Originally published at: House Democrat to ICE Chief: ‘Do You Think You’re Going to Hell, Mr. Lyons?’
In a mostly soporific Tuesday House Homeland Committee hearing called amid the widespread public outcry over Customs and Border Protection agents’ killing of Alex Pretti, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) managed to set the whole room astir. She asked acting ICE Chief Todd Lyons whether he’s religious, reacting with surprise when he responded that he is.…
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This is the way. Hold them up to a mirror every chance you get.
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Good on Rep. McIver.
It’s past time the right’s sanctimoniousness got turned back on them.
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But the soundbite that will be played from the last exchange was that they took Liam to McDonalds and that will make everything alright.
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ICE is the Republican Party’s ‘dream team’.
An anonymous, unaccountable instrument of domestic tyranny.
A force of brutes meant to cement tyrannical power over the political opposition and erase the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments of the Constitution. It’s no coincidence that ICE uses masks, like Middle Ages hangmen and executioners. Faceless, nameless agents of fear and terror.
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Ice usually floats on top of the water. But ICE is the scum of society at the bottom of the pond. And the Trump minions have given them money and guns and turned them loose on American society. If you know history, you know what’s next.
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House Democrat to ICE Chief: ‘Do You Think You’re Going to Hell, Mr. Lyons?’
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Liam was not the first 5 year old to fall into the custody of police. Do you know what every other police organization does when they find themselves in charge of a little kid with no adults around. They turn the child over to the community’s family service organization who then does everything possible to return him or her to their family. They don’t put them on an airplane and fly them to a camp in Texas. The guiding principle in American jurisprudence for dealing with a 5 year old is determining and doing what is in the best interests of the child. Not the President. Not the Secretary of DHS. The interests of the child. That is what we do in America.
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“I’m being a little cute. I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound.”
— The diapered dotard Depend®able Don.
“We treated him like we would, say, a Dylann Roof,” Lyons said.
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Because no kidnapper ever before has fed their victim on fast food.
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Well, this is odd… Hell is what I wish for with these a**holes morning, noon, and night.
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Abducted by masked strangers, they did not actually beat him, but fed him a cheap meal and played some soothing music probably so he did not scream in fear the entire time.
Ok, I am lost on how this is “all good”.
How do Republicans keep shouting “We are creeps!” and people not notice?
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Reactionary insurrectionists are just a pain in the ass, wherever they wind up.
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That, and “we are liars”, and “we are, morally, so profoundly depraved that we can still sleep at night even with all this blood on our hands – it’s all done with mirrors and lying – we lie to ourselves.”
I’m hoping that a non-trivial number of people are noticing this ongoing abomination.
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Nah, they’re just gonna be too much competition.
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“House Democrat to ICE Chief: ‘Do You Think You’re Going to Hell, Mr. Lyons?’”
Dress in layers, Todd.
And pack some SPF 500,000 sunscreen.
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Hey, this is interesting.
Trump’s GOP-only invite leads to NGA White House meeting cancellation
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According to Dante, Satan has three mouths, which are fully occupied in chewing the three greatest villains that Dante could think of–Judas Iscariot and two of Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius. Does this mean that he’ll now have to spit out those guys and start to chomp on Donald Trump, Steven Miller, and Kristi Noem?
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“I was with my father when a bunch of strange men wearing masks and carrying big guns took us away and put us on a plane and then put us in a big building with other strangers for a couple of weeks. I wasn’t scared, tho. They took me to McDonalds. I hope strange men with masks and guns come and a take me away from my family to McDonalds again!”
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