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The Commentariat -- July 2, 2019
Afternoon Update:
Finally, a Baby Step. Nicholas Fandos & Charlie Savage of the New York Times: "The House's tax-writing committee sued the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday demanding access to President Trump's tax returns, escalating a fight with an administration that has repeatedly dismissed as illegitimate the Democrats' attempt to obtain Mr. Trump's financial records. The lawsuit moves the dispute into federal courts after months of sniping between the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee, which requested and then subpoenaed the returns, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin. The outcome is likely to determine whether financial information that Mr. Trump -- breaking with longstanding tradition -- has kept closely guarded as a candidate and as president will be viewed by Congress and, ultimately, by the public."
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Dareh Gregorian of NBC News: "... Donald Trump said Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to be increasing deportations of undocumented immigrants after Independence Day. 'After July Fourth a lot of people are going to be brought back out,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he signed a $4.6 billion aid bill to deal with the surge of migrants at the border. 'So people that come up maybe here for a short while, but they're going to be gone, they're going back to their countries. They go back home. ICE is going to be apprehending them and bringing them back.'" Mrs. McC: Trump speaks like a child. Contrast what comes out of Trump's mouth with the way Gregorian characterized his remarks: "they go back home" (toddler) v. "increasing deportations of undocumented immigrants" (adult). I look forward to the day when "Donnie fall down go boom."
Robert Moore, et al., of the Texas Tribune: House "Lawmakers described how migrant women were being held in a cell with no running water and told by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to drink out of toilet at a Texas detention center amid widespread concerns about deplorable conditions. More than a dozen U.S. House members visited facilities in El Paso and Clint -- a trip that came the same day as a news report that Border Patrol agents made vile posts that threatened lawmakers in a secret Facebook group and discussed throwing burritos at the congressional visitors.... The Congressional Hispanic Caucus organized the trip after conditions at the Border Patrol station in Clint prompted an outcry last month, with lawyers who visited the facility describing scenes of sick and dirty children without their parents and inconsolable toddlers in the care of other children. After touring the detention centers, the group struggled to be heard at a news conference, confronted by protesters who shouted at them 'Build a wall; deport 'em all -- that's the way we get rid of this problem!'" ...
... A. C. Thompson of ProPublica: "Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings. In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. One member posted a GIF of Elmo with the quote, 'Oh well.' Another responded with an image and the words 'If he dies, he dies.' Created in August 2016, the Facebook group is called 'I'm 10-15' and boasts roughly 9,500 members from across the country. (10-15 is Border Patrol code for 'aliens in custody.')... [Anticipating the visit by Members of Congress,] one member encouraged Border Patrol agents to hurl a 'burrito at these bitches.' Another, apparently a patrol supervisor, wrote, 'Fuck the hoes.' 'There should be no photo ops for these scum buckets,' posted a third member." Mrs. McC: This is why Trump continually praises Border Patrol officers. ...
... According to the Texas Tribune report, linked above, “Customs and Border Protection notified the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security about the Facebook posts and said an investigation had been initiated." ...
... Julia Ainsley & Jacob Soboroff of NBC News: "The government's own internal watchdog warned as far back as May that conditions at an El Paso, Texas, border station were so bad that border agents were arming themselves against possible riots, countering Friday's assertion by a top Trump administration official [-- acting DHS secretary Kevin McAleenan --] that reports of poor conditions for migrants were 'unsubstantiated.' In an internal report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and obtained by NBC News, inspectors noted during a May 7 tour of a border station in the El Paso sector that only four showers were available for 756 immigrants, more than half of the immigrants were being held outside, and immigrants inside were being kept in cells maxed out at more than five times their capacity.... The cell was so crowded the men could not lie down to sleep. Temperatures in the cells reached over 80 degrees, the report said." ...
... Bob Ortega of CNN: Dr. Roberto "Johansson, a pediatrician who specializes in emergency medicine and intensive care, says there's another pressing problem: The medical screening the Border Patrol gives to undocumented children is 'absolutely, unequivocally inadequate.'... Johansson said the Border Patrol does a poor job of initially assessing a child's illness and too often misses early signs of health problems of youngsters in custody. By the time children are sent to local hospitals, conditions that could have been treated earlier have grown more serious and more difficult to treat.Once at the hospital, border agents or other officers stand guard outside the children's rooms.... Under a CBP directive announced in January, a medical professional under CBP contract or a "credentialed healthcare provider" is supposed to conduct an interview and medical assessment of every child taken into custody."
"Trump Wants Census to Find Out Who Is 'An Illegal.'" Matthew Choi of Politico: "... Donald Trump said Monday his administration was still looking into delaying the 2020 census over disputes about the legality of a citizenship question. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, the president reiterated his incredulity that asking about citizenship is not part of the census. 'I think it is very important to find out if somebody is a citizen as opposed to an illegal,' Trump said. 'It is a big difference to me between being a citizen of the United States and being an illegal.'... Federal law requires the census to be taken 'as of the first day of April' 2020." ...
... Mrs. Bea McCrabbie: Trump's designation of a person as "an illegal" serves to further illustrate Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's point here. Rebecca Falconer of Axios: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) documented in a series of tweets what she described as 'horrifying' conditions inside a Texas migrant detention center at a Border Patrol station she visited Monday.... Ocasio-Cortez, who was in a party of Congressional Hispanic Caucus lawmakers, said a woman in the center told her officers had used 'psychological warfare' on migrants, 'waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc,' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. 'Tell me what about that is due to a "lack of funding?'" she said.... 'It is hard to understate the enormity of the problem. We're talking systemic cruelty w/ a dehumanizing culture that treats them like animals.'" To Trump, these individuals are less than animals. "Animal" is a noun; "illegal" is an adjective. "An illegal" is not even a "person, place or thing." Trump views a "person" as a description, and a highly-negative description at that. "An illegal" cancels personhood. It's worse than calling someone the N-word.
David Sanger of the New York Times: "Iran has exceeded a key limitation on how much nuclear fuel it can possess under the 2015 international pact curbing its nuclear program, effectively declaring that it would no longer respect an agreement that President Trump abandoned more than a year ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Monday. The breach of the limitation, which restricted Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium to about 660 pounds, does not by itself give the country the material to produce a nuclear weapon. But it is te strongest signal yet that Iran is moving to abandon the limits and restore the far larger stockpile that took the United States and five other nations years to persuade Tehran to send abroad."
Edward Wong of the New York Times: "... administration officials were sharply at odds on Monday over what demands to make of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, as they prepared to restart negotiations on a nuclear deal. Pushing an internal debate into the open, John R. Bolton, the national security adviser and the most prominent hawk in the administration, reacted angrily to a report in The New York Times about the possibility of a deal to effectively freeze North Korea's nuclear activity in return for American concessions.... 'This was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the president,' Mr. Bolton wrote on Twitter. 'There should be consequences.' But some senior administration officials have been discussing the idea of an incremental approach under which North Korea would first close down its nuclear facilities to prevent it from making new fissile material, in effect freezing its program but leaving its existing arsenal in place. In exchange, the Americans would make some concessions that would help improve the living conditions of North Korea...." ...
... Michelle Goldberg: "Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock, but at least he's humiliating John Bolton in the process.... It's nightmarish to live in a country where our foreign policy has been reduced to an intramural battle between Fox News reactionaries [Bolton & Tucker Carlson]. And there's still a danger that Bolton could outmaneuver the isolationists. But right now there is a thin, bitter consolation in knowing that he, like so many others who've worked for Trump, sacrificed his principles for power and will likely end up with neither."
Jonah Shepp of New York on how Trump shifted the G-20 summit. "In his statements and meetings on the sidelines of the summit, he gave explicit cover and support to authoritarian leaders, made concessions to adversaries, and threatened to tear up decades-old agreements with longstanding allies.... When Trump wasn't posing for smiling snapshots with [an] all-star cast of brutal dictators, he was taking potshots at real U.S. allies like Europe and Japan." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Emoluments! Anita Kumar of Politico: "While visiting South Korea over the weekend..., Donald Trump tried to strike a deal with President Moon Jae-in to get more companies to invest in the United States. But even as he pushed American interests, a partner of Trump's namesake company is aggressively expanding plans to build luxury Trump-branded resorts in Indonesia -- and the project involves a construction company partly owned by the South Korean government.... The meeting [between Trump & Moon] represented the latest example of the blurred lines between Trump's official diplomatic work and his business interests. The expansion of the project that now has the South Korean government attached to it seems to run afoul -- at least in spirit --of Trump's pledge that the Trump Organization will not enter into any new foreign deals while in office." Oh, P.S. Saudi Arabia also has a substantial interest in the construction company building the "Trump Community" in Indonesia.
Nous Sommes Désolés. Rym Momtaz & Nahal Toosi of Politico: An official of the French presidency says the Élysée is awfully sorry it released a video clip showing Ivanka Trump horning in on a conversation among actual government leaders. "'We didn't anticipate the reaction, and ... we are not responsible for the use made of the clip,' the official said." ...
... The New York Times weighs in on Ivanka Trump, Junior Diplomat. Katie Rogers: "On Sunday, [Ivanka] Trump ... used an impromptu meeting between her father and Kim Jong-un ... to further slip into the role of unofficial spokeswoman and budding stateswoman for the Trump administration. With her husband ... Jared Kushner at her side, Ms. Trump delivered news interviews, posed for photos and attended a closed-door meeting between her father and Mr. Kim.... 'We are on the precipice of ushering in potentially a golden era for the Korean Peninsula,' Ms. Trump told Bloomberg News in the hours before her father took the historic step of crossing into the North. But by the time she emerged from the closed-door meeting between the leaders hours later, she only had one word for journalists about her encounter with North Korea. She called it 'surreal.' Others following along called [her presence] inappropriate.... Ms. Trump's participation in the G20 trip illustrated just how unchecked her ascent in the White House has been in recent months, and how few people who might have raised doubts remain." Mrs. McC: Junior Displomat. I think there's a merit badge for that. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...
Ivanka Trump at Yalta. I'm thing that if Ivanka hadn't been there to assert her own views (notice Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin are mum while Ivanka shares her thoughts), there might never have been a cold war.
... Mrs. McCrabbie: CNN ran an unintentionally hilarious clip of Mike Pompeo -- a confirmed Secretary of State -- trying to squeeze in to the front row of a group picture while Ivanka & Daddy Dearest hogged front row, center-stage. Pompeo eventually pushed through, but Canadian PM Justin Trudeau didn't even try; the formal photos show Trudeau in the back row. Some pundits blame Daddy for putting his daughter in these spots where she doesn't belong. I don't buy it; Ivanka is a chip off the old blockhead & loves to hog the spotlight whether it's "appropriate" or not. ...
... Erin Banco & Asawin Suebsaeng of the Daily Beast. “Ivanka and Kushner ... were reportedly present at a closed-door meeting between [Trump & Kim], who ended up speaking about one of the most sensitive topics on the planet -- North Korea's nuclear weapons program.... , an official reached out and said: 'Although they met Kim, Jared and Ivanka did not participate in the closed-door meeting.' The official did not clarify which meeting Ivanka and Jared participated in or how many meetings were held on the border. But two other officials told The Daily Beast that Ivanka and Kushner were in the room for conversations that pertained to nuclear weapons and sanctions." Mrs. McC: While the president* has the authority to clear anyone, I'm not sure either Jared of Ivanka has official clearance high enough to attend meetings about nuclear security. ...
... Suzanne Moore of the Guardian: "That Ivanka is on some permanent 'take your daughter to work day' has long been evident.... The toxicity of Trump, a patriarchal mobster, is still met with appalled politeness. Our own royals [i.e., Queen Elizabeth, et al.,] prostrated themselves before these lowlifes. This is not participatory democracy.... Indeed, the only way we participate is by making memes about this ghastly spectacle on social media.... We laugh -- because to take her seriously is too ugly to contemplate."
... Alison Rourke of the Guardian: "Ivanka Trump's prominent role at the G20 summit over the weekend, and her presence at the Korean demilitarised zone with her father, has inspired a slew of parodies under the hashtag #unwantedivanka.... Following an awkward encounter in Osaka, in which Trump appeared to muscle in on a conversation with world leaders, the president's daughter and senior White House advisor has been photoshopped into significant moments in history...." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
He wants to have a parade like they have in Moscow or China or North Korea. -- RNC Fundraiser ...
The image, believe it or not, comes from a Trump supporter.... Another Spectacular Fascist Vanity Project. Michael Shear, et al., of the New York Times: "President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess. The tanks would join an airborne display of the nation's firepower.... Mr. Trump, who will be speaking at the celebration, has requested that the chiefs for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines be standing next to him as aircraft from each of their services fly overhead and their respective hymns play on loudspeakers.... Pentagon officials declined to comment on Monday as they wrestled with how to accommodate the president's tank request with only a few days left before the event.... The Memorial Bridge, which spans the Potomac River and connects the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, might not be able to hold the weight.... The City Council for the District of Columbia ... posted on Twitter: 'We have said it before, and we'll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks.'" ...
... Jack Crosbie of Splinter: "Per the Washington Post, Trump is again giving the National Parks Service a massive headache by requesting massive armored vehicles on the National Mall for his planned rebrand of the nation's Fourth of July celebration as a VIP 'Salute to America.' According to the paper this morning: '... The ongoing negotiations over whether to use massive military hardware, such as Abrams tanks or Bradley fighting vehicles, as a prop for Trump's "Salute to America" is just one of many unfinished details when it comes to the celebration planned for Thursday.... Traditionally, major gatherings on the Mall, including inauguration festivities and a jubilee commemorating the start of a new millennium, have featured a designated event producer. But in this case, the producer is the president himself....'... As HuffPost reported at the time [of Trump's inauguration, when he also requested tanks for his parade]: '... "I could absolutely see structural support being a reason [not to use tanks]," a Department of Defense official said. "D.C. is built on a swamp to begin with."'" The WashPo story is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...
... S. V. Date of the Huffington Post: "... Donald Trump has hijacked what for decades had been a nonpolitical Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, packing his ticketed-event speech with political appointees and Republican donors. The Republican National Committee has been offering major donors tickets to Trump's speech, as have political appointees at the White House and executive branch agencies.... The current plans for Thursday do not include a parade, but Trump is still pushing for tanks or other military vehicles to be displayed on the National Mall, The Washington Post reported, even though their weight is liable to damage the grass and roads.... Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University history professor and expert on fascism, said Trump's need to display military hardware is a feature of authoritarians throughout history." ...
... Jennifer Bendery of the Huffington Post: "Irked by ... Donald Trump's plan to hold his own July Fourth event on the National Mall, veterans plan to give out thousands of USS John S. McCain T-shirts to make the president face a crowd of people honoring the McCain family's legacy and the idea of putting one's country before oneself. VoteVets, a left-leaning nonprofit group founded in 2006 by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, is organizing the effort in response to Trump's unprecedented 'Salute to America' celebration."
Michelle Kosinski of CNN: "Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his family's use of taxpayer-funded Diplomatic Security.... Congressional investigators, who asked for the committee not to be named as they carry out their inquiries, tell CNN that a State Department whistleblower has raised multiple issues over a period of months, about special agents being asked to carry out some questionable tasks for the Pompeo family. In April, for example, an agent was asked to pick up Chinese food -- without Pompeo in the car. The whistleblower said this led agents to complain that they are now serving as 'UberEats with guns.'... On another occasion, the whistleblower told aides, a Diplomatic Security special agent was given the job of picking up the Pompeo family dog from a groomer. And CNN has seen a document given to the committee aides by the whistleblower showing that in January, Diplomatic Security was asked by a person in Pompeo's office to pick up his adult son from Union Station in Washington and bring him to the family home."
The Moochers Voted for Trump. Paul Krugman: "In moving to the left on taxes and spending..., Democrats are actually moving toward voters' preferences, not away from them.... Nobody who endorsed the 2017 tax cut has any right to criticize Democratic proposals to spend more on things like child care. That tax cut, after all, appears likely to add around $2 trillion to federal debt -- with around a third of that going to foreigners. Meanwhile, the promised surge in business investment is nowhere to be seen.... If your view is that the progressive agenda is morally wrong, that people shouldn't receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes, you should be aware how many Americans are already 'takers,' 'moochers,' whatever. In fact, we're talking about a vast swath of the heartland that includes just about every state that voted for Donald Trump."
Michael Tomasky in a New York Times op-ed: "The aggressive gerrymandering, which the Supreme Court just declared to be a matter beyond its purview; the voter suppression schemes; the dubious proposals that haven't gone anywhere -- yet -- like trying to award presidential electoral votes by congressional district rather than by state, a scheme that Republicans in five states considered after the 2012 election and that is still discussed: These are not ideas aimed at invigorating democracy. They are hatched and executed for the express purpose of essentially fixing elections." Tomasky borrows a term from Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way: "competitive authoritarianism," which describes the political structures of countries like Mozambique, Cambodia & Russia, where "formal democratic institutions exist..., but in which incumbents' abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Presidential Election 2016. Triumph of the Trolls. Ken Delanian of NBC News: "A new statistical analysis ... by researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, does not prove that Russian interference swung the election to Trump. But it demonstrates that Trump's gains in popularity during the 2016 campaign correlated closely with high levels of social media activity by the Russian trolls and bots of the Internet Research Agency, a key weapon in the Russian attack.... The study found that every 25,000 re-tweets by accounts connected to the IRA predicted a 1 percent increase in opinion polls for Trump. In an interview with NBC News, [the study's lead researcher Damian] Ruck said the research suggests that Russian trolls helped shift U.S public opinion in Trump's favor. As to whether it affected the outcome of the election: 'The answer is that we still don't know, but we can't rule it out.'"
Sam Stein of the Daily Beast: "ThinkProgress, the flagship news site of the Democratic think tank Center for American Progress, is up for sale. Staff were informed on Monday afternoon that the site would be sold off and a CAP official told The Daily Beast that the organization would begin looking for prospective buyers for the website, which has come under severe financial strains during the Trump era."
Way Beyond the Beltway
China. Javier C. Hernández of the New York Times: "Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in peaceful protest on Monday as Hong Kong commemorated its return to China in 1997, but the city was shaken by images of a smaller group of activists who broke into the legislature, smashed glass walls and spray-painted slogans in the inner chamber. The split-screen protest offered vivid evidence that the divide in the former British colony is not merely between protesters and the Beijing-allied government -- the protesters are increasingly at odds with one another."
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I'm wondering what the Republican reaction will be when Mr. president-for-life names Ivanka as his successor.
@joynone: Now that Ivanka & Jared have moved to D.C., I don't see anything to stop Trump from naming her his running mate.
-- acting DHS secretary Kevin McAleenan --] that reports of poor conditions for migrants were 'unsubstantiated.'
Just like Abu Ghraib.
We voted in the "Blue wave" for oversight and accountability, and we've got nothing but fucking peanuts.
Chuck & Nancy gotta go. Put someone in there with fire in their belly, not pain meds and a walking stick.
Just wondering, as the Glorious Fourth of Trump (he to whom we owe everything) approaches, will we be seeing (along with goose stepping hordes of heavily armed troops, tanks, ICBMs, and who knows what all) the ten story portraits of the Orange Menace, the kind beloved by totalitarian dictators draped down the front of Washington monuments? After all, he has to show his best buds, Putin, Kim, Duterte, and of course, Prince Bonesaw, that he’s one of them (as opposed to one of us). I’m betting there’s internecine warfare over which couple will have their gigantic pusses plastered across the front of the Treasury building, Princess Ivanka and Young Jared or Lord and Lady Munchkin. Such a day it will be. Pass the Jameson’s, please. Might as well get a head start on the drinking.
Follow the money. Or maybe that should be follow the crooks. Or
could be one and the same.
John Kelly is on the board of Caliburn International, parent company
of Comprehensive Health Services. Comprehensive runs a trumpcamp
in Homestead, Fl. and 3 in Texas.
Earlier this year, Caliburn told potential shareholders that trump's
border policy was driving "significant growth for the company."
They decided not to go public but instead take on private investors.
I guess by going public we would find out who all the crooks are.
Before becoming WH chief of staff, Kelly sat on the board of DC
Capital Partners, owners of Caliburn International.
Months ago I read an article on Comprehensive Health Services
about the money involved running theses trumpcamps. The figure
was $750 per day, per child. I can't find a link to that, being
somewhat computer illiterate.
So the more children separated and imprisoned, the richer their
private investors become. Sounds like they could afford a little
soap and water on that dollar amount, assuming that's the correct
figure.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/05-caliburn-international/
Ivanka is our very own Zeleg popping up everywhere and anywhere her Daddy thinks she can weld some influence. One can speculate that if she was fat like her father with thinning orange hair and a propensity for inane remarks she'd be home making cookies and be persona non grata.
This game of thrones is sickening to watch and if the King's plan for the Fourth turns out the tanks and other Trumpian regalia I'm hoping that those McCain Tee Shirt brigades will rise up and call foul on this fool.
We will be celebrating something someone once called glorious; meanwhile immigrants are being held like animals in over crowded cages as if ready for slaughter except those animals have access to water, food, and a daily dousing of a wash-down and if they are lucky they get to free range on fertile fields. We have lost all credibility in our great nation speeches; we are no better than the nearest dictator who runs his country like a gulag.
I'm sensing another business opportunity for president emoluments. Trump Brand Bottled Toilet Water. Only the best for our immigrants! Scrub brush sold separately. Trump Brand Bottled Toilet Water comes straight from immigrant concentration camps and is sold unfiltered to offer the most authentic experience possible. To be drunk under harsh lights while sitting on a concrete floor.
Look for the orange label. Accept only the best. Trump Brand! And don't miss our two day infomercial, Trumpdepence Day! Tanks, army guys, and all kinds of shit to blow up enemies of the state, like journalists, Democrats, liberals, and black and brown people.
Trump Brand!
Forrest,
C'mon, man. Soap and water will cut into the profit margin. Are you some kinda anti-capitalism commie? You're not gonna tell good ol' Johnny Kelly that his take off the backs of poor immigrants is gonna diminish by .002% now, are you? Poor Johnny. Them immygrints can wash themselves like cats do. They're animals anyway, right? I mean, Trump sez so.
And by the way, I'd love to see the breakout of what that $750/per kid per day buys.
That $750 per day per kid buys exactly what the crooks are into.
That 2nd or 3rd or 5th hideaway in some country that has no
extradition. Two more Bentleys, cause 3 ain't enough. A couple
more of those 10 bedroom, 10 bathroom yachts like Betsy has.
We can't be outdone by a woman. Oh, and the most important,
it'll buy lots of politicians.
@ Forrest
I don't know what's worse.
POS white nationalist Gen. Kelly publicly dismissing migrants' suffering, then cashing in on the biz...?
Or so-called "honorable" Gen. Michael Hayden, an occasional MSM commentator denouncing the border policy, even once comparing the camps to "Nazi concentration camps" and warning the country might be heading down that path...
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/michael-hayden-nazi-immigration-cnntv/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
....while being on the Board of Directors of DC (vulture) capital, which owns Caliburn Int'l, which is running and operating the same said "concentration camps"?
https://www.dccapitalpartners.com/news/releases/04.20.2009.html
America today is a battle between bad and worst.
"C.W*. We live in a country where half the people are at the least ignorant & irresponsible, & at the worst horrible human beings. Until now, that's been a rumor or a "feeling"; now, it's a certainty. "
From Oct. 1, 2016
* C.W.= Constant Weeder which I always thought apt and very clever.
I wonder how much Generalissimo El Trumpo is billing US taxpayers for his tanked up Trumpdepence Day celebration/campaign rally.
What’s next? Labor Day becomes Trumper Day? Veterans Day changes to Bonespur Day? Christmas? Trumpmas? There’ll have to be at least a couple of holidays for Junior Diplomat Ivanka, and maybe one or two for Uday and Qusay (Asshole Fools’ Day?).
Why don’t we just go the route of the French revolutionaries and change the names of the months to reflect a different aspect of the wonderfulness and griftiness that is the Trump Crime Family?
One would think that the grifter-in-chief would notice and comprehend
in his pea brain that no other world leaders brought their bimbo
daughters to important meetings.
He could at least explain that she isn't here to make policy decisions.
She's here to change my diapers and remind me when it's time to
take my stay-awake meds.
I'm kinda not liking the calling of Ivanka a "bimbo." That has really negative and hostile connotations of men speaking about women. She is simply unqualified to be where she apparently is. If she was in on high-level security briefings, how?? Does she have that kind of clearance? Or just daddy-approved clearance...? I guess there is no one to tell daddy no. As for Jared, he is five kinds of weird and a little jackanapes-- again with a trumpster-approved clearance-- god knows what he blabs to Prince Butcher when they are chatting it up--
At any rate, I don't think Ivanka is super dumb (not like her brothers--)-- I don't think she is a "bimbo--" but she sure as hell should not have been at the G20. But again, "checks and balances" (common sense??) shoulda been applied here, and no. one. tells. him. he. is. a. blithering idiot.
@Jeanne: My apologies. I'm the last person anyone would call a
sexist or racist. Guess I was in a hurry and thought of that word
instead of what I shoulda said. It's been a long day. Sorry.
Re Ivanka, while I can sympathize with the desire not to call someone a bimbo, I have not seen or heard anything from Miss I to persuade me that she is anything but.