Sure must feel good to be above it all.
Your total lack of self-awareness is humorously endearing. You should see if anybody is looking for a cantankerous, dim-witted sidekick. You’re a natural.
What did I tell you about not posting drunk?
Can you help me, then, by taking this sentence:
I have worked in child welfare for 23 years and have never seen a parent placed in jail for shoplifting.
And explaining it to me like I’m a child. How should this be read to be a sensible claim? My way was an extreme gotcha. How should I have read this?
Which posters take the position that taking kids is a good thing?
I think it was explained in the other thread. I think it’s something like, if you work for CPS, you only get involved if the shoplifter in question can’t make other arrangements. In the vast majority of cases, other arrangements can be made (stay with the other parent, neighbors, etc.), so it’s possible that the CPS people wouldn’t see any kids arrived if the parent was accused of shoplifting.
Yeah I know, the posters that defend the administration in that thread feel terrible… they feel bad for the kids, but it is not the fault of the Republicans. :rolleyes:
Trump ran out of gas! He got a flat tire! He didn’t have change for cab fare! He lost his tux at the cleaners! He locked his keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole his EOs! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T HIS FAULT, THEY SWEAR TO GOD!
It was already explained to you, and diversion time is over. How do you actually feel about babies and toddlers being ripped from their families and put in concentration camps, then forcibly drugged into compliance and confusion? In the other thread you said The BBQ Pit was the proper place to show how you really feel, so let’s have it.
I think it’s a horrible, painful, shameful reminder of why electing a reality TV star won’t go well. I think Trump is so used to negotiations that include pressure tactics he’s forgotten, if he ever knew, that real people are in pain here. It’s a devastating illustration that norms exist because laws cannot constrain bad faith, or worse: no faith.
It’s repugnant and soulless.
Ahhh, that’s some nice tasty validation right there.
That might well explain “few” cases in 23 years.
But “zero?” Not once was a single mom arrested and needed to stay in over the weekend before bail, without family or friends to come pick up a child? Really?
Are you suggesting to me that ZERO is a likely number in 23 years? Eight thousand, three hundred and ninety-five days and that never happened ONCE??
Of course, I might be too naive in placing all the blame on the election of a reality star – did you see that the allegations in that lawsuit relate to events that happened both before and after January 20, 2018?
That’s also disturbing to me.
Is it also disturbing to you? Or will you attack me for even mentioning it?
The idea that you would accuse Bricker, of all Dopers, of not doing this ranges somewhere between “richly ironic” and “stupid”.
Regards,
Shodan
So…you are against it, or what?
Yes, I saw that, and I find it deplorable that this current administration knew about the background of this place and still decided it was suitable.
Take it as you like, but Scumpup is correct, IMO.
Of late you’ve added a bit of substance to your game, which is an improvement of sorts. But historically and for the most part even now your posts consist of pathetic attempts at humor, which are all the worse for the obvious posturing.
There’s room on this board for substanceless humorists, e.g. Vinyl Turnip or elucidator. But these guys are actually funny. Your 55,000 unfunny one liners don’t add anything to the board and make you look like a wannabe.
Whatevs, Ekey. I considered you a jackass from when I first joined this board. The only times I ever thought you were funny were when you let your pompous streak get the better of you.
I thought I was that only one who didn’t like Ekers postings, who knew.
Give me time to process it.
Well, if you work for CPS, how many shoplifting cases are you going to see? It’s not really in your job description, is it? AFAICT most shoplifters are either impulsive teens, who aren’t likely to have kids, or poor people, who likely have relatives nearby. So it doesn’t strike me as completely implausible that some one could work CPS–which does a lot of things–for 23 years and not see a child separated from their shoplifting parent.