OK - like I said, I know NOTHING about this other than the one article linked above.
Personally, this does nothing to change my opinion of Trump.
Not sure whose opinion it would change - unless someone might consider it the final straw…
Sure suggests some people conduct themselves quite differently than I ever considered myself.
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”
Know that for sure? I’m wondering how many bodies there are, and if Cohen remembers where they ended up. Facetiously. I wonder that facetiously. But I never wondered that, in any way, about any other American president. Not even that sneaky bastard Ford.
The facilities (what some have called concentration camps) that hold undocumented immigrants are deplorable and the idea that kids are in those places saddens me and pisses me off.
That said, those places were established in the Obama era. Not that it excuses anything but when you’re showing outrage against the current administration it’s best to know the facts.
It’s shameful that things haven’t improved though and the president’s public comments have never shown me that he has any real sympathy for the kids suffering. And the policy of separating kids from parents is his policy, despite his lies to the contrary.
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 like this hijack better. Don’t know whether or not it started with Obama, but sure, why not. Here’s why it’s worse under Trump tho:
Obama was competent enough to keep it quiet (same beef I had with Clinton–Not the first ever POTUS to get hummed in the oval, I’d be willing to bet. But he was sloppy. I mean, the story leaked. Oh nevermind.)
Obama did enough other things right that people weren’t looking especially hard for things to crucify him with
Obama is not the president right now, which is our best opportunity to undo it
If it hadn’t started under Obama, it would have under Trump because Trump is The Devil.
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, and have not shown a serial callous disregard for the human rights of migrants.
And yes, families were never separated until Trump made cruelty for its own sake our national policy. Those facilities were only for children traveling alone - yes, it’s been common for Central American families to be so desperate to keep their children alive that they’d send them north, on their own.
Even if Trump isn’t really a Christian, Pence claims to be and maybe he can explain this to him:
Obama set of detention facilities for families, which may or may not be moral depending on your point of view, but he never had anything remotely as bad as the hell hole that is being reported.