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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Donald Trump’s new policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, and confining those children indefinitely in detention facilities, is not going over well with the American public. This is clearly shown in three new polls.

In the Quinnipiac poll, the public opposed the policy by 39 points. In the CNN poll, the opposition was by 39 points. And in the CBS News poll, the opposition was by 50 points. Those are some pretty overwhelming numbers.

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From Green Eagle:

…not a single comment I have heard is willing to get to the real point of Trump’s inhumanity toward immigrant children.

Yes, of course, this is part of a systematic stirring up of race hatred and a lust for violence in his base, to hopefully get them out on election day and keep the Republican party in charge. That in itself is one of the most miserable things that has ever happened in the history of our country, at least since the days of slavery and beating down the Indians. But as malignant as it is, I believe it is only secondary to another purpose of this behavior, which up to this point, no one, from whatever end of the political spectrum, has been able to face.

For, I believe, the main purpose of this behavior is to make it clear that Trump has the power, and will use that power, to destroy the lives of anyone who stands up to him.

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From nojo at Stinque:

There’s a line that’s been going around the past week, a line of shock and disbelief, a line you hear accompanying reports of what we do to families — especially children — seeking asylum at our border:

“This is not who we are.”

This is certainly not who we believed we were, those of us who have enjoyed the luxury of living their lives in complete ignorance of what we do, what we’ve done, what we’ve always done, to people who are not us, not white, not male, not wealthy. We’ve turned our heads, looked away, preferred the sweet music to the discordant reality, preferred to yearn for a past that never was instead of working toward a future that can be better.

This is who we are.

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From Glenn R. Geist at MadMikesAmerica:

Denial is normal when you’ve just been given a terrible diagnosis when you hear that someone you care about has died; you just lost ten grand on some stock because of a Trump tweet or someone you don’t care for has been elected president. Say it ain’t so! No! I don’t believe it!

Yes, you do and you don’t expect to be able to change reality by declaring it didn’t happen. Unless you’re a psychotic or a Republican. Presto chango and wave the wand. All’s quiet on the border.

“We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period…”

…said the Secretary of Trumpland Security and Doubletalk this morning. That picture of the two-year-old girl screaming in terror must have been faked by the Democrats and liberal media, (what about Hillary?) because after all, Sessions was just repeating an order by Obama even though it didn’t happen anyway.

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From Max’s Dad:

So now, in 2018, we have a talking hard boiled egg as a Governor, a rancher welfare queen as a Senator and another US Senator so goofy he has a second job as an Uber driver. We have an Attorney General who thinks his only job is to kill people, keep casinos out of the state, keep legal pot out of the state, and defend corporations from pesky consumer lawsuits. We have two nobody Congressmen from dying farm town districts and one whose main qualifications are a stupid grin and a propensity to run from crowds of angry constituents.

This is what the State GOP gives us and of course, because its all about cult over country now, that R next to their name is all that matters.

But the cowardice of these candidates came to the forefront yesterday when at the annual gathering of snowbird Nebraska Republicans all the elected officials ran and hid when by a vote of 109-101, the state of Nebraska GOP voted to condemn Robert Mueller’s investigation of their cult leader in chief, Donald F Trump. Calling Muellers investigation a “perversion of equal justice”, this band of elderly cultists also condemned any Republican who aids in the investigation as “notorious and unfit for office”. This all comes when the inmates run the asylum. The allegedly “responsible” GOPers who sit on the Resolution committee unanimously voted to table this idiotic screed supporting a madman and his lawless activities. But the GOP hypnotized faithful refused to listen and by that narrow vote placed themselves directly into the cult. Say hello to Alex Jones y’all.

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From Wisconsin Conservative James Wigderson:

One of the 10 Democratic candidates for Wisconsin Governor admitted that his party is “pickled in identity politics.” Former Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Matt Flynn made the comments Monday to WHBY Appleton talk radio host Josh Dukelow.

Dukelow told Flynn he believes the Democratic Party focus has shifted to “identity politics” since the time Flynn chaired the state party in the 1980s. Dukelow then asked Flynn if he agreed with that characterization and, referring to Flynn, asked if the Democratic Party will elect an “old white guy” (Flynn is 70). Flynn was candid to the extreme in his answer:

“Our party right now, and I’m probably the only one who says this, is pickled in identity politics and victimology. And when I was at the convention recently, in Oshkosh there were multiple caucuses of, there were all these subgroups, and there is no assimilation of the party anymore. When I was the chairman there were no caucuses. And I’m of the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. That’s the legacy…A lot of these other people. They are very, very nice people, but they scurry around with these various identities, and so on, and I think that sets me apart as well. So my own belief is that we should get rid of the caucuses in the Democratic Party and come together again. There were no caucuses under Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and John F. Kennedy, and they won’t be under Matt Flynn if he’s the governor.”

According to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin website, the party has the following caucuses:

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From driftglass:

For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Ann Coulter is 43 pounds of rode-hard, visibly-decomposing, Republican slunkmeat who has worked frantically over the past 20 years to stay at the far-end of the “Wingnuts Saying The Most Godawful Shit Imaginable” bell curve.

You see, “Saying The Most Godawful Shit Imaginable” is basically her whole career (here is a sampling of her book titles) —

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans
In Trump We Trust
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind

— and since the Right is now overstocked with freelance racists, out-and-proud Nazis and hypercaffeinated 12-year-old feculoids who sprang fully-formed from their whelping box screaming about how they were being cruelly silenced by the Libtard Media Conspiracy, it has gotten harder and harder for dilapidated, steam-powered gorgons like Coulter to stay in the game.

And so, on Sunday, Ms. Coulter decided to be the first to take the Republican black-sites-for-babies discussion where you just knew it was always going to go.

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From PZ Myers:

There are creationist “museums” all over the place — I’ve been to ones in Kentucky, Washington state, and Missouri, and maybe a few others, but they’re all rather forgettable. I haven’t been to the the Big Valley Creation Science Museum in Alberta (how could I, what with the Royal Tyrrell right nearby?), but someone visited it and posted a summary. Harry Nibourg, the guy who runs it all, sounds like an enthusiastic glad-hander who is happy to give anyone a tour of his personal garbage heap. But I think these tourists summed it up well.

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General Michael Hayden is former Director of CIA & NSA

Other governments have separated mothers and children pic.twitter.com/tvlBkGjT0h

— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) June 16, 2018