All the man needs now is a toothbrush mustache:
We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
This tweet is exactly 14 Words. https://t.co/zQPpjw3Jfz
— Robert Marchini (@rhcm123) June 18, 2018
The (other) 14 Words.
The guy with the nukes, fresh off a week in which he repeatedly praised & openly envied the world's most brutal dictatorship, is rationalizing his own practice of putting kids in camps (under guise of taking them to the showers) by libeling non-whites as destroying German culture
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 18, 2018
Per pool, POTUS added, “A county without borders is not a country at all.” People coming into the country are bringing “death and destruction, POTUS said.
“They are thieves and murderers and so much else,” POTUS said, eliciting applause from the audience in East Room of WH. https://t.co/LtHMzpWbuQ
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 18, 2018
Of course, the rest of the GOP is… well, if not fine with this policy, at least too cowed to complain:
Reporter reads German data saying crime is down to lowest levels since 1992. Then reads POTUS tweet this morning saying crime is way up. What gives? Sanders doesn't answer because she says she has not seen the German government data.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 18, 2018
Trump’s favorite paper’s edit-heads not mincing words “It’s not just that this looks terrible in the eyes of the world. It is terrible: at least 2,000 children ripped from their parents’ arms, sometimes literally, in just the first six weeks.” https://t.co/GnMkwPvFi4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 18, 2018
Microtargeting lies based on demographics was the Trump campaign's secret sauce after all.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2018
Trump told senators today he would shut down government if not given all his money for the wall. He does not want to cave to pressure on separations, telling advisers in recent weeks that he looks "weak" on immigration. New w/@philiprucker & @seungminkim: https://t.co/D3dneGxI5w
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 18, 2018
TenguPhule
Reposted from below. Nielson was prepped before she made that shitshow press presentation.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Prepped for what?
Mary G
She is a monster, like her boss.
lamh36
Repost because I think we all need a lit a bit of a smile and it made me smile if just for a small bit.
I really, REALLY need a break from this…so I’m watching anything else but more political news, and watching some of the MTV Movie/TV Awards….
And this happened:
Chadwick Boseman won for best Hero for Black Panther and her did this:
Chadiwick said we should honor real life heroes as well. So he called up James Shaw Jr and gave the award to him and thanked him for his real world heroism!!!
I needed this smile at a time like this!
The video of Chadwick giving the his Best Hero award to James Shaw Jr
https://twitter.com/PhotosByBeanz/status/1008886218556395521
The Dangerman
I’m curious about Trump’s announcement today about the “Space Force” and how it was going to be “separate but equal” from the “Air Force”.
Without using the mighty google (I’m lazier than normal tonight, or am just outrage exhausted), I’m trying to think of how the phrase “separate but equal” has ever been used in a positive way … or is Trump just letting his Plessy v. Ferguson freak flag fly?
M4
Man, this was just one of those days where I Just Couldn’t with the news and everything. I think I might just play Stardew Valley all night or something.
Mary G
Kevin Drum nails it:
Wag
Can someone please release my comment from limbo? Thanks!
MoxieM
@The Dangerman: I dunno, but I figure he’s counting on Hugo Boss to design the uniforms.
NotMax
Kidtanamo probably too long to type out for the Twiitterati, so hoping they start using Kidmo when concentrating on the camps.
@The Dangerman
Today? He’s brought that up several times before, and it has earlier been cited right on this here blog.
Platonailedit
Thank you, Yamiche, for that faithful stenography.
14 words is a hidden shit? Like 88?
Why do the racists speak in such shitty codes?
Kay
@Mary G:
That is good. It’s interesting politically, too. If you look at the higher profile midterm D winners so far they have one thing in common- they’re decent. They’re not mean-spirited, nasty assholes. That’s the contrast.
You can run against the Trumpians on just “I’m a fairly decent person” and it’s this HUGE contrast.
MobileForkbeard
@M4: Yes. Today’s new has just filled me with rage. I try to get away and I can’t.
Tried to go on facebook so I could see pictures of nieces and nephews. Instead got a BernieBro high school friend yelling about the family separation mess. She was attacked by a Trumper who said this is all Clinton’s fault because of a bill he signed in 1997. and her response was..
“I’m not taking sides. It’s both parties fault.” I
I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to tell her everything that’s wrong with that statement before realizing I’d done this before with her several times and she never learns. I’m thinking about unfriending her entirely, because not only is she aggressively stupid (though well meaning), shes completely bought into propaganda and proselytizes it. There’s no way to reach her.
And that makes me angrier, I think. It shouldn’t be this hard to get people (allies, even) to stop being so stupid, but it is.
NotMax
@M4
Oughtn’t you be starting to pack by now?
The Dangerman
@MoxieM:
Why not Ivanka? Some of her best stuff made it all the way to Ross.
If someone digs deep enough, I bet Trump, or someone close to him, is profiting off this child incarceration thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@MobileForkbeard: Hide her feed. Less harsh.
Mary G
List of things journalists should be finding out for us: (Compilation of a twitter thread all in one place):
Many more detailed questions at the link.
MobileForkbeard
@NotMax: Pretty sure Stardew Valley takes precedence. I guess you haven’t played it.
And M4: Its on the Switch now, too. So you can play it on the plane easily if you feel like it. ;)
debbie
@The Dangerman:
He can’t even get money for his fucking Wall! How’s he going to pay for this Space Force? (“We will dominate space!”)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The Chief of Staff is kinda pricing impeachment in
MobileForkbeard
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah. I’m not as angry as I sound. I use this place to vent sometimes, as I’m sure has been noticed.
I should hide her feed anyway, if just because she’s so flipping aggravating.
Platonailedit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Typical politico insidery bs. Kelly is all in for the thug and his policies. He initiated it ffs.
Kay
They should stop doing this. Donald Trump is a grown-ass man. Whatever bullshit his low quality hires are telling him, he is an adult. He has INTENT and AGENCY. He is responsible for this. He’s responsible whether he lives in reality or not.
“Mom and dad told Donald Trump they took the family dog to a nice farm so no one can expect him to know the dog went to the animal shelter”.
Wag
@The Dangerman:
Because HB designed the original Nazi uniforms.
NotMax
Officially the temperature outdoors is 79 degrees F. Fake weather – it sure as hell felt like 89 when was out there mowing today.
:)
Matt McIrvin
@Platonailedit: Exactly like 88.
Omnes Omnibus
@MobileForkbeard: I have done it to a couple of people. A good friend from college who had gone full bore Libertarian and a cousin who is a gun nut and Arpaio volunteer Deputy.
lamh36
New York Daily News…Front page.
AFarray
51s51 seconds ago
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Tuesday’s front page. via @NYDailyNews
https://nydn.us/2t8MOhA
M4
@MobileForkbeard: yup, it’s the switch version I’ve been playing. Just started Saturday!
I also have awful Bernie or Bust friends who are totally outraged by this (fair! It’s outrageous!) but they’ve got the gall to post memes making fun of people who said trump and Hillary were both bad after they spent a year doing just that.
Anyway, I think I’m going to get a torta and I don’t know grow some sunflowers.
lamh36
muthaphucha…
Barbara
@MobileForkbeard: Not taking sides is taking a side, in this case, the side of not doing anything about something evil. More than once in the last week I have thought we are living the Burkean truism that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. WRT your friend even if she assigns blame in both directions for the why of this horrible siituation, that doesn’t excuse her from taking a side on making it stop. There is no “both sides” on that.
NotMax
@Wag
Fallen into the memory hole is the proposed original unsubtle design for the uniformed faction of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Black. With lightning bolt insignia.
Patricia Kayden
@debbie: More importantly, why is a “Space Force” even necessary? How can we afford massive tax cuts and a new military branch when our deficits are set to balloon?
Madness.
MobileForkbeard
@M4: Good on you for playing the Switch version. That system has singlehandedly rekindled my love for consoles. It’s just incredibly convenient.
Have a lovely evening – a torta sounds like the right thing to wind the day down.
The Dangerman
@Wag:
No shit? Never heard that one before.
Balloon-Juice, come for the pet pictures, leave with some edification (beyond pet poo, I mean).
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: “inaccurately insisting” aka lying. Just say lying.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: She should put her kids in one then.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Bullshit. This is Kelly’s pet project. He’s been pushing for this since he was DHS secretary. His fingerprints are all over this.
Platonailedit
wilbur fucking corrupt ross. The fuck whom Blumenthal ‘vetted’ and told him “You have really made a very personal sacrifice. Your service has resulted in your divesting yourself of literally hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Rethugs adopted burn it all to the ground tactic during the entire Obama presidency and yet the dem cong critters ….
hitless
@Mary G: I like Mr. Drum, but I think that casting this political situation as “nice” versus “mean” is infantile bullshit. The central conflict is that some people believe in the concept of human rights and others are white christian nationalists. And, no – that’s not hyperbole. The failure to admit this reality is huge problem with American media.
NotMax
Awaiting stories still to break about what kind of slop they’re feeding the 2000 kids.
It’s impossible to be too cynical about these fiends.
MobileForkbeard
@Barbara: I was contemplating something similar earlier today. We can pass blame around for past screwups, but what’s important is that the Trump admin is fucking this up NOW and insisting on it.
Decent people need to band together to stop it. If you’re more interested in blaming who was responsible for whatever loophole Trump is using, you’ve abandoned the cause of decency. There’s right and wrong here, and that’s it.
Wag
@The Dangerman:
Here’s a link— https://mobile.nytimes.com/1997/08/15/business/hugo-boss-acknowledges-link-to-nazi-regime.html
Mary G
Boo-fucking-hoo:
I don’t want to be mean, they’re making me do it. Just following orders, huh?
sukabi
@schrodingers_cat: she prepped by drinking babies tears and listening to their mothers wail.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Laura should send her kids there, then, since they’re so great. It will be a terrific experience for them!
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
“Mentor”? I guess that’s the new term of art for “sugar daddy.”
Kelly is fucking Nielsen. I guarantee it.
Adam L Silverman
@The Dangerman: It will just be pencil whipped around the Pentagon. Nothing is going to happen on this. No one in Congress will appropriate money for it.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: So, Kelly’s not doing his job either? Quit already then, asshole. What are you hanging around for? Blowjobs from Nielsen, She-Wolf of DHS, at the WH gym? “oh, baby, oh baby, it just makes me so *hard* when you say “lock ’em up” to a bunch of brown-skinned toddlers! It makes dealing with the orange one *all worth it*!”
Goddamn, I used to wonder how people could stand to watch bloody executions. It frightens me a bit how much I find myself wishing all these Trump Administration assholes would end up choking on their own entrails.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G:
M4
@MobileForkbeard: it’s a pretty good console. We got ours in Japan for like $50 less ??
randy khan
When someone is obsessed with not looking weak, I know what I think about that person. (And it isn’t that the person is strong.)
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: Trump aides translates to Stephen Miller.
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
Because China and Russia are doing it.
sukabi
@Wag: well if they’re already designed, it just makes Ivanka’s job easier…
hitless
@Miss Bianca: We should ask for our tax dollars back – Kelly is working out instead of working and Nielsen was unable to report accurately about the operational side of the business…that’s an unacceptable work product and her salary should be docked. Maybe if it’s cast that way, personal responsibility Republican will agree.
jacy
@Kay:
That’s the problem. He doesn’t really have intent and agency. The reality inside his head is not this reality. He just reacts to whatever he is presented with. I believe he is a racist, but that’s not really important. What important is the only thing he cares about is TRUMP. That is all that exists to him. The people around him are fucking Nazis — like Miller and Kelly and Sessions. And the ones that aren’t racist motherfuckers are just selfish sociopaths: Kushner and Ivanka. Miller and Kelly and Sessions will commit genocide, or as close to it as they can get until someone stops them. That’s the only important thing now, stopping them.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Here you go:
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Good, she can send her own adopted daughter down their for the summer. She’s originally from Latin America, she’ll fit right in.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I just used my mostly defunct Twitter account to ask if she’s bringing her kids to CA with her so she can enroll them in that great “summer camp.” Because fuck that motherfucking asshole.
chopper
@lamh36:
oh for fucks fucking sake. i hate these people with the intensity of a goddamn supernova.
Kay
@Adam L Silverman:
They show the President happy pictures of children playing outside, so that’s what he sees so that’s what he knows. Because he’s 6 years old, or a moron, so we can’t hold him responsible for anything. He didn’t mean it! It’s just that people showed him pictures!
They’re still not getting it. The ISSUE is taking them away from their families. It doesn’t matter if they give them a soccer ball! They took their parents away.
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
Tell her 8 month olds don’t go to summer camp. Maybe hers do, but normal people don’t send babies and toddlers to summer camp. They get sad. They want their parents. That’s the thing with them- adults aren’t interchangeable. They need certain adults. Their parents.
sukabi
Gen. Michael Hayden went there…
M4
@chopper: only one supernova? Tosser.
Omnes Omnibus
@sukabi: This is why I agree with the “this isn’t who we are” folks. We can show that this isn’t who we are. We just need to show up.
Kay
@jacy:
But by raising this again and again they are making us live in his world. I don’t have to live in his world and I won’t.
There is objective reality. Whatever lies these people are telling him he is still responsible for his actions. They keep saying they won’t go to intent, but they DO go to intent. They constantly tell us he doesn’t really mean it. It doesn’t matter what he intends or what bullshit he believes. What matters is what he did and when happened. Those are facts. The rest is inside his head and I don’t want to live there.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: I’m aware.
magurakurin
Holy Hell. I just watched that audio of the children crying in detention.
This is a shit storm of craven immorality. These people are ghouls. I couldn’t make it to the end. I burst into tears at 6 minutes. If you understand Spanish…this shit is fucking brutal. And new polling from Quinnpac:
55% of Republicans approve of this policy
and 27% of all Americans.
10’s of millions of ghouls. Our relatives, our neighbors, our co-workers, our former school mates…ghouls.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: leave her daughter out of it, pretty sure she’s suffered enough…I’d like to see all these apologists, enablers and “policy makers” caged in the same conditions without contact with friends / family …no telephone ECT.
Pretty sure without looking very hard you’d find a lot more law breaking by them that isn’t a misdemeanor like crossing a “border”.
Mnemosyne
@sukabi:
Ingraham is exactly the kind of asshole who would say to her daughter, See, this is what happens when you don’t obey Mommy. Do you want me to leave you here with the other kids from Guatemala? No? Then your room had better be spotless when I get home.
MoxieM
@magurakurin: Anyone who’s ever raised or baby sat little kids (really little ones) knows that tiny underlip quivering wail in that tape. I just fell apart. All I could see was my own little one, a couple of decades ago, when something really, really hurt her, as in, hurt her soul. But then, I was there. These small helpless ones don’t have a parent, and their parents hell is imagining the kids’ distress.
I’ve gone through “I can’t even” and come out the other side.
sukabi
@Mnemosyne: I know, and your interpretation is probably a very mild version of the abuse she gets.
Steve in the ATL
@Kay: ¡En fuego!
TS (the original)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He agrees with everything trump does. Pure propaganda for Kelly so he can walk away from the moron without having to pay for what he has done.
jonas
@Kay:
THANK YOU for saying this. As a (former) foster parent, I can say without hesitation that removing kids from their parents (even if it’s for a good reason!) is a trauma they will struggle to overcome the rest of their lives. Trump is psychologically torturing kids as leverage to get his wall. That’s what this comes down to. They could be put up at one of his stupid luxury resorts, and he would still be torturing them.
waysel
@Mnemosyne: Good catch.
sukabi
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: he spelled glob wrong.
Steve in the ATL
@Mnemosyne: if that’s from your spec script for Law and Order: SVU, it’s pretty good
Mandarama
@M4: I’m a huge Harvest Moon fan, and Stardew Valley basically took over 2017 for me! I kinda wish it wouldn’t list the hours played on the login screen…?
But it *has* helped keep my blood pressure down in these horrible times.
SFAW
OT, but I see (from CNN headlines) that the Fucking Moron in Chief is now threatening tariffs on another $200 B of Chinese goods. I did not read the article — I can’t stand seeing that motherfucker’s face or hearing his voice, I ain’t gonna seek it out on purpose — so it may be a case of CNN getting the vapors. But, still …
hitchhiker
Summer camp?
When our younger was six she went to a familiar, beautiful summer family camp with her dad and her 8-yr-old sister. (I stayed home to finish some classes.) She was surrounded by people she’d known all her short life — kind people who knew her well and were ready to look out for her. I remember telling some friend moms to please do me a favor and brush her hair every couple of days b/c I knew her dad wouldn’t do it. And they did.
Toward the end of the week the phone rang one night; she was ok but she just wanted her mom. Both of us knew exactly where the other one was all that week, and we knew exactly when we’d see each other again, and we knew exactly how to get in touch if we needed to. That’s what summer camp is like.
Today, btw, is my birthday. She’s 28 now, and for a gift she gave a donation in my name to one of the orgs trying to provide legal support for the families.
Summer camp? Tick Tock, motherfuckers. We are coming for you.
ruemara
@MobileForkbeard: Uh, you’re not trying to proselytize her. She’s lost. You’re preventing misinformation from spreading. Stop arguing to win. Start telling the truth to prevent lies from being spoken without pushback.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@MobileForkbeard: Really that hard to sneer at them and say “So you know separating families is pure Nazi death camp evil, yet you still support Trump. I see, that’s all I need to know” Don’t try to correct them, just mock their lies for being lies. They are trying to shock everyone else to silence so they don’t have to think, shock them back.