US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

i don't know if i can bear to listen to that, i'm angry enough

okay i am listening to this and am just sick to my stomach

Wish that was a Current 93 recording, but sadly it's not.

motherfuckers!

so when are people marching ? this is enough of this shit

There's this

Look for an important announcement TONIGHT on @allinwithchris re *major protest against family separation* in DC & nationwide. @RepJayapal, one of our utmost champions, will share plans. All hands on deck. @chrislhayes @MoveOn @domesticworkers @waltshaub #FamiliesBelongTogether

— Anna Galland (@annagalland) June 18, 2018

good, thx Ned

we like to separate ourselves from Trump and say, “This is an aberration.” I think the rest of the world is thinking, “How did this person get elected?”

I hate to break the news but this is far from novel.

Certainly with Dubya, maybe not so much with Reagan but everybody was still laughing up their sleeve about him.

Supposedly Sanders and Nielsen will be giving a joint presser in about half an hour.

yes! thanks .i just feel like all the fuckery this administration has reveled in is really about to come to a head here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoncXfYBAVI

TRUMP!!

that didn't take long (unsurprisingly)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-deputy-sexually-assaulted-undocumented-immigrant-s-child-sheriff-says-n884176

yeah sadly that won't be the last i suspect

fuck these motherfuckers straight to hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=40&v=6QFPdGiD8EE

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFPdGiD8EE

well at least that was a solid lol

Ah, cowards

A White House official tells @jeffzeleny that @PressSec didn't want to do the briefing today amid questions on child separation policy, so @SecNielsen is being flown in from New Orleans to take questions.

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 18, 2018

agree

Members of ICE should be outed and ostracized. Hassled at restaurants, malls, when they pick their kids up from school, etc. You should not be able to be a part of the machine separating children from their families and clock out for a peaceful evening.

— mike cernovich is a rapist (@ArielleSwernoff) June 18, 2018

I'm waiting for whoever that really is to pull off the mask. Could it be Franken? I mean, "Dick Painter" is the kind of character name he'd come up with, and the voice is hilarious.

dude has a neurological disorder that causes him to speak that way

Right, been wondering what that was looks like a stroke victim on some of the tv appearances I've seen.

god this is heartbreaking and infuriating. fuck all of these people, rot in fucking hell. stephen miller at the least needs to visit The Hague ASAP.

Homeland Security sec on teevee now; they ain't backing down.

this press conference is being delivered like monotone propaganda. Which, I mean, it is.

Part of the reason that Trump's approval numbers have been slightly better in 2018 than 2017 is that he is completely untethered from big GOP domestic legislative projects.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 18, 2018

"Homeland Security" always sounded Orwellian, but now...jesus

Wait, they're claiming 10,000 kids were sent with strangers?

This woman is such an asshole.

assholes are useful

this woman is scum

Seriously.

Whomp whomp

Sanders turns to Newsmax reporter for lifeline under relentless Qs over immigration policies toward children. He challenges POTUS' truthfulness over untrue claims there's been a spike of violent crime in Germany under Merkel.

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) June 18, 2018

woah

btw Joe Manchin joined every other Senate Democrat:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/18/all-senate-democrats-now-support-bill-would-prohibit-border-separations/710803002/

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's amazing how the Trump administration keeps finding the absolute worst women to appoint to things.

Well well

CRUZ introduces “emergency legislation” to keep families together at the border and provide funding for new immigration judges to expedite court proceedings for asylum cases. Summary from his office: pic.twitter.com/gL5TuLtndi

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) June 18, 2018

Cornyn and Cruz both speak up within just a couple hours of each other. Wonder how this is polling in Texas https://t.co/XvytP4Ynia

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 18, 2018

There will probably be a stupid “Can you believe Cruz has done more on this than the Dems?” take from one of the large follower left accounts that gets massive retweets soon.

Leaked State Department memo advised Trump administration to push for “Islamic reformation” https://t.co/NKw93C5toB by @mehdirhasan @ryangrim pic.twitter.com/hlQsnfMGkf

— Charlotte Greensit (@cgreensit) June 18, 2018

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's amazing how the Trump administration keeps finding the absolute worst women to appoint to things.

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, June 18, 2018 6:09 PM (twelve minutes ago)

lots of awful republican women out there. i've arranged my social circles for maximum avoidance of them, both on purpose and by accident.

Sorry to just post a Twitter link but

Appealing to the humanity and empathy of people who have repeatedly demonstrated they have none does not feel like a winning strategy.

— dan sinker (@dansinker) June 18, 2018

Meanwhile this c*nt is making you all great again by proposing a Space Force. Classic ludicrous strongman dictator vanity. Rapidly losing faith that the US will rebound from this apotheosis of self-regard and the embrace of hard right propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/18/trump-says-hes-directing-pentagon-to-create-a-new-space-force/?utm_term=.5d250ac10729

Q: are the children being used as pawns for a wall?
DHS Secretary Nielsen: the children are not being used as a pawn. we are trying to protect the children, which is why i'm asking congress to act

wait...you're asking congress to act...to prevent your own agency from doing unethical things to children?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/18/republicans-splitting-families-midterms-border-652369

Republicans want to talk about tax cuts. Instead they’re talking about kids in cages.

Rather than touting lower taxes and a steady job market, House and Senate Republicans are being forced to answer for President Donald Trump’s contentious immigration policies — whether it’s separating migrant kids from their parents, removing DACA protections or building a border wall. And that’s likely bad news heading into November.

This is was my one hope when Trump got elected, that he would show his ass stupidly enough for citizens to run to the voting booth and mitigate the damage for the next 2 years.

A terrifying story:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/18/florida-senior-citizens-vote-election-2018-218758

I mean it is but...not that surprising?

Not to me because I live among them. For the rest of you, however.

Austin, Houston, and San Antonio are ringed with filth like that.