Whoever discovered that Biggie syncs up with Thomas is a genius:
Just found this video on my phone and thought it would improve your morning pic.twitter.com/prcxP6M7KB
— McJulian,the Matador (@Mr_Martin81) December 1, 2018
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Whoever discovered that Biggie syncs up with Thomas is a genius:
Just found this video on my phone and thought it would improve your morning pic.twitter.com/prcxP6M7KB
— McJulian,the Matador (@Mr_Martin81) December 1, 2018
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zhena gogolia
Very cute!
mad citizen
I’m not getting any synch-up, but then I’ve never gotten rap.
dr. bloor
I like big coalers, I cannot lie.
JPL
Mock me if you want, but I could only understand a few words.
Corner Stone
I knew they were going to pre-empt AMJoy for this GHWB bs. Dammit. Unfortunately I’m too awake to go back to bed. Will have to settle for the Boss Nap later this afternoon.
Ohio Mom
Who knew that Thomas the Tank could be made palatable?
I am reminded how grateful I’ve been that Ohio Son never went through a Thomas stage.
Corner Stone
@JPL: “C’mon motherfuckers, c’mon” seems to be the gist of it.
Corner Stone
@Ohio Mom:
Of all the nightmare kid’s programs my son went through I think Thomas was the least objectionable. At least you could build a train track together.
JPL
@Corner Stone: Well I did get the last part right.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Was he a Barney bro? If so, deepest commiserations.
Corner Stone
@mad citizen:
It doesn’t seem to be at all. Could just as easily be a video of a young person jogging through a park. I do think it’s a cute video though. I wonder many takes they had to do for the move where Thomas spins off the ramp and lands the right way on the adjacent track.
ruemara
Ha! This is the internet I pay for. Sitting on a train hurtling toward SF. I think I shall grab a nap.
JPL
Trump canceled his press conference out of respect for H.W. Bush.
yeah right
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Not too much, thankfully. There was one show that I can’t remember at the moment because my mind has sealed any memory of it off as a self-preservation technique. It was truly heinous. I’m sure I’ll remember it at about 4AM tonight.
NotMax
@JPL
Waiting for Putin’s assurance he didn’t off him.
Ohio Mom
@Corner Stone: Veggie Tales?
That one made me want to say hateful things and commit crimes as an antidote.
B.B.A.
When I was a child in the early ’90s, the narrator on Thomas was a genial gravelly-voiced man with a grey beard. Years later I became acquainted with his other work. It took me a while to make the connection – kindly Mr. Conductor was played by potty-mouthed George Carlin.
The Dangerman
So, Trump is gonna go to the Funeral; can we get Meghan McCain to give a eulogy for GHWB?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
Better than a Bernie Bro.
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, the song is essentially “come at me bro, I’ll fuck you up with all my firepower”. Too bad he, Tupac, and Suge Knight took that stuff seriously and didn’t leave it to the songs.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@The Dangerman: For Trump, it will be much, much worse…Obama.
lamh36
Morning BJ.
So Vlad sent his condolences to GWB. Of course…baby Bush and Putin were besties. remember GWB looked into Vlad’s eyes and saw his sole mate or something??
https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1068886885676867586?s=21
trollhattan
@JPL:
The great thing about a busy world and a staff dedicated to keeping track of it: there’s literally always something to momentarily adopt as an excuse for any decision or behavior.
“I’d do this thing but can’t, because of that volcano/hijack/insurrection/box of kittens.”
Next Monday:
“Mr. President, can you update us on kitten box?”
“I can’t comment at this time. People tell me it’s complicated.”
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
“I’ve got money, I’ve got power, I’ve got all the p*ssy, I can totally afford all these guns…why have these guns and not use them?”
Sounds presidential.
B.B.A.
@trollhattan: See also, this Aussie pol’s argument against same-sex marriage.
trollhattan
@B.B.A.:
Did NOT see that coming. Crocs! That’s the most Australian thing I can imagine.
Van Buren
I was cool with Thomas until we found out the Chinese were using lead in the paint.
gene108
@Ohio Mom:
My nephew, from the time he was 1 1/2 years old until about 5 or 6, was all Thomas all the time.
He’s 14 now and barely remembers his Thomas and Friends stage.
schrodingers_cat
@JPL: Grandpa has jet lag.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Maybe so befuddled he’ll douse his chocolate cake with ketchup?
Mike J
@JPL:
Too old, tired, weak and narcissistic to pay respect to American dead in France, too old, tired, weak and narcissistic to pay respect to American dead at Arlington, too old, tired, weak and narcissistic to pay respect to American dead while at the G20.
Corner Stone
@JPL:
I, for one, could not be more thankful it’s canceled. Judging by the level of flopsweat he’s producing he could have very easily initiated WWIII. Or just turned into a puddle of goo right there at the podium, in front of the whole world.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike J: No stamina!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone:
I fail to see a downside to this one.
NotMax
@Mike J
You mean it isn’t the Best G20 Ever and accomplished more in two days than anything else in the past 100 years? //
Jim, Foolish Literalist
we blowing this thread open? Cause this fuckin’ guy
germy
I agree with this cat:
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Someone needs to volunteer to peek in to see if Moulton has a life-size poster of Joe Lieberman on the ceiling above his bed.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Isn’t his district a safe Dem district? How is he not being primaried? Ugh.
@Roger Moore:
With a few small changes it could a Robert Mueller pump-up song. “Come at me bro. I’ll fuck you up with all my legal power.” “Tick tock, motherfuckers. Tick tock.”
Corner Stone
@Yarrow:
“You can call me Big Poppa, while I convict you on something proppa”
Ohio Mom
@gene108: Maybe your nephew is just too cool to admit to his memories. And no doubt your sib and sib-in-law remember the Thomas stage, vividly.
If for no other reason, all the money they spent on Thomas-related items. And all the energy that went to picking the stuff off the floor, lest it be stepped on. And then the time that went into decommissioning the collection, lugging it all to the Goodwill or to church for the annual rummage sale.
Corner Stone
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The shapeless goo would continue to be in the WH as the R’s would still refuse to conduct oversight. There’s just no telling what 300 pounds of goo would do.
bemused
@germy:
My spouse laughed but we both agreed that as lifelong cat owners, we have definitely seen more sneering, disdainful glares from our kitties at dogs brought into our home with visitors.
germy
@bemused: I would never see that with our cat because if a dog ever entered our home, our cat would disappear immediately, under a bed or other piece of furniture. We probably wouldn’t see her for days.
She doesn’t f*ck with dogs…
Major Major Major Major
In honor of my trip today, here’s some vintage Samwise content for y’all. https://instagram.com/p/Bq2iwNfnMw-/
Yarrow
@Corner Stone:
Some lawyers gon’ get paid, some traitors gon’ get flayed
Reaction is delayed as ya run down the clock
Indictments under seal, to deal you better blurt
Ay yo, Mueller tell these traitors I’ma hit em where it hurts
Tick tock, motherfuckers, tick tock!
Doug R
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What a surprise! The leader of the putsch has hurt fee fees when he’s outplayed.
DEMS IN DISARRAY!
NotMax
Way OT. Alert the fashion police. TCM host Fred Karger is sporting a plaid tie with a striped shirt and a paisley pocket handkerchief.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Good God!
Ella in New Mexico
@Corner Stone: Just forget any news being discussed for the rest of the weekend. Whether it’s a natural disaster or a single election in Mississippi or a high profile shooting, if they can drop what little substance they DO cover for non-stop, emotionally laden blathering from anyone and everyone that is willing to get in front of a camera, well, that’s what they’re doing.
They’ve got at least a 48-hour free pass again.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow: yup, as the next few days are given over to Poppy worship, the Mueller train rolls on
and because the link button is borking the blog for me:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cohen-seeks-time-served-prison-sentence-says-again-his-crimes-were-meant-to-protect-trump/2018/12/01/dd7436e8-1d24-4091-92c5-cd25c1b857bd_story.html?utm_term=.36a38c8e0b8f
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He got to go ??
bemused
@germy:
Our two kitties do disappear but the dog of one of our kids regular visits for a few days at a time so kitties get tired of hiding from the dog that does not belong. They hang out as long as the dog doesn’t get too close, then it’s growling and batting at the interloper. Not happy faces!
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Yeah, HD TV can be a mixed blessing.
;)
Yarrow
@NotMax: Doesn’t he usually favor kind of loud clothing choices?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
there’s yer cancelled press conference right there
trollhattan
@NotMax:
“Sixties holding on line #3 for Fred, want to discuss appropriation crimes.”
Corner Stone
@Ella in New Mexico: The only positive is I saw Joy is in South Africa for an event so Jonathan Capeheart would be hosting. I like him just fine but he’s no Joy. Oh well, leaves me more time to watch TV about food.
Ella in New Mexico
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Also, too, have you seen this?
Ho-leee SHIT.
Ok, so this begs the question: when exactly did Elliot Broidy decide to pay that Playboy model to abort “his” baby? And what did he expect in return?
NotMax
@Yarrow
If had to choose an adjective would go for bold. Always dapper, unlike Ben M., who was apparently born rumpled.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Go get-em New York. Let’s see Whitaker stifle this.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: I don’t mind a *little* sartorial discretion, if one has the mindset to pull it off. But that tri-combo is just begging for a low tumbrel number.
Suzanne
Spawn the Younger liked Daniel Tiger and Caillou. Daniel Tiger is adorable. Caillou makes me stabby.
trollhattan
@Ella in New Mexico:
Can I just say I love the name Jho Low? “Jho Low can you go?” “Dat Low, mon.”
Yarrow
@NotMax: I always find him just over the edge of bold.
@Corner Stone: Since I haven’t seen it I can’t fully speak to it. It does sound a bit much.
pluky
@Corner Stone: Wouldn’t have mattered. Joy and Rev. Al are in South Africa prepping for a big special tomorrow to celebrate Mandela’s 100th birthday.
debbie
@JPL:
If you got “motherfucker,” you understood half of the words.
Corner Stone
@Ella in New Mexico:
That’s odd. I always thought Jennifer Lopez was from the Bronx.
JPL
@Ella in New Mexico: So is Broidy next to be indicted? I had Stone.
Yarrow
@Ella in New Mexico: “Tick tock, motherfuckers, tick tock!”
Dammit, I have created my own earworm. Need to go turn on some Christmas music or something. .
Ella in New Mexico
@JPL:
Those pics of him giving MBS and Putin the green-eyed stare as they high-fived tell you everything you need to know. He’s back at the hotel, eating his feelings and staring at photoshopped pictures of he and Putee on horseback.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Yeah, I’d like to see how long Caillou’s mother would last with a real kid. One that doesn’t let you sleep the night, for starters,
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He clearly lacks any sense of his own offensiveness.
pluky
@Yarrow: Very much a safe Dem seat. He barely beat the incumbent two (3?) cycles ago because the incumbent was up to his eyeballs in a corruption scandal. Things for him had been copacetic until his major own goal in going after Pelosi. Judging by the reception he got at an Amesbury town hall meeting a few weeks ago, the women who are the local Democratic Party establishment, a primary challenge in 2020 is a pretty good bet.
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Der Müller Gottes mahlt langsam, aber mahlt außerordentlich fein.
Immanentize
I have a suggestion… When people say super positive things about HW Bush this weekend, realize many of those folks are saying what they do to criticize Trump. AND smile knowing that is exactly how Trump is receiving the Bush praise.
Tick Tock, crazy clock,
POTUS shyt is off his block.
JPL
fuckem
https://twitter.com/michaelkruse
JPL
@Ohio Mom: Next month I become a grandmother and the blog has taught me a lot. My sons liked Scooby Doo and Mr. Rogers. I’m behind the times.
trollhattan
@JPL:
“Literally” Donny? Literal moron.
NotMax
@JPL
Make America Coarse Again.
Suzanne
@Immanentize: No kidding. The “nice” things people are saying are in, uhhhhh, stark-ass contrast.
“Carried the burdens of the office with dignity”, “took his job seriously”, “looked for compromise”, “brave”, “intelligent”…… all of that is SHADE.
Yarrow
@JPL: He is such a horrible person. I saw the bit with him and Angela Merkel. Someone in the press asked if he regretted any of his comments about the Bush family in the past and he just said, “Thank you very much everybody” like he was ending the press availability and then took another question. Such a chickenshit. Can’t even defend his own words.
Suzanne
@JPL: Daniel Tiger is the second-gen of Mr. Rogers, an animated show with the characters from the Land of Make-Believe. It’s really cute.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
good advice for tolerating the schmaltz, and true, it’s just frustrating that our sentimentalized culture so often blocks us from discussing the real flaws of the recently departed
Yarrow
@Suzanne: Soooo much shade. Just like with McCain. It’s going to be even more this time since HW Bush was President.
NotMax
@Suzanne
“wasn’t a complete global embarrassment”
JPL
@Suzanne: The one that I keep hearing is decent. How will they describe trump when he’s gone. I assume it will sound similar to the rap song above.
Suzanne
@NotMax: “Prudent”
trollhattan
@JPL:
When Trump takes his dirt nap I wonder how far NPR will go to interview supporters with nice things to say? “We got through to Mr. Smith at Marion Correctional Facility, where he had these thoughts to share about his friend and business partner, President Trump.”
Amir Khalid
@trollhattan:
His full name Low Taek Jho. He used to go by Stanley Low. Fun fact: he’s from Penang, the home state of Dell laptops, Jimmy Choo, and Fat Leonard Francis, the ship maintenance contractor who swindled the US Navy and corrupted one-third of its admirals.
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Is it? Excepting very few absolutely terrible people (bin Laden, Hitler, Milosevic, Trump when it’s his time), I figure I can wait until the person is in the ground before saying anything really negative. That’s not because of how I feel about the person who died, but more for anyone around me who might be having more complicated feelings on the issue.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Pierce also tweeted that his obit for Poppy will piss everyone off. I’m gonna guess I won’t be pissed, and I’ll be glad for his in-depth knowledge and recall of Iran-Contra, The Forgotten Scandal.
Corner Stone
@trollhattan: Are you kidding? Trump will never die. His ardent followers will be screaming for years: FAKE NEWS! Cover Up! It’s a coup!
NotMax
@JPL
Cue Satchmo.
:)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Suzanne: we’re not mourning a friend or a relative, we’re discussing a president and a presidency. When we wait an appropriate time to discuss the warts, the discussion will have moved on, and all that remains is the hazy glow of the teenage war-hero, octogenarian sky-diver and Hillary voter. All fine things. He was also an accomplice to Nixon, if a secondary one, and his pardon of Weinberger was as much obstruction of justice as anything trump has done so far, maybe more so (IANAL).
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And it’s going to be merciless and relentless when Bill Clinton goes.
ETA, and Jimmy Carter is kind of a sanctimonious prick in addition to his good works.
Yarrow
@trollhattan: Don’t forget all the WWC folks in diners in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
germy
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: There will be plenty of time to discuss his political and personal failings. This is, after all, a liberal politics blog filled with jackals.
NotMax
@germy
Adam’s post on this from Thursday night.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
And that’s just daily Kos.
JPL
@NotMax: This tune is the one I thought of.. youtube
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
I can’t say that I was disappointed or surprised by the behavior of the Navy Admirals in this case. They seem to be busily selling out their military service, the Navy, in order to ingratiate themselves with giant Military corporations in order to become even more wealthy after “retirement!”
So why wouldn’t such sell-outs take money from a Malaysian contractor like Fat Leonard? More direct, true, but who cares, it’s a long way from NCIS, right? Bastards!
NotMax
@JPL
Otherwise known as Thatcher’s Theme.
;)
Raven
“WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s threatened government shutdown over his border wall would leave most federal workers untouched but would, ironically, hit those who actually guard the border: agents for ICE and Border Patrol, who would likely have to work without pay for the duration of the impasse.”
Dumbass motherfucker!
Mr Stagger Lee
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: @Corner Stone: On the day President Obama becomes one of the Ages(to paraphrase Edwin Stanton about Abraham Lincoln) Fox news if it hadn’t changed, will probably make 4chan and Yahoo News comments look like mild banter.
Roger Moore
@JPL:
The only decency George Willie Horton Bush had was to let surrogates do his dirty work so his hands looked clean. And I have no doubt that Republicans will find something great to say about Trump at his funeral. They managed to convert Nixon into an elder statesman by the time he died, so it’s no big step to try rehabilitating Trump. Besides, you don’t know how horrible the next Republican is going to be. Nobody thought they’d be pining for the days of Shrub, but plenty of people are these days.
Elizabelle
@germy: I think the Democrats might pick up a 41st seat. Looks like they were on track to do so, before the GOP fraud. The other counties, I believe, had the Democrat ahead. Be interesting to see what the election board does.
North Carolina has an excellent governor, Roy Cooper, Democrat, former state attorney general elected multiple times, even while GOP held the governorship. He is going to be watching this very closely.
I would like to see some people do jail time and fines for this, if fraud can be proven.
Elizabelle
@Roger Moore: Trump is not redeemable. Further, people are going to be high fiving, toasting with champagne or another beverage of choice, and dancing in the streets when he kicks. (Preferably in prison, and by then referred to as an illegitimate president.)
CNN International is going to have a field day once we’re on a Trump death watch or aftermath.
West of the Rockies
Totally OT… I am in Santa Cruz, CA, with my daughter and my girlfriend. There is a street here called Squid Row! I love it.
Suzanne
I will credit him for the ADA. Considering how many of my clients still hate it for the significant additional cost it adds to construction, and it is thirty years later, I can acknowledge that it wasn’t necessarily the politically easy thing to do.
Yarrow
@Elizabelle: Trump “the penalty for treason is death” watch?
Corner Stone
@Baud: There is a considerable amount to criticize WJC for, both as a person and a president. The difference is there will be none of the obsessive tongue bathing Reagan and now GHWB will get.
I mean, Lee Atwater was GHWB’s 1988 campaign chief. Memory hole that, you bunch of asslicking toady media.
Mr Stagger Lee
@trollhattan: I guarantee when it is Mitch McConnell, the media will practically knob slob him and making it was a passing of Churchill (Chuck the Toad will look like a tear stained boy who just dropped his ice cream cone) while if it is Speaker Pelosi, it will be a bunch of smart asses that will make you want to take an AR-15 to the TV.
Immanentize
@West of the Rockies:
Well placed second “my.”
JMG
Because Americans in general are very immature (I’m no exception, heaven knows), a dispassionate assessment of an important historical figure on his or her death is impossible, although you’d think if someone passes on at 94 we ought to be able to manage it. Bush had a record full of both good and bad acts. By all accounts, off duty he was a good fellow. Why is that too difficult a record to assess. It’s not like he was Pol Pot.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Ohio Mom:
I found this a few months ago:
Caillou the Grown-Up
Caillou was ruined by his parents giving in to his every whim on the show and this is the result
Corner Stone
OMG. If anyone has not seen the most recent twit on Cole’s feed you owe it to yourself to take 15 seconds and see this clip of Trump bailing off the stage.
West of the Rockies
@Immanentize:
Wanting to avoid sounding remotely Trumpian…
Corner Stone
@JMG:
I may have just been lazy or remiss, but I did not hear about all the inappropriate touching GHWB did through the years until basically the #MeToo movement era came up.
I’m just not a fan of people telling us that Person X was the only one who could have skillfully completed some series of events, that largely happened outside his purview. Prudent decisions are prudent, but I think there was a lot going on that someone else took control of.
Immanentize
@West of the Rockies: These days one cannot be too careful.
JPL
@Corner Stone: wtf How dare he embarrass us again. When he says get me outta here, does that mean he’s coming home.
Elizabelle
@Yarrow: I’m good with that!
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone: That Depends only holds so much.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Corner Stone: This is your senile grandpa wandering away. Maybe keeping him from getting lost is why Ivanka is there.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Yup. Airbrushing warts is best left to visual artists.
Can’t resist a little Godwinning:
“He was a best-selling author and one woman man, a decorated veteran, a vegetarian, and disciplined dog lover.”
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@JPL:
I think that was someone near the camera, imitating Trump’s nasally voice.
JPL
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Possibly. It’s interesting that most will assume it’s trump, because it’s a trump thing to do.
SiubhanDuinne
Jesus H. Christ.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s horrifying to think that this is the new normal in our country. When I first read about it, I became ill.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Mein gotenyu.
(Although I foretold this in this very place months ago, there is no pride whatsoever in saying that.)
Shana
@JMG: “off duty he was a good guy”? Well if you don’t count the ass grabbing I guess.
gene108
@Ohio Mom:
Yeah, train tracks were everywhere. I also remember the Thomas phase. The red train in the video is James.
J R in WV
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oh, no, does no one in that office know anything about recent world history? Obviously Not!!!
But otherwise, no surprise, I expect there are employees of that agency who would shiver with glee, actually, to be able to do that. Like Mr. Miller, white house aid and famous Jewish fascist.
raven
@West of the Rockies: My niece is a Banana Slug!
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I have a vague recollection of someone predicting numbers on arms — had forgotten it was you, sorry — but at the time wrote it off as mere fevered hyperbole.
NotMax
@raven
I believe they edited that line out of The Snake Pit.
:)
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
It is, quite literally, sickening.
@J R in WV:
This is on Kristjen Nielsen, whether she actually signed off on the policy or not. What a monster.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Certainly not eliciting credit. Would have been over the moon ecstatic to have been proven wrong.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Link, please, for the numbers on arms info? Thank you.
A Ghost To Most
@J R in WV:
No surprise. It’s in the fascist playbook they are going from.
raven
@NotMax: Secret of the Slime!
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Scroll down here for a photo showing what they’re referring to.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: I remember Chuck Todd telling me that what was important about John Boehner wasn’t the obstructionism, the caving to the right wing that allowed so many issues to fester and metastasize, most notably immigration, the abuse of the oversight to conduct among others the Benghazi hearings, the important thing was that Boehner sang zippitty doo-da on his way out the door. That was the John Boehner you got to know off camera, over a drink, on the golf course.
Fuck their “off duty” personae. Or at least, bump it down to the end of the obit.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Oh, sorry!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/take-number-migrants-blocked-border-wait-turn-apply-asylum-210835939.html
Mandalay
So this question that Trump was asked at the G20 did not sit well with him (at around 3:20 in the video):
Weak, gutless and cowardly.
Kathleen
@Ohio Mom: LOL. My oldest grandson was obsessed with Thomas. I should send him a link to that mashup. He’d probably get a kick out of it today.
Mandalay
So this question that Trump was asked at the G20 did not sit well with him (at around 3:20 in the video):
Weak, gutless and cowardly.
Kathleen
@Corner Stone: Also, too, George Carlin and Alec Baldwin.
Kathleen
@NotMax: Or a David Brooks action figure!
Kathleen
@Elizabelle: Cue MaggieTheHack tweet: “Trump advisers marvel at his willingness to defy convention and march to his own drummer”.
Elizabelle
FWIW WRT the marking of arms in magic marker: A piece of paper can be intimidated away from you, or lost, or duplicated. A number on an arm, placed there by a humanitarian aid worker who is cross-referencing it with a list of names that the asylum seeker can see prepared, might be preferable in that situation. It almost seems less prone to corruption, too. Maybe, maybe not.
YMMV. Even this rudimentary system seems better than having the migrants stand in line, for hours and hours and hours. They are returned to the bridge, in vans, when their numbers come up.
Yes, we should have more officers available to process.
I don’t know why we can’t arrange for safe areas, in their country of origin, where they can await processing of their asylum petitions, most of which are not going to be successful anyway. Let the money and services flow to and be provided within their countries, not to the U.S. prison-industrial contracting complex up here.
A lot of this is economic migration, in addition to fleeing violence in their communities. Failed states. Any solution is going to take a lot of time and money. Would like to see some much finer minds than anyone involved with the Trump maladministration, and other opportunists, start coming up with some ideas.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Yarrow: You know, it’s times like this when I truly wish this community had an upvote function.
Doug R
@West of the Rockies:@West of the Rockies:
https://beachboardwalk.com/hours
West of the Rockies
@Doug R:
Thank you! We’ve been exploring the fabulous downtown (it has a top-drawer bookstore).
JR
It is now *twenty* years since the original “kids show synced with a gangsta rap song” came out. Well before the youtube era.
In case anyone is wondering: Barney sings Tupac.
West of the Rockies
@raven:
We’re checking out the campus tomorrow. My daughter is a senior.
Elizabelle
@JR: Tupac, you say. Might be the only thing that gets me to click. Barney is a heavy lift.