President Donald Trump said Friday that he “hates” migrant parents being separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border and insisted that the “Democratic law” that requires the separation can only be changed by Democratic lawmakers, despite the Republican majorities in Congress.
I’m just trying to hang in to see Manafort in orange, but this is making it tough.
"…press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders backed up Sessions’ argument that “it is biblical to enforce the law,” …
Since we're a secular nation, and our laws are predicated on separation of church and state, WTF does the word of the Bible on this issue have to do with anything?
Don't look for any prominent journalist to pose this question to Trump, Sanders or Sessions.When you control both partisan branches of government and are operating with a rather sympathetic third branch, the politics of weakness is an odd choice.
It says a lot about him. Not a hard worker, not a go-getter, not a detail-oriented person. Not a person who will make a tough decision, knowing that it will cost him but that it’s worth it.
Did Barack Obama or Dubya worry about how straight people were standing when they saluted the office? No, of course not. They were working on achieving their goals, noble or dubious though they might have been. They didn’t have the time or patience to worry about such minor, pathetic details.
Donald Trump is indescribably weak. Every atom of his very large, very big body is weak. Weakness is his core. His weakness defines him. He could not do anything other than act weak.
In Other Words: Donald Trump is lying again. Officially. Brazenly. Ignorantly.
It’s a jiggling weakness.
“for some reason exempting the Republican majorities from taking any action.”
Really? “For some reason”? It just completely escapes you that he’s torturing children and families as a political move to try to blame it on the Dems and thereby gain ground with Hispanic voters? That is LITERALLY what he is doing and why he is doing it. LITERALLY.
#LITERALLY
Welcome to the ReWhited States of Amurikkka. May I take your rights?
I think the only effective, appropriate response to Trump would result in a person getting hanged.
And FFS, would someone in the Fourth Estate that he says this shit to please, for the love of all that is holy, ask him right then and there “what law is that?” I mean jesus fucking christ it’s gotten beyond fucking pathetic watching the “journalists” fail so thoroughly over and over and over and over and over like this. It’s infuriating. Is it because they know that question would stump him and they don’t want to “go there”? WTF? He’s the head of the entire law enforcement branch of the fucking gov’t and he’s trying to cite law at you that he claims justifies…nay, REQUIRES…him to torment and imprison CHILDREN in squalid conditions after ripping them from their parents AND IT NEVER OCCURS TO YOU TO ASK WHAT LAW HE’S SUPPOSEDLY HIDING BEHIND? This is why we’re in this shit in the first place. The Fourth Estate is DEAD.
And the response from Democrats is…
(Just askin’)
Apparently, their response is to implicitly admit that it IS their fault by doing no messaging and just following his instructions to enact something that fixes it.
Acting like cowards, unfortunately.
All I see Dem politicians doing is sitting on the sidelines hoping that the orange idiot screws up. It’s downright nauseating.
JFC. You know Fux Gnus is going to run with the “Democtats need to…” theme all day - so they can ignore the Manafort take down - and their sheeple will suck it up.
Why are you pretending there’s only two?
Might be a bit sweeping. The instant he said it was the Democrat’s law, the woman in front said “Mr. President, that’s your policy.” She directly contradicts him with a factual description of reality. He’s got decades of experience at playing the press, and a gaggle like that is at a huge disadvantage in pinning someone down, compared to a one-on-one, but she did exactly what you want.
I realize you are a liar of, shall we say, unprecedented magnitude Donnie, but this is a bridge too far even for you. Your ultra-corrupt party controls everything, so if you were really so damned broken up by this law (which, by the way, has the dubious distinction of not actually existing) then you and your cronies could easily change it. Just because you regurgitate things from your mouth doesn’t make them true you stupid ass.
So anyway the old protection racket shakedown continues. Blowing up DACA didn’t get him his stupid wall and a historic tightening of immigration policy, although he could have had a clean deal for the former. So he does this now. Sadism. It’s all he knows. That’s what a deal is, to him. You inflict pain until you get what you want, and that’s a win-win, for you, because inflicting pain is part of the fun.
Brownian motion?
Why doesn’t trump pardon these families? He has the power.
In fact, a week ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and 39 cosponsors—all Democrats plus the two Independents who caucus with the Democrats—introduced the “Keeping Families Together Act” on the floor of the Senate.