Discussion: GOP Rep: Cages For Migrant Kids Are Really 'Walls ... Made Of Chain Link'

[chelsea530]

We need to keep track of these deplorable statements and who made them.

These people are the worst among us.

[zeddycat]

Hey, we considered barbed wire and electricity, but the ASPCA said no way.

[sniffit]

Someone should ask a 5 years old child what “this thing” is called. Then, when he says “cage” we can ask this Grand Wizard douchebag what matters more: the perceptions of these children who are being held in cage or his ridiculous sophistry.

[dannydorko]

He prefers the phrase “buildings that have, in some cases, walls that are made of chain link, so that it’s easier to observe and to protect them.”

I hereby propose that, in order to protect our members of congress and improve governmental transparency, all congressional offices immediately be remodeled by replacing all of their walls with chain-link fencing.

[massie]

He prefers the phrase “buildings that have, in some cases, walls that are made of chain link, so that it’s easier to observe and to protect them.”

so… cages.

glad we cleared that up.

“You know, there’s nothing inhumane about a chain link fence,” he told KTGO. “If it is, then every ballpark in America is inhumane.”

you know, it’s funny that you made a baseball reference there, buddy. Because in the context of baseball, a chain-link enclosure is called… a cage.

Batting cage

[dannydorko]

@riverstreet

In my wine cellar, I have a rather fine cask of Amontillado I would share with him.

Be sure to Poe him a big glass.

[tena]

Yes we do.

[gelfling545]

Republicans seem to perpetually miss the point. In Trump’s “ grabbing” video, they never understood that it wasn’t the p- word but the grabbing that was the problem. Here one doesn’t get the fact that it’s not the wire, it’s the cage that’s the problem.

[sickneffintired]

@pshah

Psst…Kevin? May I call you Kevin? You don’t seem to deserve an honorific, but let me clue you in. When you’re arguing about the definition of a “cage” in the context of little children, you’re not just losing, you’re getting crushed.

How much longer before we hear how hard labor creates character?

and another thing
Why aren’t they working and paying their own way

[c_stedman]

What a load of brown carbon based organic material!

[tiowally]

Cramer later went on to explain how he objected to the term abattoir. “It’s really more of an end-of-life care facility,” he said. “It just happens to be equipped to efficiently disseminate the remains.”

[dave48]

Has anyone told the WWE that you can’t make a cage out of chain link?

[paulw]

The previous republican administration made the same claims about the low-carbon-impact snug personal quarters at Guantanamo. Didn’t fly then either. (And yeah, hint: if it’s considered to inhumane to house adult accused terrorists, it’s probably not OK for kids.)

[c_stedman]

So many opposition campaign commercials writing themselves these days.

[slagathor]

And jail cells are really just dorm rooms with walls made of gray bars.

[epicurus]

“For the love of God, Montresor riverstreet!”

[maxaroo]

Did Mexico pay for these chain link walls?

[occamscoin]

Please proceed, congressman. Keep digging that hole.

[maxaroo]

You know in retrospect, saying that having oral sex wasn’t engaging in sexual relations, doesn’t seem all that bad now.

[godwit]

Ya know, Heidi H. drives me nuts sometimes, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say there’s a pretty clear difference between her and her opponent. Hope she wins in Nov.