The part where he says "children ‘are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth … along the southern border’ " is true enough.
I’ll have a better link when I catch the name of whoever specifically said that children are being separated because you can’t tell which families are really families.
Ann Coulter says the kids crying on TV when being separated from their parents are actors who hve been coached by the Democrats.
The link is to the Guardians of Democracy, which is a liberal site, but the link includes a clip from Fox News where she says it.
She claims she knows this because the liberal New Yorker magazine says so, but she didn’t point to any particular article to support that contention.
https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/ann-coulter-claims-kids-separated-parents-child-actors-coached-liberals-hurt-trump/
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”
Crime in Germany is at its lowest level since 1992
From the replies to that:
Michael Caputo former Trump campaign advisor: “I have no criminal exposure (to the Russian influence scheme).”
Hope we find out who does.
The latest from World Dictator Don:
“It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,”
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“We are going to have the Air Force and we’re going to have the ‘Space Force.’ Separate but equal. It is going to be something. So important,”
Huh. I almost hear a dog whistle in there… nah, couldn’t be.
From this article:
Looks like somebody slept through history class.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
This is one the statistics that is discussed quite extensively in public discourse. People will bring up their experience to counter it, yet we all know about the perils of anecdotal evidence, cognitive bias and non-representative samples.
Are those stats a true representation of the state of affairs or are they correct yet faulty or a fabrication done for political gain?
I’m saddened to say that I don’t know. There is no independent evaluation done by experts.
In any case, I think, the willingness to accept or reject claims made by the authorities is linked to political association and beliefs far more than to trust in their objective validity.
Are you doubting the overall trends of official German statistics, or the statement of a man known for making things up on the fly?
The statistics also show that immigrants are responsible for less than one third of reported crimes.
Reports that the kids are being scolded for playing in their cages
Reports of babies’ diapers being changed by other kid detainees.
I’m always doubtful about statistics; I’ve found too often faulty ones when it was my job to check them. And I’ve created too many to be ignorant of the malleability of results.
But no, I’m not claiming that I have any evidence that the official German stats show any trend toward greater falsehood or bias.
I’ve heard troubling accounts from police officers I know privately but this falls under the already mentioned perils of anecdotal evidence, cogntive bias and shitty samples.
I’m genuinely having difficulty discerning The Onion headlines from real ones lately.
Remember this: “Onions have layers”. That should help.
damn, now I want some parfait – but just one scoop
The “separate but equal” phrase is mind boggling. I don’t think it’s a dog whistle. I think he heard the phrase , didn’t understand the concept, and regurgitated it today in an entirely inappropriate context.
I just can’t even.
Forgive me, but I don’t get what that means: is it that they’re responsible for, say, 30% of the reported crimes but are only 3% of the population? Or is it 30% or so of those crimes, but as 43% of the population? Or is it that, whatever the rate of folks who aren’t immigrants, immigrants are doing less than a third of that?
This. Germany is not having an immigrant crime wave, no matter what DJT claims.