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Eleven Trump allies who met with Russians in order to get "dirt" on Clinton:
George Papadopoulos, April 2016
Michael Caputo, May 2016
Roger Stone, May 2016
Donald Trump Jr, June 2016
Jared Kushner, June 2016
Paul Manafort, June 2016
Here's my question:
When approached by agents from Russia, is your first response to say "Cool, what do ya got?, or do you call up the FBI and say: "Hey, I just got approached by agents from Russia. I think maybe you should check in to this".
Isn’t the answer to everything in Drumpf world one of two thoughts: #WWVD? or Grab ‘em by the [lady parts] !
Eichmanism.
When Eichman was sending all the Jews to concentration camps, the Jewish mother offered: "Take me, but spare my child."
Eichman's response was pure bureaucratic bullshit. "Oh, I can't make an exception for you. If I did that for you, I'd have to do it for everybody.
When Jeff Sessions is claiming that he is not a Nazi, he is losing the argument.
Trump will be meeting with the GOP Congress today to twist arms into passing the GOP-written immigration bills (both of which feature full funding for The Wall and major restrictions on DACA status, asylum, legal and illegal immigration).
The New York Times Editorial Board has some choice words for anyone tempted to fall in line with Trump:
This hits pretty close to home for Trump:
Not steel, not aluminum, and certainly not imported automobiles. The greatest national security threat facing our nation is Donald J. Trump:
Trump is simply doing Putin's bidding, with some influence also from Xi in China. Disruption of the Western alliance is a long term goal for Putin. Another example is Trump's withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership, thus ceding economic hegemony in the western Pacific to China.
Interesting interview last night on Fox/Ingraham with Jeff Sessions. The expected stuff about the border situation was there.
Then he pulled a genuine surprise, at least for me. Ingraham tried to pressure him on the Russian investigation and his recusal. Sessions more or less said he wasn't getting into that and stated that Rosenstein is the attorney general for the Mueller investigation.
Democrats: "Trump is a madman, bent on destruction, who will obliterate the world if we let him."
(Senate passes $716B defense bill 85-10)
Democrats: #resist?
Bennet? I won’t even bother to look cuz he’s too much of a coward to vote against it. But he’s a D, so it’s all good.
Well, Bennet plus 50 other Dems and/or DINOs makes Dianne Feinstein the chairwoman of the judiciary committee and Chuck Schumer majority leader.
You're right for once. Bennet's a D, so it's all good.
America’s latent racism, stoked for 8 years by Republicans, with hardly any pushback by Democrats (who could be so stupid, right Pols?), is in full bloom, becoming entrenched, and probably just getting started.
We may be the 4th Reich before Democrats get their weak shit together. They better be fast, they better be loud, they better get ugly.
Things are not going too well for Chief of Staff Kelly either. Tucked into the middle of an article explaining the treacherous ground Kristjen Neilsen is standing on was this tidbit:
Hey Kelly, you seem to want this chapter to close. Maybe you could be the Deep Throat of this Sad!ministration.
Pity poor Paul Ryan — trying to herd one large rabid cat!
I wonder if Trump will be wearing his party's mascot pin on his lapel – the Yellow-bellied Hypocrite?
And that rabid cat keeps pissing and crapping on the carpet.
Yep, McConnell is scrambling to write a new bill to end the Trump policy of separating children from their parents. Trump, naturally, is having none of it.
Because, you know, judges are corrupt, and lawyers are "bad people"
Of course, the bill is still bad policy (Hey kids, you can be jailed along side your asylum-seeking parents too!), and as Senator Schumer notes:
That ain't no cat. That's a big ol' slobberin' hound dog. You don't have to house-train cats. Put them in a box with sand in it. They know what it's for.
I have to admit, I didn’t see this one coming.
#MethodistInquisition
I hope the expel him.
So his prize for being the first Senator-critter to wear that stupid red hat is:
1: a Democrat in his old seat
2: legal cannabis
3: expulsion from his life-long membership in UMC.
Really, could you even make this stuff up?
A little ray of sunshine (topped with a bit of Schadenfreude!) in of all places, Kansas. Proof of citizenship will not be required to vote in the state as a result of the inept and deceptive case presented by Kris Kobach :
I hope they can salvage whatever is left of the state after #GuvBrokeback scurried off to be Drumpfs Ambassador of something-something. If not, we’re going to need to consider a Great Wall on our eastern border.
Well, he's running for Governor, so the question of their fate is truly in the hands of Kansas voters. Knowing my brother-in-law in Wichita, I'm not optimistic.
4 "tender age" (babies and toddlers) facilities in Texas now. Lawrence O Donnell is reporting on it. Rachel Maddow broke down in tears while reporting it. Red meat for the Sonnenbergs and Bucks of the world. Because "liberal tears" are great.
Right, Moderatus? You have young kids. What do you feel about this?
Why is this happening? Here's what I think:
It's not primarily to secure the border. The border won't be secure while the cartels control Central American countries, and the cartels will control Central American countries while North Americans demand meth, heroin, and other drugs. The legalization of marijuana has put more pressure on cartels to sell harder stuff.
It's not primarily to pacify Trump's base. His base is uncomfortable with it, too. The racists like it; they like the talk of “vermin”. But that’s just gravy.
It’s not mainly to make liberals cry. That is a feature, not a bug.
Mostly, this heartless policy is to make money for private prison contractors: GEO group, CoreCivic, MTC, and other private prison contractors. The "tender age centers' will be a new venture. "Expanding the client base" in corporate speak. Because legalization of cannabis and reduction in incarceration for simple drug offenses has really cut into the private prison corporation's profits. So they're looking to make that up with immigrant detention – including jails for babies.
Warehoused, wailing babies. Inadequate staff. Records of sexual abuse and deaths to be covered up per ICE request. Legal representation for minors cut.
Last November, NPR reported that ICE spent $2 billion on private prison detention of immigrants. $32 million of that went to the GEO group. ICE has over 100 immigrant detention facilities around the country.
This was planned last year; ICE made a budget request for 51,000 new beds. (see page 14 of the ICE budget. )
Trump owes these private prison contractors, bigly. The Justice Department under Sessions cleared the way for private prisons to expand immigrant detention.
*Corecivic was formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. CCA has a reputation for inmate deaths and abuse. Not the people you want watching over the baby jails. CCA has plans to build immigrant detention facilities all over the country, per ICE request.
I guess we all have ways to deal with outrage and horror we can't do much about; some drink heavily. Me, I write long link-filled posts to put the picture together, and eventually a diary.
Trump and Sessions to Madow, O'Donnell and the rest of the "liberal media":