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June 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1009272403510390785
Stephen Colbert: The flag just earned $130,000
https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1009272403510390785
June 20, 2018
We are at a moment in our history that demands action. It demands that people fuck shit up. We hope they do it by protesting, by voting, or with legislation. But what the GOP hopes is that it leads to crazy shit, and Trump is going to keep pushing and pushing, with the ICE round-ups and the family separations, because they want congressional Democrats arrested, they want violence to occur at one of the concentration camps, they want protesters to riot, and they want it all filmed. Trump is going to keep upping the intensity of his immigration crackdown until the left cracks.
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Trump’s GOP (and it is Trump’s GOP now) doesn’t give a fat rat fuck about reaching out beyond his base. The election strategy is simple: get his idiot horde all fired up with a stream of Reddit-provided conspiracies and blatant lies; suppress the vote wherever and however it can be suppressed; and, possibly, look for an assist from hackers. In order for the first part to work, you’ve gotta be as confrontational as possible to draw Democrats and liberals into an act that can be portrayed as extremism. Sure, an action like blocking the roads to and from detention locations, like, fer the love of fuck, tent cities for children is a relatively mild form of civil disobedience, but as far as the whiners on the right are concerned, it’ll be “terrorism the likes of which the nation hasn’t seen” or whatever the fuck Fox “news” contorts it to be.
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Let's be clear that the family detention policy didn't start with Trump, but the "zero tolerance" part of it, which includes asylum seekers and the separation of children from parents, is totally Trump's. They planned this shit specifically to deter people on the run from awful violence, including rape and murder, including forcing kids into gangs, to stop seeking asylum in the United States. And lying ogre of blonde doom, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, can repeatedly insist, as she did at her belly flop of a press appearance yesterday, "DHS is not separating families legitimately seeking asylum at ports of entry. If an adult enters at a port of entry and claims asylum, they will not face prosecution for illegal entry. They have not committed a crime by coming to the port of entry." And Trump can assert in that goddamned moron voice of his that "We’re stuck with these horrible laws. They’re horrible laws" that are forcing the country to treat migrants this way, even going so far as to blame Democrats for the laws themselves.
But the motherfucking truth is that those "laws" have been in place since the 1950s, agreed to and signed off on by Congress members and presidents of both parties, including, most recently, in 2008, George W. Bush. And the motherfucking truth is that story after story is coming in about asylum seekers who have their children taken away from them. And the motherfucking truth is that none of what the Trump administration is doing, the written policy they have, is going to deter a mother trying to escape from a man who is beating her and her kids and threatening their lives. They don't have fucking Twitter on the path from El Salvador to the American border.
Today, in a tweet, Trump made clear the racist intent of his immigration policies, which is a refreshing change from the coded racism that Republicans usually use. Saying that "illegal immigrants...infest our Country" (incorrect capitalization courtesy of Trump), he is blurring the line between violent criminals and economic refugees and asylum seekers, which is exactly what a racist would want to do.
So what do we do? The left is obviously being baited into a fight. Yet that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. Fucking hell, if traumatized kids doesn't get you fighting, nothing will. So fuck it. Let the ads fall where they may. They'll say we're shitty criminal lovers no matter what. Sometimes a big enough fish can grab the bait, yank the fisherman right into the water, and devour him.
MORE:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-cold-political-calculus-of-taking.html
RUDE PUNDIT: The Cold Political Calculus of Taking Away the Children of Migrants
We are at a moment in our history that demands action. It demands that people fuck shit up. We hope they do it by protesting, by voting, or with legislation. But what the GOP hopes is that it leads to crazy shit, and Trump is going to keep pushing and pushing, with the ICE round-ups and the family separations, because they want congressional Democrats arrested, they want violence to occur at one of the concentration camps, they want protesters to riot, and they want it all filmed. Trump is going to keep upping the intensity of his immigration crackdown until the left cracks.
………………………
Trump’s GOP (and it is Trump’s GOP now) doesn’t give a fat rat fuck about reaching out beyond his base. The election strategy is simple: get his idiot horde all fired up with a stream of Reddit-provided conspiracies and blatant lies; suppress the vote wherever and however it can be suppressed; and, possibly, look for an assist from hackers. In order for the first part to work, you’ve gotta be as confrontational as possible to draw Democrats and liberals into an act that can be portrayed as extremism. Sure, an action like blocking the roads to and from detention locations, like, fer the love of fuck, tent cities for children is a relatively mild form of civil disobedience, but as far as the whiners on the right are concerned, it’ll be “terrorism the likes of which the nation hasn’t seen” or whatever the fuck Fox “news” contorts it to be.
.................
Let's be clear that the family detention policy didn't start with Trump, but the "zero tolerance" part of it, which includes asylum seekers and the separation of children from parents, is totally Trump's. They planned this shit specifically to deter people on the run from awful violence, including rape and murder, including forcing kids into gangs, to stop seeking asylum in the United States. And lying ogre of blonde doom, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, can repeatedly insist, as she did at her belly flop of a press appearance yesterday, "DHS is not separating families legitimately seeking asylum at ports of entry. If an adult enters at a port of entry and claims asylum, they will not face prosecution for illegal entry. They have not committed a crime by coming to the port of entry." And Trump can assert in that goddamned moron voice of his that "We’re stuck with these horrible laws. They’re horrible laws" that are forcing the country to treat migrants this way, even going so far as to blame Democrats for the laws themselves.
But the motherfucking truth is that those "laws" have been in place since the 1950s, agreed to and signed off on by Congress members and presidents of both parties, including, most recently, in 2008, George W. Bush. And the motherfucking truth is that story after story is coming in about asylum seekers who have their children taken away from them. And the motherfucking truth is that none of what the Trump administration is doing, the written policy they have, is going to deter a mother trying to escape from a man who is beating her and her kids and threatening their lives. They don't have fucking Twitter on the path from El Salvador to the American border.
Today, in a tweet, Trump made clear the racist intent of his immigration policies, which is a refreshing change from the coded racism that Republicans usually use. Saying that "illegal immigrants...infest our Country" (incorrect capitalization courtesy of Trump), he is blurring the line between violent criminals and economic refugees and asylum seekers, which is exactly what a racist would want to do.
So what do we do? The left is obviously being baited into a fight. Yet that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. Fucking hell, if traumatized kids doesn't get you fighting, nothing will. So fuck it. Let the ads fall where they may. They'll say we're shitty criminal lovers no matter what. Sometimes a big enough fish can grab the bait, yank the fisherman right into the water, and devour him.
MORE:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-cold-political-calculus-of-taking.html
June 20, 2018
I hear there are brand new summer camps being built in southern Texas. Laura Ingraham highly recommends them! Is that where you will be sending your children? Full disclosure: you might not get them back.
https://twitter.com/MrsVanessaTrump/status/1009412854414536704
https://twitter.com/RachelKasten/status/1009426096708816898
TONE DEAF! - Mrs Vanessa Trump: "Last trip with my kiddies before their summer camps start!"
YOU FORGOT THE CAGESI hear there are brand new summer camps being built in southern Texas. Laura Ingraham highly recommends them! Is that where you will be sending your children? Full disclosure: you might not get them back.
https://twitter.com/MrsVanessaTrump/status/1009412854414536704
https://twitter.com/RachelKasten/status/1009426096708816898
June 20, 2018
Toasting imprisoned children.
An image from the Trump Hotel in DC last night, courtesy of Sean Spicer:
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1009276542118236161
https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/1009100438996692994
June 20, 2018
Trump's own image is more important to him than the plight of children that supposedly "moved" him
Via Axios:
Trump is "moved personally" by images of children in cages.
But he won't back down, because he would "look weak," meaning his own image is more important to him than the plight of children that supposedly "moved" him
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1009392363729547264
June 20, 2018
New documents obtained by ThinkProgress show how Russian and American fundamentalists first began their collaboration.
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In time, Carlson’s partnership with Antonov and Victor Medkov, another Russian sociologist, would grow into the World Congress of Families (WCF) — the most prominent Russian-American anti-LGBTQ collaboration to date, and the foremost international anti-LGBTQ organization in the world.
But little has been reported about that first visit to Russia in 1995, when Carlson, Antonov, and Medkov originally began laying the groundwork for WCF. Carlson shared the diary he kept with ThinkProgress — written observations that help illuminate the earliest days of their partnership, and the emergence of what would become a Russian-American collaboration to unwind efforts at equality and acceptance.
snippet:
DOCS HERE:
https://www.scribd.com/document/381183064/Account-of-WCF-Founder-Allan-Carlson-in-Russia#download&from_embed
MORE HERE:
https://thinkprogress.org/history-of-christian-fundamentalists-in-russia-and-the-us-a6bdd326841d/
Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting.
Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting.New documents obtained by ThinkProgress show how Russian and American fundamentalists first began their collaboration.
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In time, Carlson’s partnership with Antonov and Victor Medkov, another Russian sociologist, would grow into the World Congress of Families (WCF) — the most prominent Russian-American anti-LGBTQ collaboration to date, and the foremost international anti-LGBTQ organization in the world.
But little has been reported about that first visit to Russia in 1995, when Carlson, Antonov, and Medkov originally began laying the groundwork for WCF. Carlson shared the diary he kept with ThinkProgress — written observations that help illuminate the earliest days of their partnership, and the emergence of what would become a Russian-American collaboration to unwind efforts at equality and acceptance.
snippet:
DOCS HERE:
https://www.scribd.com/document/381183064/Account-of-WCF-Founder-Allan-Carlson-in-Russia#download&from_embed
MORE HERE:
https://thinkprogress.org/history-of-christian-fundamentalists-in-russia-and-the-us-a6bdd326841d/
June 20, 2018
TRUMP's TENT CITY. Let his name stick to this horror
NBC is reporting that the feds’ new desert tent city outside of Tornillo, Texas, is preparing for more than 4,000 children. 20 to a tent. Expected high in Tornillo tomorrow: 106 degrees.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1009247903754448896
June 20, 2018
Democratic oppo group blasts the pro publica audio file to those coming in and out of Trump's hotel
WATCH as attendees arrive at a fundraiser at Trump Hotel while the cries of children being ripped away from their parents ring out
VIDEO/AUDIO:
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1009242195998728192
June 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1009243257715478529
DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists.
DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1009229501488775169
VIDEOS FROM INSIDE RESTAURANT HERE:
https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1009239696579465216
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009237830600622081
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009238535193362432
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009239238892769281
UPDATE:
This tweet comes minutes after Nielsen was just run out of a Mexican restaurant in DC by protesters shouting "shame!" and "if kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace!"
@realDonaldTrump
Homeland Security @SecNielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country, while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete & nasty laws, which force family separation. We want “heart” and security in America!
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1009243257715478529
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