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kpete

(71,963 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:00 PM Dec 2019

Care to comment, Flotus?

A 16-yr-old boy died in Border Patrol custody. He had the flu


Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19.

They didn't take him to the hospital
They didn't release him
They didn't even seem to check on him as he was dying on the floor of his cell, contrary to the govt's account


We have the video
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-cell-where-a-sick-16-year-old-boy-died-in-border-patrol-care
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Care to comment, Flotus? (Original Post) kpete Dec 2019 OP
Heartbreaking and infurating! 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2019 #1
Lady Soft Porn doesn't care Leith Dec 2019 #2
"Soft Porn"! Is that a shot at 🍄? 😏 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2019 #3
She's no "lady" Fritz Walter Dec 2019 #10
I think of her as the "First Lady of the Night". Fozzledick Dec 2019 #31
He now relies on safeinOhio Dec 2019 #11
That is seriously funny! Tumbulu Dec 2019 #23
Gym Jerkin' is assuming a new position lagomorph777 Dec 2019 #34
SERIOUSLY... SkyDaddy7 Dec 2019 #36
Really I wouldn't call those pictures soft porn Farmer-Rick Dec 2019 #29
The whitewashing makes me ill. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2019 #35
She's more than welcome to say his name if she likes. nt Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2019 #4
What are the stats: The number of Hispanic "prisoners" who have died in CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #5
Lady Mannequin DOES.NOT.CARE. Skittles Dec 2019 #6
I usually am not a fan of made up names here, but "Lady Mannequin" is SO spot on. cwydro Dec 2019 #7
DUer BHDem53 referred to her as "First Mannequin" Skittles Dec 2019 #8
Those are both good. cwydro Dec 2019 #15
Right ON! She looked like a Walking French Yellow Mustard squeeze bottle when at NATO w/45 usaf-vet Dec 2019 #12
That was my first thought when I saw the pictures susanr516 Dec 2019 #22
Maybe trying to upstage the Queen? Fozzledick Dec 2019 #32
Care to comment? She already hss. wnylib Dec 2019 #9
Mailordia the Birther only cares about using her own kid for political points Maven Dec 2019 #13
If they cared about their son as a person, they wouldn't have named him "Barron." SunSeeker Dec 2019 #16
Someone desperate to convince others of their family's status and pedigree. nt Maven Dec 2019 #18
Don't you know,... magicarpet Dec 2019 #30
It strikes me as both pretentious and belittling. Fozzledick Dec 2019 #33
Yep ck4829 Dec 2019 #25
The Epstein visa recipient that came here from Lower Slobovia frankly doesn't care. gibraltar72 Dec 2019 #14
K n R JoeOtterbein Dec 2019 #17
This just breaks my heart. smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #19
I think it's pretty clear. They want more to be separated and more to die. Send a message to the Evolve Dammit Dec 2019 #20
She doesn't give a shit about a brown boy Soph0571 Dec 2019 #21
She is what used to be called in the 80's mnhtnbb Dec 2019 #26
K&R ck4829 Dec 2019 #24
Those four minutes LittleGirl Dec 2019 #27
David Corn must have forgotten calimary Dec 2019 #28

Leith

(7,808 posts)
2. Lady Soft Porn doesn't care
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:07 PM
Dec 2019

Do you?

rethugs carefully select their outrage. To them, one dead refugee kid doesn't even merit a glance, let alone a sigh of regret or even a little tsk tsk.

Farmer-Rick

(10,139 posts)
29. Really I wouldn't call those pictures soft porn
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 10:04 AM
Dec 2019

She's seen in numerous lesbian sex photos and playing with herself. Here's a link

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/amp/

And https://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/

She had a successful sex worker's career. She was also very likely an escort to filthy rich older men. She was ok with it all until the RepubliCONS made her our first lady. She was a a full blown Slovenian Sex Worker until liars decided to polish up her resume. Hell, she must have been very, very successful she got her lifted butt a genius visa.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. What are the stats: The number of Hispanic "prisoners" who have died in
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:34 PM
Dec 2019

Trump/Nielsen's custody vs. the number of Americans and journalists killed by ISIL?

We were allowed to kill their leader. Should anyone in DC be looking over their shoulder for Latino mercenaries?

Are we following the rules of the Geneva Convention or is that for entities who are in an official war?

Skittles

(153,113 posts)
6. Lady Mannequin DOES.NOT.CARE.
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:34 PM
Dec 2019

all she cares about is fashion, even though she so often looks utterly fucking RIDICULOUS

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
7. I usually am not a fan of made up names here, but "Lady Mannequin" is SO spot on.
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:37 PM
Dec 2019

I never use the shitstain’s name, simply because it would make me sick to even type it.

Skittles

(153,113 posts)
8. DUer BHDem53 referred to her as "First Mannequin"
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:52 PM
Dec 2019

I refused to acknowledge that gold digger as a legitimate First Lady so I just shorten the title.

susanr516

(1,425 posts)
22. That was my first thought when I saw the pictures
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 01:07 AM
Dec 2019

Why would she wear something that made her look like a bottle of French's mustard?

Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
32. Maybe trying to upstage the Queen?
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 11:59 AM
Dec 2019

Queen Elizabeth is known for wearing bright colored outfits at public appearances so that people can recognize her from a distance.

I can only imagine how she must have felt about this cheap stunt.

wnylib

(21,341 posts)
9. Care to comment? She already hss.
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:53 PM
Dec 2019

She really doesn't care.

Neither does a large part of America or this still would not be going on.

Maven

(10,533 posts)
13. Mailordia the Birther only cares about using her own kid for political points
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 04:56 PM
Dec 2019

She couldn't care less about other kids

SunSeeker

(51,513 posts)
16. If they cared about their son as a person, they wouldn't have named him "Barron."
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 06:13 PM
Dec 2019

Who gives their kid such a pretentious name, let alone a name his dad used when he masqueraded as someone else to defraud people?

magicarpet

(14,119 posts)
30. Don't you know,...
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 11:49 AM
Dec 2019

When they cut and/or scrape themselves...

... the blood runs blue with 24 carat gold glitter.

Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
33. It strikes me as both pretentious and belittling.
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:07 PM
Dec 2019

I can understand why someone insecure about their social status might name their son with a noble title like "Prince" or "Duke" or even "Earl", but a Baron is the very lowest rank of nobility, barely above a commoner and inferior to all other lords.

It seems even Trump's delusions of grandeur are petty and small-minded.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
19. This just breaks my heart.
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 06:38 PM
Dec 2019

This didn't have to happen, if only they had cared enough to vaccinate him and treat him like a human being.

The cruelty and indifference of Melania, Trump and the rest of the republican scumbags fills me with a white-hot rage!

RIP, young Carlos.

Evolve Dammit

(16,697 posts)
20. I think it's pretty clear. They want more to be separated and more to die. Send a message to the
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 06:39 PM
Dec 2019

darkie immigrants. God this administration is devoid of soul or moral compass. If only Lady Liberty could walk toward Pennsylvania Avenue and crush these MF'ers. Fuck them all to their special place in hell and back.

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
21. She doesn't give a shit about a brown boy
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 06:47 PM
Dec 2019

She lives in a trashy existence. An Eastern Europeans on average are just as racist as the deep south

mnhtnbb

(31,374 posts)
26. She is what used to be called in the 80's
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 05:31 AM
Dec 2019

Euro trash. Definitely cousin to what some are regionally called white trash in the US.

As for nicknames, I love what Bette Midler has tagged her: Flotits.

LittleGirl

(8,279 posts)
27. Those four minutes
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 05:41 AM
Dec 2019

He was probably at the door begging for a doctor. They ignored him.
Wtf happened to the Four Hours they blacked out the video?
They never checked the cell. That’s what happened.
How do those officials sleep at night?
This administration has blood on their hands.

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