Welcome PF but please realize that there is nothing scientific about my observations. Just people I listen to and talk with. I really don't like politics. It's a thoroughly detestable occupation which, rather like prostitution (with which it has much in common), is unfortunately necessary. Politics' one saving grace is that it gives us criminal defense attorneys something to look down on.
Wow! Three in a row! Anyway, I said yesterday that the Trump stance is legitimizing racism. Yesterday a state senator in Arizona, it had to be Arizona, said, in the statehouse, that "there aren't enough white kids to go round." Lord. spare us.
Shameful doesn't even begin to describe the separation of kids from their parents at the US/Mexican border. How can anyone who's a parent themselves do this? One reporter described interviewing a mother nursing her child, as the baby at her breast was taken from her.
Just following orders. Where have we heard that before.
Actually Bruno I think you have a point. I don't think every ICE agent is a jackbooted sadist but ICE is in danger of becoming the go to organization for racists, sadists and sociopaths. It takes a dangerous mindset to justify,or put a legal veneer on wrenching a suckling child from it's mother. Misgoverned certainly but there has to be a point where someone says "Enough!" Sooner or later I think that will happen.
That's Giuliani's job, basically. To tell anyone who might be persuaded to turn on Trump that there's no need for a plea deal as Trump will pardon them all, and they're completely safe, so don't snitch.
As for Trump claiming that yesterday's report vindicates him, isn't that what he does every day, with almost any event? If there's a report on energy consumption in Texas he'll probably tweet that it shows that there was no collusion and therefore investigating Russian meddling is all a sham...
They know they are legally fucked so putting it out there that the system is rigged against them is their best option and will resonate with their base.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!
“The number of crimes committed in Germany is the lowest since 1992,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced at a presentation of 2017 police crime statistics in Berlin. “The frequency of fewer than 7,000 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants is unprecedented, even in a 30-year comparison.”
That's the Kipperish at the heart of the current political crisis speaking.
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