Sunday Reads: New Years Wish
Posted: December 30, 2018 Filed under: 2016 elections, 2020 Elections, children, Congress, Discrimination against women, Donald Trump, House of Representatives, ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement, morning reads, open thread, physical abuse, PLUB Pro-Life-Until-Birth, the GOP, tRump crimes against humanity, U.S. Politics, Vagina 18 Comments^My New Year’s Wish ^
Now for some interesting tweets:
Regarding the Kelly interview this morning:
And I want to end with this:
Fuck Yes!
And what is with all this Beto shit! Stacy Abrams ran a hell of a campaign…and came damn close to winning, even with all the possible illegal voter suppression that Kemp succeeded in achieving while acting as Secretary of State and running for Governor. She has a future ahead of her, but like Harris…she is a black woman.
This is an open thread…
Sunday Reads: Rain on his Squirrel
Posted: November 11, 2018 Filed under: child sexual abuse, Donald Trump, Gun Control, History, Human Rights, ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement, morning reads, open thread, Rape Culture, Real Life Horror, Refugees, Republican politics, Russia, Russian Trump Investigation, the GOP, tRump crimes against humanity, U.S. Politics, white nationalists | Tags: #FucktRump, trump is not my president 39 CommentsHey, I thought up the post’s title before I saw that tweet…referring to tRumps “squrriel’s nest toupee”…but before we get to a few links on the Orange Turd’s Paris trip, take a look at this thread.
As I said, that thread deserved the full treatment. For serious.
So what has happened today?
Now, here are several tweets for your review:
In honor of Armistice Day, (yesterday) …
Also, a new recording:
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent Ending World War I | Smart News | Smithsonian
The soundscape of the Great War must have been devastating: constant artillery bombardment, rifle shots, fighter planes buzzing overhead and the screams of soldiers encountering gas. But we donât actually know quite what the World War I sounded like. Magnetic tape didnât exist yet and recording technology was in its infancy, requiring sound to be mechanically produced using a needle and soft wax or metal. Taking such machines into the field was not practical.
Still, there were people on the front recording. Special units used a technique called âsound rangingâ to try and determine where enemy gunfire was coming from. To do so, technicians set up strings of microphonesâactually barrels of oil dug into the groundâa certain distance apart, then used a piece of photographic film to visually record noise intensity. The effect is similar to the way a seismometer records an earthquake. Using that data and the time between when a shot was fired and when it hit, they could then triangulate where enemy artillery was locatedâand adjust their own guns accordingly.
At least one bit of that âsound rangingâ film survived the Warâthe film recording the last few minutes of World War I when the guns finally fell silent at the River Moselle on the American Front. As Richard Connor at Deutsche Welde reports, part of a new exhibit called Making a New World at Londonâs Imperial War Museum uses those graphic sound waves to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect and the guns fell silent.
As part of a celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, the museum commissioned the sound production company Coda to Coda to use the film strip of the guns firing away at 10:58 A.M. on November 11, 1918, then going silent when the clock strikes 11, the symbolic moment politicians determined the war would end, to try and recreate what that instant may have sounded like.
More information at the link.
Here is where you can hear the recording:
IWM – WW1 Armistice Interpretation | Coda to Coda
That link is to the direct Coda to Coda website, it plays the full one minute of the last sounds of WWI.
The Facebook link below does not play the full recording.
One hundred years later, the absence from the orange asshole mouth fuckwad, is overwhelming:
(Hey, the point is he is there in the fucking rain. And he was there on Saturday.)
I guess Putin was the reason he was late?
Read some of the responses to that tweet.
I guess tRump finally did show up for the dinner…coming into the event through the back door…WTF?
You can see all the dignitaries photos, on the red carpet etc., at that Daily Mail link above.
A few more articles:
This is an interesting interview:
Last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials says Trump’s family separation policy is âcrime against humanityâ | The Independent
The last surviving member of the Nuremberg trials prosecuting team has said Donald Trump committed âa crime against humanityâ with the recent family separation policy.
Ben Ferencz, 99, made the comment during a recent interview with outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raâad Al Hussein.
The lawyer said it was âpainfulâ when he heard about how the Trump administration had separated more than 2,000 children from their families after they had crossed the US-Mexico border.
Video at the link.
In connection with that:Â ICE Detention Center Says Itâs Not Responsible for Staff’s Sexual Abuse of Detainees | American Civil Liberties Union
Can you fucking believe this shit?
All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government impose criminal liability on correctional facility staff who have sexual contact with people in their custody. These laws recognize that any sexual activity between detainees and detention facility staff, with or without the use of force, is unlawful because of the inherent power imbalance when people are in custody. Yet, one immigration detention center is trying to avoid responsibility for sexual violence within its walls by arguing that the detainee âconsentedâ to sexual abuse.
E.D., an asylum-seeker and domestic violence survivor from Honduras, was sexually assaulted by an employee while she was detained with her 3-year-old child at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania. At the time of the assault, E.D. was 19 years old.
She filed suit against the detention center and its staff for their failure to protect her from sexual violence, even though they were aware of the risk. The record in the case, E.D. v. Sharkey, shows that her assailant coerced and threatened her, including with possible deportation, while the defendants stood by and made jokes.
Although the employee pled guilty to criminal institutional sexual assault under Pennsylvania law, the defendants contend that they should not be liable for any constitutional violations. Their argument rests in part on their assessment that the sexual abuse was âconsensualâ and that they should be held to a different standard because the Berks Family Residential Center is an immigration detention facility rather than a jail or prison.
Read the rest of this disturbing case at the link.
Some updates on the California killer:
âI Hope People Call Me Insaneâ: Thousand Oaks Shooter Posted To Instagram During The Massacre
And lastly, these few articles that have a tie-in…civil war.
n the 158th year of the American civil war, also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, trans people, gay people and women who want to exercise jurisdiction over their bodies. The Confederacy battles in favor of uncontrolled guns and poisons, including toxins in streams, mercury from coal plants, carbon emissions into the upper atmosphere, and oil exploitation in previously protected lands and waters.
Its premise appears to be that protection of others limits the rights of white men, and those rights should be unlimited. The Brazilian philosopher of education Paulo Freire once noted that âthe oppressors are afraid of losing the âfreedom to oppressââ. Of course, not all white men support extending that old domination, but those who do see themselves and their privileges as under threat in a society in which women are gaining powers, and demographic shift is taking us to a US in which white people will be a minority by 2045.
More of course, at the link.
Those racist will tell you, the Civil War was strictly over the question of “state’s rights”:
Acting AG Matthew Whitaker Said That States Have Right to Nullify Federal Law – The Daily Beast
Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker said he believed states have a right to nullify federal law, CNN reports. In a campaign speech for his GOP primary run for Iowa Senator, Whitaker touted the need for states to have âpolitical courageâ to nullify federal laws. âNow we need to remember that the states set up the federal government and not vice versa. And so the question is, do we have the political courage in the state of Iowa or some other state to nullify Obamacare and pay the consequences for that?â Whitaker said in response to a question at a September 2013 campaign speech. âThe federal government’s done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it’s the Department of Education, whether it’s Obamacare with its generous Medicare and Medicaid dollars and the like⌠But do I believe in nullification? I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There’s no doubt about that.â According to a Des Moines Register columnist, Whitaker reportedly made similar remarks about nullification in April 2014 but said he didnât believed states would do it.
I swear that Whitaker looks like a skinhead/Nazi.
And….at last we come to this:
Russian sites claim the 2020 election will cause an American civil war – Business Insider
- The Russian media has published more than 30 articles in the past few days suggesting that America could devolve into a civil wardue to the 2020 election.
- Stories that seek to undermine faith in Western democracy among Russian audiences are a staple of the Russian media, much of which is state-controlled.
- The source for these articles was an opinion piece published by conservative commentator Niall Ferguson, who references a “cultural civil war” but concludes that civil war is not imminent.
- This type of coverage in the Russian media highlights the challenge of contending with information that is distorted to the point of inaccuracy but is not explicitly fake.
The Russian media is obsessed with the American civil war. No, not the one that erupted in 1861 over the secession of the South â the civil war that’s coming with the next US presidential election.
tRump’s 30% are just hateful enough…and armed enough, to actually do something crazy like start a war.
This is all I have for today…btw….Tomorrow is my brother’s birthday, he would have been 48 years old. I miss him so fucking much.
This is an open thread.
Sunday Reads: It’s a tRump Ass World….
Posted: August 5, 2018 Filed under: 2018 elections, children, corruption, Discrimination against women, Domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drone Warfare, Fox News, Free Press, Journalism, just because, misogyny, morning reads, Myanmar, open thread, racism, Rape Culture, Refugees, Republican politics, Russia, Russian Trump Investigation, SCOTUS, the GOP, U.S. Politics, Venezuela, white nationalists | Tags: Clarence Thomas, Nicolas Maduro 31 Comments
I’ve guess you all have seen the latest paintings from the tRumptonian artist Jon McNaughton?
Bizarre Right-Wing Trump Portrait Gets Mercilessly Mocked On Twitter | HuffPost
A right-wing artistâs latest âheroicâ image of President Donald Trump received some pretty savage reviews from people on social media.
Jon McNaughton painted a take on George Washingtonâs crossing of the Delaware, except in this version Trump is commanding a boat filled with members of his administration.
âTrump endeavors to cross the âswampâ of Washington D.C. as he carries the light of truth, hope and prosperity,â McNaughton wrote. âThe murky water of the deep state is laced with dangerous vermin, perfectly willing to destroy American prosperity for their personal ideologies and financial gain.â
Take a peek at the link to see the various jokes, I’ve posted one of the funnier ones below, which conveniently also shows what the original painting looks like….
You can also see another new “work of art” (excuse me while I vomit) below…I don’t know what the name of that piece of shit is…but it must have Strangling the Mueller somewhere in the title.
Nah, see? It is called Expose the Truth. God it is fucking disgusting.
So, now that I have posted some of the visual images for the thread, I suppose I should get around to throwing some links in the pie as well.
I don’t know what to make at that tweet above… I know whatever is being done with the attacks on the press is dangerous. Just like the paintings of tRump strangling Mueller with a tie…it crosses the line.
Pastor at Trump rally prays to shield Trump from ‘jungle journalism’ | TheHill
From enemy of the people to jungle journalism….
The pastor delivering the invocation at President Trumpâs rally in Ohio on Saturday called for God to shield Trump from âjungle journalism.â
CNN reported that Gary Click, a pastor and member of the Ohio GOP’s State Central Committee, delivered the prayer ahead of Trumpâs remarks, asking for God to âprotect our President and his family with a shield of faith, Lord.â
âThat shield of faith against the fiery darts of the wicked one, Lord, against that jungle journalism that extorts the truth and distorts honesty and integrity every single day, gets in his face with lies and mistruths and innuendos,” Click continued.
I doubt they hired that preacher from craigslist.
Even Fox News is sensing the danger:
What The Heck Is Happening When Even Fox News Starts Making Sense? | Crooks and Liars
But tRump still threatens:
Trump: I âdestroy’ careers of Republicans who say bad things about me | TheHill
President Trump bragged about his prowess in defeating the Republicans who oppose him, saying at an Ohio rally that he âdestroysâ the careers of GOP politicians who dare defy him.
âHow do you get 100 percent of anything? We always have somebody who says âI donât like Trump, I donât like our president, he destroyed my career,’ â Trump said.
âI only destroy their career because they said bad things about me and you fight back and they go down the tubes and thatâs OK,â he added.
He is a fucking thug, and it looks like Sunday will only be used for more threats and blows toward Mueller.
Sunday shows preview: Trump’s attacks on Mueller probe ramp up | TheHill
Read more at that link.
Maybe something big is coming?
Trump voicing concerns about son being entangled in Mueller probe – CNNPolitics
I thought this was a true enough tweet below.
Yeah, that is gross:
Justice Clarence Thomas Is Having an Outsize Influence on the Trump Administration â Mother Jones
Twenty percent of the quiet justiceâs former clerks owe their current jobs to President Trump.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is by far the courtâs quietest and most conservative justice. He went 10 years without asking a single question from the bench, a streak broken in 2016, not long after the death of his friend Justice Antonin Scalia. Since then, Thomas hasnât uttered a word in court. His opinions are so quirky and radically conservative that his colleagues on the bench often seem reluctant to sign on to them, making him perhaps one of the least influential justices in the courtâs history.
But the courtâs only African-American justice is having an outsize influence in one important sphere: the Trump administration. A new report by the APâs Mark Sherman indicates that roughly 20 percent of the clerksâa total of 22âThomas has hired since his confirmation in 1991 are either now working as political appointees in the administration or have been appointed by Trump to federal judgeships.
In other news, this headline got me thinking…what the fuck is she doing back? Hope Hicks Spotted Boarding Air Force One
Check it out, I wonder if this was agreed on at the summit:
Steven Seagal Named By Russia As Special Rep To US For Humanitarian Ties | Deadline
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to the US actor in 2016, and now Seagal will expand his ties, serving as a goodwill ambassador. He will receive no salary, the Ministry said, adding, âItâs a case of peopleâs diplomacy intersecting with traditional diplomacy.â
Seagalâs new role was noted by Kremlin-backed TV station RT, who noted Seagal as welcoming the appointment.
âIâve always had a very strong desire to do all I can to help improve Russian-American relations,â RT quoted Seagal. âI have worked tirelessly in this direction for many years unofficially and I am now very grateful for the opportunity to do the same thing officially.â
Don’t forget…
While Seagal is popular in Russia, he has been accused in the US of sexual misconduct.
In March of this year, two women who previously accused Steven Seagal of rape and sexual assault stepped forward to offer more detailed accounts of the actorâs alleged misconduct. Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom told reporters in a press conference that she will represent former Dutch model Faviola Dadis and one-time aspiring actress Regina Simons as they seek justice.
Actresses Juliana Margulies and Pamela Anderson have also complained about Seagalâs conduct during auditions.
Looks like DC is trying to make the relations between the Neo Nazis holding a rally and folks counterprotesting the racist KKK white nationalist fucks:
D.C. Metro Considers Separate Trains for ‘Unite the Right’ White Nationalist Rally – Truthdig
In an effort to head off violence between white nationalists and counterprotesters, the District of Columbia metro transit system is considering providing separate trains for those attending the white supremacist âUnite the Rightâ rally Aug. 12. The use of separate trains for such a purpose would be unprecedented.
In response to criticism, Jack Evans, chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said in a Washington Post article:
âWeâre not trying to give anyone special treatment. Weâre just trying to avoid scuffles and things of that nature.â
It doesn’t look like special treatment helped the situation in Portland:
Hundreds of far-right protesters from as far away as Florida gathered on the waterfront in Portland, Oregon for a âFreedom Marchâ on Saturday. Dozens of those interviewed said they were there to utilize their âfreedom of speech.â To do so, they came armed with bats, weighted fighting gloves, wooden poles, canisters of mace, knives, shields and body armor.
The police had declared a day earlier that all such weapons were illegal in Portland parks. But no effort was witnessed to confiscate the weapons or arrest the weapon-holders.
For hours, four lines of riot police kept the far right separated from a much larger crowd of anti-fascists. The Portland police seemingly wanted to avoid a replay of June 30, when they took a hands-off approach to another far-right rally that quickly degenerated into a violent brawl of about 100 people, resulting in five hospitalizations.
This time it was the police who sent protesters to the hospital. Later in the day, when the far right decided to march into the city, police decided to sweep the streets of counter-protesters. Neither side had permits, but police provided protection to the far right to march for two blocks.
To clear the way, police shot dozens of flash-bang grenades at more than 1,000 people who had gathered to oppose what they say are white supremacists.
There are exclusive pictures of the wounded at the Raw Story link.
About the latest tRump tariffs:
Here are a few links above various things….
There was a strange assassination attempt last night…WATCH: Speech By Venezuelan President Maduro Cut Off After Reported Explosion
Maduro was unharmed in the attempt, but many of the military members in attendance were seen reacting to the explosion.
Footage of the speech, circulated on social media, showed Maduro delivering a speech before the sound cuts out, and those on the stage duck. A camera then shows soldiers running from in a square, before the footage cuts completely.
According to Patricia Laya, Bloomberg Newsâs Venezuela Bureau Chief, the feed cut after an explosion was heard near the stage.
Orson Welles: actor, director⌠painter? | Film | The Guardian
Iam essentially a hack, a commercial person,â Orson Welles once said. âIf I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.â Self-deprecation aside, this most creatively ambitious and restless of US directors was hardly a hack. Welles did have a hobby, though â one he never abandoned or monetised, and one that is now shedding fresh light on a mighty career.
For in private, the great man worked quietly as an artist â yielding a vast, varied collection of paintings, drawings and doodles that has rarely been given serious scrutiny. That output is the subject of The Eyes of Orson Welles, a whimsical documentary by film critic, historian and lifelong Welles devotee Mark Cousins. An exhibition of the artworks, on which Cousins advised, is also now running at Edinburghâs Summerhall galleries.
For those who think of Welles chiefly as the stern, booming talent behind such concrete American standards as Citizen Kane, Cousinsâs film is revelatory, exposing a wry, playful, angry, often lovestruck man behind the Hollywood legend.
That is all I have today, hope everybody is doing well.
This is an open thread.
Sunday Reads: “Cotton-Pickers” and “Baby-Dealers”
Posted: June 24, 2018 Filed under: children, corruption, History, Human Rights, ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration, indefinite detention, Mental Health, Mid Day Reads, morning reads, open thread, Refugees, refugees from Central and South America, Republican politics, the GOP, Trade, Trump, tRump crimes against humanity, U.S. Politics, US & Canada 31 CommentsÂ
Have you heard the latest?
Oh, there is always a latest these days…every few hours, someone from tRumpWorld says or does something outrageous, that had the same “thing” been said or done a couple of years ago…would have been cause for resignations, being fired, impeachment, imprisonment…etc.
Think about it…
I watched Tanner 88 last night, a series I had not seen since it came out in 1988. It made me think about the years, 1988, 1998, and 2018.
1988- Gary Hart…Below is an article from 1987…it reads like a pulp fiction piece when you compare it to the scandals from tRump:
The Destruction of Politician Gary Hart | Vanity FairÂ
After the crash of his presidential campaign, the smoking pieces of Gary Hartâs life were blown across the front page of every newspaper in America. Gail Sheehy discovered the black box in the wreckage, and has put all the pieces back together. What she found is startling: the world of Donna Rice is much darker than it seemed, and Hart was on a collision course with it all along.
Here is a particular bit to relish:
 I examined Donnaâs live-in love affair with a big-time cocaine dealer, who is currently serving ten years in a federal penitentiary. Four of Donnaâs friends illuminated the rest of the smoke and mirrors in this high-rolling netherworld. It might be seen as the forbidden picture show to which Hartâs hidden, sybaritic side had always longed for admission. Indeed, it might be one in a dizzying series of mirrors on which, according to a senior political consultant who has known and watched him for over a decade, âGary Hart has been writing in lipstick for years, âStop me before I fuck again.â â
Geez, âStop me before I fuck again.â Could be the title of tRump’s biography…only perhaps a slight change to, fuck it up again?
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1998- Bill Clinton…Another look from an article in 1998, yes this one is also from Vanity Fair…keeping with the same magazine for context.
Bill Clinton and Women | Vanity FairÂ
When the dust of Clintonâs presidency settles, the laws against sexual harassment will still be on the books. But the social sanctions against the behavior will be irretrievably damaged.If you doubt this, look around. In the weeks that followed the Lewinsky scandal, those who had been most affronted by the awkward new social arrangements lately demanded of them shambled out of their caves to beat their chests. Conservative columnist John Leo, for example, crowed in U.S. News & World Report that the scandal was âprobably the decadeâs high-water mark of euphoria around the water cooler ⌠a chance to break free from the office sex police.â Itâs all very well to protest that we shouldnât look to our politicians as role models: the saga of Clintonâs sex life is being played out on too large a screen to ignore. You can say until youâre blue in the face that public men are entitled to a realm of privacy; that certain kinds of bad private behavior do not necessarily conflict with political competence, or even genius; and that adultery is not in itself of feminist concern. These are all irrelevancies. This mess is on our hands, and we do not have the luxury of arguing with its existence; the best we can do is call it what it is.
2018- Donald tRump…Again, from Vanity Fair:
Why is everyone making such a fuss about something all rich people do?
Last night on Fox News, in an unintentionally hilarious attempt to clear his clientâs name, our man Rudolph W. L. Giuliani informed host Sean Hannity that not only did Donald Trump know about the hush money lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels, but the president repaid the $130,000. In what appeared to be an (unsuccessful) effort to get Trump off for potential campaign finance violations, Giuliani told Hannity that the whole thing was âperfectly legalâ because âthey funneled it through a law firm, and the president repaid it.â As my colleague Abigail Tracy points out, it doesnât actually matter where the money came fromâTrumpâs own pocket, campaign contributions, or elsewhereâor if it was repaid; if, per the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the money in question was used âfor the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office,â itâs still a crime! Which made Giulianiâs Thursday morning appearance on Fox & Friends slightly problematic, considering he told the group it was a good thing Cohen made the Daniels story âgo away,â as it would have been really bad if âthat came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton.â
But hey, weâre not here to debate what is or isnât a federal crimeâweâre here to discuss the social mores of the 1 percent. After Giuliani finished his media blitz, Trump logged onto Twitter to inform his followers that despite how things might look, paying porn stars six figures for their silence is standard operating procedure for the rich.
Gee, the good old days, when news about tRump was just things like paying off porn stars with campaign funds, conspiring with Russia, money laundering etc.
Anyway, that trip down memory lane was brought to you by the little mini-series Tanner 88, made possible from director producer Robert Altman and writer producer Gary Trudeau. Check it out if you can…it is streaming on Filmstruck and Amazon.
Now here are the links for today:
ox News host Ed Henry had to shut down a discussion on President Donald Trumpâs immigration policies on Sunday morning when White House adviser David Bossie told a black Democratic consultant that he was out of his âcotton-picking mind.â
During the segment, Democratic communications expert Joel Payne railed at the Trump administration racist policies. The criticism angered Bossie, who also complained about ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden comparing the child detention centers to a Nazi concentration camp.
âMichael Hayden posted a picture of Auschwitz,â Bossie complained.
ââYeah, that liberal Michael Hayden,â Payne shot back, sarcastically referring to the fact that Hayden is a conservative.
âYou are out of your cotton-picking mind!â Bossie blurted, causing Payne to blow up.
âCotton-picking mind?â Payne exclaimed. âBrother, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something, I got some relatives who picked cotton, okay?â
Host Henry tried to take control as the two guests began yelling at each other, with Henry insisting Bossie intended to say âout of your mind,â before he called an end to the panel.
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Video of “confrontation” can be found here:
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There was another kerfuffle this time between tRump representative, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and an outraged public, Juan Cole takes a look at it here:
Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted that patrons uphold standards of honesty and compassion, and that Sanders flacks for an âinhumane and unethicalâ administration, defending Trumpâs âcruelest policies.â
Wilkinsonâs grounds for not serving the White House spokesperson amounted to personal indecency. It is important to underline that this is what social scientists call an âachievedâ status. The grounds had to do with Sandersâ own record of behavior and character, not with anything arbitrary about her.
In contrast, to achieved status, you have ascribed status. The latter is determined by things people think about your inherited characteristics. Being Black or Latino is an ascribed status. Or your family religion as a Catholic or Jew would be in this category of ascribed. It has to do not with your personal standards of character but with what prejudices people might have toward a whole group, of which you are part by virtue typically of inheritance. Even if you converted to Catholicism, e.g., you are not responsible for what all Catholics might have done or for what fanatic Protestants think about Catholicism.
It is wrong to shun people because of their ascribed status. It isnât wrong to refuse to associate people because of their achieved status.
Sanders achieved her status as pariah in many quarters by lying assiduously on television for a livingâ by saying things she knew were wrong and/or untrue.
In contrast, Sanders is an advocate for allowing restaurateurs to discriminate on truly objectionable grounds, of ascribed status.
Read the rest at the link.
In connection with this:Â Expert: Sarah Sanders broke ethics rules with tweet about restaurant | US news | The Guardian
On Saturday, using her official White House account, Sanders posted: âLast night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington [Virginia] to leave because I work for POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me.
âI always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.â
Walter Shaub, federal ethics chief under Barack Obama and briefly Trumpand now a fierce critic of the administration, responded: âSanders used her official govt account to condemn a private business for personal reasons ⌠she can lob attacks on her own time but not using her official position.â
Since when do these people have any shred of ethics?
Case in point, Jeff Flake went on one of the Sunday shows:
Flake: Trump has ‘unfortunately’ redefined Republican Party | TheHill
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that President Trump has âunfortunatelyâ redefined the Republican Party, and reiterated his calls for the president to face a primary challenge in 2020.
These assholes could do something, but they consistently vote with tRump anyways…fuck them all.
Here is a few other news items:
BNSF: Estimated 230,000 Gallons Of Oil Spilled In Derailment â Talking Points Memo That is a train derailment in Iowa…
Can America’s allies target Trump’s businesses in response to tariffs? – Business Insider
Op-eds in The Houston Chronicle and the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s suggested the only way to quell the rising trade tensions is to strike at Trump’s businesses. While some countries, such as China, have appeared to try and sway the president through treating his family’s businesses more favorably, countries have not made moves to curtail the businesses’ activity within their borders.
[…]
Debbie Shon, an international trade lawyer at Quinn Emanuel and a former official in the US Trade Representative’s office under President Bill Clinton, said that effectively hitting Trump’s businesses using trade actions â while legal â would be difficult.
“Looking at Trump’s businesses, I’m not sure what goods he sells that could be subject to tariffs or how you could use trade actions to hit his businesses unless you really tailored some sort of measure targeting key industries like real estate,” Shon told Business Insider.
That would force any country trying to go after Trump to get creative with their response. Scott Gilmore, a social entrepreneur and former Canadian diplomat, suggested in Maclean’s that Canada should use anti-corruption laws to pressure Trump on trade.
Trump-branded skyscrapers in Toronto and Vancouver represent the president’s most prominent business ventures in the country.
Well, I will leave that one to Dak…
At Midnight, Riyadh Erupts in Cheers for Women Drivers–but Women Activists still in Jail –Another one from Juan Cole, give it a read.
Now some updates on the shit happening at both borders:
Strict immigration enforcement extends beyond the border to Maine, Ohio –Â Axios
The chaos isn’t just in the Southwest. Increased highway checkpoints and workplace raids away from borders are alarming advocates for immigrants.
The big picture: “For 11 hours on Wednesday, drivers who wanted to travel through a remote stretch of northern Maine were asked a simple question: Where were you born?,” the N.Y. Times reports.
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More details of other raids at the link.
Boston Boomer linked to this yesterday in the comments:Â Babies separated from immigrant parents in Miami shelters, lawmaker says | Miami Herald
At least 10 babies and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in “tender-age shelters” in Miami-Dade, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Miami Herald on Saturday.
The Florida lawmaker said the children â who range in age from newborns to 5 year olds â are being sheltered at His House Childrenâs Home in Miami Gardens and Catholic Charities’ Msgr. Bryan Walsh Childrenâs Village in Cutler Bay, formerly known as Boys Town.
These facilities are also housing about 88 children ages 6 to 12 who have been separated from their parents, she said.
When the Democratic congresswoman, who represents parts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, provided the Miami Herald with these figures, she cited a document given to her by federal officials.
It is very disturbing…especially when you consider the other tweet BB linked to, that the children will be adopted out.
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More lawsuits are being filed against tRump:Â ‘Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture’: Immigrants separated from children at border file lawsuit in federal court – ABC News
As DHS released a statement:Â Fact Sheet: Zero-Tolerance Prosecution and Family Reunification | Homeland Security
It says over 500 children have been reunited with their families.
- CBP has reunited 522 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) in their custody who were separated from adults as part of the Zero Tolerance initiative. The reunions of an additional 16 UAC who were scheduled to be reunited on June 22, 2018 were delayed due to weather affecting travel and we expect they will all be reunited with their parents within the next 24 hours. There will be a small number of children who were separated for reasons other than zero tolerance that will remain separated: generally only if the familial relationship cannot be confirmed, we believe the adult is a threat to the safety of the child, or the adult is a criminal alien.
All this as one op/ed calls for asylum:Â The U.S. Should Grant Asylum To All The Families We Separated | HuffPost
In many countries, when thugs take power, they inflict harm on others. Every person then has a choice to make: join the thugs or refuse to harm others. The morally correct choice is the harder one. The brave ones who refuse to be complicit â such as my clients from El Salvador, Nepal, Haiti and Cameroon who were asked to make this very choice â were met with the most dire consequences. If they escape, they forsake all they know in hopes that they will be safer in places unknown.
Clinging to the audacious hope that their childrenâs lives will be better, families flee to the U.S., the nation whose symbol is a Statue of Liberty and whose laws have welcomed millions seeking refuge. Â In the most cruel bait and switch, President Donald Trump â aided by his attorney general and secretary of homeland security â took those children away, stripping from their parents the very reason they risked so much.
They say the most unrelenting grief a person can experience is burying their child. Our country has inflicted this kind of pain on desperate parents. The very least we can do is grant them the right to stay here.
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So, have a good afternoon and evening. This is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: Begging, no more.
Posted: June 20, 2018 Filed under: children, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Human Rights, ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration, indefinite detention, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Real Life Horror, refugees from Central and South America, the GOP, tRump crimes against humanity, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons, white nationalists 93 CommentsI can’t do this anymore. I live in a house where everyone has no problem with the crimes against humanity that tRump and his administration is committing at the border. (My mom is so sick now, she doesn’t have the strength to fight cancer and the assholes in this family.) I am losing my wits. I have reach the point where I am questioning my sanity. Is it gaslighting? I can’t even watch Maddow anymore, because I get verbal abuse from my father…who insist I agree with him. I want to fucking run away but I can’t.
I think this is the final example:
I hate all of these assholes with more than anything I’ve ever felt before.
Oh…and get this:
It only gets worse:
06/19/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
06/19/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
IRON FIST IMMIGRATION: 06/19/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Make your voice be heard: 06/18/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Nick Anderson cartoon: 06/19/2018 Cartoon by Nick Anderson
06/19/2018 Cartoon by Gustavo Rodriguez
06/16/2018 Cartoon by Gustavo Rodriguez
06/19/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Separated: 06/19/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
Good Boy: 06/19/2018 Cartoon by Tom Curry
06/19/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
06/20 Mike Luckovich. Flagged.
06/19 Mike Luckovich. Torn apart.
06/15 Mike Luckovich. The Choice.
06/17 Mike Luckovich. All new villains!
This is an older Luckovich…
This is an open thread.
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