She IS as dumb as a goddamned brick:
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Florida woman, still rocking a punk rock ethos in the 2020s, which is kind of sad. Betty Cracker has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2012.
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Trump ended protected status for Salvadorans who’ve been in the U.S. since 2001 after an earthquake in their home country, setting up the prospect that more than 200K people who have lived and worked here for nearly two decades will be kicked out of the country. Via The Washington Post:
The administration said it will give the Salvadorans until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the United States or find a way to obtain legal residency, according to a statement Monday from the Department of Homeland Security. The Salvadorans were granted what is known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, after earthquakes hit the country in 2001, and their permits have been renewed on an 18-month basis since then…
Immigrant advocates, Salvadoran government officials and many others had implored [DHS Secretary] Nielsen to extend the TPS designation, citing the country’s horrific gang violence and the potentially destabilizing effect of so many people being sent home.
Others urged her to consider the approximately 190,000 U.S.-born children of Salvadoran TPS recipients. Their parents must now decide whether to break up their families, take their entire families back to El Salvador, or stay in the United States and risk deportation.
Senior DHS officials told reporters Monday that the families would have to make that decision, and that the effect on American businesses, among other potential consequences of the TPS decision, were not part of Nielsen’s decision-making process. They said it is up to Congress to determine a remedy.
It’s a cynical ploy, of course, as are Trump’s actions on the Dreamers, the Muslim ban, ending TPS for Haitians, etc. Xenophobia plays well with Trump’s base, the only segment of our population he’s interested in pleasing. Maybe kicking brown people out of the country will distract the mouth-breathers from the fact that Trump is enriching himself and his fellow plutocrats at the public’s expense.
Will the cynical ploy work? Could be! People are pretty fucking racist and stupid. We have all the proof for that we’ll ever need sitting in the White House. I just hope the Democrats are ready to play hard ball on the upcoming spending bill — and that non-xenophobic assholes will reward them for their courage by turning out this fall.
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It’s pretty dreary here today, but warmer, which is good news. Had to take my dog (Patsy) to the vet this morning. It was for regularly scheduled blood work, so no big deal, but she hates going so much that it’s always traumatic for both of us.
She doesn’t resist in any way, but she leans against me and trembles so much that I feel like a monster for putting her through the ordeal. Poor thing’s teeth even chatter — she’s that terrified.
She was never that way until she had a couple of cysts removed about two years or so ago, and she had some trouble with stitches on one of her front legs and had to go in repeatedly because it wasn’t healing properly. We eventually got it sorted out, but it must have really hurt, because ever since then, she’s been a basket case at the vet’s.
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I nominate this as the official vine of the jackals: It is called a “bleeding heart” vine, yet it’s tough and prickly as hell:
We’re watching the Saints vs. Panthers (Geaux Saints!) and contemplating dinner, which will be sole meunière, rice pilaf and sautéed Brussels sprouts. (Pro-tip: If weight loss is among your 2018 New Year’s resolutions, do NOT read Julia Child’s “My Life in France” memoir.)
Hope your evening is at least as pleasant! Open thread!
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I’m not Jake Tapper’s biggest fan (I haven’t forgotten his priggish sniffing around President Obama for signs that the last legit POTUS had fallen off the smoking-cessation bandwagon — as if that’s anyone’s business except his family’s). But gott-damn if Tapper doesn’t drop-kick one of the most vile, arrogant Trump treason-weasels in DC right out of the studio here:
Miller tries to deflect questions about President Crazypants’ fitness for the job with a rehearsed monologue attacking CNN for not paying enough attention to the concerns of Trump voters. (As-fucking-if! CNN constantly inflicts Trump voter panels on viewers and runs stories featuring sad old white people gazing listlessly from dilapidated window frames seemingly every fucking day!) But Tapper isn’t playing:
“Stephen, I get it. There’s one viewer that you care about right now. And you’re being obsequious, you’re being a factotum in order to please him, okay? And I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time.”
And with that, Tapper moves on to the next segment while the producer cuts Miller’s mic mid-screech. That’s the way to deal with these shit-stains.
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In response to a book containing allegations that he’s childish and vindictive, Trump tweeted this:
Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://t.co/mEeUhk5ZV9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
In response to a national conversation about his intelligence, sanity and stability, Trump tweeted this:
….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
Enjoy your weekend!