The husband of a Canadian national who has been living in the U.S. since she was a child is furious with Donald Trump’s administration for arresting his wife on immigration charges while admitting he voted for the current president because he “wanted change.”
In an interview with KGTV, Francisco Olivera stated he changed his mind and voted for Trump with his wife’s encouragement and, even though he knew she was not up to date on her citizenship, he never thought the plan for mass deportations would hit home.
In an interview he stated, "We feel totally blindsided, betrayed. I want my vote back.”
The report adds, “… the Trump administration had little sympathy for Olivera, despite her husband’s support of the president, with a spokesperson saying in a statement that Cynthia was ‘an illegal alien from Canada’,” adding, “Olivera had been ‘previously deported and chose to ignore our law and again illegally entered the country’.”
ETA: Please understand I hate all the news stories that are about “so-n-so SLAMS so-n-so” when you read them you find out some minor luminary or pundit said something to contradict a MAGAt. Or the stories that say “Prosecutor makes stunning claim” and you find out they are a FORMER prosecutor, judge, R official, etc. and nothing about the story is going to move any needles anywhere. So as much as I would like to paste them here as a flicker of hope…they aren’t and it is a waste of pixels.
But I don’t mind re-pasting these stories of leopards eating faces. It isn’t going to move any needles and it isn’t any official action that might otherwise show us that some kind of progress is being made. I would agree that many of the people who gravitated to work in these fascist prez terms ARE racists or misogynists or fascists…but I think a great many of their voters aren’t. They are however, amazingly stoopid and shallow and un-serious people…which has become the primary product that the U.S. produces.
You’ll be pleased to learn to Jewel continues barnstorming the world as her prominent role as an advocate for mental health. She did this by attending the Bezos wedding.
This is per the Daily Mail, which is never a good site to click on but I do it anyway.
I get so little enjoyment these days, but these do bring a smile to my face, even though I detest the notion of people suffering generally. I’m going out on a limb here and announcing that I am anti-suffering. But there is something satisfying in hearing of senseless cruelty visited upon those who wished for senseless cruelty to be visited upon others.
Big Beaver Borough is what we called it and the local PSU branch is Beaver Campus. This is because the Beaver River runs into the Ohio River around there. All my old stomping grounds there in Beaver County where the local paper was the Beaver Valley Times and we shopped at the Beaver Valley Mall…
This wasn’t as fun as I had anticipated. You see, I had a plan. The plan was for you to admit that you were wrong about something, Jewel playing the inaugural ball of the guy whose face that look like it was thrown into the back of the van after a day at the lake, or just anything. I sort of lose my attention span on online debates, so I never really see how they end.
But you nimbly evaded my carefully laid trap. This is why I don’t make plans. They inevitably do not turn out how I thought they would, leading to a crushing sense of bitter failure, a looming reminder of how life is just one big fat disappointment.
Steve Benen:
“And yet, here we are, watching the SSA join a list of politicized agencies, being used as partisan tools in the White House’s political toolbox, creating a dynamic in which Americans, going forward, won’t know whether they can trust the next message they receive from the government about the Social Security.”
“The Social Security Administration was already facing dire challenges when the Senate took up Frank Bisignano’s nomination to serve as the commissioner of the agency in May. Democrats warned that he was not to be trusted with such an important job, and nearly two months later, it appears that they were right.”
