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

That's a fair analysis.

It is good to see that righteous people in DC can still flash mob the secretary of DHS at a restaurant and walk away without bullshit arrests on bullshit charges. Thank fucking god for the little things.

(I’m completely serious, in case that reads as sarcasm to anyone)

Lewandowski would be completely ostracized immediately from a truly moral, compassionate society

u know we don't have to figure "worse than the Nazis" for these ppl to be bad enough

pretty sure gratuitous cruelty against brown people is the plan https://t.co/sAUIjRmffn

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 20, 2018

Ugh, I'm sorry.

If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.

What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede:

1/6

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018

29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

lol @ Schmidt praising Baker, Hogan and Kasich.

u know we don't have to figure "worse than the Nazis" for these ppl to be bad enough

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius)

i hear you, i'm not a big fan of internet-hyperbole, and i do want to be clear that i'm not necessarily talking about the leadership here - there isn't, and i pray to god won't, be sufficient evidence to allow for a direct worst-case comparison. i'm strictly talking Good Americans here, and in this particular case i do believe that a fearless moral reckoning is in order.

Recall that before Kirstjen Nielsen ran the Trump family separation policy, she was Senior Director for Preparedness and Response on the Bush White House's Homeland Security Council, where she ignored specific warnings in 2005 leading up to Katrina https://t.co/qFRf6IUkDW pic.twitter.com/FNl86V1w1S

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 20, 2018

Donald Trump doesn't care about people.

can 'womp womp' be the July thread title

6 stages of Trump

1) we don't have that policy
2) actually it was Obama's policy
3) okay maybe it is our policy, we need to do it to deter illegal immigration
4) we don't like the policy either, but have no choice because the Dems won't agree to fund our border wall
5) it's actually really offensive of you to get mad at us for putting kids in concentration camps, we're just following orders
6) womp womp

http://thehill.com/latino/393171-michigan-receiving-detained-immigrant-children-as-young-as-3-months-old

this is fucking reprehensible!I know damn well thye have no plan in place to get this babies back with their parents at any point .

I have no idea how I had got this far without realising that Ned and Corey’s favourite expression is sad_trombone.wav

womp womp rats

can 'womp womp' be the July thread title

that or "We Got Space Force", or "Space Force Womp Womp".

"Space Force Womp Womp".

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, June 20, 2018 7:12 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the long lost zapp single

prob should've gone with my first instinct to make a monster magnet joke

good mourning!

xpost As a descriptor for the GOP?

lol

the comrades are good as hell

yeah all the direct action shit has been super inspiring

https://apnews.com/1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e

huh

but wait they were just doing their jobs and Democrats needed to change the laws to stop it, I'm so confused

"according to two people familiar with her thinking"

They asked her ex and her bestie

the lede from that link

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is drafting an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together in detention after they are detained crossing the border illegally, according to two people familiar with her thinking. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the effort before its official announcement.

It's a little thing, but I'm on hold right now with SiriusXm to cancel, mostly for the satisfaction of decrying the garbage on the Patriot channel.

trump and his neo-nazi friends are going to be disappointed to learn that public outcry might force them to stop taking children and their families hostage

eh they got what they wanted: half the country is frothing at the mouth in excitement over ripping brown kids away from their parents. and they'll get to say they "fixed" it. but we should still be doing it. but hey, at least they reversed what was *actually* obama's fault. but it's actually good. and needed.

and the next thing will be worse. and the chuds will enthusiastically cheer that, too. even though it was really obama's doing.

The person said the secretary believes there is little certainty that Congress will act to fix the separation issue that has been dominating news coverage and she is trying to find a solution.

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Corey Lewandowski, who said "womp womp" on national TV today regarding a 10-year old immigrant girl with Down Syndrome being taken from her mother, works for a PAC that gets donations from a company that owns private immigration detention facilities. https://t.co/CQJRCGfSXy pic.twitter.com/rztMztYisI

— Aaron Sankin (@ASankin) June 20, 2018

This was always the goal: hold on until the last, most excruciating moment, making sure that Congress got duly blamed, then sign an exec orer that makes Trump look like a hero to his racist base.

half the country

this is never true

you're right: approx half the voting public

also, put all the other Nazi crap in the bill:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-bills-to-lock-up-families-together-are-fulfilling-the-trump-admins-wishes

how many ppl voted for Trump? 63 million? so i guess maybe only 60-61 million or so support the shit out of this.

This is what happens when immigrant families cross the border outside a port of entry: https://t.co/n0BCeT8OmP thanks @darlacameron @CEssig @emmaplatoff pic.twitter.com/K1CHq4zUc3

— amanda zamora (@amzam) June 20, 2018

i hope people are paying attention on the day we finally receive stats on the number of children who were sent to foster care because relatives in the US couldn't be located.

60million voted for trump, 63million voted for Hillary, I thought.

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife. his sons, and one of his two daughters were born to mothers born outside our borders. i hope the GOP come to their senses but i'm not holding my breath

good praxis https://splinternews.com/heres-stephen-millers-cell-phone-number-if-you-need-it-1826985626

I'm so confused pt 2: weren't they just saying everything was fine, media was making something out of nothing? why would they need to make an executive order or have Congress pass a law to fix something that isn't broken??

the important thing is that from the perspective of the border patrol, everything is fine and nothing has changed since 2014, these children are only detained for a couple hours, tops. they do hand them over to ICE and they have no idea what happens after that, but keep in mind that everything is fine and nothing has changed, from the border patrol's perspective.

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife. his sons, and one of his two daughters were born to mothers born outside our borders. i hope the GOP come to their senses but i'm not holding my breath

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife.

... and so was his mother. Paleskins though.

xp will I don't totally get that post, can you clarify?

It's non-white immigrants.