Our imperfections are a creation of our ability to imagine an ideal existence while simultaneously overlooking the true nature of being human. We are, after all, perfectly human.
President Trump, egged on by immigration adviser Stephen Miller, is currently undertaking a purge of top homeland security officials who are seen as suspect, in part because they are not willing to flout the law in the quest to be as cruel and inhumane to asylum seekers as Trump would like them to be.
This purge is meant to clear the decks for Trump and Miller to implement a much “tougher” agenda to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the border.
As you watch this purge unfold, keep this number in mind: 13.
That number comes from a voluminous study of the asylum crisis commissioned by Trump’s own administration. It found that migrants from Northern Triangle countries to the U.S. can expect their wages to increase on average by 13 to 14 times over wages at home.
All this dovetails with previous reporting which tells us that Trump ousted Nielsen in part because she refused to illegally deny entry to all asylum seekers.
Trump and Miller are looking to implement a new version of family separations, to force migrant parents to choose between indefinite detention as a family or agreeing to a separation under which children are released. As one senior official told CNN, Trump "just wants to separate families.”
Cruelty Is the Point’: Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to intensify its assault on Medicaid by granting certain states permission to convert federal funding for the program into block grants, a move critics slammed as a cruel and likely illegal attack on vulnerable people.
Politico reported Thursday that the plan, which could be finalized as early as next week, would allow the 37 states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to seek waivers to convert funding into fixed sums that could limit states’ flexibility to increase spending in response to public need.
Block-granting Medicaid is a longtime Republican goal dating back at least to the Reagan administration. The Trump administration’s proposal has been in the works for over a year.
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“In the same week President Trump said cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are on the table,” said Woodhouse, “we now learn that his administration is set to propose benefit-slashing block grants on Medicaid expansion, targeting the benefits of millions of Americans who have gained coverage through one of the Affordable Care Act’s most important, successful, and popular provisions.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Friday slammed President Trump as a “socialist,” suggesting the president is more interested in offering “bailouts” to large corporations than small businesses impacted by the coronavirus.
“I think that the government should not own the means of production.I’m not a socialist like Donald Trump. I think that’s a very dangerous way to go,” Polis told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
Democrats have criticized the latest Republican economic relief proposal for dedicating billions of stimulus dollars to large corporations like airlines.
Trump said Thursday that he supports the idea of the government taking an equity stake in certain companies accepting federal aid but did not specify which companies.
“I think that rather than these corporate bailouts we should talk about helping people, Chuck,” Polis said. “That means workers, that means small business owners, it means everybody.”
""Frankly I like this idea of sending everybody $2,000, I like the idea of temporarily increasing the SNAP benefits, emergency loans to small businesses, especially those in food and hospitality that have been interrupted," he said. “I think those are the kind of measures, rather than using this as an excuse to implement socialist measuresacross corporate America.”
One has to have money to grow money. Large corporations have more money to grow over time. This puts more money into the ORANGE PARASITE’S campaign fund.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the Democrat’s (and Media) Hoax.
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“Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events,” Paul tweeted.
Sen. Rand Paul is the first senator and the third known member of Congress to have contracted the disease.
Federal investigators have learned that white supremacists in the US discussed plans to use the coronavirus as a bioweapon, Yahoo News reported, citing a weekly intelligence brief from a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
The brief covered the week of February 17-24 and was written by the Federal Protective Service.
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It said violent extremists “continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves,” adding: “White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an ‘OBLIGATION’ to spread it should any of them contract the virus.”
The report said that to carry out their plans, white supremacists floated options like leaving “saliva on door handles” at local FBI offices, spitting on elevator buttons, spreading the virus in “nonwhite neighborhoods,” and being in public with their perceived enemies.
Yahoo News reported that the discussion primarily took place in a Telegram channel devoted to a neo-Nazi philosophy known as “siege culture,” which advocates for racial terrorism to spark a civil war.
President Donald Trump has publicly pledged to fight domestic terrorism and white nationalism. But as Insider’s Nicole Einbinder reported last year, the Trump administration has slashed many of the government agencies responsible for fighting domestic terrorism.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
True dat.
pschearer Premium Member over 4 years ago
And all those imperfect people vote. That explains so much!
kaffekup over 4 years ago
Well, there’s a difference! My imperfections are just human. Yours are on purpose.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 4 years ago
Carmen, are you leaning on an anthill?
tzid over 4 years ago
Chopping the other guy off at the knees does not make you taller.
Brian G Premium Member over 4 years ago
Our imperfections are a creation of our ability to imagine an ideal existence while simultaneously overlooking the true nature of being human. We are, after all, perfectly human.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
“Imperfections”…
Nice “framing the discussion”…
Breaking the law, just an “Imperfection”?
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President Trump, egged on by immigration adviser Stephen Miller, is currently undertaking a purge of top homeland security officials who are seen as suspect, in part because they are not willing to flout the law in the quest to be as cruel and inhumane to asylum seekers as Trump would like them to be.
This purge is meant to clear the decks for Trump and Miller to implement a much “tougher” agenda to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the border.
As you watch this purge unfold, keep this number in mind: 13.
That number comes from a voluminous study of the asylum crisis commissioned by Trump’s own administration. It found that migrants from Northern Triangle countries to the U.S. can expect their wages to increase on average by 13 to 14 times over wages at home.
All this dovetails with previous reporting which tells us that Trump ousted Nielsen in part because she refused to illegally deny entry to all asylum seekers.
Trump and Miller are looking to implement a new version of family separations, to force migrant parents to choose between indefinite detention as a family or agreeing to a separation under which children are released. As one senior official told CNN, Trump "just wants to separate families.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/09/trump-cruelty-is-point-its-actually-worse-than-that/
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Harming Millions… in the midst of a pandemic….
Just a human foible?
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Cruelty Is the Point’: Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to intensify its assault on Medicaid by granting certain states permission to convert federal funding for the program into block grants, a move critics slammed as a cruel and likely illegal attack on vulnerable people.
Politico reported Thursday that the plan, which could be finalized as early as next week, would allow the 37 states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to seek waivers to convert funding into fixed sums that could limit states’ flexibility to increase spending in response to public need.
Block-granting Medicaid is a longtime Republican goal dating back at least to the Reagan administration. The Trump administration’s proposal has been in the works for over a year.
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“In the same week President Trump said cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are on the table,” said Woodhouse, “we now learn that his administration is set to propose benefit-slashing block grants on Medicaid expansion, targeting the benefits of millions of Americans who have gained coverage through one of the Affordable Care Act’s most important, successful, and popular provisions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/24/cruelty-point-trump-takes-aim-medicaid-plan-could-harm-millions
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Mocking imperfection is one thing.
Mocking rank hypocrisy is another.
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Friday slammed President Trump as a “socialist,” suggesting the president is more interested in offering “bailouts” to large corporations than small businesses impacted by the coronavirus.
“I think that the government should not own the means of production. I’m not a socialist like Donald Trump. I think that’s a very dangerous way to go,” Polis told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
Democrats have criticized the latest Republican economic relief proposal for dedicating billions of stimulus dollars to large corporations like airlines.
Trump said Thursday that he supports the idea of the government taking an equity stake in certain companies accepting federal aid but did not specify which companies.
“I think that rather than these corporate bailouts we should talk about helping people, Chuck,” Polis said. “That means workers, that means small business owners, it means everybody.”
""Frankly I like this idea of sending everybody $2,000, I like the idea of temporarily increasing the SNAP benefits, emergency loans to small businesses, especially those in food and hospitality that have been interrupted," he said. “I think those are the kind of measures, rather than using this as an excuse to implement socialist measures across corporate America.”
gammaguy over 4 years ago
The tendency to criticize others while ignoring our own imperfections… well, that is one of our imperfections.
bigal666 over 4 years ago
You’ve over complicated it. One word: schadenfreude.
kentmarx36 over 4 years ago
One has to have money to grow money. Large corporations have more money to grow over time. This puts more money into the ORANGE PARASITE’S campaign fund.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the Democrat’s (and Media) Hoax.
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“Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events,” Paul tweeted.
Sen. Rand Paul is the first senator and the third known member of Congress to have contracted the disease.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
More “imperfection” to mock?
However, I’m not laughing….
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Federal investigators have learned that white supremacists in the US discussed plans to use the coronavirus as a bioweapon, Yahoo News reported, citing a weekly intelligence brief from a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
The brief covered the week of February 17-24 and was written by the Federal Protective Service.
✄
It said violent extremists “continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves,” adding: “White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an ‘OBLIGATION’ to spread it should any of them contract the virus.”
The report said that to carry out their plans, white supremacists floated options like leaving “saliva on door handles” at local FBI offices, spitting on elevator buttons, spreading the virus in “nonwhite neighborhoods,” and being in public with their perceived enemies.
Yahoo News reported that the discussion primarily took place in a Telegram channel devoted to a neo-Nazi philosophy known as “siege culture,” which advocates for racial terrorism to spark a civil war.
President Donald Trump has publicly pledged to fight domestic terrorism and white nationalism. But as Insider’s Nicole Einbinder reported last year, the Trump administration has slashed many of the government agencies responsible for fighting domestic terrorism.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-white-supremacists-discussed-using-covid-19-as-bioweapon-2020-3