Video: Colbert on Trump’s Budding Bromance With Kim Jong Un
Move over, Tucker Carlson. Trump wants to make room at Fox News for the ‘pink lady’ of North Korea’s state TV.
Move over, Tucker Carlson. Trump wants to make room at Fox News for the ‘pink lady’ of North Korea’s state TV.
Dragged up from downstairs…
Here it comes: US to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are expected to announce that the U.S. is leaving the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday evening, Bloomberg News reported.
According to two people familiar with the matter who spoke with Bloomberg, the decision will be announced at the State Department at 5 p.m. and is largely based on U.S. officials’ perception that the council is biased against Israel.
‘Biased against Israel.’ Right.
I’m thinking it’s more like they want to evade international sanctions for violating human rights - like what we’re doing on the southern border right now.
re: #1 makeitstop
Dragged up from downstairs…
Here it comes: US to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council
‘Biased against Israel.’ Right.
I’m thinking it’s more like they want to evade international sanctions for violating human rights - like what we’re doing on the southern border right now.
We had a really interesting run as sole super power and flawed standard bearer for classical liberalism.
What a time…
Chuck C. Johnson Lawsuit Watch! He keeps losing these frivolous suits, but he’s at it again. Now he’s going to sue Stripe and @splcenter! pic.twitter.com/2xEHRyv7AW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
cf. “10 Stages of Genocide” by Gregory H. Stanton - https://t.co/GKYyfLxU1e
and the companion “12 Ways to Deny Genocide” by Gregory H. Stanton - https://t.co/L7o49tcIEC— Teo (@Teukka72) June 19, 2018
re: #3 JordanRules
We had a really interesting run as sole super power and flawed standard bearer for classical liberalism.
What a time…
Yeah. I’d wager even Dutch Reagan is spinning in his grave today.
One by one, the lights of the Shining City on the Hill are being extinguished.
repeated from below
Stephen Colbert
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@StephenAtHome
One thing I know for sure: no one on the right side of history has ever had to nitpick what the definition of “cage” is.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
How’s he going to pay this lawyer? With Iraqi dinars? He’s a broke ass.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
LOL He’s such a joke.
That’s really all I’ve got.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Chuck C. Johnson Lawsuit Watch! He keeps losing these frivolous suits, but he’s at it again. Now he’s going to sue Stripe and @splcenter!
i wonder if it’s a professional lawyer
(someone had to)
For two days, residents in Portland have surrounded the local ICE detention center with a 24 hr encampment.
Tonight, without a fucking shred of irony, ICE agents complained those blocking their trucks were “keeping them apart from their families.”#SurroundICE#OccupyICEPDX pic.twitter.com/Rzo8rjJhE8— MIDWEST UNREST (@MW_Unrest) June 19, 2018
Thread full of receipts.
This is literally our entire site since last week, but ol’ Jack’s been too busy “investigating” Pizzagate and defending Roy Moore’s sexual proclivities to know that I guess pic.twitter.com/oJHf3il1IO
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 19, 2018
Until proven otherwise, I’m just going to assume all the migrant kids who’ve gone missing were taken by ICE employees to be used as personal slaves.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
re: #7 dangerman
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Stephen Colbert
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@StephenAtHome
One thing I know for sure: no one on the right side of history has ever had to nitpick what the definition of “cage” is.
Or to explain why their policy isn’t exactly the same as the policy of Nazi Germany.
re: #8 Ace Rothstein
How’s he going to pay this lawyer? With Iraqi dinars? He’s a broke ass.
Grifting for dollars from the marks, I assume.
CORKER on family separation at the border: “What we’re doing right now is not appropriate.”
Says “this is something that the administration needs to take ownership on,” and “the administration can fix this in one minute if they choose.”— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 19, 2018
Many Republican Senators are saying this.
None of them are DOING anything, although they could https://t.co/H9L1xRrB6N— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 19, 2018
re: #13 Kragar
Until proven otherwise, I’m just going to assume all the migrant kids who’ve gone missing were taken by ICE employees to be used as personal slaves.
But seriously: Until they are all returned to their parents I will assume that ICE never intended to keep track of them much less return them
We must continually bring up their names and fates until they are ALL returned. Do not let the GOP escape responsibility for what it has done to innocent young people.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I bet he thinks that if he sues enough, someone will just pay him off. That might have worked a little while ago, but he’s now a known quantity.
re: #16 Patricia Kayden
CORKER on family separation at the border: “What we’re doing right now is not appropriate.”
Says “this is something that the administration needs to take ownership on,” and “the administration can fix this in one minute if they choose.”
and again, even if they fix it immediately, make them own what they have done until ALL the children have been reunited.
Trump: Immigrants are threatening to “infest” the U.S. https://t.co/cTqkTjAk4x
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 19, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Like your grandfather, my parents infested America. As their son with yellow skin, I now get to vote against your harmful policies. And after you leave due to either losing reelection or impeachment, I will still be here reversing your shit.
Cheers. https://t.co/vN4fJfp4h9— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 19, 2018
CORKER on family separation at the border: “What we’re doing right now is not appropriate.”
Says “this is something that the administration needs to take ownership on,” and “the administration can fix this in one minute if they choose.”— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 19, 2018
Then Corker went back to work and voted for every one of Trump’s policies, as usual. Without doing anything about the inhuman family separation policy. https://t.co/TPdtY09rTV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
re: #18 Belafon
I bet he thinks that if he sues enough, someone will just pay him off. That might have worked a little while ago, but he’s now a known quantity.
The nuisance value of a Rage Furby suit is close to zero, since you have a good chance of recovering your attorneys fees for frivolous litigation.
President Trump hugs America flag after his remarks @NFIB #NFIB75.
Full video: https://t.co/i9HDFPXLaS pic.twitter.com/qGAX4Gx9zC— CSPAN (@cspan) June 19, 2018
Sickening. https://t.co/V6pf8Nkv6n
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
Hung on the last thread because y’all are moving too fast for me.
re: #546 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Does anyone have a link to the Feinstein bill?
The title has been shortened:
S.3036 - Keep Families Together Act
re: #1 makeitstop
Dragged up from downstairs…
Here it comes: US to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council
‘Biased against Israel.’ Right.
I’m thinking it’s more like they want to evade international sanctions for violating human rights - like what we’re doing on the southern border right now.
Our assertion of the lowest moral ground continues. And yes you bet. Watch we will also opt out of certain weapons restrictions. White phosphorous, cluster munitions etc.
re: #18 Belafon
I bet he thinks that if he sues enough, someone will just pay him off. That might have worked a little while ago, but he’s now a known quantity.
Just like Orly.
re: #27 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Just like Orly.
Did she not finally face legal consequences for being a persistent nuisance?
gooooob morning. i am going to have. a great day. i haven’t figured out how yet. but that’s not important
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) June 19, 2018
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did she not finally face legal consequences for being a persistent nuisance?
I think she did.
BREAKING: US plans to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council, 2 US officials tell @NBCNews; announcement expected to be made by Sec. Pompeo and Amb. Haley this evening - @Abs_NBC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 19, 2018
“YOU CAN’T FIRE ME! I QUIT!” https://t.co/ijdUzp0gyD
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did she not finally face legal consequences for being a persistent nuisance?
She was sanctioned $20k by a US District Court Judge, but she remains an active member of the California Bar which never issued any public discipline against her.
re: #30 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I think she did.
Every case she filed was thrown out and was fined $20k for frivolous claims,
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But seriously: Until they are all returned to their parents I will assume that ICE never intended to keep track of them much less return them
We must continually bring up their names and fates until they are ALL returned. Do not let the GOP escape responsibility for what it has done to innocent young people.
This is such an incredible clusterfuck. How do we learn their names? It’s safe to say that none of these kids speak English. A large number of them can’t talk yet. An even larger number don’t speak Spanish!
How many scholars in the country are familiar with the dozens of languages that they do speak? How many different people would you have to collect to make sure you had all the possibilities covered?
Are you going to fly this linguistic experts group to each and every one of the dozens of internment facilities scattered all across the country? What could the kids tell you about how to find their parents even if you could talk to them? What about the ones who are too young to talk? Is their language acquisition process going to be permanently disrupted?
Insert “Endless Screaming” tweet here.
Fuck.
re: #16 Patricia KaydenCORKER on family separation at the border: “What we’re doing right now is not appropriate.”
Says “this is something that the administration needs to take ownership on,” and “the administration can fix this in one minute if they choose.”
and again, even if they fix it immediately, make them own what they have done until ALL the children have been reunited.
For sure: Sen. Corker’s oh-so-heartfelt concerns strike me as being the equivalent of the equally “sincere” “thoughts and prayers” comments offered up (in lieu of substantive action) after mass shootings and the like. For all that Bob Corker is popular assumed* to be so much the “anti-Trump” Republican, he (like most of his Senate GOP colleagues) seem to vastly prefer talk to action when it comes to opposing ANY Administration initiative (even the worst).
*[Insert stock parsing of the term “assume” HERE]
Signs of our humanity.
My wife sent me this video of women outide the Reagan Building in DC standing up for the children Trump is abusing. pic.twitter.com/7yExb6eTTb
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 19, 2018
Thread.
I’ve written a lot about Narcissistic Personality Disorder and what makes Trump tick.
This seems like a particularly important time to amplify a few things about how his disordered mind works.
He is absolutely compulsive in his handling of things like the current crisis.
1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 19, 2018
Just to be clear, the “loophole” Trump wants to fix would enshrine the mass detentions of families with children and obliterate a 20-year-old legal bedrock for protecting immigrant children https://t.co/l5IZ7UjJu5 pic.twitter.com/qoogHyXxIU
— Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) June 19, 2018
Don’t just take my word for it: Trump said today the “fix” he wants is for Congress to sign off on the mass detention of families with children. pic.twitter.com/zm87zHllQ9
— Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) June 19, 2018
CBP illegally blocking them from using them.https://t.co/aON8pL5um1
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
re: #20 JordanRules
It’s a shame Mr Lieu can’t be on a national ticket
During my drive in to work late this morning, it was irritating listening to MSNBC talking about Republicans who “opposed” the Trump policy or “bipartisan efforts” without their once acknowledging that the Senate Democrats were unanimous in their opposition to this treatment and they had a simple bill focused on this one policy. It is likely the Republicans are planning to sabotage efforts to help these families by including poison pills in their bills
re: #37 makeitstop
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Yeah, very accurate analysis of the horrible sack of dysfunction in the White House.
This tweet seems to have caught on… had a bunch of wingnuts tweeting hate at me this morning for it.
Fuck Tucker Carlson.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
Oh, you’re an idiot. Why didn’t you just say that and save us both some time?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
re: #38 Charles Johnson
Just to be clear, the “loophole” Trump wants to fix would enshrine the mass detentions of families with children and obliterate a 20-year-old legal bedrock for protecting immigrant children
Reason #1 why we’re getting that UN announcement today.
re: #8 Ace Rothstein
How’s he going to pay this lawyer? With Iraqi dinars? He’s a broke ass.
Sugar Daddy Peter Thiel takes care of his boy toy!
re: #16 Patricia Kayden
Many Republican Senators are saying this.
None of them are DOING anything, although they could
that’s not true
orrin hatch wrote a letter
re: #6 makeitstop
One by one, the lights of the Shining City on the Hill are being extinguished.
By being pissed on.
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But seriously: Until they are all returned to their parents I will assume that ICE never intended to keep track of them much less return them
We must continually bring up their names and fates until they are ALL returned. Do not let the GOP escape responsibility for what it has done to innocent young people.
Jon Sandweg, the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told NBC News that migrant parents separated from their children at the border are sometimes unable to relocate their child and remain permanently separated.
kidnapped, if you will
re: #29 meteor
gooooob morning. i am going to have. a great day. i haven’t figured out how yet. but that’s not important
would that our lives were no more complicated than a dog’s day plan
re: #35 Jay C
For sure: Sen. Corker’s oh-so-heartfelt concerns strike me as being the equivalent of the equally “sincere” “thoughts and prayers” comments offered up (in lieu of substantive action) after mass shootings and the like. For all that Bob Corker is popular assumed* to be so much the “anti-Trump” Republican, he (like most of his Senate GOP colleagues) seem to vastly prefer talk to action when it comes to opposing ANY Administration initiative (even the worst).
*[Insert stock parsing of the term “assume” HERE]
I was just thinking the same thing.
I wonder how much Trump and pals are making from all these privately run prisons?
I’m sure he is getting a pretty good kickback for creating demand.
In other news, Says Who has got another lawyer…
SCOOP: Abandoned by Washington, Michael Cohen hires a new lawyer https://t.co/e0Q566PSIR
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) June 19, 2018
Cohen, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, has now hired Guy Petrillo to represent him in the ongoing criminal investigation of his business dealings in the Southern District of New York. Petrillo, a New York attorney who works with clients in criminal and civil matters prosecuted by the government, served as the chief of the criminal division in the S.D.N.Y. from 2008 to 2009. According to his Web site, Petrillo handles cases involving money laundering and fraud, along with congressional and special investigations. Neither he nor Cohen immediately responded to requests for comment.
I say put the Feinstein bill to a vote. Let’s get every fucking Republican on record as being against this thing.
re: #34 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
This is such an incredible clusterfuck. How do we learn their names? It’s safe to say that none of these kids speak English. A large number of them can’t talk yet. An even larger number don’t speak Spanish!
How many scholars in the country are familiar with the dozens of languages that they do speak? How many different people would you have to collect to make sure you had all the possibilities covered?
Are you going to fly this linguistic experts group to each and every one of the dozens of internment facilities scattered all across the country? What could the kids tell you about how to find their parents even if you could talk to them? What about the ones who are too young to talk? Is their language acquisition process going to be permanently disrupted?
Insert “Endless Screaming” tweet here.
Fuck.
This is like the military regime in Argentina or the libertarian regime in Chile.
I see another out. Trump could end the policy and then deny it ever existed. We’ve already seen Nielson deny there is a policy, and Trump doesn’t care how blatantly false his lies are.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 19, 2018
Jews were said to ‘infest’ Germany, and were called an, “illegal people”.
This morning Trump said that Democrats want immigrants to ‘infest our country’.
Remember in history class when you’d ask, “why the heck do we need to study history?”
THIS IS WHY!!!!— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 19, 2018
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹
This is like the military regime in Argentina or the libertarian regime in Chile.
But killing the pregnant women was a crime that even Argentina’s military men - who referred to themselves in self-aggrandising speeches as defenders of “western and Christian civilisation” - couldn’t bring themselves to commit.
Instead, they kept pregnant activists alive until they gave birth, murdering them afterwards and handing their babies to childless military couples to raise as their own. It was, in a macabre sense, the military’s ultimate victory against a despised enemy they had decided to annihilate completely. It is estimated some 500 children were born under these circumstances.
then he’s gonna shut down the government over “the wall” and these family separation a month before the midterms
re: #61 dangerman
then he’s gonna shut down the government over “the wall” and these family separation a month before the midterms
Which will only make it worse for Republicans. Shutdowns have not helped them.
re: #61 dangerman
then he’s gonna shut down the government over “the wall” and these family separation a month before the midterms
We can only hope he will be that stupid. That would ensure a blue tsunami.
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
Jews were said to ‘infest’ Germany, and were called an, “illegal people”.
This morning Trump said that Democrats want immigrants to ‘infest our country’.
Remember in history class when you’d ask, “why the heck do we need to study history?”
THIS IS WHY!!!!
never again is happening right now
Trump hugging the flag, eh?
I guess he is down to using all his old tricks that got him elected.
He knows anything he has done since election will not be enough to keep him around. So, it’s back to the stupid optics tricks.
Let’s make the flag, the people of the U.S. and not a piece of cloth, kick his ass hard by taking down the GOP majority and then Trump.
re: #62 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Breaking: Water is wet!
Washington Post: “Our analysis finds the doublespeak coming from President Trump and top administration officials on this issue is breathtaking, not only because of the sheer audacity of these claims but also because they keep being repeated without evidence.”
“Immigrant families are being separated at the border not because of Democrats and not because some law forces this result, as Trump insists. They’re being separated because the Trump administration, under its zero-tolerance policy, is choosing to prosecute border-crossing adults for any offenses.”
they havent quite said lie lie lie
its close
re: #39 Kragar
The “why aren’t they using legal entry points” is yet another canard for conservatives who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices.
An asylum claim can be made anywhere on the border, and up to one year after entry.
Don’t fall for the whataboutism, correct it. You might not convince the original poster, but others will see it and perhaps they can learn.
re: #46 Joe Bacon 🌹
Sugar Daddy Peter Thiel takes care of his boy toy!
You made me throw up in my mouth.
re: #63 Belafon
Which will only make it worse for Republicans. Shutdowns have not helped them.
Well, they’ve never tried having the government shut down for election day. What happens then?
re: #63 Belafon
Which will only make it worse for Republicans. Shutdowns have not helped them.
exacto
“The millions of dollars in previously unreported, all-cash real estate deals we discovered raise troubling questions about who is funding [the President’s] businesses, why, and what they’re getting in return.” https://t.co/X4uKiavUuy
— The Warax (@iAmTheWarax) June 19, 2018
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
The “why aren’t they using legal entry points” is yet another canard for conservatives who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices.
An asylum claim can be made anywhere on the border, and up to one year after entry.
Don’t fall for the whataboutism, correct it. You might not convince the original poster, but others will see it and perhaps they can learn.
Let’s break this down: you come here ILLEGALLY, you drag your kids over here ILLEGALLY then we are supposed to drop everything and tend to your “family unit?!” No. You choose to come here ILLEGALLY there are consequences. No red carpet for you.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) June 18, 2018
Let’s break this down: your grandfather came here ILLEGALLY, and YOU get put in a prison for kids. No red carpet for you! https://t.co/EYyTfcNXhQ
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 19, 2018
re: #66 ObserverArt
Trump hugging the flag, eh?
I guess he is down to using all his old tricks that got him elected.
He knows anything he has done since election will not be enough to keep him around. SO, it’s back to the stupid optics tricks.
Let’s make the flag, the people of the U.S. and not a piece of cloth, kick his ass hard by taking down the GOP majority and then Trump.
Finally we have a president who loves America MAGA and wears flag pins not like Muslim president Obama always apologizing for America and wanting to meet with dictators which is oK when Drumpf does it.
re: #70 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Well, they’ve never tried having the government shut down for election day. What happens then?
whether the elections come off?
they still will. they are run by states and counties not the feds
whether it would influence the election?
hell yes
re: #23 Charles Johnson
CSPAN
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@cspan
President Trump hugs America flag after his remarks @NFIB #NFIB75.
First comment:
You can grab it by the stars
— The Monster (@boris3324) June 19, 2018
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
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Funny how that doesn’t apply to Yezidis or Iraqi Christians fleeing Da’esh for these wingnuts.
re: #65 dangerman
never again is happening right now
This is a continuation. Trump is out to beat the ‘deporter in chief.’ Nobody deported more people (yet) than Obama. He thought he had to do it to get a deal for the Dreamers. Hadn’t nailed it down before he was out. Now we have somebody trying to outdo him, with none of the finesse.
re: #72 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“The millions of dollars in previously unreported, all-cash real estate deals we discovered raise troubling questions about who is funding [the President’s] businesses, why, and what they’re getting in return.” mcclatchydc.com …
pre election - crickets
now?…..
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
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It’s a civil infraction you unoriginal witch and applying for asylum isn’t illegal. FO and actually educate yourself rather than spouting off bs.
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
Let’s break this down: you come here ILLEGALLY, you drag your kids over here ILLEGALLY then we are supposed to drop everything and tend to your “family unit?!” No. You choose to come here ILLEGALLY there are consequences. No red carpet for you.
— Tomi Lahren
Actually, we’re making more work for ourselves by separating the adults from the children.
Gosh the wingnuts be stupid these days.
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
Let’s break this down: you come here ILLEGALLY, you drag your kids over here ILLEGALLY then we are supposed to drop everything and tend to your “family unit?!” No. You choose to come here ILLEGALLY there are consequences. No red carpet for you.
let’s break this down: Asylum seekers are not ‘here illegally’.
re: #82 Sir John Barron
Actually, we’re making more work for ourselves by separating the adults from the children.
Gosh the wingnuts be stupid these days.
They don’t care; applying the principles of the 14 words is important to them no matter how much work it takes.
re: #83 dangerman
let’s break this down: Asylum seekers are not ‘here illegally’.
Did I hear Trump in one of today’s videos call what the immigrants are doing a “federal crime?”
Everyone says it is a misdemeanor…do federal crimes carry a level that is considered a misdemeanor?
I guess what Trump is doing by calling it a federal crime is just to blow it up more and make it sound oh-so-serious.
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
The “why aren’t they using legal entry points” is yet another canard for conservatives who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices.
An asylum claim can be made anywhere on the border, and up to one year after entry.
Don’t fall for the whataboutism, correct it. You might not convince the original poster, but others will see it and perhaps they can learn.
They are splitting hairs. Crossing the border anywhere that isn’t a port of entry is illegal. It doesn’t matter if you are undocumented, asylum seeking, or a US citizen. Even if you are seeking asylum it is still illegal to cross and if they choose to prosecute you may get a fine and a few days in jail after which you could pursue your asylum claim.
The difference now is that the administration is choosing to prosecute every instance of illegal crossing as stupid and counterproductive as that may be.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Did I hear Trump in one of today’s videos call what the immigrants are doing a “federal crime?”
Everyone says it is a misdemeanor…do federal crimes carry a level that is considered a misdemeanor?
I guess what Trump is doing by calling it a federal crime is just to blow it up more and make it sound oh-so-serious.
Some federal crimes are misdemeanors, some are felonies. General/common law rule is a misdemeanor is a crime that carries less than a year in prison, where felonies carry more. There’s also a dollar cut off on fines, I want to say $10k, but it’s been a while.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Did I hear Trump in one of today’s videos call what the immigrants are doing a “federal crime?”
Everyone says it is a misdemeanor…do federal crimes carry a level that is considered a misdemeanor?
I guess what Trump is doing by calling it a federal crime is just to blow it up more and make it sound oh-so-serious.
It’s not a crime, it’s not even a misdemeanor. Illegal entry is a civil infraction, akin to receiving a traffic ticket. This is an important distinction because only criminal court proceedings trigger the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
re: #87 KGxvi
Added, here’s the federal code section defining felonies and misdemeanors.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
It’s a civil infraction you unoriginal witch and applying for asylum isn’t illegal. FO and actually educate yourself rather than spouting off bs.
She (and every other conservative talking head) may very well know asylum claims are legal.
They are trying to convince their viewers and follower such claims are not.
Conservatism is about gaining or maintaining power. If the best way to achieve that is endlessly lying, then that’s what they’ll do.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Did I hear Trump in one of today’s videos call what the immigrants are doing a “federal crime?”
Everyone says it is a misdemeanor…do federal crimes carry a level that is considered a misdemeanor?
I guess what Trump is doing by calling it a federal crime is just to blow it up more and make it sound oh-so-serious.
Yes, there are federal misdemeanors, and entering the US illegally is one of them. Of course as we know, the Border Patrol is barring asylum seekers from entering at Ports of Entry in order to force them to enter illegally so that they can be arrested and their children taken.
Hey, if you’re seeing the terms “people of light” and “PoL” on your timeline, mostly by people with new, newish, or obviously newly repurposed accounts, talking about “person-first language” and saying that “white people” is a racist term… I suggest blocking and moving on.
— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) June 19, 2018
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹
She (and every other conservative talking head) may very well know asylum claims are legal.
They are trying to convince their viewers and follower such claims are not.
Conservatism is about gaining or maintaining power. If the best way to achieve that is endlessly lying, then that’s what they’ll do.
Are you deliberately lying or actually this stupid?
re: #88 goddamnedfrank
It’s not a crime, it’s not even a misdemeanor. Illegal entry is a civil infraction, akin to receiving a traffic ticket. This is an important distinction because only criminal court proceedings trigger the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
It is a misdemeanor, but the law also allows for a civil penalty. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to imprison someone for six months if they haven’t committed some other crime, so the government usually just goes the civil route.
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹
The “why aren’t they using legal entry points” is yet another canard for conservatives who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices.
An asylum claim can be made anywhere on the border, and up to one year after entry.
Don’t fall for the whataboutism, correct it. You might not convince the original poster, but others will see it and perhaps they can learn.
I could really use a legal citation for the bolded part Thanks to anyone who can provide one. International law?
Man In The Hoodie has a pretty cool thread going on right now…
Time to fire Sessions
End the Mueller investigation
You can’t obstruct something that was phony against you
The IG report gives @realDonaldTrump the truth to end it all.— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 19, 2018
Thx @parscale
Oh, while I have you: can I get a new mouse, the fancy one without a cord and doesn’t need a mousepad? No rush. After you fix the printer.
Thx Brad. https://t.co/LOUllC2rym— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) June 19, 2018
Brad Parscale is Trump’s digital guy….
We’re asking him for tech help.
We encourage you to submit your questions. https://t.co/RrMtS9vyq7— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) June 19, 2018
Ask Brad! HAHAHAHA
re: #87 KGxvi
Some federal crimes are misdemeanors, some are felonies. General/common law rule is a misdemeanor is a crime that carries less than a year in prison, where felonies carry more. There’s also a dollar cut off on fines, I want to say $10k, but it’s been a while.
Right but even misdemeanors trigger the right to a jury trial and representation of counsel. Deportation hearings do not because they are conducted under civil law. The Supremes confirmed this in Fong Yue Ting v. United States:
The proceeding before a United States judge, as provided for in section 6 of the act of 1892, is in no proper sense a trial and sentence for a crime or offense. It is simply the ascertainment, by appropriate and lawful means, of the fact whether the conditions exist upon which Congress has enacted that an alien of this class may remain within the country. The order of deportation is not a punishment for crime. It is not a banishment, in the sense in which that word is often applied to the expulsion of a citizen from his country by way of punishment. It is but a method of enforcing the return to his own country of an alien who has not complied with the conditions upon the performance of which the Government of the nation, acting within its constitutional authority, and through the proper departments, has determined that his continuing to reside here shall depend. He has not, therefore, been deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and the provisions of the Constitution securing the right of trial by jury and prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures and cruel and unusual punishments have no application.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Did I hear Trump in one of today’s videos call what the immigrants are doing a “federal crime?”
Everyone says it is a misdemeanor…do federal crimes carry a level that is considered a misdemeanor?
I guess what Trump is doing by calling it a federal crime is just to blow it up more and make it sound oh-so-serious.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
re: #87 KGxvi
Some federal crimes are misdemeanors, some are felonies. General/common law rule is a misdemeanor is a crime that carries less than a year in prison, where felonies carry more. There’s also a dollar cut off on fines, I want to say $10k, but it’s been a while.
there whole line of argument is based on ignorance of these nuances.
or the fact that minors might be here illegally but are not criminals in the sense of the law
In local weird news:
I just went to the Post Office. Next to the park is a van parked with a couple people sleeping inside.
That’s not the strange part, because a lot of travelers do that here. What’s weird is it has on it “Traveling East to Get West” and German license plates.
Damn, that Sarah Kendzior/Casey Mitchell tweet thread is damn disturbing about how “religion” is the Russian connection to what happened with Trump in 2016 and how they have set it up and been working on it since ‘95.
Classic Russian patience at America’s expense.
Now we know why the Evangelicals are so deep into Trump and ready to protect him at all costs.
I hope somehow this whole “process” becomes more well known.
The tie in to Pence through Manafort makes more sense now than it originally did.
Pence needs to go down. He isn’t a religious man, he’s a power hungry fascist.
In case anyone wants to go to these two links to read up having maybe missed it earlier.
Sarah Kendzior’s tweet link to Casey Michel thread on it all
Senator David Perdue got agitated because he wanted to talk about the “#1 crisis in America”, the national debt, which he voted to exacerbate, and the only questions they were getting at a press conference were about family separation.
re: #102 Big Beautiful Door
Senator David Perdue got agitated because he wanted to talk about the “#1 crisis in America”, the national debt, which he voted to exacerbate, and the only questions they were getting at a press conference were about family separation.
that should be the only question raised until the families are reunited
re: #47 dangerman
that’s not true
orrin hatch wrote a letter
A very strongly worded, powerful, super duper letter.
re: #10 dangerman
i wonder if it’s a professional lawyer
(someone had to)
that would be a novel approach for him since he hasn’t tried that yet…
re: #86 danarchy
They are splitting hairs. Crossing the border anywhere that isn’t a port of entry is illegal. It doesn’t matter if you are undocumented, asylum seeking, or a US citizen. Even if you are seeking asylum it is still illegal to cross and if they choose to prosecute you may get a fine and a few days in jail after which you could pursue your asylum claim.
The difference now is that the administration is choosing to prosecute every instance of illegal crossing as stupid and counterproductive as that may be.
That is what I yesterday called Nielsen’s dancing on a pinhead explanation for why it isn’t policy to separate families. Do it “legally” and there is no policy.
Do it “criminally” and you are treated as a criminal and the separation occurs.
Add in the trick that many can’t use the border crossing point to do it legally and more and more get to be labeled criminal.
Pretty sure now who the real criminals are. Trump, Nielsen, Sessions, Miller, etc.
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that should be the only question raised until the families are reunited
Many never will be. The parents have already been deported and the kids are God only knows where.
So when Trump supporters say that these people are criminals going to jail and that’s why their children must be separated from them, they’re lying. Our system explicitly does not consider them to be criminals, and also depends on that distinction to keep enforcement costs down.
— Intl. House of franks (@goddamnedfrank) June 19, 2018
re: #104 Patricia Kayden
re: #47 dangerman
that’s not true
orrin hatch wrote a letterA very strongly worded, powerful, super duper letter.
That obviously didn’t work very well, so I guess he’ll have to move up a step and escalate his tactics.
He’ll write a STERN letter.
Very stern.
The unhinged conspiracy theory now involves Russian oligarchs laundering $109 million in cash to our “president.” #AWFDY https://t.co/VqNhfycXg8
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 19, 2018
re: #92 MsJ
Smells like an “op” from a site like 4chan or 8chan.
I briefly went into 4chan/pol (I wiped my feet before returning). It is a Dumpster fire of antisemitism, racism, claims of wanting to do things like shoot everyone at the Mexican border, calling white women in mixed-race relationships “race traitors.”
I can see how someone could easily be radicalised into a Nazi or terrorist on that site.
I’m not sure how you could shut it down unless you could prove it was promoting crime.
4chan is a huge site. It also makes me wonder who is actually funding it.
re: #106 ObserverArt
That is what I yesterday called Nielsen’s dancing on a pinhead explanation for why it isn’t policy to separate families. Do it “legally” and there is no policy.
Do it “criminally” and you are treated as a criminal and the separation occurs.
Add in the trick that many can’t use the border crossing point to do it legally and more and more get to be labeled criminal.
Pretty sure now who the real criminals are. Trump, Nielsen, Sessions, Miller, etc.
The biggest problem is with the backlog of cases what should be a night or 2 in jail turns into a month or two.
I read a story about how judges on the border are taking cases 100 at a time and just passing a sentence of time served and releasing people and still aren’t able to dent the backlog.
re: #72 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
re: #110 Single-handed sailor
I’m just wondering: when we see reports of “all-cash real estate sales” wrt to Trump properties, are these the normal RE business definition of “cash sales” (i.e. the purchase price paid in full all at once w/ no financing), or are they “CASH sales”, briefcases suitcases duffel bags full of bundled Benjamins or 500-euro notes?
re: #97 goddamnedfrank
I’m not sure that’s good law. That case involved the Chinese Exclusion Act, which is very much no longer the law. Current law describes unlawful entry as a misdemeanor. But there is a parallel civil tract. Unfortunately, most all of these cases proceed as administrative proceedings, which are quasi-judicial at best under the Administrative Proceedings Act.
And truth be told, therein lies the real problem.
Here is a letter my client Levis just wrote to her 6 yr old son Samir, whom she has not seen or comm with in over 2 weeks. They told her he was being taken for a “bath” & would be brought right back. He is a gentle boy and very attached to his mother. She is terrified. #Basta pic.twitter.com/EnyDCaloft
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 19, 2018
re: #101 ObserverArt
Apparently the only thing wrong with Hillary Clinton’s statement about a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was she didn’t know it was so vast that conservatives had already started working to sell out their country for power.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
Apparently the only thing wrong with Hillary Clinton’s statement about a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was she didn’t know it was so vast that conservatives had already started working to sell out their country for power.
Yeah, the timing that it just happened to be set up during Big Bill’s time is telling in it’s own way.
I’m thinking the GOP was in panic knowing that what Clinton did to become popular could very easily be what the Democrats would do into the future thus cutting the Republicans out of the presidency.
So, instead of changing their own politics, they did the dirty deeds. I guess they knew themselves really well. They knew they were incapable of decent politics and playing it straight.
DEPLORABLES!
re: #113 Jay C
I’m just wondering: when we see reports of “all-cash real estate sales” wrt to Trump properties, are these the normal RE business definition of “cash sales” (i.e. the purchase price paid in full all at once w/ no financing), or are they “CASH sales”,
briefcases suitcasesduffel bags full of bundled Benjamins or 500-euro notes?
When my wife and I bought our house, we bought it as an “all cash sale” (a personal cheque).
That said, as it was over $10,000 it would have been properly reported to the IRS by the bank when the cheque went through.
I’m guessing that’s not how Trump did it. Those pesky tax returns would sure be nice.
The Art of the Hostage Negotiation https://t.co/1Emg6wpViM via @thenib
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 19, 2018
re: #113 Jay C
I’m just wondering: when we see reports of “all-cash real estate sales” wrt to Trump properties, are these the normal RE business definition of “cash sales” (i.e. the purchase price paid in full all at once w/ no financing), or are they “CASH sales”,
briefcases suitcasesduffel bags full of bundled Benjamins or 500-euro notes?
i’d guess it’s the former - no financing
else getting all that cash deposited and reported would be an absolute nightmare - not to mention audit trail of likely naughty behavior
“If they get scuffed up, all the better…” The footwear industry trade association responds to today’s Canadian shoe sideshow. pic.twitter.com/P6w0zjFnFo
— A Edgecliffe-Johnson (@Edgecliffe) June 19, 2018
Funny statement from US footwear lobby says Trump “seems misinformed”: “On behalf of the American footwear industry, we welcome anyone from anywhere to come and purchase shoes in America…if they get scuffed up all the better so we can sell them more.” https://t.co/Wa0OAvYeBv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 19, 2018
21 facts explain exactly why Trump aide Stephen Miller is so horrible https://t.co/GrGsMg6MuC
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 19, 2018
#StephenMillerFacts: Stephen is actually a suit made up from skin from dead serial killers stretched over a semi-rigid frame and animated by a team of highly trained ferrets using a complex systems of ropes and pulleys.
Oh, its true. https://t.co/a7kIF1qzMd— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
#StephenMillerFacts: Stephen has the heart of a child.
He keeps it in a jar on his desk.
Oh, its true.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
I just got my copy of The Economist in the mail. Banner across the cover:
Kim-Jong Won.
re: #121 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
DJT’s claim sounds like something he jumbled together from three or four different stories on wingnut media and tried to paste into one nonsensical allegation.
re: #124 Sir John Barron
I await the #scuffedshoestruther movement.
///
Next of Faux: Canadian smuggler admits to scuffing shoes.
Some have forgotten this. I have not.
The US Administration commissioned a study of the fiscal impact of refugees, but censored it because the net impact was: *positive*. Then it published the costs only.
Lying about immigrants is current policy. https://t.co/6Spfbb8IWJ— Michael Clemens (@m_clem) June 19, 2018
go go make trump kittens again gadget: Stephen Miller
re: #125 Sir John Barron
DJT’s claim sounds like something he jumbled together from three or four different stories on wingnut media and tried to paste into one nonsensical allegation.
A bullshitter always gets in the most trouble when he runs into someone that actually knows about his current topic of bullshit. He’s always been a bullshitter on trade, people who know how trade actually works know that the more free the trade, the better (on balance) it will be for consumers.
State Dept ‘Summer Family Travel’ Livechat Is NEXT-LEVEL Fuckup. Surprise! (Wonkette)
That Faceborg live chat was supposed to be at 10am EDT. Tips for obtaining passports, traveling with family, &c.
At the appointed time, no one from the State Department.
How can people be THIS BAD at their jobs?!?!? Did the State Department’s social media team really schedule a live discussion of “traveling with kids” while the media is showing babies snatched at the border and imprisoned in cages?
Happening soon! Join our colleagues from @TravelGov for a Facebook Live event at 10:00 a.m. ET to ask your questions about traveling with kids and to hear their tips to make traveling with the whole family easier. https://t.co/JRBPBChNju
— Department of State (@StateDept) June 19, 2018
Sadly, Carl and Kim were unavailable between 10 and 11 this morning. Were they washing their hair at the appointed hour? Did they just forget to show up and share their insights on not having your kids snatched by the government while crossing international borders?
Who the hell is in charge of social media at State anyway?
Oh, right.
One of Tillerson’s best hires!
Did we predict that hiring former Fox loon Heather Nauert as State Department Spokesliar would be a debacle? WE DID. But who could have anticipated this kind of next level fuck up?
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re: #131 Anymouse 🌹
State Dept ‘Summer Family Travel’ Livechat Is NEXT-LEVEL Fuckup. Surprise! (Wonkette)
That Faceborg live chat was supposed to be at 10am EDT. Tips for obtaining passports, traveling with family, &c.
At the appointed time, no one from the State Department.
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When I went to the Post Office yesterday on passport business, I had to wait for those who were at the counter getting a passport for their daughter in the baby carrier. She was SOOOOO cute! Overcame all my nervousness at my paperwork, but not my sadness for all the others who couldn’t get one.
Trump doubles down on family separation: “You have to take the children away” to prosecute their parents.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 19, 2018
I hope Barron finds a happy home. https://t.co/qTYPjm2nq4
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 19, 2018
A judge decisively declared Kris Kobach’s pet voter-ID law unconstitutional, then ordered him to take some continuing legal education classes because he kept ignoring the basic rules of evidence and discovery during the proceedings in her court https://t.co/6buqXWlcjL
— Daily Intelligencer (@intelligencer) June 19, 2018
re: #134 Kragar
The judge ordering you to CLE is generally… not a good look.
re: #134 Kragar
[A judge decisively declared Kris Kobach’s pet voter-ID law unconstitutional, then ordered him to take some continuing legal education classes because he kept ignoring the basic rules of evidence and discovery during the proceedings in her court ]
Homework! They should have put him in detention so they could watch him do it.
BAN THE NAZIS & STALKERS
Do everything it takes to #KeepFamilesTogether.
What are the highest impact ways to help?— jack (@jack) June 19, 2018
re: #132 wrenchwench
When I went to the Post Office yesterday on passport business, I had to wait for those who were at the counter getting a passport for their daughter in the baby carrier. She was SOOOOO cute! Overcame all my nervousness at my paperwork, but not my sadness for all the others who couldn’t get one.
We can’t get a passport at the Post Office here. We have to go to the county courthouse.
When my wife and I applied for passports, the county clerk was flummoxed, because she’d never had anyone apply for one before.
re: #139 The Vicious Babushka
BAN THE NAZIS & STALKERS
“When we said ‘everything’, we didn’t really mean that.”
re: #133 Kragar
Trump doubles down on family separation: “You have to take the children away” to prosecute their parents.
— Caroline O.
Old Testament preachers across the land rejoice over instituting “punishing the children for the sins of their parents.”
That sounds more like a Pence idea than a Miller one.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
Old Testament preachers across the land rejoice over instituting “punishing the children for the sins of their parents.”
That sounds more like a Pence idea than a Miller one.
Little of both tbh.
Fox Studio has been a wonderful home for most of my career - so many amazing people there who share the concerns about @FoxNews but aren’t in the position to speak out.
— Steve Levitan (@SteveLevitan) June 19, 2018
Co-creator and Exec Producer of Modern Family leaving Fox Studios because of Fox News https://t.co/sBHbbAMwXp
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 19, 2018
I look forward to seeing #ModernFamily through to the end and then, sale or no sale, setting up shop elsewhere.
— Steve Levitan (@SteveLevitan) June 19, 2018
So far, 5 governors have pulled state National Guard contingents from border mobilizations b/c of child separation policy. (MD VA RI NY MA)
This is why states rights — which conservatives used to champion before this presidency — matter deeply in the American system. /1— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 19, 2018
Make that 6 governors pulling National Guard contingents from border duties —
Maryland
Virginia
Rhode Island
New York
Massachusetts
Delaware https://t.co/C2ZR5YNq73— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 19, 2018
+North Carolina https://t.co/unJoNsGB7n
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 19, 2018
Up to 9 governors pulling National Guard from border deployments:
Maryland
Virginia
Rhode Island
New York
Massachusetts
Delaware
North Carolina
New Jersey
Connecticut
(4 more for a sweep of the original 13 colonies) https://t.co/ujmvEtDWH0— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 19, 2018
In response to questions we want to be clear: Microsoft is not working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection on any projects related to separating children from their families at the border, and contrary to some speculation, we are not aware of Azure or Azure services being used for this purpose. As a company, Microsoft is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border. Family unification has been a fundamental tenet of American policy and law since the end of World War II. As a company Microsoft has worked for over 20 years to combine technology with the rule of law to ensure that children who are refugees and immigrants can remain with their parents. We need to continue to build on this noble tradition rather than change course now. We urge the administration to change its policy and Congress to pass legislation ensuring children are no longer separated from their families.
CONFIRMED: Peter Strzok — who’s been the subject of a daylong congressional hearing about FBI bias — was escorted from FBI headquarters. pic.twitter.com/2GHpZnUqLQ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 19, 2018
re: #146 JordanRules
Up to 9 governors pulling National Guard from border deployments
I’ll bet every one of them was happy to get away from that make-work bullshit.
re: #146 JordanRules
This is why states rights — which conservatives used to champion before this presidency — matter deeply in the American system
“Look, state’s rights matter except when they don’t, OK?”
/
i’m here at a protest outside the ICE building in San Francisco. Protesters are blocking the street. pic.twitter.com/ljUjJezaF2
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) June 19, 2018
re: #148 JordanRules
Amazing this one FBI agent managed to destroy the DJT campaign with his bias and conspiracies, except no I guess he didn’t.
/
re: #151 JordanRules
amazing crowd gathered here in SF chanting “STOP TAKING CHILDREN” #KeepingFamiliesTogether pic.twitter.com/F2NW9MfYW9
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) June 19, 2018
crowd chants outside the SF ICE building. #KeepFamiliesTogether pic.twitter.com/YLDXkQ3Kfc
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) June 19, 2018
Those who proclaim themselves “socialists” are usually depressing, have no sense of humor & attended an expensive college. Fate loves irony.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2018
Join us if you want to redistribute this guy’s wealth https://t.co/dXMShPr3Q7 https://t.co/MRVNusrkkR
— Metro DC DSA (@mdc_dsa) June 15, 2018
Once again @realDonaldTrump is talking about trade deficits as if the world is a bunch of countries that owe us money.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 19, 2018
re: #150 Sir John Barron
“Look, state’s rights matter except when they don’t, OK?”
/
states rights only matter when they’re being used against those people… you know… them!
What we have been doing at the Border. Separating children from their parents is Indefensible. No set up. No punch line. No joke. Indefensible. So if you want to write a defense send it to someone who will read it. I won’t because it’s INDEFENSIBLE.
— Lewis Black (@TheLewisBlack) June 19, 2018
The news alert just came over my phone - we’re no longer part of the UN Human Rights Council.
So…we’re a rogue nation now, yeah?
re: #156 Single-handed sailor
I have a trade deficit in the county seat with the hardware store, the grocery store, the butcher shop, all of the restaurants, &c. I have one here with the general store, the Post Office, even the gun shop.
What is it about conservatives (not just Trump) who think a trade deficit is somehow horrible? I suppose in some abstract sense if you’re buying more from abroad than from the USA, that’s creating more jobs abroad than here.
The solution to that would be to tighten up ways corporations can move to less-regulated areas where they can exploit workers for lower wages and less safety.
It’s another BS talking point conservatives have been using all my life. They don’t want to employ the solution, they just want to scare their voters to the polls (China’s coming for your JERBS!!!1!!2!!eleventy!!)
Tomorrow I will be putting out a press release that shows suspicious activity regarding FBI Infiltration of me.
— Sheriff Joe Arpaio (@RealSheriffJoe) June 19, 2018
Can’t wait to read it! https://t.co/r4bcCf9WrP
— PhoenixNewTimes (@phoenixnewtimes) June 19, 2018
How does that work exactly? They entered him how?
— Brian Williams (@radioinst) June 19, 2018
re: #122 Kragar
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21 facts explain exactly why Trump aide Stephen Miller is so horrible https://t.co/GrGsMg6MuC
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 19, 2018
If you are a Jew, and a high-profile Jew at that, and David Duke still likes you, you are doing something way the fuck wrong.
re: #159 makeitstop
The news alert just came over my phone - we’re no longer part of the UN Human Rights Council.
So…we’re a rogue nation now, yeah?
And that means we no longer have input on what the UN Human Rights Commission does.
Most of what it does our nation helped set up.
re: #159 makeitstop
The news alert just came over my phone - we’re no longer part of the UN Human Rights Council.
So…we’re a rogue nation now, yeah?
The Human Rights Council has always had problems (like letting human rights violators sit on it) but our presence there has always been an important point of leadership. Because despite our own failings, we have been one of the better advocates for human rights in the post WWII era.
We’re not a rogue nation… yet… not as long as we have a permanent seat on the Security Council.
re: #156 Single-handed sailor
Once again @realDonaldTrump is talking about trade deficits as if the world is a bunch of countries that owe us money.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 19, 2018
Of course: this is precisely how he views international trade and the global economy: it feeds into his fundamental “appeal” to the Deplorables. How many of his speeches on the subject almost invariable veer off into extended bitching tirades about how “unfair” almost everybody else on the planet is to American trade? [SPOILER: all of them] He never offers much in the way of alternatives, outside of punitive tariffs: but then, that’s the “Trump base”: big cheers for “tough” actions, little/no thought to consequences.
Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it “not worthy of its name.” https://t.co/f8v4gIWVML pic.twitter.com/O3yRv9jnA5
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) June 19, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2018
re: #159 makeitstop
The news alert just came over my phone - we’re no longer part of the UN Human Rights Council.
So…we’re a rogue nation now, yeah?
Yeah. We were recently downgraded as a democracy too weren’t we?
Rogue, failing democracy.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹
I have a trade deficit in the county seat with the hardware store, the grocery store, the butcher shop, all of the restaurants, &c. I have one here with the general store, the Post Office, even the gun shop.
What is it about conservatives (not just Trump) who think a trade deficit is somehow horrible? I suppose in some abstract sense if you’re buying more from abroad than from the USA, that’s creating more jobs abroad than here.
The solution to that would be to tighten up ways corporations can move to less-regulated areas where they can exploit workers for lower wages and less safety.
It’s another BS talking point conservatives have been using all my life. They don’t want to employ the solution, they just want to scare their voters to the polls (China’s coming for your JERBS!!!1!!2!!eleventy!!)
It’s creating more jobs in other countries. But it’s not really costing us jobs here. The types of jobs change, but given that we now have more jobs than people in the work force, it’s not a necessarily a bad thing.
re: #153 Sir John Barron
So what happens now? Does DJT deploy the Space Force?
/
“Nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way.”
There are over 100 marches already planned to demand #FamilesBelongTogether!
Find your local one here or start one in your city!https://t.co/aS5s8AIZrs pic.twitter.com/XFHFUyihvJ— jordan (@JordanUhl) June 19, 2018
Now more than 150. Register yours today and we’ll all help recruit. https://t.co/VfGqG8Bb8l
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 19, 2018
Amazing how fast a conservative voter can change his mind when his handlers give him his talking points.
In 2014, they were all denying there were any unaccompanied children at the border. The conservaderp leeched into sane conversation to where my own wife bought into that idea.
Now, they are using the unaccompanied minors and the 2015 court case about them to “whatabout Obama?” It’s almost as if the whole conservative electorate flipped on a dime. IngSoc is already here rewriting history in real time.
Wow!
Sessions is charged under church law with “child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church.”
https://t.co/t7oSSlnSNf— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 19, 2018
Two weeks ago in Italy, reports that Steve Bannon was here meeting with the two right wing parties that were forming a government. Today, news that the new Interior minister wants a census to expel any unregistered Roma.
— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee) June 19, 2018
We warned you about using Grindr!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) June 19, 2018
re: #170 JordanRules
Seriously considering going to the NOLA march since neither MS or AL have any in my area.
re: #143 makeitstop
That ancient Bassman, what a sound.
I had one of those when I was a kid. Rode it too hard one night and it literally caught fire.
The pure joy that washed across the first guitarists face that realized the Bassman was a killer guitar amp.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to file lawsuit against the Trump maladministration tomorrow over Constitutional violations of rights over refugees and migrants at the Mexican border.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that the state intends to file a “multi-agency lawsuit” against the Trump administration “for violating the Constitutional rights of immigrant children and their families who have been separated at the border.”
Why it matters: Despite the intense backlash to the policy, this is the first indication of a lawsuit intended to force the administration’s hand in ending what Cuomo calls “a moral failing and a human tragedy.” The governor adds that the goal of the suit is to “protect the health and well-being” of children identified as being held in federal facilities across the state.
re: #166 Charles Johnson
We’ll be withdrawing from the UN before the midterms to excite Trump’s base and get them to vote.
re: #179 Winston_Smith
We’ll be withdrawing from the UN before the midterms to excite Trump’s base and get them to vote.
Conservatives have been after that goal all my life as well.
re: #179 Winston_Smith
We’ll be withdrawing from the UN before the midterms to excite Trump’s base and get them to vote.
I say he decriminalizeses weed as part of his re-election bid.
Trump enjoys the cruelty with which these immigrants are treated.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump enjoys the cruelty with which these immigrants are treated.
He really does.
Trump Cultists Accuse their Enemies of Things They are Actually Doing, part 11,739:
A Top Trump Aide Worked In Libya With Key Backers Of An Alleged “Sex Cult”
Joseph Whitehouse Hagin, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for operations, has a reputation for being the experienced, steady hand amid the chaos in the White House. The 62-year-old Republican has been a Washington insider for almost four decades, operating largely behind the scenes as the ultimate gray man.
But Hagin put his dreary political life on pause during the Obama years for the world of international influence peddling. That business, the kind of money-soaked dealing Trump lacerated during his presidential campaign, made Hagin and a company he cofounded millions of dollars. It also brought Hagin a lucrative client: an aspiring Libyan expatriate politician with deep pockets and troubling relationships, according to five sources who spoke with BuzzFeed News.
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Basit Igtet, the Libyan client, was an exile eyeing a triumphant comeback at the dawn of the Arab Spring. Hagin and his firm worked with Igtet from 2011 until at least 2013: First, Hagin would help him build support for the rebel government that toppled Muammar al-Qaddafi, and later he and his colleagues would run an international treasure hunt to try to recover Libya’s stolen billions in exchange for a massive payoff for his firm, according to three sources.
Igtet, however, had other interests outside recovering Libyan riches, including one at the center of a major sex-trafficking case. Igtet was deeply involved in NXIVM, the celebrity “sex cult” whose leadership is now under federal indictment, two sources said. Igtet proselytized for the group, BuzzFeed News has learned, while his wife, the heir Sara Bronfman, reportedly kept the cult afloat with tens of millions of dollars.
And in 2013 — as Hagin’s future boss was railing against the Obama administration over the 2012 terrorist attack on the US embassy in Benghazi that killed a US ambassador — Igtet met with the man the US believed to be the mastermind of the attack, who has since been convicted on terrorism charges.
But Hagin’s firm, seeing the chance to reap millions, viewed Igtet as a golden goose and continued to work with the couple even as their associations with NXIVM became increasingly public.
Meanwhile, protesters inside Sen. Portman’s office stage sit in. They say they are prepared to be arrested if Portman doesn’t speak to them and outline legislative action. This photo was taken before I was made to leave. pic.twitter.com/IDiwPi22rU
— Owen Daugherty (@_owendaugherty) June 19, 2018
#FamiliesBelongTogether sit-in at @senrobportman’s office in Columbus, OH. #NoIncarceration #NoCriminalization https://t.co/2SPFdrSGZ8
— SURJ Columbus #FreeTheBlackPride4 (@SURJColumbusOH) June 19, 2018
re: #166 Charles Johnson
The Boston Globe
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@BostonGlobe
Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it “not worthy of its name.”
What, the United States?
White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin is resigning
He led the U.S. advance team for President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore
re: #188 dangerman
White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin is resigning
He led the U.S. advance team for President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore
Probably having to do with the Buzzfeed story I posted just now.
re: #189 makeitstop
Probably having to do with the Buzzfeed story I posted just now.
Right
I saw joseph Whitehouse and didn’t see hagin
Joseph whitehouse Hagin?. Really?
Former Border Patrol Agent To Current Agents: Refuse Orders To Separate Children
There’s no excuse for these agents to not literally lay down their guns and badges and say that this is unlawful
re: #166 Charles Johnson
We should write a letter declaring that most of us don’t withdraw.
re: #184 makeitstop
Trump Cultists Accuse their Enemies of Things They are Actually Doing, part 11,739:
A Top Trump Aide Worked In Libya With Key Backers Of An Alleged “Sex Cult”
Wow. This guy goes all the way back to working for Ronald Reagan. Why am I not surprised here.
“Trump cultists” aren’t the only ones who accuse their enemies of what they’re doing, I have yet to see a conservative in my life that didn’t do that.
Love your movies. Hate your politics. I agree with securing our borders.
— Debra Jean (@debrajean7) June 19, 2018
Thanks. Use technology. The wall won’t secure boarders and neither does traumatizing children by ripping them from parents Punish those who hire illegal immigrants https://t.co/91pDZ3JUnV
— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) June 19, 2018
Important to remember “Build the Wall” was a concept tested out by Cambridge Analytica to see if it would help Trump win the election - they found people liked it, so he used it. There’s no research to show it will be of any real help with immigration issues. It’s a catch phrase. https://t.co/cexzExtZbi
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) June 19, 2018
Quit saying Trump wants a wall
He couldn’t care less about a wall
Trump wants 25 billion dollars— Shawn In AZ 🖖🏽🌵 (@CaptainsLog2O18) June 19, 2018
re: #161 JordanRules
Tomorrow I will be putting out a press release that shows suspicious activity regarding FBI Infiltration of me.
— Sheriff Joe Arpaio (@RealSheriffJoe) June 19, 2018
Can’t wait to read it! https://t.co/r4bcCf9WrP
— PhoenixNewTimes (@phoenixnewtimes) June 19, 2018
A “federal probe”, obviously pic.twitter.com/6KWwvhmlgv
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 19, 2018
re: #191 dangerman
Former Border Patrol Agent To Current Agents: Refuse Orders To Separate Children
Convince me racism ISN’T rampant in ICE/CBP.
That’s the problem here.
re: #173 JordanRules
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Cheers!
As @realDonaldTrump walks through the Capitol on his way to meet with Republicans, someone yells across the Rotunda: “Mr. President, f— you!”, per @AlexNBCNews @frankthorp
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 19, 2018
re: #198 JordanRules
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LISTEN: As Pres Trump’s entourage entered Speaker Ryan’s office in the Capitol, someone on the other side of the Capitol rotunda yelled: “Mr. President, F—k you!!” (He entered about 15 seconds later): pic.twitter.com/KHp16LYMoF
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 19, 2018
re: #181 Dave In Austin
I say he decriminalizeses weed as part of his re-election bid.
I doubt Sessions will allow that devil weed to be legalized.
re: #200 MsJ
I doubt Sessions will allow that devil weed to be legalized.
Well if he’s gonna run in ‘immigration’ and shutting down the govt in October the trifecta would be to gut Medicare/Medicaid/soc sec
re: #151 JordanRules
I’d be there if it weren’t for that “just back from the hospital” business. Sigh. Maybe next week, if this is still going on (likely).
Fact: ICE was created in 2002. Fact: #ICE is the second largest policing unit in our country. Fact: @ICEgov is doing what it was designed to do. Fact: unless a candidate or a politician is ready to say #AbolishICE they are not about this life.
— Garrick McFadden (@electgarrick) June 19, 2018
Hmmmm….now this is a thought:
CBC: Drug patents could be Canada’s special weapon in U.S. trade dispute
Taking an ‘asymmetrical’ approach and targeting U.S. intellectual property has worked in the past, experts say
“An eye for an eye won’t work when one side is small and the other is large,” he said. “When you’re David and the other guy is Goliath, and you go after him or her symmetrically, you are not necessarily going to produce the outcome you want. What you must do, therefore, is retaliate asymmetrically.”
And so Attaran is suggesting that Canada take aim at U.S. drug patents.
The U.S. holds more pharmaceutical patents and other intellectual property licences than any other country. But that strength could become a vulnerability if Canada took action to suspend American patents on Canadian soil. Canadian companies would then be able to produce those drugs.
“If you want to go there, Washington, and start behaving in a pre-NAFTA, pre-free trade way, as by imposing tariffs, well, then we’re also going to behave in a pre-free trade way, as by taking your patents,” Attaran said.
There’s already evidence that a threat of an intellectual property trade war might be an effective strategy.
In 2010, Brazil threatened to ignore U.S. patent and intellectual property rights in the midst of a dispute over U.S. cotton subsidies. Before Brazil took action, the U.S. backed down.
Gold said the U.S. was afraid Brazil would give other countries the same idea.
re: #185 JordanRules
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re: #114 KGxvi
I’m not sure that’s good law. That case involved the Chinese Exclusion Act, which is very much no longer the law. Current law describes unlawful entry as a misdemeanor. But there is a parallel civil tract. Unfortunately, most all of these cases proceed as administrative proceedings, which are quasi-judicial at best under the Administrative Proceedings Act.
And truth be told, therein lies the real problem.
That’s a feature not a bug. The last thing the federal government wants to deal with is the costs and headaches of having to adhere to all the constitutional rules surrounding actual criminal court proceedings. Trumpers want to have their cake and eat it too, to label undocumented immigrants as criminals without actually having to treat them as accused criminals under the law.
Also, the Chinese Exclusion Act may no longer be the law but the precedent set in Fong defining deportation as not being a criminal punishment is still very much in force. It’s central to the budgetary feasibility of our entire immigration enforcement system.
re: #184 makeitstop
Trump Cultists Accuse their Enemies of Things They are Actually Doing, part 11,739:
A Top Trump Aide Worked In Libya With Key Backers Of An Alleged “Sex Cult”
NXIVM (/ˈnɛksiəm/ NEKS-ee-əm) is an Albany-based multi-level marketing company that offers personal and professional development seminars through its “Executive Success Programs”. NXIVM has been labeled as a pyramid scheme, and a report for the Ross Institute described its seminars as “expensive brainwashing”.
NXIVM has also been accused of being a recruiting platform for a cult operating within it (variously called “DOS” or “The Vow”) in which women were forced into sexual slavery and branded. In early 2018, NXIVM founder Keith Raniere and associate Allison Mack were arrested and indicted on federal charges related to DOS, including sex trafficking. A trial has been scheduled for October 2018.
Worth noting that sacked Abu Ghraib warden Janis Karpinsky ran a very similar “executive training” operation.
re: #203 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I’d be there if it weren’t for that “just back from the hospital” business. Sigh. Maybe next week, if this is still going on (likely).
You gotta take care of yourself first. We’ll need you nice and recovered as the fight of our lives continues!
Keep seeing on Twitter that Rosenstein is gone come Friday. Then Sessions.
Thread and 2 interesting comment threads within…
not sure how it is even remotely possible to do “normal” national security and foreign policy work in an environment like this.
— ‘((Adam (Elkus))) (@Aelkus) June 19, 2018
It isn’t. All rules that previously applied to any situation involving the United States (which is a lot of them) have been tossed out the window when all US foreign policy decisions rely on the ill/un-informed whims of Trump. I’m not sure new rules can even be defined for now
— Brent Auble (@brentauble) June 19, 2018
You have to being applying #StupidityTheory. I wish that was not an actual thing. But it is. You have to begin realizing that some subset of our body politic will do all they can to incur losses to us all, and to themselves, due to a maladaptive schema.https://t.co/2SoxBDM52o
— Peter Corless 🌎☮ (@PeterCorless) June 19, 2018
re: #210 MsJ
Keep seeing on Twitter that Rosenstein is gone come Friday. Then Sessions.
Then Pence, then Trump.
I can put it on twitter if that will make it so.
re: #210 MsJ
Keep seeing on Twitter that Rosenstein is gone come Friday. Then Sessions.
Rosenstein is based on speculation about an arbitrary GOP deadline.
House GOP chairmen and Ryan demanding Rosenstein fully comply with Goodlatte’s March subpoena for records on Clinton probe, Clinton Foundation, firing of McCabe and FISA docs on Carter Page and Trump associates in Russia inquiry, I’m told. Rosenstein given til Friday to comply
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 18, 2018
Jackson was presumably referring to the Friday deadline GOP members have reportedly given Rosenstein for during over material. https://t.co/E690Fhrlwm
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) June 19, 2018
Sessions speculation seems to bubble up once a month or so to keep everyone on their abused toes.
re: #213 JordanRules
Rosenstein is based on speculation about an arbitrary GOP deadline.
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Sessions speculation seems to bubble up once a month or so to keep everyone on their abused toes.
Maggie at the NYT was the last one talking about Sessions.
re: #207 goddamnedfrank
That’s a feature not a bug. The last thing the federal government wants to deal with is the costs and headaches of having to adhere to all the constitutional rules surrounding actual criminal court proceedings. Trumpers want to have their cake and eat it too, to label undocumented immigrants as criminals without actually having to treat them as accused criminals under the law.
Also, the Chinese Exclusion Act may no longer be the law but the precedent set in Fong defining deportation as not being a criminal punishment is still very much in force. It’s central to the budgetary feasibility of our entire immigration enforcement system.
Administrative courts need to be moved to the judiciary and separated from the executive branch in real ways. The immigration courts need to be the first ones moved. Whether or not they should be considered Article III courts, I’m willing to discuss that, but I’ve seen enough abuse of the administrative law courts to know they are bad for our system of government.
re: #185 JordanRules
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I heard from Rob Portman today. It was in response to the latest contact form I wrote a couple weeks ago and put up here in a private tag. Small world. The guy is a waste of flesh.
Good seeing people doing sit-in at his office.
Rob should understand…all he does is sit in Congress. Doing nothing.
re: #214 MsJ
Maggie at the NYT was the last one talking about Sessions.
She usually gets the Sessions palace intrigue stories.
re: #217 JordanRules
She usually gets the Sessions palace intrigue stories.
Probably fed to her by Trump or his minions to keep a fire lit under Sessions.
re: #216 ObserverArt
Good seeing people doing sit-in at his office.
Rob should understand…all he does is sit in Congress. Doing nothing.
LOL!!!
Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18: Republicans plan on ‘firing’ Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein ‘on Friday’ https://t.co/rEXoFtHRvS
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 19, 2018
Oh myyy! Live tweeting this hot mess…
WOW!
Trump: “Is Mark Sanford here? I just want to congratulate him on running a great race.”
Room goes silent. Trump then called him a nasty guy and the room booed, a bit.— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 19, 2018
re: #220 MsJ
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Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18: Republicans plan on ‘firing’ Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein ‘on Friday
I’d like to see “Republicans” try to do that
re: #221 JordanRules
Oh myyy! Live tweeting this hot mess…
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I know it’s incredibly long odds, but what are the chances that the only thing that comes out of this meeting is Articles of Impeachment?
Tomorrow I will be putting out a press release that shows suspicious activity regarding FBI Infiltration of me.
— Sheriff Joe Arpaio (@RealSheriffJoe) June 19, 2018
If you’re going to so flagrantly knock-off Trump’s act, get a cockeyed wig and a suit that doesn’t fit — go all the way and own it, you disgusting pig. https://t.co/4vWFnpdMYS
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 19, 2018
re: #221 JordanRules
Sounds like Trump is bombing this gig. (In the entertainment sense, not the military sense)
re: #220 MsJ
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This extreme course of action by the regime (cause Congress can’t do it), to start finally tearing down the Mueller firewall by axing Rosenstein & Sessions, would jolt the coverage from the border for a bit.
re: #225 wheat-dogg
Sounds like Trump is bombing this gig. (In the entertainment sense, not the military sense)
The (military) bombing will commence as soon as he’s back at the other end of Pennsylvania Ave.
re: #223 KGxvi
I know it’s incredibly long odds, but what are the chances that the only thing that comes out of this meeting is Articles of Impeachment?
Then I would screenshot, print and frame this comment in my house!
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It’s from 2015, still funny.
“I never got a chance to get mauled to death!” Yellowstone Tourist Files Complaint Over Untrained Grizzly Bears https://t.co/QgnETf1aRY via @UnofficialNet
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 19, 2018
re: #223 KGxvi
I know it’s incredibly long odds, but what are the chances that the only thing that comes out of this meeting is Articles of Impeachment?
None.
re: #210 MsJ
Keep seeing on Twitter that Rosenstein is gone come Friday. Then Sessions.
Should that happen…then shit will be hitting the fan big le’!
To do that while getting hammered on immigration, having his guys indicted and charged (Manafort, Cohen, others) would show some extreme arrogance and shaky political calculation.
That’s gonna pressurize everything and everybody and it’s gonna blow.
re: #232 ObserverArt
Should that happen…then shit will be hitting the fan big le’!
To do that while getting hammered on immigration, having his guys indicted and charged (Manafort, Cohen, others) would show some extreme arrogance and shaky political calculation.
That’s gonna pressurize everything and everybody and it’s gonna blow.
So, before we’re even out of bed in California?
re: #210 MsJ
Keep seeing on Twitter that Rosenstein is gone come Friday. Then Sessions.
Well, Twitter isn’t exactly a reliable news source.
If that did happen, there would be mass protests in the streets.
re: #215 KGxvi
Administrative courts need to be moved to the judiciary and separated from the executive branch in real ways. The immigration courts need to be the first ones moved. Whether or not they should be considered Article III courts, I’m willing to discuss that, but I’ve seen enough abuse of the administrative law courts to know they are bad for our system of government.
Agree, it’s a fucking insane intentional violation of the separation of powers to have the Executive Branch running any kind of court at all.
re: #213 JordanRules
Rosenstein is based on speculation about an arbitrary GOP deadline.
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It will be interesting to see what part of Jeffy Sessions personality will win out in a few days.
Will he be the Christian he claims and resign as his church is pressuring him to do?
Or, will the little Nazi win out and he will deny his church and his Christianity and go with what seems to turn him on; being a vindictive racist with a powerful office that lets him put his hood on?
I am humbled by the overwhelming support I have received over the past couple of weeks. Thank you all so much. Many of you have encouraged me to start a Patreon site as a way to keep the cartoons coming. I decided to give it a try. Here it is: https://t.co/Cx9xEALLNo
— Rob Rogers (@Rob_Rogers) June 19, 2018
re: #232 ObserverArt
Should that happen…then shit will be hitting the fan big le’!
To do that while getting hammered on immigration, having his guys indicted and charged (Manafort, Cohen, others) would show some extreme arrogance and shaky political calculation.
That’s gonna pressurize everything and everybody and it’s gonna blow.
Will it? I’m not too sure. Not now.
re: #229 plansbandc
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re: #220 MsJ
Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18: Republicans plan on ‘firing’ Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein ‘on Friday’ rawstory.com
— Raw Story
“Republicans” don’t have that authority.
re: #216 ObserverArt
I heard from Rob Portman today. It was in response to the latest contact form I wrote a couple weeks ago and put up here in a private tag. Small world. The guy is a waste of flesh.
Good seeing people doing sit-in at his office.
Rob should understand…all he does is sit in Congress. Doing nothing.
So is Sasse his understudy?
Good fact checking resource you may want to keep handy.
The level of cruelty is difficult to comprehend — and that’s how the administration wants it. #KeepFamiliesTogether
Here’s what they don’t want you to know about family separation: https://t.co/pFFa02Ohqu— ACLU (@ACLU) June 19, 2018
re: #238 MsJ
Trump could shoot his wife, rape his son, and the evangelicals would form a solid wall around him spewing out bible verses proving that what he did was biblical. Some retiring GOPers might speak out meekly, but the rest would be silent or go on Fox to defend him.
This is where we are now in Trump’s America.
Why are they looking for her? Did she do anything illegal?
US Capitol Police on lookout for young white woman who yelled “Mr. President, f— you!”
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) June 19, 2018
I’ve gotten so emotional about how much I love the song All Star by @smashmouth that’d I’ve cried before.
— KrazyKari (@KrazyKariana) June 19, 2018
Imagine being this sheltered from the real world. https://t.co/QHMWZdRREw
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 19, 2018
re: #245 JordanRules
Why are they looking for her? Did she do anything illegal?
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Blaspheming the Trump-head. The base will understand.
re: #247 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Blaspheming the Trump-head. The base will understand.
Trial by Fox, Judge Ducklips presiding.
re: #248 Winston_Smith
“Judge Ducklips, I’m Keebler Elf Sessions for the prosecution.”
Someone suggested the other day that we might be looking at an Underground Railroad situation with immigrants.
There is also the example of this person, a devout Christian who was famous in her time but whom the Evangelical power-cult would probably not even recognize today:
Why did she and her family risk their lives to help the oppressed? It apparently never occurred to them not to.
re: #250 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Someone suggested the other day that we might be looking at an Underground Railroad situation with immigrants.
There is also the example of this person, a devout Christian who was famous in her time but whom the Evangelical power-cult would probably not even recognize today:Why did she and her family risk their lives to help the oppressed? It apparently never occurred to them not to.
Back in the 1980s I was part of the sanctuary movement offering shelter to refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. The churches may need to revive the mission, to protect the people targeted by ICE and Hair Furor.
A Guatemalan woman and her son were detained at the Arizona border, where she made an asylum claim. They were kept imprisoned for two days, then her son was seized.
Her claim is thought to be credible, and she was released. She is now suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, because she does not have her son.
There goes the narrative …
Her lawyer, John Shoreman of Washington, D.C., said her case “challenges the United States government’s forcible separation of a parent from her young child, notwithstanding the threat of irreparable psychological damage that separation has been universally recognized to cause young children.”
Based on the facts laid out in her complaint, it appeared she was not subjected to the entire “zero tolerance” policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, because she was never charged with a criminal offense for entering the country illegally.
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re: #243 JordanRules
Good fact checking resource you may want to keep handy.
That thread is full of conservaderp.
— Tron (@brainphat) June 19, 2018
Meanwhile, he hasn’t even high-fived Barron.
Pres ends speech to @NFIB Conference and hugs flag. pic.twitter.com/x89UwXQ8jD
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 19, 2018
This is at least the third flag he’s hugged since June 2015. https://t.co/4FsFdEs9gx
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) June 19, 2018
re: #1 makeitstop
Trump’s withdrawing from the UNHRC. It’s a right wing article of faith that it was awful and without any redeeming features.
Yet, Trump’s now engaging in the very behaviors that the right wingers used to deplore and use as proof that countries on the HRC should not be involved or sanctioned.
What all these right wingers ignore is that participating in these international organizations helps soft power and getting US diplomatic aims done. It helps protect our allies, like Israel, all while furthering our goal of human rights protections.
Trump clearly doesn’t care about any of that. He doesn’t care or even know what soft power is.
And our rivals like Russia and China are more than happy to fill that vacuum because they get to further their agenda. Our agenda gets left behind.
Trump’s undermining our national security and leadership role, all of which means America alone, not America First.
Oh, and as to that - every last fucker out there who excused Trump’s use of that American Nazi Party slogan has to be held to account for trying to deflect attention from the fact that Trump’s white supremacist agenda was clear and present from the outset of his campaign. He didn’t slouch towards his fascist white supremacist positions. He was touting them to his bigot brigade base all along.
We warned the nation.
Hillary warned the world.
And the GOP didn’t care. They put their power and party over the nation, or the rule of law and civil rights.
So here we are slouching towards the very thing we spent decades saying we’d never forget - we’re right back at it in creating concentration camps and treating minorities as subhuman (using all the language of the Holocaust and rank anti-Semitism). The target is different, but the goal is the same.
The language Trumpworld is using is straight out of the Nazi rhetoric of the 1930s. Trump’s using the language of the American Nazi Party and white supremacists who sought to keep Jews from seeking refuge in the US while the Nazis were ascending to absolute power across Europe.
We cannot be silent and we cannot enable the GOP.
GOP delenda est. The party cannot be redeemed. They are irrevocably and irreversibly irredeemable.
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The fat ass, the tie. Perfect.
Trump tells House Republicans now that Ivanka talked to him about family separation at the border and that the images are not good.
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 19, 2018
re: #258 JordanRules
Daddy’s little ghoul? That’s not reassuring.
re: #258 JordanRules
What Trump said about @IvankaTrump in the Hill meeting - that she came to him and said “Daddy, what are we doing about this?” Trump said it’s a “tough issue,” pivoted to something else.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018
Some good news! https://t.co/ATFs5DvOTI
— Randy Prine #NeverAgain (@randyprine) June 19, 2018
re: #258 JordanRules
[Trump tells House Republicans now that Ivanka talked to him about family separation at the border and that the images are not good.]
The actualities are worse.
re: #262 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Does he eat his cheeseburgers with dijon mustard, too?
Useless deflection from Trump and again showing @IvankaTrump isn’t a moderating force. She’s an excuse to continue what Trump has always done - profit personally and pursue racist policies.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 19, 2018
Some things never change. The Chinese in the 1870s were the targets of a vicious eliminationist campaign that culminated in a ban on their emigration to the U.S. that remained in place until 1944. Recognize any of these motifs? pic.twitter.com/wKGzfa3uKN
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) June 19, 2018
re: #267 JordanRules
She only deals in images. It’s her currency.
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m living in a very long Coen brothers’ movie.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) June 19, 2018
re: #270 wrenchwench
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GE booted from the Dow.
For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average.
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Tuesday that the iconic maker of light bulbs and jet engines will be replaced in the 30-stock index by Walgreens Boots Alliance.
GE (GE) was an original member of the Dow in 1896 and has been in it continuously since November 7, 1907.
Being ousted from the Dow is the latest indignity for GE, which is dealing with a serious cash crisis caused by years of bad deals. GE has replaced its CEO, slashed thousands of jobs and cut its coveted stock dividend in half.
Last year, GE was the worst-performing stock in the Dow, losing almost half of its value. GE is down by another 25% this year.
He’s a craven white supremacist and he’s pushing a white supremacists’ policy agenda on immigration. It’s straight out of the American Nazi Party playbook, right down to the slogans. The GOP is fine with all this.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 19, 2018
re: #161 JordanRules
Brian Williams @radioinst
How does that work exactly? They entered him how?
duh…anal probes…
I met a father & son as they crossed over. They weren’t criminals. They were running from criminals. I hope they’re ok. Please share. #KeepFamilesTogether pic.twitter.com/JxMwFx2XXb
— Jeff Ross (@realjeffreyross) June 19, 2018
Guy’s Twitter Thread Defending Using Profanity to Describe Trump Goes Viral (Fail blog at I Can Haz Cheezburger)
They captured the series of tweets, and they are worth a read.
You don’t have to gas or kill to commit genocide. Taking kids can suffice. See article II of CPPCG.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 19, 2018
re: #277 teleskiguy
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Yooo, the roast master is really out there doing the work?!?! Much respect!!!
NYT deservedly eating a raft of crap today over this.
The NYT spoke to Stephen Miller on the record with audio and they spiked it because the White House “were not comfortable using the audio…when they found out his voice was going to be on a podcast they were not happy about it. So they asked us not to use it.”
— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) June 19, 2018
I remember seeing an ad on the NYT website a few months back that proclaimed: “We hold power accountable. Without fear or favor.” 😐 https://t.co/KECr9sRJUQ
— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) June 19, 2018
The “Both-sides are the same” assholes and BernieBros (strong Venn Diagram overlap) are coming out of the wood work to buy Trumps horseshit hook line and sinker about this being a democrat law because it serves their agenda…. which is obviously not truth.
I nearly had a goddamn aneurysm arguing with two of them on Facebook. Even RWNJs don’t piss me off this bad.
Access journalism.
New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller tells me the newspaper won’t be publishing a transcript of the interview with Stephen Miller.
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) June 19, 2018
re: #282 Jack Burton
The “Both-sides are the same” assholes and BernieBros (strong Venn Diagram overlap) are coming out of the wood work to buy Trumps horseshit hook line and sinker about this being a democrat law because it serves their agenda…. which is obviously not truth.
I nearly had a goddamn aneurysm arguing with two of them on Facebook. Even RWNJs don’t piss me off this bad.
That leads us again to the question of how many Bernie Bros are actually Sanders’s supporters, and how many are foreign rodent copulators.
re: #283 goddamnedfrank
Access journalism.
Someone needs to organise an “unsubscribe” campaign from the NYT. Hitting them in the pocketbook tends to make corporations more cognizant of what they do.
New: Michael Cohen has been telling associates he wants Trump to cover his legal fees, which he has said are “bankrupting” him. He says he feels Trump owes him after his years of loyalty, and he’s frustrated Trump hasn’t offered. w/@rebeccadobrien https://t.co/l8fr1aVYQH
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) June 19, 2018
re: #286 JordanRules
What a moron. Trump doesn’t pay anybody’s bills, including his own.
re: #283 goddamnedfrank
Access journalism.
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Fuck this shit. I hope the audio leaks. I had thought releasing the full transcript was a decent enough compromise but no. My bad on granting them any decency.
re: #288 JordanRules
So what are they doing, paraphrasing the interview or just burying it?
re: #286 JordanRules
Trump paying Cohen’s legal bills would create yet another conflict of interest. He who pays the bills gets to determine course of action, etc.
re: #278 Anymouse 🌹
Guy’s Twitter Thread Defending Using Profanity to Describe Trump Goes Viral (Fail blog at I Can Haz Cheezburger)
They captured the series of tweets, and they are worth a read.
My favorite:
WAIT HOLD ON I’M NOT DONE
re: #289 Winston_Smith
So what are they doing, paraphrasing the interview or just burying it?
They used select quotes in their story.
re: #284 Anymouse 🌹
That leads us again to the question of how many Bernie Bros are actually Sanders’s supporters, and how many are foreign rodent copulators.
Most of these people I know are younger, “just got in to politics 5 minutes ago and think they have the answers to everything” type assholes, who are so sure of themselves, so sanctimonious. They make you just want to slap them.
They sound exactly like the Ron Paul supporters circa 2004-2008 that I ran into when I went back to school. The ones who were trying really hard to pretend right-libertarianism and socialism could totally work together…. somehow… and you were just sheeple for not seeing it!
re: #289 Winston_Smith
So what are they doing, paraphrasing the interview or just burying it?
It’s on the spike. It never happened.
They might lose access, the poor dears!
re: #293 Jack Burton
Most of these people I know are younger, “just got in to politics 5 minutes ago and think they have the answers to everything” type assholes, who are so sure of themselves, so sanctimonious. They make you just want to slap them.
They sound exactly like the Ron Paul supporters circa 2004-2008 that I ran into when I went back to school. The ones who were trying really hard to pretend right-libertarianism and socialism could totally work together…. somehow… and you were just sheeple for not seeing it!
That’s who they remind me of too.
re: #293 Jack Burton
Most of these people I know are younger, “just got in to politics 5 minutes ago and think they have the answers to everything” type assholes, who are so sure of themselves, so sanctimonious. They make you just want to slap them.
They sound exactly like the Ron Paul supporters circa 2004-2008 that I ran into when I went back to school. The ones who were trying really hard to pretend right-libertarianism and socialism could totally work together…. somehow… and you were just sheeple for not seeing it!
Yup. I’d bet a lot of folks here know a real life Berner or two like this. I do.
Not to say that there aren’t any bad actors there, but they are generally a real force who mimick a lot of what their leader is.
re: #296 JordanRules
Yup. I’d bet a lot of folks here know a real life Berner or two like this. I do.
Not to say that there aren’t any bad actors there, but they are generally a real force who mimick a lot of what their leader is.
We had a governor, ‘What’s a Leppo?’ I did remember his name, but I had to look it up to be sure.
A good overview of Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic’s new bid to become the print edition of Breitbart, first by hiring woman-hating maniac Kevin Williamson, then by letting a raging transphobe write a cover article.
I miss that stupid, stupid bastard. pic.twitter.com/wPSqk3PUcF
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) June 19, 2018
re: #296 JordanRules
Yup. I’d bet a lot of folks here know a real life Berner or two like this. I do.
Not to say that there aren’t any bad actors there, but they are generally a real force who mimick a lot of what their leader is.
I definitely do.
How much more corruption, how much more cruelty, before Congress does it’s Constitutional duty and removes this President?
Border Patrol Kicked, Punched Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges https://t.co/Vn0prlkKBN— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) June 19, 2018
— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) June 19, 2018
trump asks staffers whether “others are leaking, and he recently told one person that ‘the Bushies in the White House are out to get me,’ according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussion.” https://t.co/YwKpZjvKJx
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018
Trump picked all these people. He’s made loyalty to him a central tenet of operating in Trumpworld. If you aren’t loyal, you’re out. If others leak that you’re not loyal, you’re out.
The leaks are driven by this paranoia and cult of personality combined with Trump’s bruised ego— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 20, 2018
re: #302 Patricia Kayden
Considering how corrupt the Republican Congress is I’d say quite a bit.
Sociopathic
.@Zac_Petkanas says on Fox News a 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome was separated from her mother at the border.
Corey Lewandowski responds: “Womp womp.” pic.twitter.com/cZMXWmwbjw— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 19, 2018
re: #283 goddamnedfrank
Access journalism.
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How much you wanna bet Maggie was behind the burying of this because it would jeopardize her book?
“So to Jeff Sessions the difference between the concentration camps here and those in Nazi Germany that those that Nazi Germany used were designed to keep Jews in Germany? Does Jeff Sessions know that Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany?” ~ Harold Goodman
— B-Magic 💪🌸 (@Brasilmagic) June 19, 2018
Sessions might not know much about geography, but I bet he knows the first name of the current Grand Wizard. https://t.co/UAam4WqeAJ
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2018
Note to protestors: Keep it peaceful. In particular, don’t tear down or vandalize the camps. We will need them for Trump and his goons.
re: #310 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Note to protestors: Keep it peaceful. In particular, don’t tear down or vandalize the camps. We will need them for Trump and his goons.
CBP carry weapons. In case, you know, somebody picks up a rock.
re: #294 austin_blue
It’s on the spike. It never happened.
They might lose access, the poor dears!
To be clear, the interview with Miller was recorded to ensure an accurate transcript. The WH objected to it being used in a Podcast, which was fair, as that was not why the recording was made. The decision by the NYT not to post the transcript, however, is entirely up to the editors, and is cowardly.
His words are his words, and those words should certainly be fair game for publication, if only for the documentation that what he said is accurate and true. The WH agreed to that. There’s a reason David Duke likes the little fucking weasel. We should be allowed to see the extent to which he let his freak flag fly.
We’ve seen this before—the little girl in red. pic.twitter.com/8AxLiWXIC4
— David O. Young (@davidoyoung) June 20, 2018
re: #313 stpaulbear
To me it feels more like Terry Gilliam.
Brazil.
Yep. One of my all time favs as far as dystopian films with a good dose of dark humor.
So, the Chris Hardwick thing is a bit more complicated: comicbook.com.
Chris separated from Chloe Dykstra back in 2015 after finding out she was in a relationship with someone else. She tried to get back with him later, but he never reunited with her. Some texts were released by him.
— Jody Wilson (@gdlittledorf) June 19, 2018
Radar indicated tornado in Kimball, Nebr. That storm is now moving across the state line toward Sterling. (Forty miles in a straight line from me.)
Tornado watches up all over NE Colorado.
The heavy weather is starting early today.
re: #296 JordanRules
Yup. I’d bet a lot of folks here know a real life Berner or two like this. I do.
Not to say that there aren’t any bad actors there, but they are generally a real force who mimick a lot of what their leader is.
Yep—I know many of them, all ages as well (actually, I know more old ones than young ones.) And I know several Nina Turner superfans—one, actually a former Hillary supporter, refers to Nina as her “Shero.” Makes me barf.
re: #319 gocart mozart
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They don’t care about actual children. One woman I was arguing with on FB was a-okay with taking these kids away, and then stated that it would be better to spend our time trying to stop abortions. Seriously. I called her evil.
re: #270 wrenchwench
JJ McNab is wrong. Coen Bros. movies are funny.
re: #322 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
She’s probably one of the types that really believes that women who are eight months pregnant wake up one morning and say to themselves “Ya know what? I changed my mind!”
re: #223 KGxvi
I know it’s incredibly long odds, but what are the chances that the only thing that comes out of this meeting is Articles of Impeachment?
None; Trump is still more popular with the GOP base than Congressional Republicans are.
“Carlson was born in San Francisco, CA, the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. 1/
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 20, 2018
3/ “Tucker was raised in La Jolla, CA and briefly attended La Jolla Country Day School before relocating to the East Coast where he attended St. George’s School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island.”
https://t.co/NFWJtABIS8— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 20, 2018
re: #325 Ace Rothstein
She’s probably one of the types that really believes that women who are eight months pregnant wake up one morning and say to themselves “Ya know what? I changed my mind!”
An awful lot of conservatives fell for this article as if it was real:
Planned Parenthood Opens 8 Billion Dollar Abortionplex (The Onion)
Republican Representative John Fleming (R-LA) for one.
theatlantic.com
re: #323 Anymouse 🌹
JJ McNab is wrong. Coen Bros. movies are funny.
Raising Arizona is hilarious…in a good way.
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) June 19, 2018
re: #327 gocart mozart
Tucker is a full blown white supremacist.
re: #325 Ace Rothstein
She’s probably one of the types that really believes that women who are eight months pregnant wake up one morning and say to themselves “Ya know what? I changed my mind!”
Her FB page was open to comments from anyone and I took a peek at it. She posted another video that supposedly supported her claims and her own daughter called her out on it. LOL.
re: #259 Ace Rothstein
Daddy’s little ghoul? That’s not reassuring.
That means they’re hurting her business.
re: #323 Anymouse 🌹
JJ McNab is wrong. Coen Bros. movies are funny.
Not all of them. “Blood Simple”, “Millers Crossing”, “The Man Who Wasn’t There”, and “No Country For Old Men”, for example.
Though there are darkly funny moments, as there are these days.
DECADES!
DECADES!!!
MANY MANY DECADES!!11!!
I want to take a moment to address the current illegal immigration crisis on the Southern Border…it has been going on for many, many decades… pic.twitter.com/1F7EK9Ef88
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018
moron
06/14 Mike Luckovich, Art of the heel. https://t.co/HwbfHgp5Zy pic.twitter.com/qasUwyPe3o
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) June 13, 2018
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) June 14, 2018
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) June 19, 2018
re: #331 Winston_Smith
Tucker is a full blown white supremacist.
All Republicans are that. The only possible distinction is between Republicans who are vocal about their white supremacy and the crypto white supremacists.
I no longer care to pretend that there is any real difference between these two categories.
And if there weren’t already enough reasons to hate Americans for Prosperity and the Koch brothers, there’s this:
In cities and counties across the country — including Little Rock, Ark.; Phoenix, Ariz.; southeast Michigan; central Utah; and here in Tennessee — the Koch brothers are fueling a fight against public transit, an offshoot of their longstanding national crusade for lower taxes and smaller government.
And this has to be one of the most mind-bogglingly idiotic statements ever:
Public transit, Americans for Prosperity says, goes against the liberties that Americans hold dear. “If someone has the freedom to go where they want, do what they want,” Ms. Venable said, “they’re not going to choose public transit.”
Yeah, there’s nothing more “freedomy” than denying the only form of transportation many (mostly poor) people can use to get anywhere. What an utter crock of shit.
Of course there’s this…
The Kochs’ opposition to transit spending stems from their longstanding free-market, libertarian philosophy. It also dovetails with their financial interests, which benefit from automobiles and highways.
One of the mainstay companies of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ conglomerate, is a major producer of gasoline and asphalt, and also makes seatbelts, tires and other automotive parts. Even as Americans for Prosperity opposes public investment in transit, it supports spending tax money on highways and roads.
As I’ve mentioned before, I work almost exclusively with public transit companies all over the country and I know what transit means as a lifeline to people. I truly hate those motherfucking assholes with every bone in my body.
.@SenateMajLdr says Senate “hopes to reach out to Democrats” to fix family separation situation at the border
— lesley clark (@lesleyclark) June 19, 2018
.@SenateMajLdr won’t say whether he thinks there should be a short term fix in meantime as other R’s have suggested https://t.co/JNW2eXxZiS
— lesley clark (@lesleyclark) June 19, 2018
He also wouldn’t say if he’s seen any of the pictures or heard the audio or talked to the WH: “I think we’ve got a problem, we need to fix it. Everybody agrees we need to fix it and we’re going to work on that.” #ImmigrantChildren https://t.co/OZNXqtDZ1Z
— lesley clark (@lesleyclark) June 19, 2018
McConnell won’t say if he’s talked to Trump or seen photos of children in cages or heard the @ProPublica audio of children crying for their parents. But says “we’ve got a problem, we need to fix it.” https://t.co/DwfwADaxG9
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 19, 2018
re: #323 Anymouse 🌹
This one needs to end with a woodchipper, a prosecutor at home musing over how they solved the case, and a bunch of incompetent dumbasses breaking back into prison after yet more criminality all to avoid further charges.
re: #338 BeachDem
Public transit is the only way I have to go to work.
re: #337 EPR-radar
All Republicans are that. The only possible distinction is between Republicans who are vocal about their white supremacy and the crypto white supremacists.
I no longer care to pretend that there is any real difference between these two categories.
I caught shit on FB for saying Trump voters were either racists, or okay with racism. I was told that maybe they WEREN’T okay with racism, but on balance it wasn’t the deciding factor.
I said, “In other words, they’re okay with racism.”
YOU DON’T HAVE AS MUCH TO MOW NOW. pic.twitter.com/TtJ1aUAz0Q
— JRehling (@JRehling) June 20, 2018
America Is the Wire Mother (Wonkette)
Doktor Zoom writes about the rhesus monkey experiment with the original video (6:08), where monkey babies were deprived of their mothers and how they fared.
He then compares it to the New Conservative Cruelty at the border.
It is a sad fact that every generation need to be taught to vote in every last election, else conservatism sweep the land with its attendant cruelties.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ryan and McConnell can end this Trumpist family separation farce in 5 minutes if they had spines. Notifying Trump that the House will forward one article of impeachment per day to the Senate that this travesty is allowed to continue would get the job done easily.
re: #338 BeachDem
This is what happens when you lower the maximum tax rate from 90%. These assholes use all the money they saved on taxes to destroy the country.
re: #328 Anymouse 🌹
1. TOPEKA, KS
2. “No Life Is Sacred.”
3. 900,000-square-foot facility
4. new state-of-the-art fetus-killing facility
LOLOLOLOLOL
re: #342 Blind Frog Belly White
I caught shit on FB for saying Trump voters were either racists, or okay with racism. I was told that maybe they WEREN’T okay with racism, but on balance it wasn’t the deciding factor.
I said, “In other words, they’re okay with racism.”
Racists vs. being OK with racism is the canonical example of ‘distinction without a difference’.
re: #338 BeachDem
Wow! These American oligarchs will not stop until economic inequality is so striking that they have to find a new planet to help ruin.
re: #340 lawhawk
This one needs to end with a woodchipper, a prosecutor at home musing over how they solved the case, and a bunch of incompetent dumbasses breaking back into prison after yet more criminality all to avoid further charges.
“So…That’ll be Michael Cohen, there, in tha woodchipper, then?
re: #348 EPR-radar
Racists vs. being OK with racism is the canonical example of ‘distinction without a difference’.
Pretty much. Largely the difference is being conscious of their racism or denying it.
A man’s grave lay hidden for 10,000 years on a remote, wind-battered island in @CHISNPS. Now, @NatlParkService is racing to save what may be the oldest human remains in North Amercia from erosion https://t.co/T5F5X5fjGP
— National Parks Conservation Association (@NPCA) June 20, 2018
re: #349 JordanRules
Wow! These American oligarchs will not stop until economic inequality is so striking that they have to find a new planet to help ruin.
There used to be a healthy appreciation in US culture of the evils of wealth concentration, with such phrases as ‘filthy rich’ getting into the language.
But decades of unrelenting and uncontested pro-rich propaganda have taken their toll, and all of the hard lessons of the first gilded age will have to be learned again in this gilded age v2.0 that we have.
re: #350 Blind Frog Belly White
You betcha. That Eric was quite the bear getting Cohen all up in there. But then we all knew that Eric would give away the game by walking out with blood all over the gloves while answering the door.
re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth
Any GOPer: “What a waste of taxpayer funds!”
For an administration so fixated with optics and branding
Item 1
DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe. pic.twitter.com/lTKutryXBO
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 20, 2018
She’s eating Mexican? https://t.co/BCCOTe6APA
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 20, 2018
Another member of the “Let’s wait until it DOES compare to the Holocaust before we do anything” Club weighs in.
There are currently 24 comments in the thread. In exactly zero of them did I say, “gas chambers are next!” pic.twitter.com/wo9pHWmEre— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2018
re: #337 EPR-radar
But it’s because he’s a white supremacist that he has a show on Fox.
re: #350 Blind Frog Belly White
“So…That’ll be Michael Cohen, there, in tha woodchipper, then?
Oh, yah!
re: #354 lawhawk
You betcha. That Eric was quite the bear getting Cohen all up in there. But then we all knew that Eric would give away the game by walking out with blood all over the gloves while answering the door.
Sebastian Gorka wandering into the bathroom, saying, “I need unguent.”
DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe. pic.twitter.com/lTKutryXBO
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 20, 2018
And Pence was met by a chant of SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! in Philadelphia tonight. A Senator’s aide shouted Mr. President Fuck you! People are outraged at this administration and showing it. I’m proud of these dissenters.
— artsycarol (@artsycarol) June 20, 2018
Come thru voicey patriots!
re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
For an administration so fixated with optics and branding
Item 1DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe.
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A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse today. Queen Letizia & I enjoyed tea & time together focusing on the ways we can positively impact children. pic.twitter.com/IiaMQOil3K
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 19, 2018
I have ideas https://t.co/e2HXhxsylT
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 20, 2018
How come no one’s referring trump’s “Space Force” as the “Space Farce Program”?
re: #361 JordanRules
Members of Metro DC DSA confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner. Why should she get to eat in peace while thousands of migrant children sit in cages? See the video here: https://t.co/bv3ksvTOuQ#abolishice #abolishcbp #FamilySeparation #FamilesBelongTogether
— Metro DC DSA (@mdc_dsa) June 20, 2018
re: #341 PhillyPretzel
Public transit is the only way I have to go to work.
You are not alone. And, there are many, many studies that show the benefits of public transit to communities even for non-users. But assholes like the Kochsuckers only see what they want to see. Again, I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.
re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
For an administration so fixated with optics and branding
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Members of Metro DC DSA confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner. Why should she get to eat in peace while thousands of migrant children sit in cages? See the video here: https://t.co/bv3ksvTOuQ#abolishice #abolishcbp #FamilySeparation #FamilesBelongTogether
— Metro DC DSA (@mdc_dsa) June 20, 2018
re: #358 Winston_Smith
But it’s because he’s a white supremacist that he has a show on Fox.
Honestly, I think it’s because he has a show on Fox that he’s gone all white supremacist. Before that, he was just a generic conservative dick, because on CNN that’s what they wanted. On Fox, he goes full white supremacist because that’s what THEY want.
Just keeping the customer satisfied.
Let’s get those 3 points back! >>> Even the smallest donation gets us in the lead. Help prove that we don’t need PACs to defeat Cruz. Chip in to be a part of Beto’s people-powered Campaign!
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) June 7, 2018
re: #361 JordanRules
And Pence was met by a chant of SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! in Philadelphia tonight.
Anyone follow him with a bell? Throw shit at him?
re: #368 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Cruz’s “support” for the kids in the kennels is only because Beto is closing in on him. If Cruz was in double digits, he wouldn’t give a shit about them.
re: #369 Blind Frog Belly White
Anyone follow him with a bell? Throw shit at him?
Not yet. I hope we at least see shoes lobbed at some point. Dubya should share that indignity with others.
re: #286 JordanRules
Now that made me laugh.
Cohen expects loyalty from Trump? I’d trust a SS Obergruppenführer before I’d trust Trump.
re: #289 Winston_Smith
So what are they doing, paraphrasing the interview or just burying it?
They couldn’t figure out how to clean the tape. It’s too obvious that Miller is some alien lizard in a skin suit. So they’re not releasing it.
re: #373 Romantic Heretic
Now that made me laugh.
Cohen expects loyalty from Trump? I’d trust a SS Obergruppenführer before I’d trust Trump.
Right!
Cohen is really quite daft.
…largely because, believe it or not, the alternatives were even *worse*, Even if you believe that the Japanese wouldn’t fight to the death against #OperationDownfall, unknown to anyone, their rice harvest was already doomed to fail.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 20, 2018
And if you think that a *Soviet* invasion was being short-circuited and would’ve caused surrender, I think I should point out that being a puppet Stalinist state was every bit as bad as being in the Axis for the non-Party members. The A-bombs were, comparatively, not atrocities.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 20, 2018
Y’know, I am getting rather tired of re-treading the same territory with pacifists even as they and I live in the country that can only be set right via non-pacifist means. This is about halfway down a Bill Kristol thread about that ‘infest’ tweet sounding better in the original German.
re: #361 JordanRules
The fact that people are still feeling brave enough to yell at government officials means there’s a lot of angry resistance and not fear.
re: #377 Belafon
The fact that people are still feeling brave enough to yell at government officials means there’s a lot of angry resistance and not fear.
Indeed! A very good sign.
re: #377 Belafon
The fact that people are still feeling brave enough to yell at government officials means there’s a lot of angry resistance and not fear.
There will be more. I think it builds this summer.
re: #373 Romantic Heretic
Now that made me laugh.
Cohen expects loyalty from Trump? I’d trust a SS Obergruppenführer before I’d trust Trump.
Trump, OTOH, is an UberGropin’Fuhrer.
re: #302 Patricia Kayden
How much more corruption, how much more cruelty, before Congress does it’s Constitutional duty and removes this President?
that picture….
doesn’t summer camp usually have….cots?
Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018
“Yet formerly Germany, without blinking an eyelid, for whole decades admitted these Jews by the hundred thousand. But now… when the nation is no longer willing to be sucked dry by these parasites, on every side one hears nothing but laments.”
— Adolf Hitler, September 12, 1938 https://t.co/sJXXWJsAXl— 𝖲𝖺𝗋𝖺𝗁 𝖢𝗅𝖺𝗉𝗉 (@SarahClapp) June 19, 2018
re: #381 dangerman
that picture….
doesn’t summer camp usually have….cots?
I have been to summer camp. We had bunk beds, real blankets, trees, campfires, archery, crafts, no fences, singing, and extremely tentative, early adolescent sexual exploration.
We did not have mylar blankets on a concrete floor surrounded by chainlink fencing.
re: #300 ObserverArt
Many years ago I pissed off an anarchist, sorry, libertarian.
She was a fan of Mr. Welch and particularly liked the fact that he fired 10% of the workforce every year. She gave the impression it was a good way keep the rest of the peons working hard.
I replied, “So you like Soviet management methods. They used to kill 10% of military units who didn’t perform well.”
She then proceeded to question my ethics, personalty, sexuality and genetic inheritance in vivid terms.
It was fun.
re: #349 JordanRules
Wow! These American oligarchs will not stop until economic inequality is so striking that they have to find a new planet to help ruin.
Hence Elon Musk’s Mars colony.
re: #327 gocart mozart
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See, this is the bio Miller wished he had. Instead he had to go to school with a bunch of ‘multicultural’ kids.
re: #338 BeachDem
And if there weren’t already enough reasons to hate Americans for Prosperity and the Koch brothers, there’s this:
In cities and counties across the country — including Little Rock, Ark.; Phoenix, Ariz.; southeast Michigan; central Utah; and here in Tennessee — the Koch brothers are fueling a fight against public transit, an offshoot of their longstanding national crusade for lower taxes and smaller government.
And this has to be one of the most mind-bogglingly idiotic statements ever:
Public transit, Americans for Prosperity says, goes against the liberties that Americans hold dear. “If someone has the freedom to go where they want, do what they want,” Ms. Venable said, “they’re not going to choose public transit.”
Yeah, there’s nothing more “freedomy” than denying the only form of transportation many (mostly poor) people can use to get anywhere. What an utter crock of shit.
Of course there’s this…
The Kochs’ opposition to transit spending stems from their longstanding free-market, libertarian philosophy. It also dovetails with their financial interests, which benefit from automobiles and highways.
One of the mainstay companies of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ conglomerate, is a major producer of gasoline and asphalt, and also makes seatbelts, tires and other automotive parts. Even as Americans for Prosperity opposes public investment in transit, it supports spending tax money on highways and roads.As I’ve mentioned before, I work almost exclusively with public transit companies all over the country and I know what transit means as a lifeline to people. I truly hate those motherfucking assholes with every bone in my body.
The Libertarians are already claiming the New York Times article is false.
re: #376 Chrysicat
Y’know, I am getting rather tired of re-treading the same territory with pacifists even as they and I live in the country that can only be set right via non-pacifist means. This is about halfway down a Bill Kristol thread about that ‘infest’ tweet sounding better in the original German.
I’m not a pacifist.
As far as I can tell from history, the nukes were not necessary.
The two cities bombed were specifically spared regular bombing so we could test our nuclear weapons. We used civilians as a test.
Japan’s Imperial Navy and Air Force were already out of fuel, which is why the bombers got through. The Japanese Air Force could not afford to fly planes to shoot down a single bomber (single planes were viewed as reconnaissance and therefore not an immediate threat).
An invasion of the home islands (touted as the only other solution by those who think in black-and-white) was also unnecessary. The Japanese Empire had already collapsed; the Allies stood on all their territory. All that was required to do was wait until they surrendered. We had enough ships ourselves to blockade Japan fifty times over at that point.
re: #384 Romantic Heretic
She was a fan of Mr. Welch and particularly liked the fact that he fired 10% of the workforce every year. She gave the impression it was a good way keep the rest of the peons working hard.
That practice was picked up by a number of other companies who hired ex-GE managers. And they would do “Top 10/Bottom 10” status reports monthly….
re: #49 dangerman
Jon Sandweg, the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told NBC News that migrant parents separated from their children at the border are sometimes unable to relocate their child and remain permanently separated.
kidnapped, if you will
What makes you think the missing children are still alive?