Strangelove wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:06 pm
“Look at the facts… Paid off porn star… Russia lies… Racism… Children in cages… Conspiracy theories.”
Stormy Daniels eventually admitted she never actually had an affair with Trumpy-poo
Source on that?
So why did he pay her USD 130,000 from campaign funds?
… no Russia lies,
Uhm... some seven, iirc, people with ties to the Trump campaign have been convicted in a court of law for lying about Russia.
But you know better?
no racism,
PLENTY of racism, starting with the practices Don and his dad had cutting of water and electricity to get rid of people of colour from their buildings back in the 70’s to the whole birtherism shit he started, questioning Obama’s birth certificate, and it goes on and on and on and on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_vi ... nald_Trump
You cannot seriously say Trump is not racist with a straight face.
But yeah, I know you love trolling....
no children in cages
Thousands of children, including infants, separated from their parents and placed in concentration camps. Some children may never get reunited with their families due to the shoddy paperwork. There are several cases where the parents have been deported, and as they're fleeing persecution in their home country, their whereabouts is unknown, but the children remain incarcerated in the US. And at least seven children have died from neglect while in custody under Trump's regime.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/wri ... ent-border
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-det ... d-migrants
Even Melania and Laura Bush have protested these atrocities.
Melania Trump made a rare statement expressing concern.
Mrs Trump "hates to see children separated from their families", her spokeswoman said.
She repeated her husband's call for "both sides" to work on immigration reform as a solution. However, fact-checkers point out that the policy was introduced by Mr Trump's attorney general and does not require congressional action to be stopped.
Laura Bush, wife of the former Republican President George W Bush and a Texas resident, launched an outspoken attack on the policy.
"This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," she wrote in the Washington Post.
"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."
"These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War Two, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in US history," she added.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44515123
As a result of the outrage, even from many republicans, including Melania and Laura Bush (see above) Trump actually backed down on this and ended the widespread practice of family separations through an executive order in June 2018. Court filings show that some separations have continued to occur though, but not on the grand scale of early 2018.
(That one was [Obama])
Er...
partially correct. You are comparing apples and orchards.
There
were children apprehended under Obama, which is bad enough, and the facilities referred to as cages were constructed in 2015 as a response to an increase in unaccompanied minors arriving at the border, so that did happen on Obama's watch.
But, iirc, under Obama children could not be held for more than 72 hours, and the children housed there were mainly unaccompanied minors, except for the odd case where parents had committed actual crimes and were incarcerated.
Then the practice escalated under Trump and was taken to a whole new level, including
breaking up families as a standard measure, placing the children in one compound and their parents in another.
But as I already stated, as a result of the public outcry he eventually retracted the inhuman policies and returned it to the less brutal levels of the previous administration. So I guess now it's comparable to what Obama did.
And what’s wrong with a conspiracy theory or two?
Among other things, it undermines the trust in democracy and government, thus paving the way for a failed society.
