Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    FUQ YOU SUSAN!!!

    @SusanSarandon
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    “Thousands of migrant children are being separated from their families at the border. Here’s how to help.”

  2. 2.

    HumboldtBlue

    Sun is out after two days of overcast and the wind has died. Gonna be a good evening for beer on the front stoop. I just have to remember not to read the national headlines before I leave work.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    Beautiful and I have always loved purslane. I have a black pot similar to yours, but it’s filled with weeds, since I decided not to do flowers this year. I just don’t have the heart for it. Can I borrow your hubby for a few days?

    We had a storm move through and my front yard is filled with branches and pine cones. I told my son and he said mom you don’t have pines in your front. Oh well. There’s a lot of power outages in the area, but at least I was spared that.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: not a dime’s worth of difference, eh, Suze?

    Is her head really so far up her own ass she has no idea of the kind of apology she owes the world?/rhetorical

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    David Hogg and a bunch of the Parkland kids are outside one of Paul Ryan’s offices not being let in and it’s great. Some poor staffer offered to take a message through the window and David Hogg is just dictating and dictating and dictating.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Direct action.

    Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas.

    Ringelstein, who is challenging incumbent independent Sen. Angus King, traveled in a pickup truck to the facility, carrying toys, blankets, and food, while his campaign filmed his visit and protest in a Facebook Live video. Ringelstein sat in the flatbed of his truck, refusing to move it as Border Patrol agents and eventually local police gathered in response. “I refuse, I refuse, I refuse to stand by as you imprison children and bring more children by the dozens into this facility… it is wrong. It is sick. It’s a sickness,” Ringelstein said in part of the live broadcast.

    The unnamed official with whom Ringelstein spoke said that the Senate candidate couldn’t bring the items inside the facility but could instead give them to charitable organizations authorized to deliver them inside. Ringelstein was repeatedly denied access to the facility before being peacefully handcuffed by police and arrested.

    Another man who joined the candidate, holding a sign reading “Free Them,” also was arrested in the video.

    “Zak is now a political prisoner of the Trump regime,” the Democrat’s Twitter account posted shortly after the arrest.

  8. 8.

    SFAW

    @lamh36:

    She forgot to mention how the contradictions have been heightened by all this.

    And how Hitlary would have been worse — she would have had ICE kidnap the children, then turn them over to the DoD for conscription, or perhaps turn them over to HHS for “Project Soylent.”

  9. 9.

    Mary G

    When you’ve lost the freaking American Legion:

    “The American Legion is adamantly opposed to the Senate’s NDAA position of raising Tricare enrollment fees and copays and repealing current grandfathering provisions. We view the Senate’s proposal as an erosion of our veterans’ quality of life and earned benefits. t.co/h9FcIfv0Ho— The American Legion (@AmericanLegion) June 22, 2018

  10. 10.

    Mai naem mobile

    George Will is telling people to vote against the GOP. I have a lot i want to say about this but I am trying to leave it at ‘hey, if it gets several thousand GOPrs to vote Dem and we win some tough races then I need to STFU for right now.’

  13. 13.

    geg6

    @lamh36:

    Goddamn, that fucking bitch. She should be wearing sackcloth and ashes and be on her knees crawling to every home in America begging for forgiveness. Fuck her with a rusty chainsaw.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I didn’t remember this, it’s from February of ’17

    On Wednesday night, Susan Sarandon returned to Chris Hayes’s prime-time show on MSNBC for the first time since she caused a firestorm by seeming to say a Donald Trump presidency might not be the worst thing in the world…..
    In their original interview nearly a year ago, Sarandon said “a lot of people just can’t bring themselves” to vote for Clinton and said she would “see what happens” regarding her general-election vote. “People feel Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in then things will really explode,” she said….
    “I think that I absolutely feel that talking about blaming people for what happened is really wasting your time and energy,” Sarandon replied. “Because what we have now is a populous that is awake.”…
    She went on to say that Trump is “so clumsy and so bad” at putting policy together that “now everyone is awake.” She insisted that she’s not in favor of a “revolution” brought on by Trump’s misdeeds instead of the one we could have had with Sanders in office. To the people that would “attack” her for her statements, she asked, “Really? That’s where we want to spend our time and energy?”

    let’s not waste our time arguing about ‘oo killed ‘oo

  15. 15.

    lamh36

    I don’t have WashPo access…can anyone tell me what this article says, and how well it is sourced?

    @JenniferDokes
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    Great. Time mag gave forces of evil legit reasons to gloat, preen and be indignant. Very bad day for journalism. The nation can’t afford mistakes like this. Not now. The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother

    twitter.com/JenniferDokes/status/1010221877078327296

  17. 17.

    TenguPhule

    The effort was led by Nevada’s governor, Brian Sandoval (R), and Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), who separately spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and pushed for Storey County to win designation as an “Opportunity Zone,” which was established in the law to help distressed areas attract money.

    Working behind the scenes to help the effort was a Storey County brothel owner and real estate investor, Lance Gilman, who told local officials that the designation could lead to a surge of investments within the next few years. Gilman is also a major GOP donor and made a $5,000 campaign contribution to Heller in the midst of the process, the biggest contribution he had ever given to a candidate for federal office.

    Treasury officials had initially deemed that Storey County’s income levels were too high to qualify, based on the metrics they had used to judge every other nomination for the special tax status. But after weeks of prodding from Nevada officials, Treasury relented and gave the designation to Storey County using new data.

    Republican corruption via Wapo. Doesn’t even make headlines these days.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    what is charitably called the “pallet garden:”

    How very… post- something. Industrial? Apocalyptic?

    I studied dynamic programming all day and now it’s time to… not do that. Probably play video games.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    Someone put this up as comment on George Will’s Vote against the GOP this November:

    T RAITOR
    R ACIST
    U NSAFE
    M 0R0N
    P UTINS B I T C H

    works for me. Truth.

  23. 23.

    TenguPhule

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    To the people that would “attack” her for her statements, she asked, “Really? That’s where we want to spend our time and energy?”

    if it ensures that the Sarandons of the world shut up and never venture out from under their rocks ever again, Yes?

  24. 24.

    JPL

    @Steve in the ATL: If you are truly in ATL, did you get the storm with strong winds? My yard is trashed, and the a section of the neighbors fence came down. It overturned another neighbors gas grill. That’s why you need to use charcoal.
    I have power but the surrounding neighbors don’t.

  25. 25.

    delk

    I posted this morning but I’d like to repeat it for afternoon/evening folks.

    Thank you all so much for the kind words about Gav. He was a good dog.

  26. 26.

    frosty fred

    Learn something new every day. I knew the weedy/edible purslane was in the Portulacaceae, but I’d never known this “moss rose” kind of Portulaca (which I’ve known and loved from my earliest memories) referred to as “purslane.” Is the kind in the picture edible as well? Well, palatable, as opposed to not poisonous?

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    @lamh36: Here you go. This morning’s WaPost story, reporters are Samantha Schmidt and Kristine Phillips:

    The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother

    …. the girl’s father told The Washington Post on Thursday night that his child and her mother were not separated, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed that the family was not separated while in the agency’s custody. In an interview with CBS News, Border Patrol agent Carlos Ruiz, who was among the first to encounter the mother and her daughter at the border in Texas, said the image had been used to symbolize a policy but “that was not the case in this picture.”

    Ruiz, who was not available for an interview Friday, said agents asked the mother, Sandra Sanchez, to put down her daughter, nearly 2-year-old Yanela, so they could search her. Agents patted down the mother for less than two minutes, and she immediately picked up her daughter, who then stopped crying.

    “I personally went up to the mother and asked her, ‘Are you doing okay? Is the kid okay?’ and she said, ‘Yes. She’s tired and thirsty. It’s 11 o’clock at night,” Ruiz told CBS News.

    The revelation has prompted a round of media criticism from the White House and other conservatives.

    … Moore told The Post’s Avi Selk that he ran into the mother and toddler in McAllen, Tex., on the night of June 12. He knew only that they were from Honduras and had been on the road for about a month. “I can only imagine what dangers she’d passed through, alone with the girl,” he said.

    Moore photographed the girl crying as the border agent patted down the mother.

    Moore said the woman picked up her daughter, they walked into the van, and the van drove away. When he took the picture, he said he did not know whether the mother and her daughter would be separated, “but it was a very real possibility,” given the slew of family separations carried out by the Trump administration.

    … In Honduras, Denis Javier Varela Hernandez recognized his daughter in the photo and also feared that she was separated from her mother, he told The Post.

    But he said he learned this week that his 32-year-old wife and daughter were, in fact, detained together at a facility in McAllen. Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Nelly Jerez confirmed Varela’s account to Reuters.

    An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman said in a statement to The Post that Sanchez was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol near Hidalgo, Tex., on June 12 while traveling with a family member. She was transferred to ICE custody on June 17 and is being housed at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Tex., according to ICE.

    ICE said Sanchez was previously deported to Honduras in July 2013.

    Sanchez and her daughter left for the United States from Puerto Cortes, north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, on June 3, Varela said. Sanchez had told her husband that she hoped to go to the United States to seek a better life for her children, away from the dangers of their home country. But she left without telling him that she was taking their youngest daughter with her. Varela, who has three other children with Sanchez, feared for the little girl’s safety, he said. Yanela is turning 2 years old in July.

    After Sanchez left, Varela had no way to contact her or learn of her whereabouts. Then, on the news, he saw the photo of the girl in the pink shirt.

    “The first second I saw it, I knew it was my daughter,” Varela told The Post. “Immediately, I recognized her.”

    He heard that U.S. officials were separating families at the border, before Trump reversed the policy Wednesday. Varela felt helpless and distressed “imagining my daughter in that situation,” he said.

    This week, Varela received a phone call from an official with Honduras’s foreign ministry, letting him know his wife and daughter were detained together. While he doesn’t know anything about the conditions of the facility or what is next for Sanchez and Yanela, he was relieved to hear they were in the same place.

    As news emerged late Thursday that the mother and child were not separated, conservative media jumped on the story, portraying it as evidence of “fake news” surrounding the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

    It was the most prominent story on the home page of the conservative news outlet Breitbart, which called it a “fake news photo.” Infowars, owned by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, singled out Time and CNN for using the “completely misleading” image to push “open border propaganda.”

    … Varela pushed back against the portrayals of his daughter’s story, saying it should not cast doubt on the “human-rights violations” taking place at the border.

    “This is the case for my daughter, but it is not the case for 2,000 children that were separated from their parents,” Varela said.

    At least 2,500 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border since May 5.

    Varela said he felt “proud” that his daughter has “represented the subject of immigration” and helped propel changes in policy. But he asked that Trump “put his hand on his heart.”

    He hopes that U.S. officials will grant asylum to his wife and daughter, he said.

    Asked whether he would also like to come to the United States, he said, “Of course, someday.

  29. 29.

    Mandalay

    U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley yesterday:

    “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America,” Haley wrote in a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday. “In our country, the President, Members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, and City Council members actively engage on poverty issues every day. Compare that to the many countries around the world, whose governments knowingly abuse human rights and cause pain and suffering.”

    Haley picked a really bad week to make an argument about other governments knowingly abusing human rights, and causing pain and suffering. I can just about understand her saying that if she had a brain fart and the stupid gushed out. But as UN Ambassador she wrote it – she actually thought about the situation and wrote that.

    Haley is at a Sarah Palin level of stupidity (and will probably run for president in 2020).

  30. 30.

    JPL

    @Elizabelle: Actually according to CNN he said she was not separated at that time. He has no idea now, although border control said yesterday they kept them together. The father only spoke about that time frame. Yeah right. They are probably frantically trying to find the girl so they can be reunited.

  31. 31.

    scav

    @lamh36: Probably doesn’t matter to the people most likely to wave it about. Difference between signifier and the signified, it’s all too comperlicated and a slippery slope (but only for certain messages). If this one image can be proven incorrect in any way, then there is no problem at all, hey presto! If Time had used a line drawing of a crying child instead, well then all crying infants everywhere would have been proven to actually from the comics and thus necessarily happy! But then beware, stock photos of minorities prove that the Republicans are a big tent party and using images from 2016 as though they are from 2018 is unproblematic so long as the proper message is conveyed. It’s all the same blah blah chaos shiny-object confetti.

  34. 34.

    TenguPhule

    In the 2016 presidential election, George Skarich, the vice president of sales for the Missouri-based Mid Continent Nail Corporation, voted for Mr. Trump and hoped that he would use his business acumen to supercharge the economy.

    The economy is booming, but Mr. Skarich said he was not reaping the benefits. Instead, as a result of Mr. Trump’s trade policies, Mr. Skarich said his nail company may soon be out of business.

    Mid Continent, the largest American producer of nails, imports steel from Mexico to make its nails. That steel is now subject to the 25 percent tariffs that Mr. Trump imposed on dozens of countries, forcing Mid Continent to raise its prices by nearly 20 percent.

    Someone break out the world’s second smallest violins!

    To meet a global thirst for American whiskey in recent years, distilleries that make bourbon and rye — and sell it around the world — have sprung up across the country. But this week the European Union applied a 25 percent duty to American whiskey in response to Mr. Trump’s steel tariffs, spiking the prices of the iconic American tipple on the Continent.

    For small distillers like Scott Harris, a founder of Catoctin Creek Distillery in Purcellville, Va., this has dampened happy hour.

    “We are just launching into the European market now in a big way, and this could be the worst possible timing for us,” Mr. Harris said. “We’re probably going to see all of our European sales now come to a screeching halt.”

    Exports to Europe represent about a fourth of Catoctin Creek’s annual sales, and the prospect of a 50 euro bottle of whiskey costing 25 percent more is troubling. Some bigger distillers shipped extra spirits to Europe before the tariffs were in place, but for small businesses, the shipping and warehousing costs are prohibitive.

    A self-described free-trade Republican, Mr. Harris is disappointed with the path that his party has taken on trade.

    “I remember just two years ago we were talking about pushing hard for the Trans-Pacific Partnership so we could open markets in Asia, but all of that has just been turned upside down,” Mr. Harris said. “It really is quite puzzling.”

    No clue at all. Indeed.

    European tariffs on peanut butter will be a blow for the makers of Peter Pan and Skippy spreads, but it is peanut farmers in Republican-leaning states like Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi who could struggle the most.

    “If it affects the peanut butter market, it affects all of us,” said Malcolm Broome, executive director of the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association. “We definitely don’t need to get into a trade war.”

    The United States and China are the biggest peanut butter exporters in the world, according to the Department of Agriculture, and European tariffs would likely give China an edge in expanding its market share.

    Mr. Broome said that many of the peanut farmers in his state have been supportive of Mr. Trump’s economic agenda, but that they will be watching carefully to see how he manages the trade negotiations.

    “If this can give him some leverage to get a deal made, they’d be all for that,” Mr. Broome said. “If it doesn’t work and he’s miscalculated, then it could be a different story.”

    Clap your hands louder, Republicans. Or Tinkerbell dies!

    /Via FTFNYT

  35. 35.

    Calouste

    @Elizabelle: So the woman left her husband to go to another country without telling him, taking her daughter with him. This reeks of domestic abuse.

  36. 36.

    debbie

    @Elizabelle:

    I don’t recall anyone ever saying they had been separated. From the beginning, the mother was nursing the child, put her down while she was searched, and then picked her back up. Irrelevant, anyway, the child was clearly traumatized, probably picking up stuff from the tones of the voices around her.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    It didn’t last all that long, but it was a wicked pissah in Cumming/John’s Creek/Duluth while it lasted. I was in traffic. Not fun.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    @SiubhanDuinne: My son was going to visit, and I told him to hold off. Good call on my part. It’s interesting because I checked GA Power outages and pretty much it was around me, but not me. Yeah!

  39. 39.

    zhena gogolia

    @JPL:

    AND SO WHAT, IF THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN CRYING? Who cares whether it was this specific kid or not? And what’s so great about being detained with her mother?

  40. 40.

    RedDirtGirl

    Sorry you are having a crappy evening, Ms. Cracker. Wish I could send you just some of the cheer I get from reading your delightfully disgusting descriptions of the orange shitgibbon.

  41. 41.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Well if anyone else wants some relief from the awfulness that is the current situation I cannot recommend James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke with Sir Paul McCartney highly enough. It is simply joyous, and touching, and out and out fun.

    youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ

    Enjoy.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36:

    “Thousands of migrant children are being separated from their families at the border. Here’s how to help.”

    Step 1: Go back in time and do not listen to Susan Sarandon.

    Step 2: As time moves forward, do not listen to Susan Sarandon.

    P.S. lamh, I second your fuck you.

    edit: I see that Omnes at #19 also suggested going back in time.

  50. 50.

    Major Major Major Major

    @JPL: I mean, that linked & quoted article says, “This week, Varela received a phone call from an official with Honduras’s foreign ministry, letting him know his wife and daughter were detained together. While he doesn’t know anything about the conditions of the facility or what is next for Sanchez and Yanela, he was relieved to hear they were in the same place.”

    But we’re falling into the trap of caring about these details instead of what really matters…

    @NotMax: Woohoo!

  51. 51.

    Barbara

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Let’s not waste our time deliberating fault unless it’s something we can blame on Hillary.

    But really, all I really want to know is how Badger fared today at the vet.

  54. 54.

    zhena gogolia

    @JPL:

    I wasn’t yelling at you, just at all the people who think there is some kind of meaningful “discovery” here. She was a symbol.

  55. 55.

    Phylllis

    @Mandalay:

    Haley is at a Sarah Palin level of stupidity (and will probably run for president in 2020).

    Trust me, she is off the chart more stupid than Palin.

  56. 56.

    satby

    @delk: I was thinking of you today, and how much it sucks that you’re without your sweet Gav right at a time when we really need our furbabies for comfort.
    I hope knowing you gave him a great life full of love and happiness comforts you in time.

  57. 57.

    efgoldman

    @TenguPhule:

    Clap your hands louder, Republicans

    Leopards and faces.
    I feel badly for their employees (although a goodly number of them probably voted for Weasel Face, too) but….

    Fuckem

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @debbie:

    Agreed. I don’t remember the initial coverage saying that this little girl had been separated. But the picture was a hard-hitting symbol of the whole clusterfuck and went viral because of that.

  59. 59.

    Steve in the ATL

    @JPL: got a lot of rain, but the wind wasn’t too bad. Never lost power, except politically a few years ago when the state flipped to red. Have had many branches down in the last few weeks, though. Wife and I have been puzzled by the amount of rain we’ve had this month. It’s almost as if the climate has been changing….

  60. 60.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Laura Jarrett @ LauraAJarrett
    The House Judiciary Committee Chairman has just subpoenaed FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok for a deposition on June 27, 2018 at 10:00 am; his lawyer said last week he would come voluntarily

    empty wheel @ emptywheel
    Note what the chicken shits did.
    This is a deposition, not public testimony.

    southpaw Retweeted Laura Jarrett
    If you’re going to drop a subpoena on a willing witness, it’s pretty cheap not to give him a public hearing. Two branches of our government have been dragging Strzok’s name through the mud for at least six months. Let him come with counsel and tell his side to the country.

    If Strozk wants to fuck them right back, he should hire Avenanti, at least as his ‘public spokesman’ or some such

  61. 61.

    The Dangerman

    @Phylllis:

    Trust me, she is off the chart more stupid than Palin.

    Almost impossible (though there was that rumor that she and Trump were dancing in the sheets, which would be incontrovertible evidence).

  62. 62.

    efgoldman

    My eternal 11-year old is time-wasting with Battlebots.
    Hey, it’s more realistic than wrasslin’

  63. 63.

    Mary G

    Betty is credited by someone who’s getting noticed more and more:

    I decided to find the first use of the hashtag #Cult45 to refer to trumpists, and this appears to be it. The first use of the term "Cult45" without a hash was nine days earlier from the same account. Take a bow, Betty Cracker. t.co/SvdDehv9B3— Frederick Douglass (@OnlyRealFred) June 22, 2018

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I second this endorsement. I love Carpool Kareoke, and McCartney is super cool surprising people in Liverpool.

  66. 66.

    efgoldman

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m wondering if they were not separated because ICE knew a photo had been taken

    Meanwhile the lying gestapo says they’ve reunited 500 kids and families, and the rest will be together by the weekend.
    HOW THE FUCK DO THEY KNOW??!? THEY DIDN’T KEEP ANY FUCKING RECORDS!!!?!

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    My son was going to visit, and I told him to hold off. Good call on my part.

    During Friday afternoon rush hour, no less! Good call indeed.

  71. 71.

    jl

    Not sure if this will make Lady Cracker’s crummy day better or worse, but here goes:
    The GOP, and Ryan, just cannot help themselves. I guess they figure if they get it through committee, the next theft will be ready to roll that much sooner if they retain the House after November.
    But, I have a feeling it won’t go unnoticed.

    Stealing money people need to live, just sitting there, waiting to be taken… so tempting.. Well, gosh let’s just dip our toes in the water before the election and get ready to make a grab for it.

    House GOP plan would cut Medicare, Social Security to balance budget
    The budget would transform Medicaid, the federal-state health-care program for the poor, by limiting per-capita payments or allowing states to turn it into a block-grant program
    denverpost.com/2018/06/20/medicare-social-security-cuts-budget/

  75. 75.

    Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Saw it this morning, and I’m watching it with my husband now. Absolutely joyous.

    (It helps that I visited Liverpool a few years ago and did the whole Beatle tourist thing, including Penny Lane and the National Trust tours of Lennon’s and McCartney’s childhood homes. Photographs aren’t allowed in the houses, so I loved seeing the inside of his former home again. It brought back my own happy memories.)

  78. 78.

    sukabi

    @Elizabelle: just because she wasn’t separated from her mom doesn’t mean she hasn’t been traumatized. It also does NOT negate the fact that THOUSANDS of children have been separated from their parents, or the fact that DHS has admitted they have almost 12,000 children incarcerated.

  79. 79.

    Mary G

    Kamala brought the fire today. Not many protesters in view because they keep parking very limited. She said “I’m a career prosecutor, so I’ve spent a lot of time visiting jails, and that place behind us is a jail.” Inmates who work are paid $1 per day. The administration of the place told Kamala the unaccompanied kids are given free phone calls to their parents. She found out that’s not true. They have to pay 85 cents a minute, so a day’s work gets you a 1 minute, 20 second call.

    A few moments ago I finished visiting with mothers who were separated from their children at the border. I can tell you they are in utter despair. The stories they shared with me paint a picture of human rights abuses being committed by our government. We are so much better this. pic.twitter.com/lEeIOtEjWU— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 22, 2018

  81. 81.

    M. Bouffant

    What’s wrong w/ these people?

    Trump autographed photos of deceased crime victims for White House ‘Angel Families’ event
    President Donald Trump appears to have autographed photos of deceased young people that were featured at a White House event Friday highlighting victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.

  83. 83.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mary G:

    Not many protesters in view because they keep parking very limited.

    Next time, they need a rendezvous point and carpools.

  84. 84.

    Steve in the ATL

    @M. Bouffant: what bullshit phrasing. To be an angel family, you have to do something that helps people in a huge way. You don’t get called that for being a crime victim.

  87. 87.

    japa21

    @Steve in the ATL: I can feel some sympathy for the families. They have gone through great pain and suffering and people in those situations ask the question “why?”. And Trump is giving them a answer. It’s a bad answer, but for them it is something.

    The thing is, Trump doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them except as a means to gin up more fear on the part of the populace at large.

    Trump complains about football players not respecting the flag or the anthem. He doesn’t even know what they stand for and he, and just about every other Republican apparently thinks the last words of the anthem are “the home of the yellow-bellied, afraid of their own shadows, cowards>”

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    Mnemosyne

    @Brickley Paiste:

    The father says that he got a call from the Honduran consulate saying they were together, but he hasn’t actually talked to his wife and confirmed that.

    Which goes to show that the photo is totally fake and the kid is at Chuck E Cheese with her mom right now, amirite?

  89. 89.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Steve in the ATL:
    I for one am not comfortable using the word “angel” to describe anyone because no one is an angel. We all have darker sides and this term ignores this and deifies these people.

  90. 90.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Brickley Paiste:
    But it doesn’t matter. We don’t know what happened afterwards and the kid was clearly traumatized. There are thousands of children suffering right now and we know for a fact one has already died.

  93. 93.

    Mai naem mobile

    @Phylllis: Paley can’t be more stupid than Palin. Palin was not just not the brightest bulb on the christmas tree she is that one light that faintly flickers very intermittently. .

  95. 95.

    TenguPhule

    @Mary G:

    . The administration of the place told Kamala the unaccompanied kids are given free phone calls to their parents. She found out that’s not true. They have to pay 85 cents a minute, so a day’s work gets you a 1 minute, 20 second call.

    Child involuntary slave labor.

    SON OF A BITCH.

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    QuaintIrene

    Purslane, as Ive known it, is a weed that makes its appearance in the garden around July. Low ground cover, fleshly leaves and prolific as, well, as a weed. Its edible, the leaves added to salads, the stems pickled, Ive even read that it can be added to gumbo in place of okra.

  99. 99.

    J R in WV

    @lamh36:

    Susan Sarandon… Her family ran a nice place in my hometown, The Eat Well Cafe.

    I will never see Ms Sarandon again in my entire life, ever. If she is on a TV show, I will turn it off or change the channel. If she is in a movie, I will not pay a bleeding nickel to see it. She is dead to me because of her extreme lack of common sense.

  100. 100.

    leeleeFL

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Likely not, as she is so convinced that she was right to say what she did, that tsking ANY responsibility fir the awfulness we are experiencing now would not occur to her. Ever hear of Ralph Nader? Aa much good as he has accomplished, I will never forgive him for Florida, 2000, period! Susan will get no quarter from me as well. Wonder if they care. NOT!

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