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June 25, 2018 05:01 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.”

–Michael M. Honda

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7 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread

  1. Beautifully played by Senator Schatz. It’s encouraging to know that Sanders was not judged by the color of her skin but the contet of her character. 

  2. Let’s be honest: Do you think it’s outrageous when an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department argues that kids as little as 3-years-old are capable of defending themselves in American immigration courts. I know I do. But that happened — with few people paying attention — in 2016, when the attorney general was Loretta Lynch and Obama was POTUS.

    Then there was the Associated Press scoop that went viral last week about migrant kids as young as 14 who say they were beaten while handcuffed, locked up in solitary confinement, and left naked in concrete cells at a juvenile detention center in Virginia — which happened in 2015 and 2016, long before Donald J. Trump became our 45th and current president.

    Right now, the protest movement that, arguably, pressured Trump into ending family separations — for now — is turning its focus to the cruelty of family detention, which could also keep kids in a prison-type setting for months, albeit with their parents. So it’s worth noting that the Obama administration was in court as recently as 2016 fighting for exactly that, the right to detain families indefinitely.

    At some point, Democrats are going to have to reckon with the fact that, while politics determines which electeds win and which lose, it's policy that determines the outcomes of the lives of Americans and others to whom our government's reach extends.  Democrats being in power won't fix these problems, as Democrats who've been in power have shown us.  It's about the people we elect, not the (letter) next to their names.

    Some of the pictures of border kids that haunt me most are from 2014. Here's why

    1. "Nevermind guys, let the Republicans keep it all, we'll just be in this corner hating ourselves!" – Democrats who spout this shit.

      Stop falling for the GOP's bait. We need to be a Megalodon chomping up their crippled cruise ship, not some pathetic guppy too afraid of our own reflection to fight. 

       

      1. You can fight and still be honest about where you've fallen short.  You can be more worthy to hold office than the "other guy" but admit that you can be worthier still.  You can, but you won't, and that won't surprise anyone, really.  In fairness, nobody in your party, or out of it, expects that.

        1. I agree that "It's the policy, stupid!" (not the D or the R). Obama set a precedent for the indefinite family detentions Trump wants, but at least he didn't separate the kids to achieve it.

          The private prison industry profits no matter what we do, and again to Obama's credit, he did put in place some limits on how many bodies private prisons get to have.

  3. Colorado ACLU to defend woman charged in writing Ken Buck a political message in chalk

    After a half hour meeting during which the director defended the administration’s zero tolerance policy and called media reports about child detention centers fake news, Johnson left, according to the ACLU. She dropped a bag containing sidewalk chalk on the way out and then wrote her message on a privately owned sidewalk.

    “Family separation is a moral outrage, and I wanted to express that outrage,” said Johnson, in a news release, who added she wasn’t aware she was doing anything wrong.

    Three hours later, a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy came to her house to issue a citation and also warn her that if she returned to Buck’s office without an appointment she could face trespassing charges.

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