During a visit two migrant detention centers in Texas on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged how “tough” conditions were in one of the facilities and even offered that “no,” conditions were not acceptable.
When I saw the video of his visit Pence looked frightened and grim.
I’m sure he had a WTF are we doing moment before Back To Business.
I’m not a particularly religious person, but I’m so glad Pence was willing to show HIS convictions,
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
How do these people live with the contradictions and lack of even the most basic humanity?
Oh, I forgot. These are brown people.
He came. He saw. He sniffed. He scarpered.
ETA
(And then he lied.)
even when he looked toward the caged men, he didn’t make eye contact — he looked above the men, toward the top of the cages…
Coward.
Indeed
Thoughts and Prayers at the Sunday service with mother
If you watched the footage of him inside the kennel, those 90 seconds were actually the sum total of his visit with concentration “campers” at the over-crowded and foul-smelling McAllen CPB “facility.”
susPence later said that all of the people he spoke with — men, women and children — all said they were being treated well.
Uh huh.
If he wants to be the poster boy for everything wrong with the Dominionist Evangelists Club, he’s definitely in the running. It’s going to be a tough slog though. With so many shameless, bald-faced liars to choose from we may have to declare a 19- or 190-way tie.
Fun Fact: The McAllen CPB office features a framed photo of Tomi Lehren.
"That’s the reason why we demanded that Congress provide $4.6 billion in additional support to Customs and Border Protection,”
The GOP version of the child who murders his parents then pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan.
When talking to reporters shortly after visiting the caged and unwashed refugees, some of them wearing face masks, Pence said he would not take the word of any of the caged men about how bad conditions were in the cage. Some of them had been caged for 40 days, were wearing the same clothes they had been caged in, and hadn’t washed or brushed their teeth during their entire time in the cage. The stench of unwashed bodies was overwhelming. There was not enough space for them to lie down in, and in any event there were no beds or pillows to place on the concrete floor, only metallic blankets.
That’s the plan
Feature not bug
Totally disable the Department of XXXXXXX
“See” it’s all fucked up
We need to institute XXXXX draconian policy
Works for everything from Immigration to Envirionment
The GOP and their voters think that “these people” deserve this treatment, so I’m not sure how many, if any, will care.
Strangely, I almost always find myself more repulsed by Pence than by Trump.
It’s the sheer banality of the evil that’s so nauseating.
And Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy
There will be no mercy for anyone in this shitshow of an admin!
The visit was a major disaster for Pence and the administration. Reporters did a good job of telling us what they saw and smelled. They broke through the photo op and got to the truth because it’s impossible to hide.
I was struck by 3 things:
We learned this week that sustained pressure can break this administration. Break him on immigration and Trump is politically dead.
Yup
Dummy
Silent evil
Yet further proof that Pence is awkward, inappropriate, instinct challenged, corrupt, unChristian, and yes, a lickspittle. Shame on him!!
And I’d bet good money that the place was “cleaned up” for Pence’s visit. Imagine what these places are like at their worst.
The Trump Administration policy of “zero tolerance” -of treating human beings like rabid animals -has been an abject failure in terms of their stated goal of reducing immigration at the border, and, even if successful, would be an entirely unacceptable policy in my view. So they choose to double down on a failed policy by subjecting those seeking refuge to even harsher conditions. This is not the America I know and would make me ashamed of being “Christian” if this is Christianity.