Trump puts kids in cages because he wants his wall. How low can he go? The authoritarian shitshow continues ...

[Gumpendorf]

previous thread

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3269815-The-slog-of-this-authoritarian-shitshow-is-grinding-us-all-down-My-inspiration-has-gone-into-hiding-with-Melania-Knock-yourselves-out-Trump-cont

Yay - I get first post (only if I type fast)

I just watched a short piece by the BBC showing a centre for unaccompanied boys (the really fancy shelter that was brought out to try and deflect from the ones made up of pens!) and right at the end, They showed the boys being given dinner of a burger with some salad. And I just thought of my DS who would not eat that.. as he's fussy and annoying and incredibly inflexible.

This type of forced separation would utterly ruin him and the thought of my kind, gentle, rigid little DS in a situation like that makes me cry.

Some of those children will have SEN and the idea there are children who are utterly bewildered and alone and scared and thrown into a world which is completely alien - wtf is going on!!?

Thanks for the new thread Grumpendorf, that was to the wire!

Dammit, chocolate - you beat me to it

'Phew! Thanks for the new thread.

Thank you Gum. I thought it was a toss up between shit-show and cluster-fuck this time round.

You have very good thread timing instincts.

I was reading about the pens on twitter - someone asked what action we could take. Another user suggested lobbying MPs to take a stand against Trump's UK visit - I'm trying to find out if any of the usual lobby groups (38 degrees etc) are starting a campaign... I can't see it actually happening but if the UK told Trump he wasn't welcome until the children are released back to their parents it might embarrass him into action?

Thanks for the new thread Gump and for retaining “authoritarian shitshow.” I feel clusterfuck should be kept in reserve for the end times, which surely cannot be too far off??? /Polyanna

From today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/19/child-separation-camps-trump-border-policy-backlash-republicans

Sometimes we need a little Pollyanna...

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213430099.html

WASHINGTON
'The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data.'

Thank you, Gump, threadbare is not a good look

Trudges in with and for persisters.

Many thanks for new thread, Gumpendorf.

Can't defend the indefensible:

'Trump's media allies struggle to mold coherent defense of his immigration policy'
amp.cnn.com/money/2018/06/19/media/conservative-media-immigration-policy-defense/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumpism-tipping-point-w521638

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/former-border-patrol-agent-to-current-agents-refuse-orders-to-separate-children_us_5b2935fde4b05d6c16c808c3

I'll need some in that , Perking, thanks

I did not know this was a thing with Trumpy.

edition.cnn.com/2018/06/15/us/hoover-dam/index.html

'The armed man who for more than an hour blocked a highway near the Hoover Dam with an armored truck and held a sign that said "Release the OIG report" is in an Arizona jail accused of several felonies, police said Saturday.

Matthew Phillip Wright, 30, of Henderson, Nevada, is accused of terrorist acts, unlawful flight from law enforcement, carrying a weapon in the commission of a felony and misconduct involving weapons. He also faces a misdemeanor charge of blocking a highway.
"Release the OIG report" apparently refers to the US Justice Department's internal watchdog report on the department's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe. The 568-page report was released this week, leaving Wright's message unclear.'

I did not know this was a thing with Trumpy.

Really? We know he’s undiscriminating and will dry hump anything that doesn’t get out of his way quickly enough

Interesting.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/the-making-of-a-moral-problem/563114/

'How the many-chambered heart of the internet turned the Trump administration’s family-separation policy into a different kind of scandal.'

That's also true and a less than pleasing image.

Thank you for the new thread, Gumpendorf. I feel the words "cockwombling wankspanner" might have been inserted somewhere to good effect, but we can't have everything
I like this Kathy Griffin tweet.

US 'to quit UN human rights council'
Leaving the council would would be the latest rejection by the US of multilateral efforts, including the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.

www.bbc.com/news/amp/44537372?__twitter_impression=true

That 'Rolling Stone' piece should scare the bejesus out of any of the 'it can't happen here' crowd, and Cult45 and their ring masters are dug in deep.

This is totally breaking my heart. What the fuck can be done?

@JakeSherman
There’s a wave of regret rippling through House Republican circles about having trump come to the conference tonight.
mobile.twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1009129417250168832
Too blinded by their own self interest to get that this was about him and them. Biter bit; those fangs go deep and that poison has done it's work.