to the questions she took.
If not Nielsen, then it would be some equally monstrous person. That’s no excuse for allowing her the job, just that whoever got the job would still be a Trumper and would still be doing this shit. Or, they’d be gone until they found a person that would take it.
This is still all Trump. He hides behind lies and people like Nielsen. Should he change his mind under pressure, he’ll throw her under the bus.
re: #371 Blind Frog Belly White
So, apparently one of the selling points of electric cars is that you can set the regenerative braking so that you mostly don’t have to perform the onerous task of moving your foot to the brake pedal when you want to slow down.
Wow.
I mean, you already don’t have to shift gears, or use a clutch. And now switching pedals is just too much work.
in my life i have owned about 10 sticks
maybe 2 automatics
These little kids aren’t killing anyone. She is a monster
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 18, 2018
re: #386 ObserverArt
Nielsen walked out while the media still wanted to ask questions.
There is no way she would answer any question she didn’t want to answer, And, she bends the answers the way she want them to be heard to the questions she took.
If not Nielsen, then it would be some equally monstrous person. That’s no excuse for allowing her the job, just that whoever got the job would still be a Trumper and would still be doing this shit. Or, they’d be gone until they found a person that would take it.
This is still all Trump. He hides behind lies and people like Nielsen. Should he change his mind under pressure, he’ll throw her under the bus.
Some of it is Jeff Sessions.
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
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re: #390 Mike Lamb
So we’re punishing children because of crimes allegedly committed by completely unrelated people?
All of it is to show that Dreamers deserve nothing. And to prevent future Democrats.
re: #389 wrenchwench
Some of it is Jeff Sessions.
Oh no doubt. And Miller.
But Trump is the president…the buck resides on his desk.
And to keep in the theme…he’d throw Sessions under the bus as well as Miller if it gets him what he wants and/or takes the heat off him.
re: #387 dangerman
in my life i have owned about 10 sticks
maybe 2 automatics
I’ve owned one automatic and three manuals. Manual transmission is a must for me.
Kansas documentary proof of citizenship law for voter registration struck down permanently. Court finds it violates the NVRA and the U.S. Constitution.
— Dale Ho (@dale_e_ho) June 18, 2018
This is a major voting rights win against the nation’s foremost voter suppression crusader, Kansas’ Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach (who is running for governor) https://t.co/B2w6oTmsyG
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) June 18, 2018
re: #393 teleskiguy
I like to be able to have full control of what my motor and transmission are doing, especially driving in the mountains. That’s just me.
re: #392 ObserverArt
Oh no doubt. And Miller.
But Trump is the president…the buck resides on his desk.
And to keep in the theme…he’d throw Sessions under the bus as well as Miller if it gets him what he wants and/or takes the heat off him.
Miller told him not to fire Sessions. Sessions told him not to fire Miller. There it sits.
Something not depressing.
Juan Soto might have broken the space-time continuum. pic.twitter.com/A1sKseU6Dc
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) June 18, 2018
re: #397 Varek Raith
That is a very impressive smack.
re: #274 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
“Illegal entry is a crime.”
Yeah, a fucking misdemeanor.
It’s not even that if they are seeking asylum.
Evening Lizards
Updated (partial) list.
FUCK TRUMP
FUCK PENCE
FUCK IVANKA
FUCK JARED
FUCK DON JR.
FUCK HANNITY
FUCK FOX & FRIENDS
FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH
FUCK MELANIE
FUCK SESSIONS
FUCK STEPHEN MILLER
FUCK JOHN KELLY
FUCK KIRSTJEN NIELSEN
FUCK KELLYANNE
FUCK SARAH SANDERS
FUCK STEVE BANNON— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) June 18, 2018
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
She’s right and all, but she helped formet this madness we all have to live with. Nothing but contempt from me for her, Jonah Goldberg, William Kristol, David Frum, Rick Wilson, et al. until they prove to the world they are no longer members of the Republican Party.
re: #397 Varek Raith
JFC, has the ball come down yet?
Miss America Is the Latest Institution Destroyed by the Left https://t.co/krWmIMnyF0 pic.twitter.com/Dy2WAUaupt
— National Review (@NRO) June 18, 2018
everything will be OK, grandpa https://t.co/afrei2rRfD
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 18, 2018
JUST IN: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing emergency legislation to keep illegal immigrant families together
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 18, 2018
Would you trust legislation written by The Zodiac Killer? https://t.co/fZYIkqBNKM
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 18, 2018
So, this happened: Top Homeland Security Republican Demands End To Family Separations
The top Republican on the House subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Homeland Security demanded that the Trump administration end its forced separation of parents and children at the U.S. border, going further than many of his congressional colleagues in his demands.
Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for him to end the controversial policy.
Thank you, @Super70sSports, for the levity on my tire fire of a Twitter feed.
I’m not saying Jimmy Buffett enjoyed the 70s but that parrot knew at least twelve words for marijuana. pic.twitter.com/EXuQhBQJW3
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 18, 2018
Right on cue, seeing a lot of right wing memes on Facebook and Twitter justifying imprisoning immigrant children because of Jamiel Shaw, Kate Steinle, etc. These children didn’t kill anyone. What the fuck!
Liddle halflings gets used by some of the nastiest hobbitses! As way to sneaks in & takes it from us- the Precious! Has anyone saw Burgles that happens in Southfarthings? Legendly! Some farthings is filthiest places! The dirtiest! Not going to happen to us, not to us precious!
— Gollum J. Trump (@realGollumTrump) June 18, 2018
re: #403 Blind Frog Belly White
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What is Nielsen even trying to accomplish here?
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 18, 2018
Owning the libs, presumably. https://t.co/m2Opd4aSsE
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) June 18, 2018
re: #409 Targetpractice
Shorter article: “They won’t show skin at the Miss America Pageant anymore!”
It’s not like porn has been outlawed…yet….so they can rest easy knowing they can still rub one out at the whim.
Ha, ha!
Seth Leibsohn, Republican ex-radio host in Arizona and Trump supporter, blows his race for Congress by failing to turn in enough valid signatures. Leibsohn’s an anti-marijuana warrior who helped defeat a legalization measure in Arizona. @ardp @cannabisnews https://t.co/FQ3s7yPsEP
— Ray Stern (@raystern) June 18, 2018
re: #407 DodgerFan1988
Right on cue, seeing a lot of right wing memes on Facebook and Twitter justifying imprisoning immigrant children because of Jamiel Shaw, Kate Steinle, etc. These children didn’t kill anyone. What the fuck!
“Jailing Paul Manafort without trial is a blatant violation of justice, but jailing kids for no crime at all is totally cool!”
POTUS wants to meet Putin before the NATO summit. https://t.co/jrLXnAEVtn
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 18, 2018
re: #411 electrotek
It’s not like porn has been outlawed…yet….so they can rest easy knowing they can still rub one out at the whim.
It would be good if we could keep our euphemisms for murder and for masturbation distinct.
re: #416 JordanRules
Didn’t Austria just get taken over by neo-Nazis?
re: #411 electrotek
It’s not like porn has been outlawed…yet….so they can rest easy knowing they can still rub one out at the whim.
And you know the writers at National Review are in to the really weird stuff.
re: #419 Winston_Smith
Didn’t Austria just get taken over by neo-Nazis?
Are they neo or retro Nazis?
re: #393 teleskiguy
I’ve owned one automatic and three manuals. Manual transmission is a must for me.
at least 6 of mine were bikes so….
(i’ve lost count)
cars too, including the current spyder and (sniff) past tr-6
re: #403 Blind Frog Belly White
Single best representation that “American Institution” is synonymous with “trivial shit that makes white dudes pants-happy.”
I mean, seriously, I dig women in deshabille as much as the next straight, but it’s not some kind of fucking foundation upon which the nation…or fucking anything…rests.
Drama queens.
re: #418 Blind Frog Belly White
It would be good if we could keep our euphemisms for murder and for masturbation distinct.
“Okay, Sheriff, we’re gonna fuck you now, but we’re gonna fuck you slow.”
- George Carlin
re: #395 teleskiguy
I like to be able to have full control of what my motor and transmission are doing, especially driving in the mountains. That’s just me.
i read once in “real men eat quiche” that a “real man” is secure enough to have his gears shifted for him”
i said bullshit then and now
im with you
re: #422 dangerman
I’ve never ridden a bike with automatic transmission. That’s a thing, eh? I bet this guy has an automatic Harley. lol
re: #422 dangerman
at least 6 of mine were bikes so….
(i’ve lost count)
cars too, including the current spyder and (sniff) past tr-6
I explained manual shifting on a bike to a customer this way: ‘Yes, it’s a one speed. So when you want to shift, bring it into the shop and we’ll overhaul the crank and put it back together with a smaller (or larger, if you want a higher gear) front sprocket.’
re: #427 teleskiguy
I’ve never ridden a bike with automatic transmission. That’s a thing, eh? I bet this guy has an automatic Harley. lol
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re: #387 dangerman
in my life i have owned about 10 sticks
maybe 2 automatics
Just had my first experience with Mercedes 7 gear paddle shifting. Manual shift, unless something in the car disagrees with you. Weird. I like a real manual.
re: #430 KGxvi
Honda has them on some of their smaller bikes. Saw them on an old episode of Top Gear, they were in some major city in Asia. Used by a lot of guys delivering food.
The old trail 80’s had auto transmissions I seem to remember. Little learning bike.
re: #428 wrenchwench
Or sell them one of those Shimano things…
outsideoutfitters.com
re: #429 Ace Rothstein
I rode a real Harley-Davidson once years ago, it was my roommate’s, he let me toodle around Steamboat Springs for a couple of hours. Nice bike. I come from a dirt biking background mostly, I used to own a Honda 350 2-stroke that I’d take out on old mining roads around Colorado. I’m seriously considering saving money this summer and winter and maybe buying another dirt bike, maybe a 450 4-stroke.
Then I look at my mountain bicycle, and think about all the places I’ve been on that thing that I could *never* take a dirt bike to.
re: #427 teleskiguy
I’ve never ridden a bike with automatic transmission. That’s a thing, eh? I bet this guy has an automatic Harley. lol
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honda had one in the 80’s
it never really caught on
too complicated
re: #401 teleskiguy
She’s right and all, but she helped formet this madness we all have to live with. Nothing but contempt from me for her, Jonah Goldberg, William Kristol, David Frum, Rick Wilson, et al. until they prove to the world they are no longer members of the Republican Party.
Actually Jennifer Ruben, Joe Scarborough, Max Boot, and Kurt Bardella have all said they left the Republican Party within the last year because of it’s hard right positions. Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and Rick Wilson on the other hand are on board with the Trump Train.
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
Well shit, I might actually have to follow Jennifer Rubin on Twitter now.
re: #433 Unshaken Defiance
Or sell them one of those Shimano things…
outsideoutfitters.com
So complicated. even the guy who cut his bike in half and welded it back together couldn’t fix his own flat.
re: #428 wrenchwench
I explained manual shifting on a bike to a customer this way: ‘Yes, it’s a one speed. So when you want to shift, bring it into the shop and we’ll overhaul the crank and put it back together with a smaller (or larger, if you want a higher gear) front sprocket.’
My sister who moved to Florida got a beach cruiser bike. Her husband told her she needed at least 5 gears.
For what? It’s FLORIDA.
re: #441 Blind Frog Belly White
My sister who moved to Florida got a beach cruiser bike. Her husband told her she needed at least 5 gears.
For what? It’s FLORIDA.
Freeway overpasses. From what I hear.
My mountain bike has one chain ring on the crank and 12 gears on the cassette. I rarely use the biggest chain ring on the cassette, that’s for hill climbs I like to call “nut busters.”
re: #431 Unshaken Defiance
Just had my first experience with Mercedes 7 gear paddle shifting. Manual shift, unless something in the car disagrees with you. Weird. I like a real manual.
When I got the Challenger, I got it with an automatic (quicker 0-60! fer real!), mostly because I’d been stuck in traffic crawling up a steep hill too many times in the Subaru I had, and Mrs. FBW was tired of hearing me bitch about it.
The week after I got it, I got what turned out to be sciatica in my right leg. I’d have been in real pain working through 6 gears with a manual!
. @realDonaldTrump SpeYCE FoRsE pic.twitter.com/CX3v6lJKxH
— Alex (@JudgeDewie) June 18, 2018
re: #439 teleskiguy
Well shit, I might actually have to follow Jennifer Rubin on Twitter now.
Nah. They’ll be right back at it once trump is gone. He’s a symptom, the party is diseased.
re: #443 teleskiguy
My mountain bike has one chain ring on the crank and 12 gears on the cassette. I rarely use the biggest chain ring on the cassette, that’s for hill climbs I like to call “nut busters.”
I have one customer who wants a slightly lower gear. Nothing is compatible to take one off of his current 5 bikes and put on a (theoretical) new one.
re: #443 teleskiguy
I like to refer to that gear as the tree climbing gear.
re: #371 Blind Frog Belly White
So, apparently one of the selling points of electric cars is that you can set the regenerative braking so that you mostly don’t have to perform the onerous task of moving your foot to the brake pedal when you want to slow down.
Wow.
I mean, you already don’t have to shift gears, or use a clutch. And now switching pedals is just too much work.
The selling point is the regenerative braking itself. It’s nice to see the estimated range increase at the bottom of a hill and know that you didn’t wear the brake pads down getting there. I set it to max regen but leave “creep” on when driving Dad’s Model S because then it behaves like my Pilot when take the brake off (with the exception of the “hold” that engages if I press the brake down very hard at a stop.)
The only potential problem is that regenerative braking disengages if the battery is at or very close to 100% charge, because there is no alternate dump load for the excess energy, such as you would build into a home wind or hydro power battery storage system to prevent over-spinning the turbine. Tesla could’ve built-in a thermal resistance load to do this but then all that heat has to be dealt with somehow. This plus the extra battery life is why you should only charge to 90% (especially if you’re charging at the top of a big hill) unless you’re going on a long trip and really need the extra range.
re: #433 Unshaken Defiance
Shimano has an 11-speed beast in that line.
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
Actually Jennifer Ruben, Joe Scarborough, Max Boot, and Kurt Bardella have all said they left the Republican Party within the last year because of it’s hard right positions. Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and Rick Wilson on the other hand are on board with the Trump Train.
To the best of my knowledge, Jennifer Rubin is the only person on that list that has not tried to pretend like this Von Clownstick neofascist shit came out of nowhere while they weren’t paying attention and a “real” Republican party is out there somewhere still.
She’s the only one that has said she was wrong about just about everything as far as the GOP goes and is telling everyone to vote democratic.
re: #439 teleskiguy
Well shit, I might actually have to follow Jennifer Rubin on Twitter now.
She all but endorsed Beto yesterday:
That is as clear a choice as voters are going to get as to the direction of the country. Are we Cruz’s America, where children are used as pawns to win points with Trump and Cruz’s anti-immigrant base, or are we, as O’Rourke put it, “better than this”?
At this point, O’Rourke is directing his ire primarily at the administration, but he should not be shy about pointing the finger directly at his opponent, who slavishly supports every move the administration makes and has consistently opposed immigration solutions that would have overwhelming bipartisan support. Every parent in Texas (and every decent human being) should understand they are making not just a political choice but a moral one, too.
re: #443 teleskiguy
My mountain bike has one chain ring on the crank and 12 gears on the cassette. I rarely use the biggest chain ring on the cassette, that’s for hill climbs I like to call “nut busters.”
Okay, so when you’re using the biggest cog in the cassette, how do you not just fall over?
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
Actually Jennifer Ruben, Joe Scarborough, Max Boot, and Kurt Bardella have all said they left the Republican Party within the last year because of it’s hard right positions. Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and Rick Wilson on the other hand are on board with the Trump Train.
Rick Wilson is most definitely not on the Trump Train. He’s written a book called Everything Trump Touches Dies. He’s very anti-Trump.
re: #446 MsJ
Nah. They’ll be right back at it once trump is gone. He’s a symptom, the party is diseased.
I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Afterall Ariana Huffington, David Brock, and Charles Johnson broke with the Right too.
re: #452 BeachDem
Every parent in Texas (and every decent human being) should understand they are making not just a political choice but a moral one, too.
Beto is letting others make that case for him. Most mud-free campaign ever, with an opponent asking for it soooo much!
re: #454 KGxvi
Rick Wilson is most definitely not on the Trump Train. He’s written a book called Everything Trump Touches Dies. He’s very anti-Trump.
Haven’t read it yet. I gotta check it out.
re: #444 Blind Frog Belly White
When I got the Challenger, I got it with an automatic (quicker 0-60! fer real!), mostly because I’d been stuck in traffic crawling up a steep hill too many times in the Subaru I had, and Mrs. FBW was tired of hearing me bitch about it.
The week after I got it, I got what turned out to be sciatica in my right leg. I’d have been in real pain working through 6 gears with a manual!
I have a problem with some of the muscles in my left thigh and into my knee that, when the condition flares up makes it impossible for me to operate a clutch. (It make’s it extremely difficult to even walk). So the only way I can have a manual transmission vehicle any more, is if I have another that is automatic as a backup. The last manual transmission car I had I sold in 2002 right after this problem first developed.
If I can keep my truck alive and kicking as a backup, I might have the option open to me again.
re: #457 DodgerFan1988
Haven’t read it yet. I gotta check it out.
Nobody has except Wilson and the editors. (It’s not out yet).
The camps are a stain on this country. But there are more details coming to light.
Not only are they ripping these asylum seeking families apart—no one is keeping track of the children in any way so that they will EVER be reunited with their parents.https://t.co/uSlMMCBPCm— Jennifer Foehner Wells 🚀 (@Jenthulhu) June 18, 2018
re: #455 DodgerFan1988
I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Afterall Ariana Huffington, David Brock, and Charles Johnson broke with the Right too.
Some skepticism is merited but some of them may be doing what Charles did but the difference was Charles really wasn’t a conservative.
re: #455 DodgerFan1988
I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Afterall Ariana Huffington, David Brock, and Charles Johnson broke with the Right too.
But these people didn’t break with the right, they broke from trump. Who’s the symptom. Republicanism is the disease.
re: #457 DodgerFan1988
Haven’t read it yet. I gotta check it out.
Wilson is definitely legit anti Trump as is Frum and Kristol. I don’t trust Jonah or NRO though especially after I saw a piece by them justifying the detainments and their advising Trump on judges.
re: #462 MsJ
But these people didn’t break with the right, they broke from trump. Who’s the symptom. Republicanism is the disease.
That’s true but Rubin as we’ve seen is going after Rs in Congress like Cruz and I’ve seen her go after McDonnell and Ryan too. Skepticism though is definitely not only merited but deserved.
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Be a 22 year old blonde American college girl, pose with an actual gun for your graduation, get invited on all the right wing talk shows, get job offers, adn told that you really “triggered the libs”. Be random children in Syria playing with toy guns, get represented as Hispanic and used as why we shouldn’t let small children into the US. Did I mention how much I loathe the American right wing and want their ideology to crash faster than the Hindenburg?
More proof of White Privilege.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s bio pages on Google and Wikipedia were edited to describe her as a “notorious child abuser.” They’ve been changed back already, but this is how they appeared as of about an hour ago.https://t.co/ZufBojxRJz pic.twitter.com/joivelnp8d
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 18, 2018
re: #457 DodgerFan1988
Haven’t read it yet. I gotta check it out.
Hasn’t been released yet, I don’t think. He’s also a regular on Ana Marie Cox’s podcast, said recently he’s basically ready to surrender the health care debate in order to keep the anti-Trump alliance going.
Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help.
A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Listen to the full audio here: https://t.co/pLg65q3O41— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
Bastard.
THERAPIST: you’ve started calling objectively awful things “insanely good” to protect yourself from how awful the world is
ME: lol that owns— chris person (@Papapishu) June 25, 2016
Wow, that is cool. https://t.co/kXyi7dy6My
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) June 18, 2018
The problem I have with most NeverTrump Republicans is that they don’t realize that the problem is not that somebody ‘took over’ the party. The problem is that the party wasn’t what they thought it was.
National Sheriff’s Association gives AG Sessions a lifetime achievement award, to a standing ovation.
— Jeff Adelson (@jadelson) June 18, 2018
re: #470 gocart mozart
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“Again, Mr. Connery, that’s ‘THERAPISTS’!”
NEW: GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “The time is now for the White House to end the cruel, tragic separation of families.” https://t.co/wkLawubSX7 pic.twitter.com/cx4VmvrhKN
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) June 18, 2018
re: #471 Blind Frog Belly White
The problem I have with most NeverTrump Republicans is that they don’t realize that the problem is not that somebody ‘took over’ the party. The problem is that the party wasn’t what they thought it was.
Absolutely agreed with that.
re: #474 HappyWarrior
Forcing Republicans to listen to tapes like that is going to have an effect.
re: #477 jaunte
Forcing Republicans to listen to tapes like that is going to have an effect.
Cruz, Miller, & Trump should have to listen to that every night.
re: #477 jaunte
Pretty pathetic that it has to come to that to get them to change their minds (not that I believe them).
(On the theory that a majority is still not completely depraved.)
re: #479 Ace Rothstein
They don’t have to feel bad, just feel that they’re looking bad.
re: #478 HappyWarrior
Cruz, Miller, & Trump should have to listen to that every night.
You’re assuming they would be bothered by it.
re: #478 HappyWarrior
Cruz should have to listen to that every night.
He would probably jerk off to it.
re: #454 KGxvi
Rick Wilson is most definitely not on the Trump Train. He’s written a book called Everything Trump Touches Dies. He’s very anti-Trump.
Yes, but Wilson still writes fuckery like this:
When you let a closet Democrat like Trump lead the GOP, this is what you get
The problem with people like Rick is that they are immune from introspection. They will never take responsibility for paving the way for Trump and will always project blame onto Democrats for the racist socio-pathology that establishment Republicans condoned and incubated to further their own greed only to lose control of. In their minds Democrats don’t stand for anything because people like Rick never listen to them, so naturally when they see a protean shapeshifting populist monster like Trump actually take over their party and expose the rot at it’s core they call him a Democrat. Because Rick simply cannot allow himself to confront the truth that this is the logical evolution of the conservative movement he was a part of for so long and still internally identifies with.
Meanwhile, in the “I’ll continue to roll in my gas guzzler” file… Teslas are now randomly catching fire.
So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice.
I’m so frustrated by these smug they should have just followed the law bullshit. From the same people who supported the Bundy Ranch assholes. The same people who are okay with sovereign citizens.
I learned to drive in a ‘71 VW bus. Loved it. It was the fastest car across the street but once you put it in second gear that was it. Anyway the modern automatics are pretty amazing. I had a 72 Cutlass Supreme with a three speed tranny, but the 2018 Honda Oddysey has a 10 speed auto. They help keep the engine in its optimum power range I guess. Subaru is putting out a bug SUV with a small 4 cylinder turbo, but with an ECV transmission so it stays exactly on its ideal power band.
re: #486 goddamnedfrank
Yes, but Wilson still writes fuckery like this:
The problem with people like Rick is that they are immune from introspection. They will never take responsibility for paving the way for Trump and will always project blame onto Democrats for the racist socio-pathology that establishment Republicans condoned and incubated to further their own greed only to lose control of. In their minds Democrats don’t stand for anything because people like Rick never listen to them, so naturally when they see a protean shapeshifting populist like Trump actually take over their party and expose the rot at it’s core they call him a Democrat. Because Rick simply cannot allow himself to confront the truth that this is the logical evolution of the conservative movement he was a part of for so long and still internally identifies with.
Absolutely true.
NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz is introducing “emergency legislation” to keep immigrant families together after crossing the border.
“All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop.” pic.twitter.com/uf2T2zbVki— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 18, 2018
I dunno, guys, maybe look at the details of the proposal, such as forcing decisions on asylum in 14 days. You don’t get an attorney in immigration court and do you think children are going to get due process when they may not even understand their rights? https://t.co/KFD66qXMA6
— Forrest Wilder (@Forrest4Trees) June 18, 2018
re: #485 Ace Rothstein
He would probably jerk off to it.
You know what infuriates me the most about that asshole? His father benefited from a specific policy intended to benefit people of his nationality but nope no introspection or empathy.
OK, I might have my tinfoil hat screwed on entirely too tight, but based on the things I’ve read about Evangelicals going into foreign countries and completely messing up adoption (and rendering some countries closed due to their antics), it’s entirely possible that he’s on to something here.
Again, we might be in tinfoil hat country, but there is such a thing as adoption as evangelism.
In my latest for @Playboy, I note that children separated from their parents at the border may end up de facto trafficked via mostly religious adoption agencies.
White supremacist theocracy is here.https://t.co/NMgqTW22mp#FamiliesBelongTogether #Exvangelical #EmptyThePews— Christopher Stroop (@C_Stroop) June 18, 2018
Worried that evangelical adoption agencies like Bethany Christian Services are handling children separated from their parents? You should be. Their record of manipulation exposed in @kathrynajoyce’s The Child Catchers is shocking.https://t.co/SI7sLTRjvN#EmptyThePews #Resist
— Christopher Stroop (@C_Stroop) June 18, 2018
re: #492 HappyWarrior
His father also conspired to kill Kennedy.
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I hear people are once again complaining about analogies so:https://t.co/egvRtFyY1V pic.twitter.com/9ADNPVoXf0
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) June 17, 2018
re: #491 jaunte
[NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz is introducing “emergency legislation” to keep immigrant families together after crossing the border.
“All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop.”]
‘…Beto drawing huge crowds in the middle of no where.’
re: #496 HappyWarrior
Ted’s worried that his thin Cuban shell is not going to be enough to fool the Rio Grande Valley voters this time.
re: #498 jaunte
Ted’s worried that his thin Cuban shell is not going to be enough to fool the Rio Grande Valley voters this time.
Yep.
Hostage taking is the only valid frame for what the Trump administration is doing to these children. Every other explanation is smoke.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2018
re: #491 jaunte
That means Beto is within the margin of error.
re: #485 Ace Rothstein
He would probably jerk off to it.
I imagine Miller putting it on repeat and tittering like ‘The Gimp’ in “Pulp Fiction”.
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to th’ ports and costs for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;— William Shakespeare (@Wwm_Shakespeare) June 18, 2018
Right now, my priorities are the following:
1. Stop Trump’s policies.
2. Stop Trump.
Whoever is willing to help me with these wont get tazed. Hopefully along the way, some of them will figure out what’s actually worth fighting for.
And I consider the hindrance of anyone willing to help to be an obstacle.
Let’s see how long it lasts
Fact check: accurate pic.twitter.com/6hq7dyBff9
— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) June 18, 2018
re: #505 gocart mozart
Already corrected. See my #466.
re: #487 KGxvi
Meanwhile, in the “I’ll continue to roll in my gas guzzler” file… Teslas are now randomly catching fire.
So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice.
Not random.
In this case, the fire clearly breached the battery pack, which makes it look like it was punctured.
The driver says that there wasn’t an accident, but it’s not impossible that the underbody hit something without them knowing it.
Or they knew about it and wrote it off, or lied, or it happened while a valet was driving it. Point is gasoline powered cars catch fire all the time, but every Tesla incident becomes a headline and anecdote overwhelms statistical reality.
We should be heartbroken to see families torn apart, but we should not be hopeless. There’s something you can do right now to help.
Make a donation that will be split across eight organizations working to protect kids separated from their families: https://t.co/gFtjV3KBfM— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 18, 2018
Wow. In just the few short hours since I tweeted, this community has donated nearly $150,000 to support these groups’ critical work. If you’re as heartbroken and infuriated about what’s happening as I am, help keep it going: https://t.co/gFtjV3KBfM https://t.co/4ZepbZOH8H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 18, 2018
say what you want about @HillaryClinton – and trust me, she’s heard it all – but the woman will not let any amount of hatred, sexism, name-calling, punditry, or any other bullshit stop her from trying to do all the good she can. https://t.co/QhJeS5D16X
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) June 18, 2018
re: #464 HappyWarrior
That’s true but Rubin as we’ve seen is going after Rs in Congress like Cruz and I’ve seen her go after McDonnell and Ryan too. Skepticism though is definitely not only merited but deserved.
I agree, and have been highly skeptical of Jen Rubin (particularly now that Romney has reared his robotic head.) But she has been going after not only Republicans in congress, but Republican policies and stances in general, albeit, attributing them to the “Trump cult” mentality of the party. Not inviting her over for tea and crumpets, but will give her a few points for rational thinking at this point in time.
re: #509 BeachDem
I agree, and have been highly skeptical of Jen Rubin (particularly now that Romney has reared his robotic head.) But she has been going after not only Republicans in congress, but Republican policies and stances in general, albeit, attributing them to the “Trump cult” mentality of the party. Not inviting her over for tea and crumpets, but will give her a few points for rational thinking at this point in time.
Yes.
re: #495 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #510 plansbandc
This made me physically ill.
I tried listening to the whole thing. I could not. I felt anger, I felt sadness, and I really could hear my own niece’s voice in those children.
re: #510 plansbandc
This made me physically ill.
It’s not the first time that stuff like that happens. The first time there is an audio recording of it tho. And it’s mild compared to the other stuff available from camps of similar nature.
Check out CPPCG, Article II, point (e).
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 18, 2018
‘I Don’t Know’: Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen Is Asked Where Are The Girls? https://t.co/hTSSY3FYrd
— Gregory McCray (@g_mccray) June 18, 2018
The reporter then challenged Nielsen on her previous claim that the children are all being well-cared for, saying “how can you make that claim if you don’t know where they are?”
re: #514 Teukka
It’s not the first time that stuff like that happens. The first time there is an audio recording of it tho. And it’s mild compared to the other stuff available from camps of similar nature.
I think it just hits because it’s one thing to read about it but one thing ot actually hear the chlidren in their own voices. And that asshole Pollak at Breitbart thinks the kids are having fun?!!?!?
The idea of separating migrant children from their mothers was discussed during the earliest days of the Trump administration as a way to deter asylum-seekers, according to notes from a closed-door DHS meeting. https://t.co/1asGLrO0ZH
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2018
Thanks a lot @SusanSarandon https://t.co/FOPI2qF9gd
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) June 18, 2018
re: #516 jaunte
A follow up question? Holy shit!
BREAKING: Judge orders Kansas SecState & Gov candidate Kris Kobach to take extra legal education classes for flouting discovery rules in voter registration lawsuit. She also permanently blocked KS law requiring proof of citizenship to register https://t.co/5gaHgWv9gK
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) June 18, 2018
re: #518 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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If this doesn’t bring down these bastards, I might seriously think about becoming an ex=pat if another country will take me.
It’s the people who apply the pressure that forms the political will to get the right thing done. Yesterday, more than a thousand strong marching on Tornillo, the people applied that pressure. https://t.co/4a8mzO3ZKA
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) June 18, 2018
re: #496 HappyWarrior “Still not good enough Ted, you still don’t get it.”
His game plan is an old one. He wants to appear to be doing something when his plan is to do absolutely nothing substantive to resolve the issue. He’s totally aware that the optics of this policy doesn’t look good for him, so he’s pretending to be concerned when he doesn’t really give a f*ck what really happens to these families. I remember when the Gang of Eight wrote a bipartisan immigration reform plan, he adamantly opposed it and went as far as to claim the bill provided amnesty for undocumented immigrants when he knew it didn’t. If Cruz is one thing, it’s a self-serving b*st*rd. The best example is the way he’s been sucking up to Trump after Trump insulted his wife’s appearance. Any other man/politician with decent morals who valued his wife, marriage, and family would have never praised Trump for anything for committing that major offense, but Cruz did.
I’m calling on Kirstjen Nielsen to resign as Secretary of Homeland Security. Under her watch, our government has committed human rights abuses by breaking up families along the southern border. And she has failed to be accountable to and transparent with the American people.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 18, 2018
I endorse this message. Kirsten Nielsen has gotta go. Another Trump crony. Lying to us just like her boss. Defiant and bullying the same. Bully with a badge is still just a damn bully. https://t.co/QJpsuL6w77
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 18, 2018
re: #524 majii
“Still not good enough Ted, you still don’t get it.”
His game plan is an old one. He wants to appear to be doing something when his plan is to do absolutely nothing substantive to resolve the issue. He’s totally aware that the optics of this policy doesn’t look good for him, so he’s pretending to be concerned when he doesn’t really give a f*ck what really happens to these families. I remember when the Gang of Eight wrote a bipartisan immigration reform plan, he adamantly opposed it and went as far as to claim the bill provided amnesty for undocumented immigrants when he knew it didn’t. If Cruz is one thing, it’s a self-serving b*st*rd. The best example is the way he’s been sucking up to Trump after Trump insulted his wife’s appearance. Any other man/politician with decent morals who valued his wife, marriage, and family would have never praised Trump for anything for committing that major offense, but Cruz did.
He just may be the Senate’s most despicable man.
I’m going to put on my Hazmat suit and go to Fox News’ Twitter feed to see if the Pro Publica tape is mentioned.
re: #523 jaunte
[It’s the people who apply the pressure that forms the political will to get the right thing done. Yesterday, more than a thousand strong marching on Tornillo, the people applied that pressure.]
Ted’s feeling it.
re: #527 Ace Rothstein
I’m going to put on my Hazmat suit and go to Fox News’ Twitter feed to see if the Pro Publica tape is mentioned.
Nah I wager what’s trending there is some obscure lefty said something wacky about Trump or they’re going with what the NRA was whining about yesterday with Wiccans.
re: #528 wrenchwench
Ted’s feeling it.
Good, that bastard needs to know he’s not the Senator of Wingnuttia.
re: #527 Ace Rothstein
Nope, not a word. But they did tweet about some redneck wrestling an alligator.
The idea of separating migrant children from their mothers was discussed during the earliest days of the Trump administration as a way to deter asylum-seekers, according to notes from a closed-door DHS meeting.
By @JuliaEAinsley https://t.co/86C2v0z1iR— NBC Latino (@NBCLatino) June 18, 2018
“…The idea of separating migrant children from their mothers was discussed during the earliest days of the Trump administration as a way to deter asylum-seekers, according to notes from a closed-door DHS meeting.
Notes from a town hall held for Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers on Feb. 2, 2017, show that the agency’s asylum chief, John Lafferty, told the officers they might have to “hold mothers longer” and “hold children in HHR/ORR,” an acronym for facilities for children run by HHS.”
But it’s not a “policy.”
re: #453 Blind Frog Belly White
Okay, so when you’re using the biggest cog in the cassette, how do you not just fall over?
Practice practice practice. And also just admit to myself that there are some hill climbs I will never clean.
re: #532 jaunte
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Which means yet another reason why we shouldn’t show Kelly respect just because he wore an uniform. Jeffrey Dahmer wore a US Army uniform once too.
I drew a few kindergarten classes while I was substitute teaching. One of these was at the first of the semester, when the kids were limited to half a day for the very good reason that they had not adapted to being away from their parents, and the process had to be introduced slowly. Even half a day was traumatic enough for many of them, the little guys would just burst out crying at times.
Farther back, I can still remember my first day of kindergarten, in the impossibly remote year of 1954. I was confused at the strange adults and did not understand why my mother had sent me away on the bus with kids I did not know. There were windows between the classroom and the adjacent corridors. About 2 hours into the class I saw my mother walk by. She was there to finish up some paperwork, but I naturally thought I was being rescued and it was time to go. I yelled, “there’s my mom!” and tore out after her with my teacher in pursuit. Instead of being glad to see me, my mom was horrified and told me I had to stay a little longer. I was bewildered and started crying.
I can’t even imagine what it is like for the little ones in Trump’s detention camps.
re: #525 Unshaken Defiance
That she couldn’t address what happened to the girls alone was reason to call for her resignation. #WhereAreTheGirls #WhereAreTheWomen
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 18, 2018
re: #535 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I drew a few kindergarten classes while I was substitute teaching. One of these was at the first of the semester, when the kids were limited to half a day for the very good reason that they had not adapted to being away from their parents, and the process had to be introduced slowly. Even half a day was traumatic enough for many of them, the little guys would just burst out crying at times.
Farther back, I can still remember my first day of kindergarten, in the impossibly remote year of 1954. I was confused at the strange adults and did not understand why my mother had sent me away on the bus with kids I did not know. There were windows between the classroom and the adjacent corridors. About 2 hours into the class I saw my mother walk by. She was there to finish up some paperwork, but I naturally thought I was being rescued and it was time to go. I yelled, “there’s my mom!” and tore out after her with my teacher in pursuit. Instead of being glad to see me, my mom was horrified and told me I had to stay a little longer. I was bewildered and started crying.
I can’t even imagine what it is like for the little ones in Trump’s detention camps.
I’ve seen how sad my niece gets when my brother’s had to go to work. Hell she was disappointed that I couldn’t join them for a trip to the gym earlier. Being separated from her parents like that? Man I can’t imagine.
Another data point about just how insane Republicans have gotten since Fox News began:
Ipsos/Daily Beast poll: Republicans have a more favorable view of Kim Jong-un (19%) than they do of Colin Kaepernick (18%), Nancy Pelosi (17%) and Tom Steyer (17%).
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 18, 2018
A US State Department background briefer today condemned Russia’s “Soviet practice” of separating parents from their children. pic.twitter.com/w6WjNBCeUG
— Dave Clark (@DaveClark_AFP) June 18, 2018
re: #536 MsJ
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re: #538 jaunte
Another data point about just how insane Republicans have gotten since Fox News began:
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It’s easy to poison Republican voters. Why? Because Republican voters are the heirs ideologically and mentally of the people who embraced Nazism.
re: #535 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I drew a few kindergarten classes while I was substitute teaching. One of these was at the first of the semester, when the kids were limited to half a day for the very good reason that they had not adapted to being away from their parents, and the process had to be introduced slowly. Even half a day was traumatic enough for many of them, the little guys would just burst out crying at times.
Farther back, I can still remember my first day of kindergarten, in the impossibly remote year of 1954. I was confused at the strange adults and did not understand why my mother had sent me away on the bus with kids I did not know. There were windows between the classroom and the adjacent corridors. About 2 hours into the class I saw my mother walk by. She was there to finish up some paperwork, but I naturally thought I was being rescued and it was time to go. I yelled, “there’s my mom!” and tore out after her with my teacher in pursuit. Instead of being glad to see me, my mom was horrified and told me I had to stay a little longer. I was bewildered and started crying.
I can’t even imagine what it is like for the little ones in Trump’s detention camps.
My across-the-street buddy and I were proud that we were not among the criers. We had older brothers who had lived through it.
Yeah, that ought to do it
President Trump is threatening 10 percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion of goods from China. “The trade relationship between the United States and China must be much more equitable,” Trump said in a White House statement.
— NPR Business (@nprbusiness) June 18, 2018
re: #541 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to poison Republican voters. Why? Because Republican voters are the heirs ideologically and mentally of the people who embraced Nazism.
Lets see, murderous dictator with nukes, or pro football player who makes me think about unjust policing of black Americans? I think… what does Trump say today?
re: #543 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yeah, that ought to do it
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— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018
re: #544 jaunte
Lets see, murderous dictator with nukes, or pro football player who makes me think about unjust policing of black Americans? I think… what does Trump say today?
Hey the one is good people who just has to be tough because it’s the family business. //
re: #525 Unshaken Defiance
You know Trump will just replace her with someone even worse, and the GOP Senate will confirm who ever that may be.
re: #531 Ace Rothstein
“re: #527 Ace Rothstein
Nope, not a word. But they did tweet about some redneck wrestling an alligator.”
They’re waiting for the new RW talking points, but I think they’ll be waiting a while longer because neither Trump, Miller, Kelly, nor Sanders, Sessions, or Neilsen expected their original talking points to be met with majority opposition from American citizens. I’m imagining Trump and the aforementioned others huddled in a room in the WH, coordinating with RW media outlets and major RW blog owners via conference calls working on new talking points. Knowing Trump and the others on the Right, if they had new talking points, Foxers would be on social media spreading them. I even think Trump and the others may be shocked that their talking points didn’t sell the way they thought they would which is why I think there were multiple delays in today’s WH presser.
Listening to NPR today they reported the detention facilities child concentration camps with Trump as Great Leader images are privately run. 2 Billion a year on detention facilities paid out to private corporations who of course will cut costs, gut the facilities food, water, blankets and environmental controls (if any) and are severely overcharging for it.
We are overpaying private companies to short facilities of needed resources to take care of these human beings.
re: #547 Winston_Smith
You know Trump will just replace her with someone even worse, and the GOP Senate will confirm who ever that may be.
Call it my domino method. They put them up we take them down. One two three.
re: #546 HappyWarrior
Hey the one is good people who just has to be tough because it’s the family business. //
Hey, not everybody gets handed a family gulag full of starving slaves at the age of 26, he must be a special son of a murderer.
re: #477 jaunte
Forcing Republicans to listen to tapes like that is going to have an effect.
No it won’t. They will just double down on blaming the parents for bringing their “anchor babies” in the first place.
re: #550 Unshaken Defiance
But a new one will get a media honeymoon while he/she continues Trump’s plan. I prefer to have this one just get destroyed professionally and personally by the media and public first. Maybe then Trump’s goons will realize there is a real downside to implementing this evil man’s wishes.
re: #552 DodgerFan1988
As in the case of Kaepernick, they’re pissed about being told they’re in the wrong, and having reality shoved into their faces.
re: #484 MsJ
Fascists. Power hungry loathsome evil vile fascists.
re: #549 Unshaken Defiance
Listening to NPR today they reported the
detention facilitieschild concentration camps with Trump as Great Leader images are privately run. 2 Billion a year on detention facilities paid out to private corporations who of course will cut costs, gut the facilities food, water, blankets and environmental controls (if any) and are severely overcharging for it.We are overpaying private companies to short facilities of needed resources to take care of these human beings.
I am impressed that NPR reported it. Mara Lie-a-some disappointed me again this morning.
Ah, the poison pill.
Asylum cases are very complex. Often people speak a tribal language that’s rare enough for it to takes weeks or more to find adequate translators. Also, it requires lawyers to gather evidence, affidavits, data on countries …
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) June 19, 2018
That takes a lot of time, presuming you’ve got a competent lawyer. Which most people in asylum proceedings don’t.
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) June 19, 2018
But there are scarier things out there than Guatemalan families looking for a safe place to live and Trump has no idea how to deal with any of them.
He can barely handle cheap Canadian aluminum.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 18, 2018
re: #491 jaunte
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Reminder that for all his MS-13 posturing, Trump’s actual interior enforcement policy is to deport fewer hardened criminals and more random dads.https://t.co/3jr3aR2GvN pic.twitter.com/YwNGsktQRW
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 18, 2018
re: #556 wrenchwench
I just listened to the audio tape of the kids crying for their Dad or Mom and the agent joking about the “orchestra” needing a “conductor”. There is no adequate outlet for this kind of frustration and powerlessness.
Newt Fucking Gingrich:
.@potus is systematically & methodically demolishing Obama’s entire legacy. For 8 yrs, we heard excuses as to why GDP growth was slow, why unemployment was high, why businesses weren’t creating jobs, and in 18 months, Trump has proven these claims wrong. https://t.co/wVsqPqvcZu pic.twitter.com/XOYpEDJtJa
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) June 18, 2018
Job growth is down since Trump took office. Trump benefited from Obama’s strong economy.
And now you’ve got your sights set on destroying health coverage for tens of millions of people.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 18, 2018
re: #561 Unshaken Defiance
I just listened to the audio tape of the kids crying for their Dad or Mom and the agent joking about the “orchestra” needing a “conductor”. There is no adequate outlet for this kind of frustration and powerlessness.
Tornillo, TX. They need Beto, or someone, there every Sunday. 24 hour drive.
Watching Dianne on All In. She is on fire attacking Shittler.
Monsters among us.
Trump supporters discussing Latino children being put in cages:
“Look at that little monkey in the zoo!”
“Smash his little fingers with a bat!”
“We keep em in compassion till an American needs an organ” pic.twitter.com/uREPAbgYRM— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) June 18, 2018
re: #562 lawhawk
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.@hogangidley45: “There are only one of two things that can happen when they come here: you have to either release them into the interior of the United States as a family unit, or you have to separate the families. That’s what the law says.” pic.twitter.com/hYRrB5iLEg
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 18, 2018
There is literally an entire suite of “Alternatives to Detention,” from ankle bracelets to a high-touch case management system Trump ended in 2017, that allows DHS to monitor ppl in deportation proceedings. Release isn’t just “release.” https://t.co/bpPPMsPMNj
— Dara Lind (@DLind) June 18, 2018
re: #532 jaunte
The idea of separating migrant children from their mothers was discussed during the earliest days of the Trump administration as a way to deter asylum-seekers, according to notes from a closed-door DHS meeting.
But it’s not a “policy.”
Trump, Miller and the rest of their gang are literally terrorists. We have to land on them and their depraved base as hard as we can for as long as it takes. The Republican Party is a criminal syndicate and should be abolished. Other parties can take its place.
re: #567 jaunte
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No, that’s not what the law says. And you fucking liar, it’s not illegal to apply for asylum.
re: #565 teleskiguy
Monsters among us.
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These same sick freaks will be in church on Sunday bowing down before a Golden Elephant.
I’m in outta fucks to give to the right wingers I know in my SM:
Let’s clarify a few things here: 1) Applying for asylum is only possible while physically present in the U.S, The administration has in fact made it harder to obtain asylum under A.G. Sessions and many of those people you’ve seen dtained are in fact applying for asylum. In fact thanks to Sessions, it’s no longer possible to apply for asylum citing domestic abuse, 2) Illegal immigration is not a criminal violation, it is a civil violation, please stop treating it as it’s akin to robbing a bank, I would not approve of the government taking your kids from you for a speeding ticket. 3) The administration is very much against legal immigration, please google the RAISE Act introduced by Senators Perdue and Cotton designed to reduce legal immigration, it’s unlikely to pass but it does have the President’s support. 4) Look at your own family story sometime and stop begin so smugly convinced your family did it right. 5) immigrants are not taking your tax money to go on welfare, many in fact are small business owners and immigrants of all types in fact commit crimes at a lower rate than natural born citizens 6) If your family were living in a place with extreme poverty or violence, you’d want to do everything possible to give your and your children a better life. That’s all. Paralegal/bleeding heart rant off but I’m sick about what this s country is becoming on immigration. My own grand uncle was what some people would in a slur call an anchor baby. And what did Uncle Stan do? Well Uncle Stan enlisted in the US Army while many others still saw the wars in Europe and Asia as “their problem”.
Tucker Carlson slamming media/politicians on immigration crisis claiming, “No matter what they tell you this isn’t about helping children …. They’re goal is to change your country forever.”
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 19, 2018
good lord, he’s not even trying to hide it. https://t.co/NJYOqS3CkS
— Karoli (@Karoli) June 19, 2018
Too late Tucker, the Italians are already taking over the cities.
re: #572 jaunte
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Aw fuck you, Tucker, fascist fuckwaffle. They said the same crap with people the name Carlson but I guess that was different becasue they were whiter than your fat ass.
re: #508 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I made a donation at ActBlue the other day—split among American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), United We Dream Action, Human Rights First, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), We Belong Together, La Union Del Pueblo Entero and Womens Refugee Commission.
Have a friend here who’s an immigration lawyer who is leading a task force—I’m holding off on another general donation till I find out if she needs some direct contributions to her work. She is a dynamo!
re: #572 jaunte
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Too late Tucker, the Italians are already taking over the cities.
Did Fucker KKKarlson remember to take his bedsheets and hood off?
re: #573 HappyWarrior
It may be news to conservatives like Tucker and Butcher Bill, but the country has been changing forever since forever.
BREAKING: Ted Cruz announces bill to stop family separations at border https://t.co/yyTn1hQH6K pic.twitter.com/84kPgpyckC
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 18, 2018
It’s really just a bill that further funds the DOJ and CBP so that people can be deported faster-kids are still separated from parents, we would just get rid of them all faster. The real bill to stop Family Separations is by Dianne Feinstein and no Republicans will co-sponsor it. https://t.co/PD2J6APe11
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) June 18, 2018
re: #574 BeachDem
I made a donation at ActBlue the other day—split among American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), United We Dream Action, Human Rights First, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), We Belong Together, La Union Del Pueblo Entero and Womens Refugee Commission.
Have a friend here who’s an immigration lawyer who is leading a task force—I’m holding off on another general donation till I find out if she needs some direct contributions to her work. She is a dynamo!
Well, I replied to Hillary’s appeal today and I tossed $25 to Act Blue!
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
Actually Jennifer Ruben, Joe Scarborough, Max Boot, and Kurt Bardella have all said they left the Republican Party within the last year because of it’s hard right positions. Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and Rick Wilson on the other hand are on board with the Trump Train.
EVERY time Scarborough and friend say something against trump, they add a Clinton attack as a rider. If Pence replaced trump they would love him forever.
re: #576 jaunte
It may be news to conservatives like Tucker and Butcher Bill, but the country has been changing forever since forever.
And always will be. IT’s what makes us great.
re: #579 fern01
EVERY time Scarborough and friend say something against trump, they add a Clinton attack as a rider. If Pence replaced trump they would love him forever.
That right there is why I’m wary of many of them.
re: #580 HappyWarrior
The first time i went to NYC, I was blown away by how within a few blocks you would go from one culture to another. I fucking loved it.
Senate @Chaplain_Black: “As children are being separated from their parents, remind us to love our neighbors as ourselves and to protect the most vulnerable in our world.”
Full Senate session here: https://t.co/IoogYuldMt pic.twitter.com/D0B82bEcEY— CSPAN (@cspan) June 18, 2018
Nielsen says government “has limited resources” and hence can’t process all asylum seekers. (Trump rolled out his “space force” proposal earlier today and talked about a mission to Mars!) pic.twitter.com/zyafKf1txo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2018
Interesting Cornyn and Cruz, BOTH senators in Texas where these atrocities are happening and NEITHER of whom are known as humanitarians, are suddenly introducing bills to stop Trump. If I didn’t know better I’d say they know things are a lot worse for these kids than is public.
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 19, 2018
Facebook responded to me about the @RAICESTEXAS fundraiser that has now raised a whopping $2.5 million from over 60,000 people. They said
as of November 2017, they waived all nonprofit fundraising fees so 100% of donations via Facebook payments platform goes directly to RAICES.— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) June 19, 2018
re: #565 teleskiguy
Monsters among us.
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Make lampshades from their skin? Use their body fat for soap and their hair for pillow ticking? That is where we are at.
This is final solution talk.
Church charges brought against Sessions – The United Methodist Church https://t.co/6B2k1PYGAo
— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) June 19, 2018
This is the game.
The cruelty as such isn’t going to be popular, but they can try to convince people that the mere act of caring about immigrants is a sign of disregard for their own interests. pic.twitter.com/QUk4YxM3vg— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 19, 2018
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapa has just announced on MSNBC that there will be a rally in front of the White House on 6/30.
So we know where President KKKopertone will be that Saturday—on the golf course at Mar-A-Lardo
I asked if Mitch McConnell supports the Trump administration’s child separation/zero tolerance policy, and his spox gave me this reply about a proposal to “change current law.” I’ve asked what specific “law” he’s referring to. pic.twitter.com/5abLGUclP6
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 18, 2018
Sen. @RandPaul’s office did not reply to my Qs, hasn’t commented yet on Trump’s child separation policy.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 19, 2018
(@WDRBNews was sent an ‘invite’ from the @LouisvilleGOP. A party official later told me it was a fundraiser and limited only to those paying to attend.) So, we waited outside.
— Marcus Green (@MarcusGreenWDRB) June 19, 2018
At 12:29 p.m., I asked @RandPaul’s spox for the Senator’s position on the Trump administration’s separation policy. Have not yet gotten a response. Will update when we do.
— Marcus Green (@MarcusGreenWDRB) June 19, 2018
re: #582 Ace Rothstein
The first time i went to NYC, I was blown away by how within a few blocks you would go from one culture to another. I fucking loved it.
My friends live in Greenpoint. You’ve got Poles and Puerto Ricans living side by side in harmony.
re: #589 jaunte
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— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 19, 2018
re: #589 jaunte
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My interest is caring for immigrants, you fucking fiend. Far more than your interests of policies that only benefit the extremely wealthy and white.
re: #592 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Becaues Rand doesn’t care about your liberty if you’re not white. Same thing with his father. That’s always ben the Pauls’ secret if you really knew what they were about.
Boom. Senate overwhelmingly votes 85-10 to block Trump deal to lift ban on China’s #ZTE telecom after national security concerns raised about cell phone manufacturer
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) June 18, 2018
Gillibrand, Harris, Feinstein, Lee, Markey, Merkley, Paul, Sanders, Warren, and Wyden
— Irfan Hussain (@theirfanator) June 18, 2018
Trump’s main concern is that the photos of kids in cages make him look bad. And all his minions follow suit.
He’s a monster.
re: #598 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Irfan Hussain (@theirfanator) June 18, 2018
re: #572 jaunte
That’s really getting close to the 14 words. And Murdoch has two channels putting this shit out every single day. How do you counter that?
JUST ANNOUNCED: Major protest to Keep Families Together on June 30th in Washington *and* communities around the country. Go to https://t.co/OTIACcHUKL to plug into events. All hands on deck NOW to end this brutality and move towards freedom for all: kids AND their families.
— Anna Galland (@annagalland) June 19, 2018
re: #598 Backwoods_Sleuth
Huh? They voted against stopping the trade deal?
This is how I responded to Chelsea
I donated to the ACLU on Father’s Day because I was so mad at the Trump Admin. We didn’t make it political, we are responding in positive ways to very bad situations. Peace.
— yntbe (@yntbe) June 18, 2018
.@ainsley just told me a DHS official she talked to today referred to agency “imploding” over this policy. #inners
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 19, 2018
If I traveled back in time and told my 12-year old self that in 2018 the president was starting a SPACE FORCE and colonizing Mars, but he was a fucking racist illiterate egomaniacal piece of shit con man, I’d have sworn off science fiction.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
re: #602 jaunte
I hate to think that this policy will still be in effect on June 30th. As awful as Republicans are, they must know that this isn’t a winning policy. The longer it’s in effect, the more damage it will do to their party. Congressional Republicans would do well to pass something this week to end it.
re: #608 Charles Johnson
With the Prophet Nehemiah Scudder waiting in the wings.
My statement on the practice of separating children and parents at the U.S. border: pic.twitter.com/g8OfAshRwQ
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) June 18, 2018
The Assistance is full of strongly worded tweets tonight, but no sponsorships of Feinstein’s Keeping Families Together Act. https://t.co/WmDuN6NZaO
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 19, 2018
re: #609 Patricia Kayden
When you engage in terrorism, the goal is to maximize the suffering.
re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another useless politician.
re: #609 Patricia Kayden
I hope they do, but based on their history (and Ted Cruz’ first attempt) anything they come up with is going to be a sham.
Trump told senators today he would shut down government if not given all his money for the wall. He does not want to cave to pressure on separations, telling advisers in recent weeks that he looks “weak” on immigration. New w/@philiprucker & @seungminkim: https://t.co/D3dneGxI5w
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 18, 2018
re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth
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As expected. As is the bill introduced by Cruz. And then it will be the Dems fault when it fails…
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 19, 2018
“He is using this as leverage. Basically, engaging in state sponsored child abuse to use that as leverage to get Democrats and others in Congress to vote for a border wall.” @JoaquinCastrotx on Trump’s family separation policy. #Hardball pic.twitter.com/gAknrtahlH
— Hardball (@hardball) June 18, 2018
re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth
99% of responses telling (not asking) her to sign onto the dem bill.
re: #583 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I still don’t even get why congress needs chaplains in the first place. OK—military chaplains I understand—they’re often in remote places; prison chaplains, good deal. But fucking congress? They only “work” about 3 days a week, and they’re within blocks of any number of churches etc. Why the fuck do they need chaplains?
re: #609 Patricia Kayden
Let’s say they do. Do you think Trump would veto it? And if he did, do you think there would be 2/3 in each to override it?
My maternal grandmother was named “Anita”. I can just see ICE saying “that’s not a name you typically see from white people in 1930”, investigating and finding we’re all European-Spanish, which, note, is STILL brown to those people, on *Mom’s* mother’s mother’s mother’s side.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 19, 2018
Trump: Give me my wall and maybe these beautiful children don’t need to get hurt. pic.twitter.com/yk2s4sOjWY
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 18, 2018
re: #622 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pure evil. Just as he campaigned.
Positively not. As shown above, they’re identified/tracked by different agencies. This is being done with an *intent* to scare people into staying put because only a DNA test would ever reunite their families if they DARED step into a US port of entry.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 19, 2018
re: #615 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fine, shut it down. Lets add a general strike. Shut it all down
re: #529 HappyWarrior
Nah I wager what’s trending there is some obscure lefty said something wacky about Trump or they’re going with what the NRA was whining about yesterday with Wiccans.
Hey, Tucker’s almost on. Don’t rule out sinister yet cute animals.
re: #615 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks weak? He thinks these images of kids in kennels makes him look good?
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It sound like DHS is resembling SHIELD in Winter Soldier. It’s near time for the employees to decide which side they are on.
Under Secretary Nielsen, the DHS has committed horrific human rights violations, subjected innocent children to the anguish of separation from their parents, and lied to the American people about their disgraceful policies.
One thing is very clear: she needs to resign.— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) June 19, 2018
re: #625 Unshaken Defiance
Fine, shut it down. Lets add a general strike. Shut it all down
If it stops CBP green stealing children, shut or down. Shut it down now.
Good thing media and Dems have been consistent in their concern of immigrant kids. Right? Check out Twitter thread of photos from 2014 posted by Brandon Darby that I’m sure they focused on, but funny, I don’t recall it.
pic.twitter.com/Qtn0sWfJMm— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 19, 2018
Christian Preacher Man explains why shitty treatment of children is OK, so long as somebody else did it too. https://t.co/LzXCkXoYte
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 19, 2018
re: #628 Belafon
It sound like DHS is resembling SHIELD in Winter Soldier. It’s near time for the employees to decide which side they are on.
You know, a grass roots “tell your agent-neighbor” to stay home, blue flu because they are being given immoral arguably illegal orders thing might help. Peer pressure cubed. If they stay with the program, shame and exclude them. Family, friends, spouses. Some things are bigger than any of our relationships.
re: #583 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t that the kind of talk that got the House Chaplain fired by Paul Ryan? Pastor Black may be risking his job. Good.
re: #620 Ace Rothstein
Let’s say they do. Do you think Trump would veto it? And if he did, do you think there would be 2/3 in each to override it?
Great questions. I never thought about Trump vetoing it but that would be a strong possibility. Sigh.
re: #631 Backwoods_Sleuth
How much you want to bet that photo is a fake?
re: #635 Ace Rothstein
How much you want to bet that photo is a fake?
All the kids look really mature for their age.
But, yeah, fake.
re: #631 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t see any children, or context.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center does not believe that parents and children should be separated. It’s not a question of a few days or weeks, but could be years. This is untenable. Ultimately, the broken #immigration system must be fixed. #SWC
— SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) June 18, 2018
re: #638 Single-handed sailor
I don’t see any children, or context.
Look up who Brandon Darby is. He apparently did a picture dump today on the wingnut Twichy site.
Not even two years into his presidency, and Trump is dragging children away from their families and throwing them in concentration camps. Fascism comes at you fast.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 18, 2018
It’s time to start talking and deciding on how to act. What to do. Discussion and debate is good, effective actions are far better. Public shaming of enforcers and the bosses, not just Trump Take it retail right to individual agents. A general strike should be in development. 1/2 https://t.co/7Gjq0tOFc2
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 19, 2018
If I traveled back in time and told my 12-year old self that in 2018 the president was starting a SPACE FORCE and colonizing Mars, but he was a fucking racist illiterate egomaniacal piece of shit con man, I’d have sworn off science fiction.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
2/2 Identify and boycott corporate suppliers. If those are public companies, time to lean on the boards and shareholders. Essentially everything short of illegality. https://t.co/IOvZ4drQMc
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 19, 2018
Trump is going to hell.
Anyone defending his policy of separating children from their parents and locking them in cages is going to hell.
Anyone using the bible to justify this madness is going to hell.
If you don’t like this tweet, you can join those above.— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) June 18, 2018
Trump DHS Secretary Hielsen on the detention/separation of little children - “We’re just doing our job.”
Someone really should have asked her, “So what exactly are the ORDERS you’re JUST FOLLOWING?” #NeverForget #SaveTheChildren— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) June 19, 2018
re: #631 Backwoods_Sleuth
There was no policy of family separation in 2014. Huckabee is a liar and an idiot.
Trigger warning.
That wasn’t the only thing they did. They also stole girls, reportedly as young as 12, and forced them into prostitution and abortions.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 19, 2018
re: #644 Archangelus
God Bless you sir. Hell won’t help us now. This must be stopped to prevent hell on earth. Signed, fellow human being
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 19, 2018
re: #647 Teukka
Trigger warning.
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Hence the questions of where are the mothers? Where are the girls? Reporters saw the boys and elected officials saw the fathers. But not one word about the women and girls. Not one word. Where are they? What is happening to them?
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 19, 2018
I’m so old, I remember when #WhereAreTheGirls was something you had to ask Boko Haram, not @realDonaldTrump.
— David Waldman, LLC (@KagroX) June 18, 2018
Acting ICE director Thomas Homan, without any sense of irony, tells @TuckerCarlson that he objects to people comparing ICE to Nazis because they “are simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress.” pic.twitter.com/Jwqnnd3C0C
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2018
Those who do not learn from… eh, nevermind. https://t.co/g6VXRBkWYl
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 19, 2018
The Nazis set up a kind of Potemkin “nice” concentration camp at Theresienstadt to impress Red Cross visitors and debunk fake news reports that Jews were being mistreated. pic.twitter.com/CFuvF4y0Tk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 19, 2018
re: #615 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let’s see him shut down the government to defend this atrocity then. He is holding children hostage to pay for his stupid wall. Dems should uniformly reject this blatant blackmail.
The Secretary of Homeland Security said just now that our posting of the audiotape today reflected “the agenda” of those posting it. That is true. Our agenda is to bring the American people facts for their consideration.
— Richard Tofel (@dicktofel) June 18, 2018
Speaking of the proximity of father’s day and my birthday:
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re: #572 jaunte
So the U.S. only belongs to Whites? Is that what Tucker is saying? And then they wonder why Blacks don’t vote for Republicans.
re: #627 Ace Rothstein
Looks weak? He thinks these images of kids in kennels makes him look good?
Trump must have asked Kim for hints and tips on how to be as strong and popular as Kim is with North Koreans.
HI LIZARDS IN NEW YORK! I’M IN BROOKLYN. IT’S FREAKING HOT HERE.
Trump aides have encouraged him that the media is cherry-picking photos to show those of kids in cages, and aides have assured him his policies aren’t that different than Obama’s. https://t.co/nmEXwVDXzI
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018
An article about consultants debating strategic appeals to racism that never uses the word racism, just code-words like “hard-line.” https://t.co/7tTEfloSGI
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) June 19, 2018
re: #658 Patricia Kayden
So the U.S. only belongs to Whites? Is that what Tucker is saying? And then they wonder why Blacks don’t vote for Republicans.
Those are the 14 words. Google it.
re: #658 Patricia Kayden
So the U.S. only belongs to Whites? Is that what Tucker is saying? And then they wonder why Blacks don’t vote for Republicans.
You would think these fucking RepubliKKKlans would have learned their lesson when Pete Wilson effectively killed the GOP in California. Nope. They’re taking that nationwide.
Statement from former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter on children separated from their parents at the border: pic.twitter.com/WVg91SWutl
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) June 18, 2018
Every family we (and yes, it’s we because it’s being done in our name) have separated is now our responsibility. We are responsible for getting them back together, and taking care of them. They need to be automatically made US citizens.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 19, 2018
Reporter: Why is the government only releasing images of the boys being held? Where are the girls & toddlers?
Nielsen: I’ll look into that pic.twitter.com/aWZ7UoehEr— POLITICO (@politico) June 18, 2018
So the ostensible rationale for separating children is that all the people entering are traffickers – in which case the victims they would be *most* concerned would be girls and young children.
But…she has no idea where these “priority victims” even are. Right. https://t.co/n391x8Hy1X— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 19, 2018
re: #663 Joe Bacon 🌹
You would think these fucking RepubliKKKlans would have learned their lesson when Pete Wilson effectively killed the GOP in California. Nope. They’re taking that nationwide.
Well look what it got them last time. Don’t understimate how bigoted conservative whites can be.
re: #663 Joe Bacon 🌹
You would think these fucking RepubliKKKlans would have learned their lesson when Pete Wilson effectively killed the GOP in California. Nope. They’re taking that nationwide.
I’m hoping this further energizes Latinos here in Texas to register and vote.
re: #668 Belafon
I’m hoping this further energizes Latinos here in Texas to register and vote.
I’m hoping Latinos are why Texas becomes Purple and puts the fear of electoral extinction into the GOP. Plus you’ll get more Hispanic restaurants too. Win win.
re: #666 jaunte
Fine. She self identifies with the Presidents policy. Maybe not today, but one day well Buh Bye Now.
BREAKING: Ex-CIA officer charged with massive leak to WikiLeaks https://t.co/WOLHV4PBp2
— POLITICO (@politico) June 19, 2018
You know that video was taken and actively released by the government, right? Unlike the Obama-era pic, there’s a *very* good chance what we’re seeing there is an #AmeicanTheresianstadt and that the real conditions are *worse*.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 19, 2018
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