Border Patrol Disasters

[fraurosena]

The latest justification. Assholes can't even tell the difference between Arabs and Latino's. As long as they're not white, they all look the same: brown skin = bad hombre, no matter what their real ethnicity is.

 

[fraurosena]

I love this! I wish more states would do the same.

 

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22 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

The latest justification. Assholes can't even tell the difference between Arabs and Latino's. As long as they're not white, they all look the same: brown skin = bad hombre, no matter what their real ethnicity is.

 

and here I thought they think everyone should have moar guns.

[fraurosena]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

and here I thought they think everyone should have moar guns.

Nah, only people of the Caucasian persuasion. Tinted skin immediately disqualifies you.

[fraurosena]

I kinda hope he becomes president. Preferably someday soon.

 

I kinda wish she was your president. Right now.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

From the wonderful and sarcastic Alexandra Petri: "How to sleep at night when families are being separated at the border"

Spoiler

The trick is forgetting they are children.

If you remember that they are children, you will not be able to go on with any of this. If you remember when you were a child, and frightened, and everything seemed impossibly big and loud and sharp and hard except a certain pair of familiar arms, this will have to stop.

The trick is forgetting that there is such a word as “child.” To remember words like “bad hombre” and “thug” instead. You do not have to say “animals,” if you do not want to. There are other ways. “To assume that just because of someone’s age or gender or whatever that they don’t pose a threat would be wrong,” Sean Spicer bumbled last year.

“Deterrent” is a good word, too. “Zero-tolerance” is even better. And no one likes the idea of a “human shield.”

The trick is to wrap this up in words so tightly that you cannot see the child inside.

The trick is to reassure yourself that this is what they deserve, that what makes you different, that what makes your children children and not threats or thugs is something within your control. That the fact that you have nothing to run from is because of your particular virtue. (“You’re a parent. Don’t you have any empathy? Come on, Sarah, you’re a parent!” Brian Karem tried during the White House press briefing last Thursday. “Brian, God, settle down. … I know you want to get some more TV time, but that’s not what this is about.”)

The trick is to remind yourself that this could be worse. That some of them are, of course, not in cages. (This is a fact of which Breitbart.com is quite proud. They are not all in cages.) When they are literally torn from their mothers’ breasts, which you thought happened only in the careless metaphors of people losing online arguments, they are not also smeared with soot like Dickensian orphans and given coarse rags to wear, at least not on the footage released to media. They are orphans, sure, but there is nothing Dickensian about them.

The trick is not to admit that this is happening. The trick is not to see pictures of it, except the footage the Department of Health and Human Services provides that barely shows any children at all, mostly long shots of murals (a poster of the Justice League; a lingering shot of a seasick-looking Superman, himself an illegal alien, smiling miserably down from a wall) with the occasional glimpse of children that do not show any of the running and screaming and attempting suicide.

None of this requires magic that has never been performed before. We were adept at it for centuries. If we squinted just right, it was possible to look and see not a child but a commodity (“For Sale… A Girl, Eleven years old, used to the care of children. A Boy, Ten years old”), or a threat that needed to be locked behind barbed wire (“The whole Japanese population is properly under suspicion as to its loyalties… they need to be restrained for the safety of California and the United States”).

We are still adept at it when it is convenient. When the alternative would be to admit that we have put a bullet into a child, it is amazing how the child transforms into a man and the toy in his hand mutates into a dangerous weapon.

It is only true that we have never done this, that this is not what we do, if you forget that they were children, too, before.

But these are children, now, and they have not been here very long, and they are still learning where everything is, and they are still at an age where something can be unthinkable because there has simply not been enough time to think it yet, where a thing that has only happened for a year can be a thing that has happened for as long as you can remember.

Time is different when you are a child. Every day stretches into forever. New worlds can be invented and discarded in the course of a single afternoon. And America can be a place that has always done a thing or America can be a place that has never done a thing except in stories or in nightmares.

If we stop this now, right now, this instant, after a year or two or three there will be children who know that America would never do such a thing. And then we must keep not doing it. We must stop this until they are not children any longer, and then never do it again.

The trick is not forgetting they are children. The trick is never forgetting again.

Sadly, the people who need to see this, won't.

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[fraurosena]

The (R) stands for

- Repugnant

- Revulsive

- Repellant

- Repulsive

- Revolting

 

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And guess who tweeted against this too? Effing Bill O'Reilly

[Destiny]

5 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Today I heard on the Dutch radio that our Cabinet (with the full backing of the opposition) is going to take your administration task for this inhumane policy of separating children from their parents.

I don't think the administration will care all that much about what the Netherlands think, though.

I care. On behalf of sane Americans who are horrified, thank you. 

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25 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

And guess who tweeted against this too? Effing Bill O'Reilly

I was just coming to post this. When Billy O thinks you've gone too far...

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Jeff Sessions defended family separation with the Bible. John Oliver countered with Dr. Seuss."

Spoiler

John Oliver is not the first person to blast the Trump administration for using scripture to justify its practice of separating children from parents accused of entering the United States illegally. But he may be the first to make the point using whimsical childhood rhymes.

On Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver pointed out that the Bible “is not a government document,” regardless of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s use of the holy book to defend the administration on the family-separation issue.

“From a policy perspective,” Oliver said, Sessions “might as well be citing ‘Green Eggs and Ham’: We must keep children in a box. We must keep them with a fox. Which would be a terrible policy.”

Oliver dedicated nearly five minutes of his show to explaining why the Bible passage Romans 13 can’t be used to shield the administration from the torrent of criticism about what many religious and political leaders say is a harsh and immoral crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Sessions told law enforcement officials on Thursday: “Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution. I would cite to you the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is a conservative Christian, echoed Sessions’s thoughts when asked about them by the White House press corps:

“I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comments or what he would be referencing. I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. . . . That is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible.”

But Oliver’s criticism was about more than the nation’s chief lawyer using a religious document to justify a government action.

“Romans 13 is possibly the worst Bible passage to bring up since it was regularly invoked in Civil War times by defenders of slavery,” Oliver said. “And I know that you’re probably thinking: Wait, wait, wait, he wouldn’t align himself with slave owners, even accidentally. Not Jefferson Beauregard Sessions of Alabama. Well, I’m sorry, but he did.”

A growing chorus of faith leaders — the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham; Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner of the Religious Action Center; Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — has said that the administration’s practice of separating children from their parents is immoral.

Oliver’s biggest argument was not about the separation of church and state or the historical minefield that surrounds Romans 13. It was about hypocrisy.

His finishing point was that President Trump’s administration is on shaky ground if it wants to use the Bible’s moral code as the standard for all its actions.

“Let’s remember that the Bible is not a big fan of adultery, gluttony, coveting your neighbor’s wife, pride or wrath,” Oliver said. As he spoke, the show flashed images of Trump with porn star Stormy Daniels, Trump eating a piece of meat on a stick while wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, Trump next to his daughter and son-in-law, Trump next to a poster of his board game, and Trump looking angry.

“What I’m saying,” Oliver concluded, “is you probably shouldn’t use the Bible to justify separating children from parents. But if you do, maybe make sure that you’re not breaking so many of its rules that God has to make a separate rule saying I was . . . serious.”

Here's the John Oliver piece:

 

[candygirl200413]

John McCain:

Again he won't do anything about it. Always empty words with no action:

Then Cruz was like "I got an idea and it will work":

 

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Forget Godwin's law: 

 

[Audrey2]

I'm surprised that, after Trump's 2 Corinthians gaffe on the campaign trail, that he isn't saying the Biblical back up to this abhorrent action is Jesus saying, "Suffer the little children to come until me ". (A mis quote of Matthew 19:14).

[milkteeth]

This is a must read twitter thread about how the groundwork was laid for Trump to be able to create these concentration camps for children. 

 

Edited June 19, 2018 by milkteeth

[Drala]

I keep watching this over and over, hoping to find some relief in humor from my feelings of outrage over what's happening on the border.  I don't care for all the F-bombs, but Trae Crowder is absolutely spot on in his critique

 

 

Edited June 19, 2018 by Drala

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[47of74]

Sessions is facing some blowback from the denomination he belongs to.

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A group of more than 600 United Methodist clergy are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions over a "zero tolerance" policy on U.S. immigration, which has resulted in the separation of families on the U.S.- Mexico border.

Sessions is a member of Ashland Methodist Church in Mobile, Al.

The group said in a June 18 statement that Sessions violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denominations's Book of Discipline. Sessions is charged with child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination in separating children from their parents.

They also accused Sessions with "dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards and doctrine of the United Methodist Church," in reference to Sessions' quoting a bible verse to defend the "zero tolerance" policy.

Of course that little bastard will probably pull a Fuck Face von Clownstick and whine about how he's being persecuted by the church cause Jeeeeezus.

[Cartmann99]

 

Are Laura's children attending summer camp this year? If so, could someone please check on them?

Edited June 19, 2018 by Cartmann99
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[onekidanddone]

23 hours ago, fraurosena said:

The latest justification. Assholes can't even tell the difference between Arabs and Latino's. As long as they're not white, they all look the same: brown skin = bad hombre, no matter what their real ethnicity is.

 

Drudge knows the difference but his followers don't.

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