I listened to portions of this audio. Too difficult to stomach. I’m glad this is getting out there though. The world is watching us and we look like human rights abusers (because we are). This is a Nazi policy.
I made it about 20 seconds. Fuck these fucking Nazis.
The Democrats’ standing their ground and demanding that Trump end his own policy and not giving into the GOP lies and media spin is the best way to end this crisis in the quickest manner. ACLU will work some angles in the courts. Voters will do their thing in November. Until then, we need to keep fighting and standing on principle. It is possible that the optics of this will get to the GOP sooner rather than later. I’m seeing some signs from the GOP Senate and Trump that they’re fronting and can’t hold this ground on a sustained basis. Dems just have to stand tough and demand that the GOP take responsibility and accountability for this situation.
At this point, if Governor Brown ordered the national guard to take over the fed facility and free these kids, I’d be for it. That’s how bad this situation is.
Yeah, this is because of the Democrats. Remember when these recordings took place under Obama?
Neither do I.
You’re a lot tougher than I am because I just can’t do it.
I knew I shouldn’t have. Crying kids kills a normal human being. Imagine what a piece of shit you have to be to work in one of these concentration camps.
I have never been more ashamed of my country than I am right now.
And then joke about it.
I am truly ashamed to be an American now.
Someone should set this up on a loudspeaker outside the Capitol Building.
Heck, they should play it at the White House. Direct it to Melania’s window. Maybe she’ll get off the damned fence and kick that fat bastard in his itty bitty cocktail weenie.
I listened to the entire fucking thing and posted the video on Facebook and dared people in my red state to defend it.
Now we know why Marla fled with her kid to California and never looked back. I doubt Tiffany ever cried.
OT, but pertinent.
My husband just showed me a headline on one section of Die Zeit from last Thurs (the Thurs edition is like the NYT Sunday). There’s a photo of Spankee, waving, climbing the stairs to Air Force One.
Underneath it the headline reads “Der Abschied vom amerikanischen Zeitalter”, which basically translates to “Farewell to the American Era”.
Says everything about how the rest of the world sees us…
MAGA, my lily-white patootie…
I just did the same.
I love TPM, but this should be the lead story.
Except that’s not really quite what they’re doing. They’re going to push a bill to fix this, but are being largely quiet and failing to message correctly about this, just like they always fail. They should be having press conferences and treating it like a real honest to god emergency, but they’re being all academic and polite again. It all comes across to me like quietly doing as Trump is demanding and avoiding the cameras to avoid admitting their shame. People should be stomping their feet and literally yelling at people, calling down shame on them and playing this audio on the House and Senate floors…and fuck all congeniality in the congress, because these GOP assholes are at war with us whether we’re willing to admit it or not. I keep hoping and hoping for someone to finally stop playing Mr. Niceguy, but nope…it’s all just take it in the ass grin and bear it, even when an inhumane outrage like this is taking place. I get no sense of urgency from them and certainly no sense of the deep and abiding fury that this should engender and cause them to fulminate non-stop into any mic and/or camera they can get their ass in front of.
And where is Obama on this? Fuck, where is the POPE?
There now appear to be 3 GOP members of Congress calling on Sessions to end this policy. Graham is sort of there too. What I see emerging from Congress is that they don’t want this hot potato and they don’t feel much like bailing Trump out of this mess. They don’t want to deal with legislation. They can’t say that to him directly so they are putting this in Jeff Sessions’ & Nielsen’s laps. I’m also hearing from Twitter that the reason the press briefing was delayed is because SH Sanders didn’t want to go out there alone to talk about the family separation issue. They’re flying in Nielson to talk about it.
The pressure is working. Keep it up and intensify.
My heart hurts. I feel so much heartache for these children. What have we become?
This is one hell of a sick Harry Harlow experiment, in real time, only with primates of the human genus.
This. Must. Stop.
Not. In. My. Name.
G-ddammit.