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The slog of this authoritarian shitshow is grinding us all down. My inspiration has gone into hiding with Melania. Knock yourselves out! (Trump cont.)

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boatyardblues · 05/06/2018 21:57

Does what it says on the tin. 🤷‍♂️

Here’s the last thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3258057-I-Spy-with-My-Little-Eye-Something-Beginning-with-T-Traitorous-Treasonweasels-in-Trumptown-Trump-contd

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kalapattar · 18/06/2018 22:02

You can predict the answers.
It's the law.
The President has been very clear.
We don't want illegal immigrants coming here.
God says it's ok.
Blame the Democrats.

kalapattar · 18/06/2018 22:03

I wonder if anyone of them ever watch the Handmaid's Tale and reflect?

ohmymimi · 18/06/2018 22:11

So, Jeff Zeleny was doing a straight to camera from the briefing room (for Blitzer). He just said the briefing was originally due to start at 1315 hrs.!

Roussette · 18/06/2018 22:13

Presser just starting. SHS can't face it. HomeSecurity Kirjsten Neilsen taking questions....
what could go wrong

kalapattar · 18/06/2018 22:14

I thought illegal migration was supposed to be coming down now Trump was in.

lionheart · 18/06/2018 22:23

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'Another first lady heard from: Rosalynn Carter releases statement saying "The practice and policy today of removing children from their parents' care at our border with Mexico is disgraceful and a shame to our country.'

Roussette · 18/06/2018 22:36

She is a cold heartless bitch. Hard to listen to her.

kalapattar · 18/06/2018 22:39

Sarah looks tired and pissed off

Roussette · 18/06/2018 22:45

doesn't she just.... she wont be there much longer

ohmymimi · 18/06/2018 23:02

@jbendery

right on cue...

@MerriamWebster
In the 1938 play 'Gas Light,' a man tries to make his wife lose her grip on reality by dimming the lights in the house and insisting she's imagining things. (link: www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-from-london/gaslight) merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…

mobile.twitter.com/jbendery/status/1008830111125262336

lionheart · 18/06/2018 23:02

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New Quinnipiac poll: American voters oppose, 66 – 27 %, the policy of separating children and parents when families illegally cross the border,

Republican voters support the policy, 55 – 35%.

SanFranBear · 18/06/2018 23:03

I managed about 3 minutes of that presser and I couldn't stomach anymore..

Are First Ladies speaking out because ex-Presidents can't or do you think because it involves children, they just can't keep silent and so their statement is released as a sort of joint thing? I find it very telling that every first lady since the late 70's (barring Nancy for obvious reasons) has come out fighting in recent days.

lionheart · 18/06/2018 23:12

Audio (but it does not take much imagination to know how this sounds).

www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy

Gumpendorf · 18/06/2018 23:24

I'm not sure how Kirstjen Nielsen can look in the mirror. Sad

Gumpendorf · 18/06/2018 23:25

Republican voters support the policy, 55 – 35%.

Jesus!

ohmymimi · 18/06/2018 23:27

These Goebbels quotes could have been written for this regime. That disgusting presser was a perfect example:

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

lionheart · 18/06/2018 23:28

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The New York Times decided as a newsroom not to publish the government handout photos of the border shelters where migrants are being held, because news photographers were not allowed in. @nytimes

ohmymimi · 18/06/2018 23:32

'In the first six months of fiscal 2018, there have been 191 cases of an immigrant fraudulently claiming a child was theirs, DHS says, out of 211,821 apprehensions. That’s 0.09% of all cases.'
mobile.twitter.com/qz/status/1008835948698882057

lettuceWrap · 18/06/2018 23:34

I’ve avoided listening to the audio - still pictures are heartbreaking enough. Looking at those kids, I see my DC- you’d need a heart of stone not to feel for them.
Tweets and comments today by Trump and his administration have been absolutely vile, even against the background of all that’s been said and done over the course of his presidency.

I’m getting to the point where I almost can’t do this anymore - follow all the trump shite (and the Brexit shite), but I feel I kind of have to pay attention because too many people aren’t paying attention.

ohmymimi · 18/06/2018 23:35

No, she's lying:

@mollymotoole
.@SecNielsen is disingenuous. They are separating families after people have claimed asylum at ports of entry. I was just in TJ last week, and others who'd tried to go through port of entry to claim asylum had waited 6+ months, number never being called, starting over, etc. (1/)
mobile.twitter.com/mollymotoole/status/1008826200536559616

lionheart · 18/06/2018 23:36

Heat (but not enough to sign up with the Democrats).

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JUST IN: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing emergency legislation to keep illegal immigrant families together

Quantumblue · 18/06/2018 23:36

This is just a new level of cruel and awful.

Quantumblue · 18/06/2018 23:38

And he is trying to bring down Merkel.

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