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

Melania has been doing the rounds, but where's calming influence Ivanka?

The gang that couldn't vote straight strikes again:

'House GOP leaders weigh delaying immigration vote'

'The ‘compromise’ bill was expected to fail on the House floor Thursday.'

www.politico.com/story/2018/06/21/house-gop-immigration-trump-661214

Just read that starburst/Merkel story, Sleip. He really is a classless git.

politicsmaven.io/theintellectualist/news/russia-seeks-the-united-states-former-seat-at-the-un-human-rights-council-cjSIh0ma50eAeJ4lJOQOUg/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Qasim

3 months old.

thehill.com/latino/393171-michigan-receiving-detained-immigrant-children-as-young-as-3-months-old

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/393488-lewandowski-dropped-by-speakers-bureau-after-mocking-disabled

Seriously.

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/charlottesville-anniversary-event-unite-right-event-jason-kessler?CMP=twt_gu

'The organizer of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left an anti-fascist activist dead last summer, has been granted permission to hold an “anniversary” event in Washington in August.'

oswin, this explains it straightforwardly:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/why-are-families-being-separated-at-the-us-border-explainer

Or you could try what I posted way above (pls excuse the repetition).

The outcry is about a new Trump administration policy deliberately separating children from their family members or carers, then declaring them "unaccompanied minors" and keeping them in mass centres rather than individual foster homes, when the children could have stayed with their families, in family-suitable immigration detention if detention is absolutely necessary.

Yesterday Trump halted his own new policy of separating children, but there is no provision made for reuniting the over 2000 children already taken.

The story "the Dems are responsible for this" is a lie being pushed by Trump's admin and some of their more sycophantic media channels.

Your interlocutors might want to reconsider what news channels they rely on, as theirs seem to be keeping important information from them.

More push-back.

www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/Atlanta-mayor-stops-immigration-cooperation-over-13011507.php?utm_campaign=twitter-premium&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social

One more Mexican meal and we'll call it a pattern.

thehill.com/homenews/news/393403-stephen-miller-called-fascist-by-protester-at-mexican-restaurant?__twitter_impression=true

Couldn't happen to a more deserving fella. You'd think these people would have the sense to stay away from public places.

Ouch.

A couple of stories about Melania and Ivanka.

Melania's curious fashion choice for the trip to Andrews. I wonder who the message was intended for?

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5871221/Melania-Trump-wears-jacket-REALLY-DONT-CARE-U-visit-immigrant-children.html

Even more weird, Ivanka's needy relationship with her father. And her father suggesting the 15year old Ivanka get breast implants. His 15 year old daughter! 😱

Complicated bond with dad may have kept Ivanka quiet: Reporter www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/complicated-bond-with-dad-may-have-kept-ivanka-quiet-reporter-1260831299724 via @msnbc

Ouch indeed, lion

That's a more powerful cover than Time which I thought made Trump look quite kindly for him

@Acosta

FLOTUS spox confirms Mrs. Trump wore a jacket to visit border kids that reads: "I really don't care. Do you?" Spox says: "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today's important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe." twitter.com/Acosta/status/1009871069694627842/photo/1

That jacket! There is absolutely no chance she just accidentally threw that on without realising- so who is the message for?

Don't know what the coat is about. Maybe she doesn't care about the children, or doesn't care for the damage control part she has to play.

Yes, it did, Gum. They must have searched hard for that pic.

Yes, she did.

www.marieclaire.com/politics/a21748901/hillary-clinton-fundraises-border-crisis-children/

Well.

www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/what-does-the-british-government-know-about-trump-and-russia/

"So how might Britain be sucking up to Trump? A Labour MP, Ben Bradshaw, thinks that the government has not always done all it can to assist the Mueller inquiry into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia. Bradshaw was the minister in charge of the Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, and has doggedly pursued allegations about Russian meddling in other people’s elections.

‘I’m told that Mueller’s team were over here late last year and they weren’t happy with the level of cooperation they were getting,’ he said.

Another source, with links to the ‘intelligence community’, said this was continuing, even after the Skripal poisoning."

Pentagon??

MSNBC

'BREAKING: Pentagon has been asked by HHS to support housing for up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children, US official says.'

A little bit of good news.

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/judge-denies-request-by-ex-trump-campaign-aide-to-suppress-evidence-idUSKBN1JH2W5?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

That jacket...I know it's just clothing, but still...I'm rather aghast.

When I saw that jacket, two words came to mind; Dumb Bitch.

Either she wore it to make a statement or she's too stupid to understand the impression it might make. Either way the same two words apply.

Gumpendorf, despite your sterling work on this thread, I must complain, You sneaked a DM link in among the decent sources. I only realised after I'd clicked on it. I now have to disinfect my computer, my fingers and my brain.

The cheap jacket: Melania wore it leaving the Whitehouse and getting on the plane at Andrews airbase, not on arrival at her destination. Either she is monumentally thick (possible), although you’d think her people would have a word, or it’s a deliberate message, which I would love to think is directed at Trump, as in ‘You can kick off as much as you like. I really don’t give a shit about this any more, I’m going to Texas! I don’t care about our marriage, you fucking pig. Do you?’

I am aware this is probably wishful thinking.

Surely, surely, surely it’s not a comment on her feelings about the current situation at the border. No-one could be that horrid.

Except Trump.