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I laughed to tears !

Evan DeSimone has hit the nail on the head

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Trump believes that bullying, hostage-taking, and threats are legitimate and effective business tactics. "The Art of the Deal," if you will.

and doing investigative reporting on those lies and showing what was really happening.
The Fourth Estate won this.
Trump learned that from this too, he said he got beat by the pictures, so expect a new assault and limits on the freedom of the press next time they pull this shit.
Because there will be a next time.

You know how pissed off he must be right now. He must be shaking his tiny fists with rage that someone other than his master Putin told him what to do.

he had no idea how this would land on the US population. The PR and optics of this got businesses (airlines) to boycott the policy, millionaires to donate money to Dem campaigns, local news stations to wake up, GOP politicians to finally stand up, religious leaders to draw the line with GOP policies, the Pope, world leaders and the UN to voice condemnations, etc. Finally, the Resistance with the usual protesters, news stations and Dem politicians got some support. Resistance works...let's keep it up!

He does derive some pleasure from torturing people though etc

sometimes people need to take a break for a day away from it all to regenerate. I didn't actually DO anything, except posts in this forum, and some posts to my reps in FB...and speak with a relative, who is independent to get a feel for what he thinks (yes...he wasn't emotional about it...he's an older, gruff man...but he felt that this was another Trump horrible act...he hates Trump).

This crisis after crisis is SO emotionally exhausting! The tears, the anger. Day after day. Just when you think he's done the worst, he tops it.

But putting pressure on everyone else...everyone...is absolutely necessary.

No post in some obscure forum should be let to ride. Silence is agreement. Sometimes you have to b*ch-slap conservatives into reality, since they get all their news from Fox and Limpballs & Breitbart. They really don't KNOW the truth.

in my state. The Gov even posted in his FB page that he was proud to make clear to Louisianians that the state had no involvement whatsoever in the indefensible policy of separating immigrant children from their families. Although we did supply 3 staffers & a helicopter under a prior agreement for border security only.

EVERYONE is talking about this shocking turn of events.

- It's not just Trump, the GOP Congress could stop him any day they choose. This is the fault of the entire Party and everyone who supports them.

- The GOP is fully complicit with connections to Russia, too.

- Evangelical & Catholic leaders illegally campaigned at the pulpit for TEN YEARS telling Believers that if they didn't vote Republican they'd burn in Hell forever.

They own this. All of it.

Some did, I'm sure. But not all. The Catholic Church is torn. They're anti-abortion, want to support exemptions & such for religion. But a high % of their members are minorities or Euro immigrants, and the Church itself has been persecuted in its history. So they are sympathetic to some Democratic policies.

The KKK, for instance, was anti-minority, anti-black, anti-gay, anti-semitic, and anti-Catholic. Kennedy was the first Catholic President, and that was a big deal. He was questioned about his religion before the election...maybe in one of the debates?

Many Catholics are Democrats.

The Bishops even went so far as to campaign against immigration reform in 2015 - if protections included gays seeking asylum.

As with the Nazis and Republicans, if parishioners continued financially supporting the Church and attending without speaking out, they too were complicit.

or it was some isolated Bishops.

The official position of the Church since 2013:

It'a a big fat hoax, much as we want it to be an improvement.

We actually have to never let up the pressure, because there is absolutely no plan by HHS to re-unite these border kids with their parents -- and that's over 2,500 kids who've been, by stealth, sent off to 17 states.

The executive order is a sham. It's window dressing. Spanky is still going to try to blackmail Congress into funding the wall.

Everybody has to keep the pressure on.

has no plan to reunite with their parents.

It ain't over yet. Not by a long shot.

Some reporters have been questioning the EO and asking whether it is essentially window dressing and an effort by Trump to take off the pressure. Then once attention is eslewhere, he’ll go back to the same policy. Plus, we need to keep up the pressure to reunite those kids who have been sent all over the country with their parents. We should insist that they all be sent back to Texas immediately to allow parents waiting for hearings to claim their kids. Plus, people who have been deported already without their kids need to be allowed to come back to claim them since DHS/HHS didn’t bother identifying the children well enough so that they know who the parents are. I don’t know how parents of babies can reclaim their kids since the kids can’t talk. This is a mess of Trump’s making and we need to keep it in the public eye until every child is reunited with a parent.

We must insist on all of these things you have mentioned. Keep this going. I want to have it looked into how this was planned and implemented. Who were the contractors etc.? Who was making money on the centers?

Every time you follow the money until you get to the slimy rock and turn it over to see the maggots, you always find an old, white, male, liver-spotted hand grasping after MORE PROFITS.

That's what capitalism is - profits at the expense of the earth, human life, community, workers. Profit over people.

Sorry...I guess I'm not much of a capitalist.

I like being able to make an honest profit, but I can't stand those that make their money hurting and cheating others and influencing our government for their own gain.

fiduciary responsibility in publicly held companies. That is what causes big corporations to be so corrosive and destructive.

If you already knew this, forgive me, but if you are the CEO of a publicly held company, your ONLY responsibility is to increase earnings for shareholders. That's it. This is why corporations pollute, drive wages down, bust unions and screw consumers by changing the packaging to hold less product but charging the same price. This is why, for instance, Bayer/Monsanto continues to produce and sell Round Up, though it is a known carcinogen. This is why the dirt-bag Shkreli raised the price of that drug something like 7500%.

I believe we could immediately improve this by forcing changes in corporate charters to expand fiduciary responsibility beyond shareholders to workers, consumers, and the environment.

Do this, and suddenly the big corporations aren't as evil.

There's a really cool website and monograph called 'Regenerative Capitalism' you should check out. It highlights many really good things that are happening at the local level, and is actually where I got this idea about expanding fiduciary responsibility.

Public pressure does work. Remember one of the first things the republicans wanted to do under Trump was to get rid of the ethics committee? Public pressure put an end to that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/us/politics/trump-house-ethics-office.html

Trump is very concerned with how others see him, and he's very sneaky, like when he tried to mask his Muslim travel ban as something Obama had put in place. One very bad thing is being replaced by another, and we must keep constant watch on this con artist.

If his collaborators, the racist cowards McConnell and Ryan are not in power to prevent his ultimate downfall to add to his lifetime record of failure and destruction, he's going down big time.

I honestly am feeling that he will be the first ex-President of the United States to die in prison, which will be ironic for his "lock her up!" chanting race of criminals.

and things get so bad it's hard to maintain hope, but it will bring change. it just has to.

https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together_attend1/search/

Many of them will not be reunited, at least not anytime soon.

And those who are reunited will be subject to more human rights violations. Children can't be held in detention for more than 20 days, so time will tell what a court or Congress or Trump decides to do.

No surprise to me, it was all there in his campaign, there is no excuse for having voted for this monster. Today is not the end of this, there are still 2500 or so children snatched and carted off to mostly secret locations etc. I saw on tv some may have been brought to NY to go to foster centers or homes. Not to mention thousands more who came here by themselves. Who knows what is really going down here. And now it will prolly be whole families detained in the same manner.

I think you are spot on with the bad thing. I do believe unchecked Trump has the potential to be another Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Hitler, etc. I do think he would blithely eliminate opponents and result to genocide if he felt he could. He is a sociopath. I've been screaming that for years.

He didn't fold like a cheap lawn chair. The EO he signed is absolutely meaningless and does nothing to resolve the problem, in fact it creates new ones. He's fucking with us.

was to get Dems to agree to legislation funding the wall.

So, yeah, the EO is basically illegal. A court will be asked to amend Flores.

He's still concealing cannibalism or sex trafficking or something. Where are the babies and little girls?

And it does nothing to reunite those already separated.

It does, however, force the issue. Meaning a court or Congress will have to intervene. Because under current law, children can't be detained indefinitely.

It doesn't end anything; it is a stalling tactic.

He's still snatching children; he's hiding the little girls and babies; he refuses to reunite the hostages he's holding now.

Soylent Green, or sex trafficking. That's what Trump is up to.

But I don't think it's soylent green or sex trafficking as much as a combination of gross incompetence and plain old racist malice.

Innocent babies in concentration camps.

How can you support a man who takes babies away from their moms and put them in cages?