If anyone saw the Rep. Pramila Jayapal interview last night on Chris Hayes…you know the absolute terror and disgust that can make an actual pain in your chest.
If you have not seen this interview, stop what you are doing right now, and watch it.
It will be very difficult, and the word difficult is not used lightly…but work your way through it. Feel the bitter pain, that chokes up and taste foul in the back of your throat. For that is the essence of a hateful authoritarian dictatorship rule, and when Hannah Arendt spoke of the Banality of Evil….let me tell you, it starts here….
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) June 13, 2018
I hope everyone will watch and share this @MSNBC interview. I promised I would tell the stories of these courageous women who have been horrifically mistreated by our government. They are still behind bars and I told them we would fight tirelessly for their release. pic.twitter.com/dDAOMErkmB
What I heard from the women being held at the federal detention facility today was saddening and disturbing. They cried so much.
Every asylum-seeker should be immediately released, reunited with their children and connected to legal services. Anything less is cruel and barbaric. pic.twitter.com/29dZrCX3Ug
My promise to the women being held at SeaTac was that I am going to make sure that everybody outside knows what’s happening to you – and that we will fight for your right to legal counsel and to be released. https://t.co/cFNOmoBhbA
Earlier I described the camps being set up to house immigrant children forcibly separated from their parents as "concentration camps." After watching Rep. Pramila Jayapal describe what she saw I'm doubling down. This is monstrous.
DHS will visit Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, "to look at a parcel of land where the administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000 and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar w/ the plans." https://t.co/Hn96uBWCA7
How much is Sessions and Trump making on this private prison they made from kennels?I'll bet that we are paying more than $200 per child! Making up prisons on the cheap, tearing apart families and profiteering from misery is amoral. They do not represent all of us, call congress! pic.twitter.com/e6qaw5wvgb
But aside from the horrifying details, perhaps the most important point is that a majority of the detained women @RepJayapal met with are ASYLUM SEEKERS. seeking asylum IS NOT ILLEGAL. so anyone who says "well they deserve this for breaking the law" is just plain ignorant.
"There is no reason to believe that undocumented immigrants will be the last group of people deemed beyond the law's protection." Glad to speak with @michelleinbklyn for this important @nytopinion column. https://t.co/3Rcp8A0pBr
I don’t know what the fuck the United States is anymore, it sure as hell isn’t a democracy…it has moved on past the point of the “breakdown” period. I truly think we are now at the beginning of the Totalitarian Regime of Trump.
… Arendt notes that loneliness can become both the seedbed and the perilous consequence of the isolation effected by tyrannical regimes:
In isolation, man remains in contact with the world as the human artifice; only when the most elementary form of human creativity, which is the capacity to add something of one’s own to the common world, is destroyed, isolation becomes altogether unbearable… Isolation then becomes loneliness.
[…]
While isolation concerns only the political realm of life, loneliness concerns human life as a whole. Totalitarian government, like all tyrannies, certainly could not exist without destroying the public realm of life, that is, without destroying, by isolating men, their political capacities. But totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it is not content with this isolation and destroys private life as well. It bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.
This is why our insistence on belonging, community, and human connection is one of the greatest acts of courage and resistance in the face of oppression…
And let’s not forget the fiasco with Canada and our other allies….the isolation that has been the cornerstone of tRump’s rule in office:
What perpetuates such tyrannical regimes, Arendt argues, is manipulation by isolation — something most effectively accomplished by the divisiveness of “us vs. them” narratives. She writes:
Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other… Therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together…; isolated men are powerless by definition.
tRump has aligned the US with ruthless dictators and powerful authoritarian governments…because that is what the US as become.
TRUMP on murderous dictator KJU:
“His country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor.”https://t.co/mvvTMXqTC7
This is in line with Trump's praise for other dictators including Duterte, Erdogan, Gadhafi, and of course, Putin. Admiring dictators is one of Trump's few consistent policy stances.
His praise for Kim isn't just appeasement, but envy. It's what Trump wants for himself. https://t.co/4HdcxuwLMi
Here is the exact quote from Trump on ABC: "His country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor." The country is a gulag of 25m. #Appeasement
North Korean state media said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed to lift sanctions against the North in addition to providing security guarantees in the summit with the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, the previous day.
Both leaders signed an agreement committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” in exchange for denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula.
Trump reportedly offered to lift sanctions on the cash-strapped country in addition to those security guarantees, according to Reuters.
North Korea’s KCNA news agency cites Trump making the pledge to lift the economic barriers after saying the U.S. would end joint military exercises with South Korea.
Following the summit, Trump had indicated that sanctions would remainuntil North Korea began the denuclearization process saying of easing sanctions, “I hope it’s going to be soon. At a certain point, I actually look forward to taking them off.”
Reuters did not receive immediate comment from U.S. officials.
The Hill has also reached out to the White House for comment.
“They have great beaches,” Trump said at a news conference following the talks between the two leaders. “You see that whenever they’re exploding the canons into the ocean. I said look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo beyond that?”
“You could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective,” Trump continued. “You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that? Right? It’s great.”
Despite Trump’s grandiose suggestions, the U.S. State Department recommends against travel to North Korea. Federal authorities advise travelers to draft a will and “funeral wishes” before going.
I think that part about drafting a will and making funeral wishes is a dramatically different message to what the tRump admin is pushing.
Going back to the #Wherearethechildren and #FamiliesBelongTogether issue…
After the Chris Hayes interview, Rep. Jayapal posted this on her Twitter account:
To everyone asking what they can do to help the children and their parents: Here are some ideas from the immigration and human rights attorneys at @NWIRP. https://t.co/EmfqyQAOaJ
Support my legislation and our demand that Congress stop funding ICE/DHS: https://t.co/sti88dH2Rf
President Trump’s wooing of Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit included the iPad showing (in English and Korean) of a “Destiny Pictures” movie trailer, made by the White House’s National Security Council, starring themselves saving the world.
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There are dunked basketballs, exploding bombs, flourishing labs and cities — all designed to show Kim what’s possible if he engages with the West, and to warn him darkly of the alternative.
From the voiceover: “Only the very few will make decisions or take actions that renew their homeland and change the course of history … Two men. Two leaders. One destiny. … A story about a special moment in time when a man is presented with one chance that may never be repeated. What will he choose?”
From Trump’s presser: “I showed it to him … toward the end of the meeting. And I think he loved it. … [W]e had it on a cassette … an iPad. … [A]bout eight of their representatives were watching it, and I thought they were fascinated.”
Jonathan Swan’s sources help illuminate Trump’s thinking:
Trump thinks of his presidency in cinematic terms — with himself as star, producer, director, writer and critic. Now, backed by the resources of the United States government, he’s a studio, too.
The president is very aware of his celebrity and how people view him.
Kim is a young tyrant obsessed with pop culture.
So by literally casting the two of them in a movie, Trump’s was celebritizing the summit, and aiming at Kim’s sweet spot.
The White House is very proud of the video: Vice President Pence showed it at yesterday’s weekly Senate Republican luncheon.
Garrett Marquis, National Security Council spokesman: “The video was created by the NSC to help the President demonstrate the benefits of complete denuclearization, and a vision of a peaceful and prosperous Korean Peninsula.”
I lost my 3 year old in a grocery store and that 5 minutes of anguish before he was found in the candy aisle was excruciating.
Cannot imagine what these parents are enduring not knowing where their children are or how they are being treated simply because they sought refuge in the US.
This is who we are, what we have become, under this criminal administration let by a psychopath.
Are members of the GOP not parents or grandparents that they can choose to ignore the barbarity of this directive? Shame on that entire party- the “family values” fakes who can sit back and dismiss these actions.
You and me both. I can’t stand to think about the pain those parents and children are enduring. This administration and its supporters are heartless monsters.
It got me so damn upset last night when I saw that interview. And now to see that asshole has been nominated for a nobel peace is fucking unfathomable.
I’m not sure tRump and his base see brown people as fully human, similar to how they see women as a sub-species. His base are identical to the Nazis in their perception of other races as vermin to be rid of.
I’d give anything to see Congress defund ICE and DHS.
“Northern Border Threat Analysis Report” WTAF? I go up to Canada fairly frequently, usually to southern BC. The Canadians have always been polite and reasonable at the border crossing. The Americans, not always. One time the border officer asked me if I liked moustaches. Damn I was glad I wasn’t alone in the car.
Last time I think the US border guys thought I was innocuous because I said we’d come up to see an exhibition at the Univ of BC Museum of Anthropology. Snore. BTW, if you are ever in Vancouver BC the MoA is a must-see.
There is a Peace Arch with a small park at the border, and a sign “Children of a Common Mother” at the crossing. Guess that’s going to change.
Michael Cohen’s lawyers are not going to keep representing him, and no replacements have been announced. It looks like he will have to cooperate. Bad news for Trump.
Most cooperating witnesses in the Mueller and related probes could be called upon to provide information on any number of subjects or targets. But Cohen had only three clients, two of whom don't appear relevant to investigators. https://t.co/4VY5XyrEJt
“In most cases, they were taken into a different room like, ‘Here we’re going take your photograph,’” said U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal. “Then after the photo was taken, they were taken to a different room from their child. So they never got to say goodbye.”
They could hear their children screaming in the other room, Jayapal said.
“Screaming for their moms, asking for their moms. And they had to sit there and listen to that and still not be able to see them or hold them.”
Jayapal was able meet with some of the 177 women detained inside the jail. She said she was the first person to meet with many of these women; a few have also met with attorneys from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
I do not want to imagine or hear this. It’s bad enough reading it.
I am so proud of my Rep Jayapal. What also alarms me is that so few other Congressmembers are working and speaking out against this. We’ve got to get a majority in the Senate and the House in November.
The Alt-Immigration account is calling them Icetapo
If you are wondering why the icetapo is targeting permanent residents with old misdemeanor convictions. See below from last year. https://t.co/zshYDjkRdD
Great post JJ. The White House video is one long long list of cliche after cliche on top of cliches. They should have started it with “In a world where yada yada….”. At least that would be funny. I wonder if we’ll get some hilarious “reviews” of it on Twitter.
Harebrained’: National Security Council owns up to widely derided Trump video
The four-minute video in Korean and English was credited to Destiny Pictures, but owner of firm with same name said he had ‘no involvement’
When asked about the film at a press conference on Tuesday, Trump defended it as a masterstroke which he had sprung on Kim and his entourage.
“We had it made up,” the president said. “I showed it to them today. Actually during the meeting. Toward the end of the meeting. I think he loved it.
“We had it on cassette. An iPad,” Trump said. “They played it. About eight of their representatives were watching it. I thought they were fascinated by it. I thought it was well done. I showed it to you because that is the future.”
I wonder if he knows the difference between a cassette and an iPad?
That business about the rapt NK rep watching it? Who wants to take the bet they were thinking, “Huh?? They make this shit too? I thought they didn’t have to?”
Can we please stop referring to President Donald Trump as the toddler-in-chief?
It implies a level of innocence and curiosity that’s altogether absent from this president. It implies a work in progress. It’s insulting to toddlers.
It’s a Twitter handle (@ToddlerinChief). It’s a Twitter thread (#ToddlerinChief) curated by Washington Post reporter Daniel W. Drezner. It’s been a staple of analysts and headline-writers (“Who is minding the toddler-in-chief?” asks The Washington Monthly) and a common refrain among critics of his recent excursions into foreign affairs, particularly the chaos he fomented at the G7 summit.
Stop.
Trump is overseeing one of the cruelest policies in this country’s modern history: the forced separation of hundreds of children from their parents.
The United Nations has called on the administration to immediately halt this barbaric policy. Child welfare advocates warn that the separations may cause permanent trauma to the separated children. News reports describe authorities using force to yank babies and toddlers from terrified parents.
The New York Times report about Jose, a 5-year-old Honduran boy who draws pictures of his family and moans himself to sleep each night, should haunt us all.
If you’re not properly moved, read about the dinner exchange between Henry Kissinger and Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth), which forces us to explore our history of allowing families to be separated.
“Nazis showed up at their apartment to arrest her father, a salesman,” George Packer reports in The New Yorker. “As they marched him off into a covered truck, he turned around and looked at Ruth, who was watching from the window. She waved, and he waved back. Then he smiled, so that she wouldn’t cry. She never saw him again.
“Two months later, in January, 1939, Ruth’s mother placed her on a train with other German Jewish children bound for Switzerland — part of the Kindertransport. Her mother hugged her on the platform, Dr. Ruth told Merkel and the rest of us, and, to keep herself from crying, she began to sing songs during the train ride that would bring her back to the happy time when their family was together. Dr. Ruth survived the war and the Holocaust in Switzerland. Her parents perished in the Nazi death camps.”
The enforcement, here, now, of an immigration policy that tears apart families is anything but childlike.
Infant ripped from mother's arms while she was breastfeeding the baby at border detention center; mother handcuffed for resisting https://t.co/vhbsGKrWLo
Feb 2018: Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Nomination was forged. Twice. Both were referred to the Oslo police, who are in touch with the FBI, suggesting the forgeries originated in the US. https://t.co/6xiwsblP44
There has always been a sickening intimacy to Trump’s insults and cruelties, whether he was sexualizing his daughter or sexually humiliating and physically dominating Hillary Clinton during the second Presidential debate. For many observers, especially women, that debate—coming days after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape—triggered a fight-or-flight response, unleashing their own memories of harassment and abuse. And, for many observers, especially parents, the news coverage of the atrocities being committed at the border in the name of American prosperity and security triggers a similar physiological response—except that this time the trigger is instantiated by sadistic, totalitarian force. (I cannot be the only mother of small children who slept on the floor of her kids’ room the night that “All In with Chris Hayes” reported on a baby seized from his parents, one week past his first birthday.) A slow, quiet terror continues to spread through the American populace. We are all being made into complicit bystanders in Trump’s violence. We are all members of Trump’s toxic, traumatizing family now.
Pro-‘straight white male hero’ group behind Star Wars actor’s abuse
Facebook group Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys claims credit for online abuse levelled at Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran, who quit social media as a result
A group previously intent on sabotaging the rating of Marvel movie Black Panther has claimed responsibility for the hounding of Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran. Tran, who plays Rose in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was subject to a long campaign of racist and sexist abuse on social media, leading her to close her accounts.
On 8 June, an outfit called Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys said it was behind the attacks in a now-removed Facebook post. The group accused longtime Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy of pursing a “feminazi agenda” that had led to the “perversion” of the “canon” of films, which feature intergalactic bounty hunters and their talking robot friends.
A badass leader who stuck her neck out this year to support SB 827, eliminate court fees for low-income people, champion safe injection sites, and carry herself with vision & grace amidst ridiculous circumstances is now the MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO.@LondonBreed, congratulations! pic.twitter.com/QspzSKwA7q
Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home — you know, the remains."
This is interesting. The exception appears to be calcium. From the article:
After adjustment for demographics, dietary and lifestyle factors, comorbidities, and use of hormone replacement therapy, the following supplements were associated with a greater risk of death during follow-up:
Multivitamins: HR 1.06 (95% CI 1.02 to 1.10)
Magnesium: HR 1.08 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.15)
Zinc: HR 1.08 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.15)
Iron: HR 1.10 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.17)
Vitamin B6: HR 1.10 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.21)
Folic acid: HR 1.15 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.32)
Copper: HR 1.45 (95% CI 1.20 to 1.75)
Absolute increases in risk ranged from 2.4% with multivitamins to 18% with copper.
After multivariate adjustment, use of calcium supplementation was associated with a lower risk of death (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.88 to 0.94). The absolute risk reduction was 3.8%.
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This wound up being longer than expected…have a good day.
You too, JJ. Here’s some good news. The little raccoon survived.
Whew! I hoped it would. That’s a bright spot in the news. I had no idea they were such good climbers.
That is good to hear.
I lost my 3 year old in a grocery store and that 5 minutes of anguish before he was found in the candy aisle was excruciating.
Cannot imagine what these parents are enduring not knowing where their children are or how they are being treated simply because they sought refuge in the US.
This is who we are, what we have become, under this criminal administration let by a psychopath.
Are members of the GOP not parents or grandparents that they can choose to ignore the barbarity of this directive? Shame on that entire party- the “family values” fakes who can sit back and dismiss these actions.
I loathe and despise them all.
You and me both. I can’t stand to think about the pain those parents and children are enduring. This administration and its supporters are heartless monsters.
I can’t stop crying about this and I go for years without crying! This is immoral!!
It got me so damn upset last night when I saw that interview. And now to see that asshole has been nominated for a nobel peace is fucking unfathomable.
18 rethuglican congressmen did it! It won’t go anywhere …
I’m not sure tRump and his base see brown people as fully human, similar to how they see women as a sub-species. His base are identical to the Nazis in their perception of other races as vermin to be rid of.
I’d give anything to see Congress defund ICE and DHS.
For those of you that had build a wall with Canada and make the Canadians pay for it on your Trump Dystopia bingo card:
DHS Announces Strengthened Northern Border Strategy
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/06/12/dhs-announces-strengthened-northern-border-strategy
“Northern Border Threat Analysis Report” WTAF? I go up to Canada fairly frequently, usually to southern BC. The Canadians have always been polite and reasonable at the border crossing. The Americans, not always. One time the border officer asked me if I liked moustaches. Damn I was glad I wasn’t alone in the car.
Last time I think the US border guys thought I was innocuous because I said we’d come up to see an exhibition at the Univ of BC Museum of Anthropology. Snore. BTW, if you are ever in Vancouver BC the MoA is a must-see.
There is a Peace Arch with a small park at the border, and a sign “Children of a Common Mother” at the crossing. Guess that’s going to change.
“before he was found in the candy aisle” 😀
Probably grew up knowing where the good things were, too!
Michael Cohen’s lawyers are not going to keep representing him, and no replacements have been announced. It looks like he will have to cooperate. Bad news for Trump.
Bad news for Trump is good news for us!
Juan Cole shows the Iran deal was better than the North Korea Commitment
https://www.juancole.com/2018/06/better-trumps-commitment.html
yeah. but Obama! but her emails!
Emailz! So much worse than giving our country away to Putin. So much worse than tearing children away from their parents.
Republicans have no souls.
http://kuow.org/post/immigrant-moms-seatac-prison-could-hear-their-children-screaming
You will cry when you read or listen to this.
I do not want to imagine or hear this. It’s bad enough reading it.
I am so proud of my Rep Jayapal. What also alarms me is that so few other Congressmembers are working and speaking out against this. We’ve got to get a majority in the Senate and the House in November.
The Alt-Immigration account is calling them Icetapo
Great post JJ. The White House video is one long long list of cliche after cliche on top of cliches. They should have started it with “In a world where yada yada….”. At least that would be funny. I wonder if we’ll get some hilarious “reviews” of it on Twitter.
Harebrained’: National Security Council owns up to widely derided Trump video
The four-minute video in Korean and English was credited to Destiny Pictures, but owner of firm with same name said he had ‘no involvement’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/13/trump-video-national-security-council-destiny-pictures
and of course, who ordered the silly thing?
The incompetence is so embarrassing. I hope Destiny Pictures sues him.
I wonder if he knows the difference between a cassette and an iPad?
That business about the rapt NK rep watching it? Who wants to take the bet they were thinking, “Huh?? They make this shit too? I thought they didn’t have to?”
Of course he doesn’t know the difference. He doesn’t even use email. And I think you’re right about what the NK rep thought.
Stop comparing President Trump to a toddler
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-wednesday-stop-calling-trump-a-child-0613-story.html
He’s evil beyond a toddler’s capabilities.
I was saying toddler didn’t remotely apply the first time I saw somebody use it. May have been before he was installed.
Fucking crimes against humanity
Full out and out Gestapo/SS tactics
We’re headed towards kristallnacht … they’re setting up camps
I feel like throwing up:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/president-trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-following-north-korea-summit/
Apparently, anybody can nominate anybody else for the Peace Prize. No, really. Don’t worry, Trump has a snowball’s chance in Hell.
Yeah. 18 Republican congressional demons … that will be trashed shortly
The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence
Let’s refer to the bastard as “Dumpy, Dopey, Donny and see how he likes it. Of course it would be much more effective coming from pols.
I have gotten attached to Il Douchebag.
The Dump, people. Short for the Orange Dump. Short for The Cheeto-topped Dogpile.
A douchebag just has some water and miscellaneous cells and mucosal secretions in it. He’s way worse than that.
Yes, but have you ever seen the old films of Mussolini (Il Duce) when he would enter a rally and the crowd would erupt, “DUCE! DUCE! DUCE!”
I like to envision Trump entering a rally to, “DOUCHEBAG! DOUCHEBAG! DOUCHEBAG!”.
Pro-‘straight white male hero’ group behind Star Wars actor’s abuse
Facebook group Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys claims credit for online abuse levelled at Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran, who quit social media as a result
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/11/anti-disney-group-harassment-star-wars-female-actors-daisy-ridley-kelly-marie-tran
Huh?
Robert Mueller files request for 150 blank subpoenas in Paul Manafort case
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/robert-mueller-files-request-for-150-blank-subpoenas-in-paul-manafort-case
Christ, yes.
Friday
About to go into the Cobb Energy Center to heat Bill Clinton speak. Hills is not on the agenda but I am hoping she is here.
If there are any other skydancers here I would love to say hi!!!
Hi! Wow, that should be a great presentation — please tell us about it when you get a chance!
He just came on stage. HE IS talking about his new book.
Is Hills there? He is a great speaker!!
Haha.
Don’t let the door hit you where–well, you know the rest.
Can you say distraction:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-pruitt/senate-republicans-call-for-hearing-on-pruitt-scandals-idUSKBN1JA01L?
I guess they were holding off until something real bad was in the horizon, like say Cohen flipping?
And Drumpf giving away the store to N Korea’s dictator.
Look at Kim’s face — even N Korea’s dictator didn’t expect this servile behavior. I hope all U.S. troops see this and realize he’s not our president.
This is interesting. The exception appears to be calcium. From the article: