The Swamp

An era in which Americans are supposedly exhausted with political correctness is thus defined by the acute political sensitivities and persecution complexes of white voters who object if things they do and say are described as racist, even as the bodies pile up in the background.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:13 pmSo the spinmasters in the White House finally figured out something for the fembot to do - try to show compassion to the detained kids the day after they announced that Melania had a hand in swaying Trump's opinion.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:36 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:13 pmSo the spinmasters in the White House finally figured out something for the fembot to do - try to show compassion to the detained kids the day after they announced that Melania had a hand in swaying Trump's opinion.

This didn't last long.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:36 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:13 pmSo the spinmasters in the White House finally figured out something for the fembot to do - try to show compassion to the detained kids the day after they announced that Melania had a hand in swaying Trump's opinion.

This didn't last long.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:39 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:36 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:13 pmSo the spinmasters in the White House finally figured out something for the fembot to do - try to show compassion to the detained kids the day after they announced that Melania had a hand in swaying Trump's opinion.

This didn't last long.

What she wore on the flight down to texas...

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:54 pm The real way to hammer on this would be harping on the fact its a $40 jacket. Not in an overtly judgmental way, but just keep mentioning it until one of them snaps.

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:52 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:39 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:36 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:13 pmSo the spinmasters in the White House finally figured out something for the fembot to do - try to show compassion to the detained kids the day after they announced that Melania had a hand in swaying Trump's opinion.

This didn't last long.

What she wore on the flight down to texas...

Pretty clearly a straight-up troll job, not sure if it was her idea or not. The White House is just hoping some journalist or late-night talk show host takes the bait and calls her a cunt so they can distract people from the issue of separating kids at the border. Doesn't seem like anyone has fallen for it yet.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:30 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:53 pm Trump idiotic tweet about Melania's jacket makes me wonder if the message was meant for him.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:14 am Am I being a shit for thinking the rush for an easy photoshop is detracting from a really powerful cover?

Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. That began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.

Roman, 19, was jogging south on a cool spring evening May 21. As the tide came in, she veered up and onto a dirt path before stopping to take a photo of the picturesque setting.

She turned around to head home — and that's when she was apprehended by two U.S. border patrol officers.

"An officer stopped me and started telling me I had crossed the border illegally," she told CBC News.

"I told him I had not done it on purpose, and that I didn't understand what was happening."

Roman said she didn't see any signs warning that she was crossing into the U.S. during her jog. She was informed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers that she had entered the country illegally, which they said was captured via security cameras.
"I said to myself, well I may have crossed the border — but they'll probably only give me a fine or they'll tell me to go back to Canada or they'll give me a warning."

Roman, a citizen of France who had travelled to Canada to visit her mother in B.C. and work on her English, didn't have any government-issued ID or travel permits on her.

She said the officers then detained her for crossing illegally into Blaine, Wash., then transferred her more than 200 kilometres south to the Tacoma Northwest Detention Centre — a facility run by the Department of Homeland Security.
"They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility," she said. "They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewellery, they searched me everywhere.

Roman was held in custody for two weeks before immigration officials on both sides of the border confirmed she was allowed back into Canada. Then she was transferred back into B.C.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:24 pm Grief can't be predicted and all that ... it sure seems awfully telling when families take an anti-immigrant stance post-murder rather than sympathizing with those immigrants who, temporarily or not, have also lost loved ones.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:01 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:24 pm Grief can't be predicted and all that ... it sure seems awfully telling when families take an anti-immigrant stance post-murder rather than sympathizing with those immigrants who, temporarily or not, have also lost loved ones.

I just can't take this. For some reason, this Angel family stuff strikes me as the most Hitleresque of all of Trump's shit. I guess it's because stories of crime victims are so compelling, I have little faith that people will realize that they are being deceived. Yes, it is horrible and tragic if your loved one is the victim of a crime. But a victim is no more "angelic" because the perpetrator is an immigrant versus a person born here. And a death is no more tragic if it results from a crime than if it results from an accident.

Immigrants, illegal and otherwise, are less likely to commit crimes than people born here. These folks go through so much to get here and have so much more to lose if they get into any kind of trouble.

Let's put a bunch of victims of domestic violence on the stage. Or victims of drunk driving, medical accidents, or lack of health care. All of those tragedies are far more likely to befall someone than being murdered by an illegal immigrant.

brian wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:13 am Yeah, this thread is good.



There is no "compromise" that will ever be good enough. The only solution is total war -- removing from office every GOP politician in this country in every election from dogcatcher to president.

We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you
Your axe belongs to a dying nation
They don't know that we own you
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers
You only see what we show you
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:52 am

brian wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:13 am Yeah, this thread is good.



There is no "compromise" that will ever be good enough. The only solution is total war -- removing from office every GOP politician in this country in every election from dogcatcher to president.

"Net migration from Mexico has reached zero."

Wild.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 9:03 am Looking at the picture of Pence and Trump as they manipulated grieving families put me in mind of the Who classic "The Punk and the Godfather"

We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you
Your axe belongs to a dying nation
They don't know that we own you
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers
You only see what we show you
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:20 pm Everyone both-sidesing Sanders and Nielson not being able to eat comfortably in public are selling out who they identify with in this whole mess.