Discussion: Pence Dodges Tapper's Questions About Poor Conditions At Child Migrant Centers

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These are crimes against humanity. Too bad we couldn’t elect a Democratic Majority in Congress that would actually try to do something.

They won’t even enforce their own subpoenas.

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“Congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at our southern border but we’ve got to get to the root causes. We’ve got to close the loopholes that human traffickers, as we speak, are using to entice vulnerable families to take the long and dangerous journey north.”

Pence continued “In no way can it be said that the American personnel are being paid to take kids, warehouse them, and trade them off to fundalmentalist christian homes while contractors are bidding to make a profit from the trade as human trafficking. That would be wrong.”

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Q-Tip should be locked up where Mother Pence can’t find him.

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It’s a wonder Pence’s home in Indy hasn’t been torched yet. After all, we all know he’s going to hell so why not now, here on earth.

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Credit where it’s due: I have problems with Jake Tapper and his record but in this interview he at least tried to hold Pence accountable.

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Simple Interview Technique: “If you aren’t explicitly against these policies and effects, then you are clearly for them. Please justify.”

Then shut up and listen. Then attack the hypocrisy over and over.

Why are tv interviewers so placid and complacent? It’s easy stuff.

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Such a devout Christian. I’m in awe of his piety, charity, and love.

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Truth…

The Xtain way…as long as they are brown fuck’em.

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Well, no American, no American, should approve of this administration’s misappropriation of funds to build a vanity wall rather than care for the least of my brothers, the pseudo Xtian who adheres to the prosperity Bible didn’t say.

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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and they are not journalists, not even interviewers, they are news readers.

I’ll add in an edit that I’m not sure that “news readers” should rather just say “readers”, they sure don’t do a hell of a lot of news. I don’t watch TV but maybe the last time I viewed the local TV newscast they took a 5 minute commercial break at quarter after the hour. When they came back it was one very brief story, 10 seconds at best and then “that is all the time we have tonight, see you tomorrow”. What the fuck type of newscast is that.

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Trump used similar evasions with Chuck Todd, who seemed from the clips I saw to press him on this issue. What we need are both politicians and journalists in the opinion and analysis side to say that even if, and that’s a big if, they’ve stopped actually taking children from their parents and scattering them to the winds, it’s still obviously a systematic effort to brutalize these people, from infants and toddlers on up, for daring to seek to settle here for reasons we formally set forth as legitimate. And it’s done for political gain. I hope there’s a slow-building wave of anger over this. I think there may be, and I hope it’s not wishful thinking borne of pain and rage.

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Tapper is such a patsy. He lets that tool talk over him, not answer the question, and dominate the conversation with propaganda. He might as well have gotten down on his knees and sucked him off.

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Not even provided with soap or toothpaste. In that sense, Somali pirates are better than Americans who run these concentration camps. Who do we consider to be criminals?

The answer is “Yes.”

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No, he really didn’t. Half the time he sounded like he was agreeing. That was pathetic.

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is PENCE really a ‘live’ person…he looks like a dead man…

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If only

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“I know you. You’re a father, you’re a man of faith,” Tapper said to Pence after he was done reading. “You can’t approve of that.”

Correction: he pretends to be a man of faith. Like most of his ilk, Pence goes through the sanctimonious posturing. He doesn’t give a damn about an actual child, only a clump of fetal cells he can use to control a woman.

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