Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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I just need to stay out of this thread until people are done talking about immigration, because the urge to clarify so many things is hurting me.
Where do you want to start?
Sure would be nice if the House voted on repealing the repeal of Net Neutrality like the Senate did, before today when the repeal of Net Neutrality went into effect.
I think a better use for that is to stow it away and wait for steinman to complain about the next Democrat president, and then use it to be as dismissive of him as he was of you. Better than being sarcastic at me for no reason.
Senate has seen reason. I want to believe the House can too, but it has to be put to a vote first, hopefully before real damage is done.
We've got a guy in there who is against social security because Adam and Noah lived to be 900+ and never retired. That's just one example of the extreme in there. I have absolutely no faith they will ever do the right thing.
The Senate vote only succeeded because some Senate Republicans voted against the FCC repeal.
The stupid is much stronger in the house.
"They are animals, and deserving the treatment of animals! Heil Trump!" Thus spoke "many fine" supporters of Trump, and many were his other supporter that could hide their nature with their silence.
Well, these are the people that jump through hoops to justify their hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth over Voter Fraud to enact or support various means of Voter Suppression.
Or closer to home, scold kids over protesting school shootings ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF COLUMBINE. That got lost in the wipe, but don't think it's been forgotten.
figmentPez
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Dolt45's response to this mirrors what abusers say to their victims. "It's the Democrat's fault. I don't want to have to take kids away from their parents, but we have to keep doing that because the Democrats won't cooperate. We'll keep taking the kids away until the Democrats learn that they have to cooperate. They're the ones doing this to the kids, not us."
First of all, I find it reprehensible that they are deploying what is essentially the Frollo “Witchcraft!” defense. Next they’ll be kicking off some sort of “Gunliness is next to Godliness” campaign where they encourage followers to “spread holey-ness to the unbelievers.”
Secondly, unless things have drastically changed (which they haven’t!), Witches aren’t really about trying to bring curses down on others, since doing so carries a simultaneous invitation for that same malady to be visited back upon the caster, and at higher intensity, to boot.
—Patrick
Secondly, unless things have drastically changed (which they haven’t!), Witches aren’t really about trying to bring curses down on others, since doing so carries a simultaneous invitation for that same malady to be visited back upon the caster, and at higher intensity, to boot.
—Patrick
Correct, in triplicate.
The worst Julie can do is give the NRA CEO a stern tarot spread with her newest deck, which she'll use once and then put away forever to go back to her usual set. I don't know why she keeps putting new ones on her wish list. Maybe it's like when you get a new D20 and it rolls a 1 on the first go. You toss it in a box and return to old faithful.
I DID think about linking right to the Rule of Three Wikipedia entry, but linking on mobile is a pain.
—Patrick
Yeah, that's what I got from Harry Potter, too.
Correct! And the Wikipedia article even explicitly calls that out.
But hey, there are plenty of different forms of Christianity and Buddhism, too.
--Patrick
If you ignore the bias and apologetics, this article has some salient information about the immigration children separation issue.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-enforcement-separating-kids-at-border/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-enforcement-separating-kids-at-border/
figmentPez
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Former first lady Laura Bush wrote a Washington Post op-ed.
"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
"Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned."
More at the link above.
"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
"Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned."
More at the link above.
I don't know why I keep thinking this thread will be talking about something else.
I will say it's a relief to hear elected officials finally discovering some of what I've known about for years. But they should've known about it before I did when I was fresh out of college. Our level of processing is down because I'm on the court level of immigration, and the court isn't engaged here. By year's end though I'll be swamped with late nights and weekends. Hopefully by then there will be a Congress with a spine.
I will say it's a relief to hear elected officials finally discovering some of what I've known about for years. But they should've known about it before I did when I was fresh out of college. Our level of processing is down because I'm on the court level of immigration, and the court isn't engaged here. By year's end though I'll be swamped with late nights and weekends. Hopefully by then there will be a Congress with a spine.
The reaction from the right (so far) has uncharacteristically abstained from attacking her. Maybe because they have so many other targets right now.
Amnesty International finds Trump camps are breaking international torture laws
The U.S. is a signatory of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, unless Trump would like to withdraw from that too.
So are you in agreement with me that this level of decision making shouldn’t be left to the president?
Congress shouldn’t allow such leeway to any president. And if there’s a problem with immigration congress should take the blame and take action.
One of the things I hate is that the president has so much control over things that there is a lot of whipping back and forth every time we swap parties.
As bad as congress is, usually the worst case scenario is that it does nothing.
Congressional elections might actually be interesting if they take away some of the president’s toys.