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tgards79

(1,415 posts)
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 07:25 PM Jun 2018

BTRTN: How Can a Heartless Bastard Govern With Heart?

Happy Father's Day, Donald Trump! Let's celebrate by ripping 46 more immigrant children from their fathers! Time to start calling the White House.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/06/btrtn-how-can-heartless-bastard-govern.html

"It is an astonishing decision, one justified biblically by the hapless Jeff Sessions by citing the oft-used -- by tyrants and slaveholders, to name a few -- Romans 13 (“The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.”).

Trump is also blaming the action on Democrats, referring to the separation policy as “their law.” This is an outright lie. There is simply no law requiring such separation, period.

Melania Trump has weighed in: "Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform. She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."

But, of course, you can only govern with heart if the head of the government happens to have one, and that clearly is not the case in America. Happy Father's Day, Donald Trump. To celebrate, let's take 46 more children away from their fathers, in line with the daily average..."

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