# The Trump Outrages Come Thick and Fast **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031 "2019-06-25T13:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/41 "2019-06-25T21:34:02Z")
The badness is so overwhelming right now, it’s messing me up emotionally. One of the lawyers who interviewed some of the detained kids was on today’s All Things Considered, and I got tears in my ears when she said one of the kids she’d talked to said she had been separated from her aunt. I immediately thought of me having guardianship of my nieces and thinking we might have a chance for a decent life as long as we make it to the other side of the desert. Only to be separated from them. Maybe permanently. I would want to kill myself if that happened. Some of these kids are never going to be reunited with their families. Because when you’re a little baby who can’t even speak yet, how can anyone possibly find you? Many of them are going to be forever scarred from all of this. I feel like we should all be storming the gates right now, and yet here I am in my air conditioned living room, not doing shit. I have never been so unhappy to be an American as I am right now. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/42 "2019-06-25T21:43:02Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > So there’s this: > > [U.S. Border Patrol Is Refusing Citizen Donations Even as It Holds Migrant Children Without Access to Soap and Toothpaste](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/border-patrol-refusing-donations-migrant-children-soap-and-toothpaste.html) > : This administration is moving toward a policy which will make it a crime to offer humanitarian assistance to other human beings. (those who are deemed “unworthy” of help) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/43 "2019-06-25T21:44:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > What kind of sleazy immature response is that? The kind of a response someone who does not believe there is such a thing as rape gives. > [@Dinsdale](#): > > cheesy porn movies? That’s his type. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/44 "2019-06-25T22:04:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This administration is moving toward a policy which will make it a crime to offer humanitarian assistance to other human beings. (those who are deemed “unworthy” of help) The Administration would arrest [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/45 "2019-06-25T22:14:24Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Well, years ago the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a consensual affair and obstruction of justice. How long did that dominate the news? 20 years and counting. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/46 "2019-06-25T22:14:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The Administration would arrest [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan). Bleeding heart hippie. All he’s doing is enabling a bum who is a parasite on the soft underbelly of society. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/47 "2019-06-25T23:27:26Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > That the rape allegation isn’t front page news is just another demonstration that we, as a country, don’t really care that much about sexual assault and rape. Maybe a bit more than we did 5 years ago, but still very far from where we should be. I think the issue is that anyone who is honest and informed already knows trump is a rapist and sex offender and it’s just another accusation at this point. Trumps 17th accusation or Bill Cosbys 53rd accusation of sex crimes carries less weight than if another celebrity got their first accusation. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/48 "2019-06-25T23:34:17Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I think the issue is that anyone who is honest and informed already knows trump is a rapist and sex offender and it’s just another accusation at this point. > > Trumps 17th accusation or Bill Cosbys 53rd accusation of sex crimes carries less weight than if another celebrity got their first accusation. This is true, though I continue to be bothered that he hasn’t been arrested for it. Yes, yes, I know, he’s above the law. Pardon me while I vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/49 "2019-06-26T00:13:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Not entirely accurate. Yes, there were detention facilities under Bush and Obama. But families who were detained were allowed to stay together. They might be separated if child trafficking were suspected, but there was nowhere near Trump’s zero-tolerance policy of separating children from their families as a terror tactic. I’m pretty sure I acknowledged this when I said, “And the policy of separating kids from parents is _his_ policy, despite his lies to the contrary.” But yes, while the facilities themselves aren’t his doing, the policy separating kids and sticking them in there without family to watch them definitely is. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/50 "2019-06-26T00:55:21Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > This is true, though I continue to be bothered that he hasn’t been arrested for it. Yes, yes, I know, he’s above the law. Pardon me while I vomit. Oh yeah. If Trump doesn’t die in prison, its going to make a lot of people realize America truly is an oligarchy. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/51 "2019-06-26T01:30:40Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I think the issue is that anyone who is honest and informed already knows trump is a rapist and sex offender and it’s just another accusation at this point. > > Trumps 17th accusation or Bill Cosbys 53rd accusation of sex crimes carries less weight than if another celebrity got their first accusation. Meanwhile, Senator Al Franken pretended to touch a woman’s breasts and is now jerking sodas in Elk River, Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/52 "2019-06-26T01:43:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Meanwhile, Senator Al Franken pretended to touch a woman’s breasts and is now jerking sodas in Elk River, Minnesota. That’s because he got friggin’ robbed and had to take one for “the team” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/53 "2019-06-26T03:33:37Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Meanwhile, Senator Al Franken pretended to touch a woman’s breasts and is now jerking sodas in Elk River, Minnesota. …Yeah there was a bit more to it than that. I think when he forcefully stuck his tongue in her mouth, that was the thing that was more problematic. Along with multiple groping accusations from other women. But if you’re insisting that it’s unfair that Franken’s career is ruined while Trump is running for reelection to the presidency you’ll get no argument from me. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/54 "2019-06-26T05:53:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > … > That said, those places were established in the Obama era. … Oh, nice little Trumpist apologizer. Well done, the laziest talking point ever comes to serve the Orange Clown again. He thanks you, believe me, for your service. And your inability to look around and see things for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![UnwittingAmericans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@UnwittingAmericans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwittingAmericans)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/55 "2019-06-26T07:56:27Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > When it comes to the point that a state is being run by a minority, with the backing of an armed GOP militia threatening the State House so that it’s permanently shut down… > > Is anyone going to stand up AT THAT POINT and say anything? > > Or is everyone just going to act like the frog in the slowly heating water, and just shrug and say “Whelp, nothing we can do about this. Maybe the militia will allow free and honest elections at some point in the future. We hope” Bad news. 95% of the time, the frog does not extricate itself in time. The whole pot has to get dumped out and started over. Strap in. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/56 "2019-06-26T08:03:44Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > The Obama administration built the buildings, but did not have a child separation policy, did not argue in front of a judge that children don’t need hygiene supplies and blankets, Or that babies and toddlers who can’t speak a word of English (some can’t speak a word in any language yet) are perfectly capable and competent to represent themselves in court. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/57 "2019-06-26T08:22:29Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This administration is moving toward a policy which will make it a crime to offer humanitarian assistance to other human beings. (those who are deemed “unworthy” of help) “Moving toward”? They’ve already brought people up on charges for giving water to people crossing a desert, and for calling 911 for people traveling in a car with one of them having a medical emergency. We’re already there. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/58 "2019-06-26T10:15:19Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > And, towards the end of the article we have this tweet from MSNBC: > > Rep. Burgess on conditions in migrant camps: “You know what? There’s not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don’t. You know why? Because they are well taken care of.” [GOP Rep. on conditions in camp: ‘Any child is free to leave at anytime’](https://on.msnbc.com/2IFVofT) And I’d bet the Antebellum slave shacks had very few locks on them either, yet the darkies kept hanging around the place. Deep down inside they must have really **loved** slavery. > [@monstro](#): > > Some of these kids are never going to be reunited with their families. Because when you’re a little baby who can’t even speak yet, how can anyone possibly find you? Many of them are going to be forever scarred from all of this. I feel like we should all be storming the gates right now, and yet here I am in my air conditioned living room, not doing shit. I have never been so unhappy to be an American as I am right now. Amen. Don’t forget there was, at best, a callous disregard of keeping any record of something as simple as where’d they’d been collected. You’d think they were some kind of chattel. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/59 "2019-06-26T10:50:39Z")
Some of the reports I’ve seen had some self-righteous people proclaiming that “some of those children were traveling with people who weren’t even their blood relatives! We’re saving them!” I’m not a blood relative of The Littlest Nephew. Doesn’t make him any less my nephew than the two to which I do have genetic links. Half of my aunts and uncles are so by marriage: doesn’t make them any less my aunts and uncles. There’s people who make me understand “stop the world, I’m getting off.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031/60 "2019-06-26T11:17:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > …There’s people who make me understand “stop the world, I’m getting off.” I think that a lot these days… ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031.md?page=4)