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  1. 16 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The fire on this immigration issue is bigger than Trump and might even be bigger than Russia as far as an underlying problem in American society, it needs a tremendous amount of attention.  Our population is woefully misinformed here to the point where disappearing infants was justified by the state and supported by a large segment of the population.  That is a moral crisis. 

    It should be an all hands on deck moment for everyone. 

    I agree that we should expose it and make a big deal out of it.  It is an important issue, both substantively and as an example that could serve to persuade those on the fence about Trump.  

    But if the opposition constantly spends its time rushing to fix the next Trump calamity, it isn’t focused on removing the root problem.  Which, of course, is the only way to ensure no future Trump calamities.  

    The way to solve the child separation issue is not to devote time and money working individual cases.  It is to devote time and money to removing Trump from office.  You don’t get rid of fire ants one at a time.  You take out the queen.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm kind of over what he's doing.  He's going to do whatever, but the people that support it, they are the problem.   Congress, admin officials, and the general public.  THOSE are the real threats.  

    This is exactly right.  And it’s why Iget frustrated by the immediate, specific response of Trump opponents to whatever his latest bullshit stunt is.  Case in point: Trump gets caught ripping kids from their families, and good people immediately donate to and volunteer for organizations focused on that one issue.  Meanwhile, Trump is moving on to his next stunt.  

    If we’re always racing to put out every fire, we have no time and energy to devote to the real solution: voting the GOP out of power and voting in congressmen who will fight Trump.  

    Don’t get me wrong.  It’s laudable to support immigrant advocacy groups.  But we need to stop racing around to save each tree and focus instead on protecting the forest.  When Trump does something awful, by all means use it to your PR advantage.  But devote your efforts to the main goal: voting him and his party out.

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  3. 35 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

     

     

    It is hard to keep imagining greater levels of absurdity, day after day after day.  Yet it never fucking fails. 

    Yep.  Idiocracy no longer looks like a poignant prophecy so much as an optimistic vision for the near future.

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  4. 21 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    Most of them endorsements for political candidates.  A couple of ones which say that the Republicans should push back any immigration reform until after the midterms, so there will be fewer "obstructionist" Democrats. 

    I don’t like the sound of that.  If Trump is bragging about midterm results already, there’s good chance he’s working to rig them.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    It seems pretty obvious that this is another way to get at privatizing education.  If you want your kids in college, you must get them into a private school.  Otherwise, they'll be fit to be a mechanic or an electrician when they get done, but not much else.  As someone who grew up in a town with 1 high school, 1 middle school, and 1 elementary school, oh and no private schools, I continue to wonder how they think that's going to work in places like that. They are basically dooming their biggest supporters to a future of ditch digging and driving more people who care about their kids' education to larger population centers.  

    They know it won’t work.  That’s the whole point.  Keep their base uneducated, under-employed, and angry.  Ignorant people are less likely to understand the real root of their predicament, and more likely to buy into scapegoating conspiracy theories offered by populist autocrats.  The best way to ensure support from the ignorant is to keep them ignorant.

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  6. 24 minutes ago, Skyline said:

    So Flores set the limit at 20 days that you can hold children. The Trump admin is just going to roll forward and take on the challenge in the courts. 

    The key is to not forget this happened.  To recognize that Trump hasn’t changed.  That he has not suddenly become reasonable and empathetic.  

    He is caving to pressure, but it took an insane amount of backlash to get him to back off an obviously inhumane policy.  He will do awful things in the future.  We shouldn’t have to routinely rally faith groups, charitable organizations, and human rights activists to talk the president out of atrocities.  

    The only way to prevent this from happening again is to vote him and the GOP out.  

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  7. 1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    STFU You hate the fact we're not a completely socialistic country. Your of late, you didn't build that BS is way past lame. You must work @ the DMV.  

    This is a BS policy, and not sure why they're withdrawing, but has nothing to do with what actual republicans consider right.

    I am hoping more and more Republicans will wake up, realize they were conned, and join the opposition.  Aside from the letter in parentheses next to Trump’s name, rational Republicans have very, very little in common with him.

  8. 44 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    All that matters to Trumpkins: cheap, pandering imagery. 72f57b6ee8cc6a499de19be6903bf0e8.jpg

    It’s unpatriotic to kneel before the flag, but it’s American as apple pie to dry-hump it.  

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  9. 28 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    So now the president is comparing illegal immigrants to insects.  

    To be fair, infestation does not necessarily mean insects.  The President might have been comparing immigrants to rats.  

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  10. 2 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    re: the discussion about the immigrant families separation perhaps being the issue that finally pushes some over the edge...

    FWIW my northeast Texas cousin who is diehard Team R and regularly posted stuff about Obama banning the White House Christmas tree and shutting down Texas oil fields and whatever other nonsense (she's in Gohmert's district)... this morning she shared one of the journalist videos from one of these detention camps and she is appalled...

    "If a parent were to treat their child like this they would be arrested Please don’t bash me about caring for these children... illegal or not, they deserve better!" 

    she'll probably still vote straight R, but it's obviously getting to her, and she felt she had to pre-emptively defend against other Team R folks,  which i found interesting. 

    Find a way to gently suggest that she can do something about this by voting straight Democrat in 2018.  Foster a sense of common values and purpose.  Explain that Trumpists are fake Republicans.

  11. 2 hours ago, yaqdum said:

    lordy, that's good news.  have to hope this is just the break-of-the-wave moment and we'll see the young take charge.  this is the sort of broad-scale change that i've been talking about.  any ideas we've had about hope may prove to be woefully short-sighted.  as i said the other day, the wicked are beyond saving, but the youth is getting an education we didn't get.  they may redefine who we are.

    also, any who don't believe the politics in this nation is undergoing a major shift need to pay attention to what's happening with the baptists.  i don't think we are headed left except that way leads to center.

    I for one welcome our new Baptist comrades.  The best thing about Christianity is its message of love, compassion, and decency.  Hopefully more and more Christians will see the light and realize that the leaders they have supported do not stand for those same values.  It’s time to make up for those mistakes.  God will forgive, but it’s time to set things right.

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