Appalled By Trumpies' Endless Horror Policies On Immigration? Blame Trump's Top Nazi - Stephen Miller

The Nazi responsible for the child separation actions, including deportation of sick children: Stephen Miller, the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels


"So we recently learned that Stephen Miller is the point person for much of the Trump administration's dehumanizing policies and actions against immigrants.  Now the administration wants to deport a small number of immigrants with significant medical conditions, but already granted temporary status.   It is likely Miller also suggested this.  I don't recall anyone voting for this person.

How do his far right radical ideas get to become aw and policy without the American public authorizing this joker to do this?    These actions are so far from what our country has always stood for."-   Letter writer H. Ramirez, Denver Post today, p. 21A

"This is just not America, to send a sick kid off to die."   Sen. Amy Klobuchar, last night on MSNBC 'Last Word'

Unless one has been living under a rock he or she is aware of the Trumpies' fell plan to deport sick immigrant kids, risking their health, and even lives.  We also know, after an outpouring of outrage Trump had to walk back this sick plan, which most savvy in deep politics know was hatched by his top Nazi, Stephen Miller. Miller can best be described as a pustulating putrescence  on the Oval Office and the entire Trump white nationalist administration.  Indeed, the power wielded by this maggot in an unelected position - as per the Denver Post letter writer's observation -  screams 'white nationalism' from the proverbial rafters.

Strangely, or maybe not, we learned of this nefarious and fascist effort through the media back channels, not directly.  For example,  the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services )  did not announce the sudden cancellation of the program allowing sick immigrant kids to stay on a temporary basis (Medical Deferred Action Program) . The decision only became public after Boston National Public Radio station WBUR reached out to the agency about letters denying medical deferrals to children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, and HIV.

Understandably, the rollback has been widely condemned by all decent  lawmakers, immigration advocates, and attorneys as targeting the most vulnerable immigrants, almost all of whom entered the country legally to seek medical  treatment.  In the words of Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass), who joined other Massachusetts politicians at a Monday press conference denouncing USCIS’s decision.

“Kids with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are now being told that they must leave the country or be put in the hands of ICE. These patients could be facing a de facto death sentence,” 

Markey added, while noting that USCIS was “too ashamed” to publicly announce the policy change until inquiries from the press:

 “This is a new low, even for Donald Trump. This administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer.”

But let's understand that as putrescent an entity as Trump is - and indeed I've described him as a "pestilence"-  it pales beside Miller who has fed these debased schemes nonstop to Trump.  Lacking any will power or moral compass as a leader, Dotard has simply reactively enacted them by fiat, including when immigrant kids were being put into cages last year.  And earlier this year when immigrant men were being packed cheek to jowl into caged pens in overcrowded border facilities.  The very existence of Miller shows in itself that neither humanity or decency be assumed  nor can it be imparted if one only has the DNA of a rat or cockroach.

Miller's earlier horrific policies - carried out by his personal bitch Trump - had  allowed the vile separation of migrant  kids from their parents with each dispatched to separate detention facilities. For the kids, we saw the horrific images and scenes play out as they were summarily ripped from parents' arms and sent off, terrified - in some cases to tent cities, and in others to prisons 1,000 miles away.  Finally ending up, many of them, in cages that spurred national outrage.

The scenes at the time reminded me of how the Nazi S.S. split up families soon after they arrived by train to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, as portrayed in the docudrama 'War and Remembrance' - and which noted historians (e.g. Gerhard Weinberg)  commenting on the series at the time, insisted held true to history.

As for Herr Miller, we already know he is the spitting image of Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, And is also the one who advocates Goebbels' use of the big lie, i.e.

"Make the lie big but keep it simple. Keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."

Clearly Traitor Trump has followed  Goebbels-Miller's dictums to perfection.  Thus, in the ghastly midst of the child separations and caging Trump had repeated numerous times his false assertion that Democrats were responsible for his administration’s policy of separating migrant families apprehended at the border.  I.e. "Obama was the one who caged those migrant kids!"

Thereby, this odious toad had adhered to a continuing refusal to publicly accept responsibility for a widely condemned practice that had become a symbol of his crackdown on illegal immigration. Spluttering in a morning post on Twitter.

“Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change!” 

This B.S. came the day after his administration admitted that it had taken nearly 2,000 children away from their parents in a six-week period as part of a new “zero tolerance” policy that refers for criminal prosecution all immigrants apprehended crossing the border without authorization.  That they could commit such a Nazified, fascist move presaged their recent venomous actions to deport sick immigrant kids. In other words, it's all of the same pattern, and doesn't require a Mensa level IQ to parse it, or figure it out.

See also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html

And:

Trump Administration Wants to Deport Gravely Ill Migrant Kids

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/kathie-bozanich/86321/trump-administration-wants-to-deport-gravely-ill-migrant-kids

WaPo Discredits Itself Comparing Refusal Of Dinner Service For Sarah Sanders To Right Wing Terror!

"I didn't get me food and I am damn mad!"

It is a sad but true fact we live in unhinged times.  Civility has essentially gone the way of street cars and you can blame Trump for that. His shadow over the presidency casts a mean spirited, chaotic and tyrannical pall over the whole nation, all its institutions and is especially hard for those in civil society to tolerate, given the level of destruction.

At the heart of this destruction are not only Trump but his purveyors of hate as well as his lies.  That must include Sarah Huckleberry Sanders who has been no innocent in all this. Sanders, already rightfully roasted by comic Michelle Wolf, e.g.

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/04/poor-little-politically-correct.html


is infamous in the circles of civil society for her flagrant lying to the public especially via White House press conferences  - which now rival Nazi Joseph Goebbels' propaganda screeds and rants.  This Trumpie harridan has also been called for incessant gaslighting. for fudging facts, and for refusing to address any of the administration's ongoing scandals (including, it should be noted, the investigation into whether the staff of the current president conspired with a foreign nation to commit a treasonous act).

So why show her any quarter? I am not saying she or her family ought to be harmed physically in any way, but they sure as hell can be protested against and as private interlopers  in the public sphere. This includes by a proprietor who is sick and tired of the ghastly D.C. spectacle and now has made a statement where protest interjects into the private lives of the Trumpie  trash.  That refers to Sanders and her brood denied dinner service by the proprietor of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA on Saturday.

That proprietor had the right to do that in exercise her first amendment franchise, and be damned any Trumpie fascists who want to take that away.  That includes the false erudites at the Post, who over think it all and end up chastising bad manners while our democracy circles the drain. In the words of smirkingchimp.com contributor Will Bunch:

"The editorial board of the Washington Post — the John Facenda-like voice of the corrupt and contented capital gang — is aghast that people who look like them and who went to the same elite universities might experience a moment of discomfort in an upscale dining establishment. In promoting its editorial, the Post described “incivility” as “a slippery slope.” But the only slippery slope that I see — and the only one that editorial writers truly should be worried about — is America’s current slide into a modern form of fascism."

Bingo!

Sadly, The Washington Post, after doing some stellar reporting on the Trump Imperium, has reverted to its Neoliberal roots in trying to place the Red Hen's treatment of Sanders on the same spectrum as right wing terror. Is this what we've come to? Has the level of Trumpian false equivalence insanity now reached into the fourth estate?  We suspected that one or more media might be suffering from numbness and outrage fatigue - as evidenced by recent calls for "more civility". Transl. Go easy on the Trump criminals, even if they're tearing everything down.

The WaPo's collapse to the Trump Fascists was evident in its editorial  "Let the Trump team eat in peace."  demanding an end to the ostracism of the little shit "mechanics" that inhabit Trumpdom - specifically the White House.  That includes all the key staff - like Sanders, Nazi swine Stephen Miller and DHS liar Kristjen Nielsen, who are all part of the Trumpie Imperium and intent on tearing down all constitutional protections. (Miller himself initiated the child separation tactics and for that merits special opprobrium and calling out, oh  and 24/7 harassment.)

The weepy Post bemoaned that "strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere." 

Well, WTF do you idiots expect? Especially when there has been NOT a scintilla of effort in congress to check Trump's powers, or his transgressions? (See also the just released Supreme Court ruling upholding Trump's Muslim travel ban).  Will Bunch nails it again:

"People are shouting at government officials in Mexican restaurants because it’s the only way to get “you people” to listen — in an era when a majority of Congress can’t be bothered to pass a simple bill that would ban government agents from ripping toddlers out of their mothers’ arms, and when the editor of the New York Times seems to be less offended by a president who lies dozens of times than by his readers who can’t understand why his newspaper won’t call them “lies.”

If there is NO hint of separation of powers, certainly from the GOP minions, did you really,  truly believe civil rage would not finally spill into the private sphere?  And I myself have four square been for protests carried out in front of the n'er do wells homes including those of proto -Nazi Stephen Miller  - who essentially formulated and pushed the odious zero tolerance policy.

Again, these protests are protected by the first amendment, including restaurant proprietors turning away those deemed moral cesspools who  - for whatever reason - follow Trump's abominations and commands.  It is also outrageous to compare refusal of service protests to right wing "terror" such as shooting and killing doctors and nurses at abortion clinics, as happened here in COS several years ago. Not to mention burning crosses on the lawns of African Americans, or hanging black dolls with small ropes in school lavatories to terrorize minority kids.  The same way the Trump Nazis were locking kids, toddlers into detention centers.

So I have to question whether the Post's editors have lost their minds if they are unable to see the differences. Or, maybe they have finally been numbed into submission by the incessant attacks on civil society by the Trumpies.  Talk about waving the proverbial white flag!

The WaPo editors also grumbled that "social media have blurred the line between work hours and private time." It pouted, in an odd little aside, how ubiquitous cellphone cameras "make it ever easier to intrude."

Sorry, Posties, but that's the way it is, and those same cameras you so self righteously deplore have also been key in exposing over the top cop behavior like shooting people in the back, and punching out young mothers on beaches.  But don't compare using a camera for first amendment protests to hanging black dolls in school rest rooms to terrify black kids, or killing abortion providers.

Meanwhile, as the overpaid pundits of the Post whine, piss and moan about a rightful action by the Red Hen Owner,  Trumpies  are allowed to parade around with rifles attached to their backs; and hang out racial hate signs, or portray their public hate via Nazi graffiti.e.g.

Why isn't the Post taking issue with this extreme hate?   But evidently these transgressions warrant no editorial mention. Republican rallies continue to lead the assembled crowds in chants demanding Trump's one-time opponent be "locked up"—with no alleged crime is specified. The White House is also cribbing language from neo-Nazi theories of "invading" refugees, and is borrowing the language of dehumanization from those that advocate for ethnic cleansing. (Trump himself used the term "infestation"  sending more racist fodder to his base of numskull deplorables.)

Can the Post's resident editors not process that all this hate, this vile policy making - with so much attendant pain and grief-   is bound to elicit blowback in the sentient and morally "woke"?   But the Post's disgusting message is loud and clear: We are all to stand by, zip our lips and actions  if the architects of the horrific current  policies show up in our private businesses, We may not even refuse them service. Other patrons may not make their own displeasure known, either:

 For the enablers of human rights abuses, this is their down time. And the media weenies like The Post, and the mawkish Gayle King (on CBS Early Show) want to ensure it continues. The latter crying about Sanders' "terrible treatment" yesterday morning and then pissing and pouting again this a.m.  about "both sides" needing a lesson and "two wrongs don't make a right".. NO you stupid,  airhead moron ONE side - the fascists  - need the lesson!

Here's the message for these whining fascist miscreants like  Sarah Sanders, Stephen Miller, and Kirisjten Nielsen - who are not simply "political opponents" - like my neighbor down the road with his Trump Forever signs. No, they are the actual architects of Trump's despicable policies, helping to carry them out - like the S.S. helped Hitler carry out his.  All of these vermin working inside a loathsome cabal dedicated to destroying all democratic norms and values. Here is the message of Maxine Waters and others for them:

When you go outside your protective fascist bubble, you cannot expect continued anonymity or zero public focus or harassment. That includes rightful refusal of service, i.e.  like the Supreme Court allowed in the Masterpiece Cake case. Only that was based on religious justification, while the Red Hen refusal of dinner service is based on moral rejection of a hideous, inhuman regime.  If you don't fucking like it, then LEAVE the frigging cesspool.

And by the way, Rep. Maxine Waters is absolutely correct this is all Trump's doing!  Want the source of all the hideous incivility overtaking this nation? Look at the  2-legged, orange-hued pestilence infesting the White House!  See e,g.

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-happened-to-civility-trump.html

See also:

We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners

Excerpt:

A Washington Post editorial urged the protesters to think about the precedent they are setting. “How hard is it to imagine, for example, people who strongly believe that abortion is murder deciding that judges or other officials who protect abortion rights should not be able to live peaceably with their families?” it asked.

Of course, this is not hard to imagine at all, since abortion opponents have assassinated abortion providers in their homes and churches, firebombed their clinics and protested at their children’s schools. The Roman Catholic Church has shamed politicians who support abortion rights by denying them communion. The failure to acknowledge this history is a sign of the reflexive false balance that makes it hard for the mainstream media to grapple with the asymmetric extremism of the Republican Party...

Whether or not you think public shaming should be happening, it’s important to understand why it’s happening. It’s less a result of a breakdown in civility than a breakdown of democracy

New Low For Subhuman Trump Slime: Ripping Infants From Mothers And Putting Them Into Cages

Infant - about to be taken to a cage in a detention center which the Trump Nazis  euphemistically call "tender age shelters".

After Janice called me into the family room with her cries of "You have to see this! You have to see what these Nazi monsters are doing! It's on Rachel right now!"   I pulled asway from my desk and went to the tube to see a crying Rachel Maddow.  Normally I don't watch her show as I limit myself to just one politically accented MSNBC show per night, usually Chris Hayes' 'All In'.  To try to keep one's sanity in this debased era of Trumpist authoritarianism and perfidy -  with multiple atrocities usually unfolding at once - it's best to ration one's media exposure. Especially to all things Trump!

Rachel Maddow overcome reporting sordid piece on imprisoning babies  last night.

In this case,  I beheld Maddow overcome by emotion -  crying actually-   and unable to conclude her show while trying to read the breaking AP  news over the transom: the Trump Nazis were now tearing babies from their mothers and putting them into cages at detention centers.  Those interested can see what Janice and I saw here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKuIjT-k-C8

This elicits the question of how much more debasement, abomination and outrage can be fired up before this malignant disease infecting our country is finally extirpated - every last trace.   So far we learned only that the sights and sounds of screaming children held in the border detention facilities are simply serving as "music" to the ears of the Trump backing perverts. They literally get off at evey child's cry and - evidently- every liberal's tear or cry of outrage.   Corey Lewandowski on one FOX show actually cheered "Whomp! Whomp!" when the on set screen showed a child with Down's syndrome taken from its mother.  This shows the level of degradation we've now reached, and why it will probably take decades to finally clean out the  sewer the nation has sunk to since the ascension of the Trump cabal  full of traitors, n'er do wells, poltroons,  cowards  and rank enablers.

Anyway, what upset Rachel (as well as Janice and myself ) was the news that Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in south Texas.  Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying pre-school aged children in emotional crisis, most kept in cages. The Associated Press learned that the government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move on Tuesday.

Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations.

According to Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children:

"The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it.  “Toddlers are being detained.”

Alicia Lieberman, who runs the Early Trauma Treatment Network at University of California, San Francisco, said decades of study show early separations can cause permanent emotional damage. 

 Let's also acknowledge here that the procedures at the border are actually multiplying the numbers of those detained, branded "criminals" and increasing separations.  This is because the border officials - acting on orders from on high, e.g. from Obersturmfuhrer Stephen Miller, and Der Fuhrer Dotard Trump, are "slow walking" those seeking to present themselves to Customs and Border Patrol for Immigration interviews. 

Since "der Fuhrer" wants no one entering, period, they're not allowed to place two feet over the border - which would trigger an interview and usually a judge's ruling and temporary landing rights.  Now, with every newcomer stopped, crowds have piled up and few - if any- can get in.  (One mother interviewed by Chris Hayes managed to do it by walking in amongst the motor vehicles - as opposed to with the line of immigrants.)

But she should not have had to resort to this subterfuge after trekking over a thousand miles from Guatemala after she was targeted for death by a gang of thugs. 

This country right now is in the throes of degenerates and vermin. We can't let them continue to foul this nation and its reputation, and its record of being a sanctuary for all those striving to breathe free. They do not deserve a lump of coal, or cyanide when they arrive here - but a humane welcome, understanding and respect. 

All the more reason to get rid of the Trump excrement ASAP.

At the end of Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show 'Last Word', Janice asked plaintively:

"How are we going to get rid of these sick bastards?  It's so long until the midterm election and the first chance to get them out?"

I replied that we can be sure of one thing:  that the words and actions of the abominable scum in office will only get worse in the interim. This is given Trump is now, effectively,  a mad dog - as Mueller's probe shadows him. Like all mad dogs he needs to be put down and that time will come - as each rash, rabid 'bite' he takes is another nail in his electroral  coffin and that of his cult "party". We just need to hang on long enough to put those nails in, for Trump and his cabal.

See also:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/p-m-carpenter/79749/a-trumpian-clusterfuck-inside-a-gop-clusterfuck

Excerpt:

"Trump believes that his policy of separating children from parents at the southern border is a political winner for him, reports the Washington Post. The Post then provides some polling results, which, in general, Trump is said to be obsessed with. A CNN poll "found that 28 percent of Americans approve of the policy"; a Quinnipiac University poll found a near identical percentage of support.

In light of those statistics, is Trump mistaken as to his separation policy being a political winner — for him? Not at all. It's just that he knows, as do the rest of us, that his base of hardcore support is pathetically small. He can cling to enormously unpopular positions because he is not, after all, the president of the United States. He is the president of Crackpot America."

 

And: 

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/harvey-wasserman/79745/immigrants-and-muslims-are-trumps-jews-until-he-comes-for-the-actual-jews

 Excerpt:

"Make no mistake: Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions’ assault on immigrant families and their “tactic” of separating parents from their children are right out of the Nazi playbook. It’s no accident US immigrations officials are telling parents they’re taking kids to “bathe,” then making them disappear … and then telling their parents they will never see them again.

This ghoulish reminder of Auschwitz shames us all. It should also terrify us. And make us ACT!"

Outraged By The Border Separations Of Children From Parents? Blame Trump's Top "Nazi" - Stephen Miller

The Nazi responsible for the child separation actions: Stephen Miller, the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels.

"Inside I saw only people in cages. There were some cages of mothers with children, and others with fathers and children. Many other cages had children alone in them."  - David Begnaud, CBS this morning, after being allowed inside the McAllen station in TX

The Traitor (contrary to George Will's soft soaping of the term on Real Time Friday night) and his top Nazi Stephen Miller, are behind the child separation policy being played out at the border.  Kids torn from their parents, because the parents have been de facto criminalized just for attempting to cross - even in a legal fashion.  According to the lead story in the Sunday NY Times, though Trump aide John Kelly tried to back away from this loathsome "zero tolerance" crap after initial blowback,

"Trump's senior policy advisor Stephen Miller never gave up on the idea."

Hence, Miller advised Trump - when facing an uptick in illegal border crossings last month, to go with a policy that brands ALL border crossers - kids and adults- as criminals. This would then allow the separation of the kids from the parents and each dispatched to separate detention facilities. For the kids, we've seen the horrific images and scenes play out as they're ripped from parents' arms and sent off, terrified - in some cases to tent cities, and in others to prisons 1,000 miles away.

The scenes reminded me of how the Nazi S.S. split up families soon after they arrived by train to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, as portrayed in the docudrama 'War and Remembrance' - and which noted historians (e.g. Gerhard Weinberg)  commenting on the series at the time, insisted held true to history.

As for Herr Miller, we already know he is the spitting image of Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgypWo0DCps


And is also the one who advocates Goebbels' use of the big lie, i.e.
'
"Make the lie big but keep it simple. Keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."

Clearly Traitor Trump has followed  Goebbels-Miller's dictum to perfection.  By Saturday Trump had repeated for the fifteenth time his false assertion that Democrats were responsible for his administration’s policy of separating migrant families apprehended at the border.

Thereby, this odious toad had adhered to a weekslong refusal to publicly accept responsibility for a widely condemned practice that has become a symbol of his crackdown on illegal immigration. Spluttering in a morning post on Twitter.

“Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change!”

This B.S. came the day after his administration said that it had taken nearly 2,000 children away from their parents in a six-week period ending last month, as part of a new “zero tolerance” policy that refers for criminal prosecution all immigrants apprehended crossing the border without authorization.

The Dotard Cabal - like the entrenched Nazis they are-  steadfastly defended the practice this week, saying the president was merely enforcing the law. Worse,  in recent speeches around the country,  AG Jeff Sessions, has argued that a strict approach is a vital tool for deterrence.   The fool has even tried to defend it using a passage from St. Paul's letter to the Romans - which coincidentally - had also been used to justify slavery as "law" in the old Confederacy.  (Why am I not surprised bigot Sessions is using it now?)

Another permutation of the big lie from Trump:

"I hate the children being taken away.  The Democrats have to change their law — that’s their law.”

In fact,  this verminous, ambulatory human pustule loves it, because it's red meat for his forlorn deplorables....errrr, base. The fact here is that there is no law that requires families to be separated at the border. There is a law against “improper entry” at the border, as well as a consent decree known as the Flores settlement that limits to 20 days the amount of time that migrant children may be held in immigration detention, which a federal judge ruled in 2016 also applies to families. A 2008 anti-trafficking statute — signed into law by a Republican president, George W. Bush — also requires that certain unaccompanied alien minors be transferred out of immigration detention in 72 hours. None of those laws or precedents mean that children must be taken away from their parents.

Another pathological liar is the head of Homeland Security,  Kirstjen Nielsen,  who popped off at a presser,  in grand denial:

"We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period."

Hmmm....Really?  So how is it your DHS reported there were 1,995 minors separated from their parents between April 19 and May 31? Do you even READ your own department's  reports? If not,  from whom  did you take your PR lessons? Goebbels? Or Miller?

OberSturmfuhrer Miller admitted:

“The loopholes, both legal and judicial, are now wholly owned and belong to Democrats, because they alone oppose their changing.,]. No one in our government is willing to take moral lectures from people who support and perpetuate policies that grievously harm innocent Americans,”

Spoken like the white Nationalist Nativist  Nazi this SOB is. With the nerve to squawk about hurting innocent Americans when tens of thousands of jobs are going begging because there aren't enough people (i.e. native Americans)  to do them,.

It is clear to this observer that Stephen Miller, AKA Goebbels Jr., is behind this vile policy and people need to direct their venom at both him and Trump. Sadly, it appears even the border patrol officers carrying out this policy are brainwashed. Such as Manuel Padilla, Jr. interviewed by Gayle King this morning on CBS. Padilla claiming the migrants "violated the law" and hence must go through a judicial process and have the children separated. Again, this is no "law" ever established under any precedent.  It was the CHOICE of the Trump Nazi cabal to criminalize any and all attempting to enter the country as a basis for zero tolerance, which also required them to tear the children away.

See also:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/william-rivers-pitt/79710/father-s-day-under-trump-a-grotesque-exercise-in-the-destruction-of-families

Why This Government Shutdown Could Last Weeks

Sign for closure placed outside a gov't bldg.
One of the favorite depictions seen on signs of women marchers.

"As Lindsey Graham has been reporting, a 32-year old aide (Stephen Miller) is telling the President of the United States what to do.  Trump gives Minority Senate leader Schumer a number for agreement, Schumer accepts it - then it's blown up when Miller sees it. ...The real damage is that leaders across the world are seeing how weak, how pathetic  this President can be. He has to be the weakest in allowing a 32- year old to lead him around by the nose, and actually undercut him in negotiations with Senate leaders." - Joe Scarborough on MSNBC this morning


As the shutdown continues, most sentient beings in the capitol agree that if anyone apart from the Dotard gets the blame it is the 32 year old proto Nazi and Joseph Goebbels look-alike Stephen Miller, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgypWo0DCps

Miller's cynical manipulation of Trump was pointed out by Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday and repeated by Joe Scarborough in his statement this morning. Miller, the Goebbels wannabe, has had Trump's ear and been blowing up deal after deal, amendment after amendment - including an amendment proposed by Sen. Claire McCaskill to deliver emergency  funding to the military. But just as Dotard signaled possible agreement and an end to the shutdown, "Goebbels Junior"  nixed it. In other words, he barks "Jump!" and Dotard - like a beaten whelp- asks "How high?"  As Scarborough added:

"Would Barack Obama ever let a 32-year old staff member undercut him? Never! Never in a million years. Barack Obama was a strong leader. What we have here is a weak, weak uninformed leader - Michael Wolff was right.  We have such a weak leader that he lets 32 year olds lead him around and undercut him on negotiations."

This is why Scarborough could say that leaders across the world are seeing what a weak. pathetic putz we have for a leader. What a spineless, contemptible Pillsbury doughboy - all flab and no brain.

How is this germane? Because as long as Jr. Nazi Miller is driving Dotard, there will be NO deal, no end to the shut down. Further, the toxic rancor and rhetoric will accelerate.  How can it be otherwise when the man who purportedly should lead an end to this miasma doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground and has to consult a 32 -year old jackoff Nazi punk on when to take a dump.  For example, the tweet shown on Scarborough's show this morning had all the earmarks of a dumb puppet having his feeble brain "strings" pulled by Obersturmfuhrer Miller, e.g.

"The Democrats are turning down services and security for citizens in favor or services and security for non-citizens. Not good!"

But as Scarborough pointed out for the more feeble minded,  unsure of who to blame:

"Anybody who watched TV this weekend (e.g. C-SPAN) and saw the Senate in session saw that Claire McCaskill tried to pass an amendment that would allow for full funding of the military - Republicans stopped it. They tried to pass funding for the CHIP program, Republicans stopped it.  Tim Kaine tried to re-open the government for three days to get them the space to negotiate this week, but Republicans stopped it. Then Schumer and Trump came together on a deal for DACA - but Miller and the staff stopped it."

And so it's gone and so it goes. But do not look for daylight, as long as extremists are dictating terms to the alleged "leader of the free world" and his GOP cohort.

Let's not candy coat it: things are getting ever nastier in the home of the brave and the land of the free. The ongoing shutdown, itself a sign of the current levels of polarization and division,  descended to new lows over the weekend. This followed the incessant lies from the Trumpies- fanned by Miller and  his Right wing hack allies and followers.. Not to mention putting out a despicable TV ad released on Saturday, which said Democrats were: “complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants”.  You think the Dems will be inclined to deal with these asswipes now? Including agreeing to a short term (3 week) CR by noon today? If so you probably also believe in unicorns.

This is how low the current shutdown dialogue has taken us and it is bound to go to ever lower depths as the shutdown continues. And yes, this could last for weeks even as the mainstream media continue to breathlessly gasp about the "blame game".

Look, there is no "blame game" other than in pundits' feverish brains.  Graham and Scarborough nailed WHO is to blame and the Dems have nothing to do with it. As I posted previously this is all on the Repukes (wifey hates that term, but too bad, I'm sticking with it until they prove they can cease "re-puking" unworkable positions.)  -as The Denver Post reported yesterday (p. 11A) have now fully lined up with the extremist Right anti-immigration faction to try to disparage DACA  and the Dreamers. 

The Post didn't mention it but Lindsey Graham did later, that Stephen Miller is the extremist "avatar" keeping Trump on the path to refusing every offer made by the Dems -including even providing significant funding for his goddamned stupid wall.  These extremists are the ones pushing the GOP to yield no ground for any compromise - say to put DACA on the table - for any continuing resolution (CR) or other bill to break the shutdown logjam. 

This is why NO deal will manifest today, so don't hold your breath. The Dems - as part of any short term CR (until Feb. 8th) insist that the DACA issue be integrated into any future bill. The Democrats, in contrast to Trump, have consistently  made it  clear there can be no deal without DACA included. This is given 800,000 kids or young adults would otherwise be sent back to countries they've never lived in by March.  Further, the Democratic base and resistance is fully behind this stance. To cave now, or show cowardice in any form,  will definitely earn the Ds  resounding midterm losses as the base abandons them in November. So, they had better stay strong  and avoid bringing a mere knife to a gun fight. We want Uzis or AK-47s!

How low have things gotten in the meantime? Just look at that reprehensible ad released on Saturday, which said Democrats opposing Trump's hardline immigration agenda were “complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants”.  Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, told NBC’s Meet the Press “that ad was produced by an outside group and not those of us in the White House”unfolds"   Never mind, Trump still approved of it, including  a picture of Dotard giving two thumbs up and his voice saying: “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”

Bernie Sanders condemned the ad, saying, on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday:

“It is really unbelievable and so sad for our country that we have a president of the United States who says such nonsense and such outrageous statements,”

You own it, fat boy, so deal with the fallout, which is primarily bad faith, lack of trust. The Dotard, with his balls locked up by the extreme Right, can't be expected to broker any reasonable end to the shutdown. Indeed, yesterday this turd tried to short circuit the process by appealing to his Repuke tribe to use the "nuclear option".  Such a move would allow Republicans to pass legislation without Democratic support, by lowering the majority needed to pass a bill to just 51 votes.

What was especially gratifying to see, was all the News shows  yesterday that repeated Fox and Friends footage from 2013, when Republicans in Congress drove the last government shutdown, over healthcare reform.  There, captured for posterity, was Donnie Dotard himself, bloviating:

“Well, if you say who gets fired it always has to be the top.  I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top and the president’s the leader. And he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead.”

Donnie Dotard thought at the time he was too clever by half, given his critique took a shot at then President Obama.  But he couldn't have known that 4-plus years later his words would apply to him. I mean HE is now the guy at the top, or is supposed to be. HE is the one who is supposed to make the hard decisions to solve the shutdown - not let Right wing crazies bend his ears to keep it going.

As Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a Senate floor speech Saturday,  he had “essentially agreed to give the president something he wants” – funding for a border wall – “for something we both want”, status for Dreamers. Adding:

"It was now up to the president to end what he repeatedly called “the Trump shutdown."”.

But see, given Dotard's balls are in hock to Herr Miller and the extreme Right, he can't. He is essentially a political eunuch - having neutered himself - by ceding so much power to his junior aide Miller and the FOX et al crazies. Crazies (like John Birchers) who, merely 50 years ago, were rightfully scorned and relegated to the margins of American political status. While today, idiotic voters - hankering for an authoritarian white Master - have given them center stage.

So much for being the leader. Flush this presidential turd down the political toilet as numerous depictions portrayed in the Women's marches across the nation. 

What's even more incredible than a U.S. President being led by the nose by a proto-Nazi punk?  Well, the answer is how many - who were ready to disown "the Donald" and  toss his fat ass into a mine shaft three months ago - are now prepared to follow him into hell over this shutdown and his anti-immigration stance.

Again, don't look for anything to come of the D-R confab a few hours from now, to try to get a 3 week reprieve. . Until and unless the Repukes detach themselves from the Right wing extremists - especially Stephen Miller - there will be no end to the shutdown.

See also:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bruce-ticker/77340/blame-only-republicans


Update: 2: 20 p.m. MST

As per the latest news it appears a temporary agreement - for a 3 week reprieve on the shutdown  - has been reached after all. This was after the Republicans made a "pledge" to consider DACA as part of any new spending bill. Before anyone gets all hyped up and overly positive let's bear in mind we've been down this road before - in December -, when Dems got a similar "pledge" from Bitch McConnell,  then were stabbed in the back. (Why many Left groups are saying the Dems caved.)  Personally, my bet is we will be right back where we are now come Feb. 8th. I could be wrong, and pigs could also fly and unicorns frolic in Rocky Mountain National Park..

Bottom line is there is a window to work things out during which the U.S. government will be open for business. But this depends on the good faith of the GOP (and especially Dotard and 'Mitch the Bitch')  to see the DACA aspect through and not screw over the Dems again. If I were a gov't worker, I'd start salting away money from now in case you face a much more prolonged furlough after February 8th.

On the actual positive side, the CHIP program as a result of today's CR vote, gets funding extended for another six years. Maybe that is worth caving for now.

One Despicable Down - And 29 More To Go!

Mike Flynn, co-creator of the fake news 'Pizzagate' crap,  was forced to resign for violating the Logan Act. Now, we just need to get rid of the rest of Trump's pantry of despicables.

It was a kind of payback last night learning on The Financial Times website that Pizzagate purveyor and Hillary 'lock her up 'cause of her emails' asshole Michael G.  Flynn, had to resign. This for violating the Logan Act by carrying on putative covert conversations with the Russian Ambassador about 'sanctions' even while Obama was still President. Of course, the Trumpistas spun this a different way, asserting it was because national security adviser Flynn lied to Pence about the reason for the  call - but that's hogwash. That excuse had been circulating since last month, it doesn't wash.

In his resignation letter, Flynn claimed he had "mistakenly misled" the vice-president, Mike Pence, and other Trump officials about the nature of phone calls in December to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kisilyak. When intelligence leaks about the communications began appearing last month, Pence and other White House officials insisted that the contact had only involved an exchange of Christmas greetings and arrangements for a future phone conversation between Trump and Vladimir Putin.

The White House issued a statement just after 11pm in Washington announcing the resignation, shortly after reports broke that the Trump administration had been warned weeks ago that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

However, subsequent leaks  (possibly even from NSA operatives who picked up the conversations) suggested that they had been more substantial, and concerned sanctions the Obama administration was about to impose on Moscow for interference in the presidential elections. Intelligence officials claimed that Flynn had given the impression the sanctions might be lifted once the Trump administration came to office on 20 January.

And all this occurred in the midst of a political maelstrom, as dumb Trumpies (like Stephen Miller) continued to try to argue that the President has "absolute authority" over any national security issues- such as travel bans. Using this to bash the Ninth Circuit for its recent decision against the Trump cabal. Look, maybe for a serious President (like JFK) who knew how to write an executive order  and understood the nuclear triad, that may be true. But not for a buffoon and orange orangutan like Trump - who couldn't even define the  nuclear triad in one debate with Hillary.

Then his judgement was called into question by appointing a jive turkey like Michael G. Flynn as national security adviser. Recall Flynn's assertion in one tweet that:

"Until Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story."

TO which I replied in my Dec. 6 post:

"Uh no, laddie. See you have it ass-backwards. It is logically impossible, indeed futile - to prove a negative. Tell me that 6 inch Martians are building tiny canals on Mars right now and it is my job to "disprove it" - and I will refer you to the nearest psych ward that offers ECT. That's not the way proof and disproof work - at least for those of us in touch with reality."

And then, as also reported last night, we beheld the spectacle of the clueless Trump  marching his general around with the nuclear football at his Mar-A- Lago redoubt- during a dinner. Then sharing classified information (about the North Korean missile test) , with his country club pals - a bright light highlighting their perusal - and without the sense to even isolate themselves in a secure space.   Indeed, paying club guests actually used their cellphones to post their images on Facebook and other social media, showing the reactions to the North Korean tests, See e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/mar-a-lago-north-korea-trump.html?_r=0

Of course, the Trump bunch spun more lies in the wake of the revelations, including that "nothing classified" was circulating or visible and also the assembled lot were  simply "reviewing logistics for the press conference".  And if you believe that horse merde I have a lot of seaside land in Barbados to offer you.......FREE!

Some logistics! The Orangutan -in -chief moving stage left at the podium to say with slurred voice: "And I just want everyone to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan.....its great ally....one hundred percent. Thank you!"

Wow. That must have required some really serious logistics planning!

Yes, fellow citizens, this is the asshole and lying schmuck we are supposed to entrust with our national security including what to do about immigration. It is little wonder, given such a moron and clueless child in charge we have witnessed:

"the latest and most dramatic convulsion in the most chaotic start to an administration in modern US history. "

According to the UK Guardian. And believe me, there are many more to come - perhaps next seeing Bannon ousted, or maybe the mistress of misdirection, Kellyanne Conway - who merits her own regular administrations of ECT.  Or maybe even ditching bimbo Nikki Haley who thinks the best response to the North Korean launch is nuclear saber rattling, threatening the North with this statement:

"We call on all members of the Security Council to use every available resource to make it clear to the North Korean regime - and its enablers- that these launches are unacceptable. It is time to hold North Korea accountable - not with our words but with our actions."

Uh, what actions, Nikki? What the hell are you and the Trump fools going to do? You guys don't even know what the nuclear triad is, or the START treaty.  As for the "enablers" that is, of course, China, who now have a nuclear arsenal of over 250 Dongfeng 5B missiles each of which can be fitted with  a MIRV upgrade. They have a range of up to 15,000 km, or nearly 10,000 miles -more than ample to reach U.S. mainland cities. You really want to go there, Nikki?

The evidence now is very solid that this lot of goobers occupying the White House and extended offices (like the UN ambassadorship) is short circuiting all over the place on national security. They really, literally, don't know whether to shit or go blind.  They are starting fires all over the place, careening incoherently from one irreconcilable position to another - almost emulating a drunk speeding on a dark highway at night- with the rest of us passengers.

In a world that is growing ever more unpredictable, to have the United States governed by loons and fuckups is intolerable. It is one thing for an autocratic child dictator in North Korea to be shooting off ballistic missiles, it's another for a deranged Orangutan to be saber rattling in the White House and driving insane policies toward a precarious end.  If the world was predictable we could maybe  afford to have a half looney "agent orange" sociopath in charge of our security.  But the world isn't that way so we cannot.

Let's also grasp, especially the deluded Trump voters, that Flynn’s – and the Trump administration’s – problems run far deeper than the December phone calls with Russian Ambasador Kisilyak. The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief is also reportedly being investigated by the army for accepting money in late 2015 for a speaking engagement in Moscow, which could have breached military rules. Furthermore, the repeated and detailed leaks by a disgruntled and alarmed US intelligence community suggested that Flynn’s contacts with Kisilyak dated back to before the election, raising more questions about whether the Trump campaign had any knowledge of the Russian effort to skew the elections.

Add in the fact that Trump's maltreated, former NSC career staff began leaking copiously about his erratic phone calls with other world leaders and other missteps, and you have a further mini shit storm in a shit storm. Trump didn't help matters,  ordering  leak investigations, further deepening the discontent and dysfunction inside the White House. And as David Ignatius of the WaPo observed this evening on 'Hardball' it was disconcerting Trump focused his concern on these leaks rather than the national security lapses that have dogged his administration. (The latest aspect being the mounting pressure for a full on, no holds barred investigation of the Russian ties, as per a Financial Times headline this evening).

 A handful of intelligence agencies are looking into those suspicions, as are four separate congressional committees. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on one of those panels, the House intelligence committee, demanded to know when contacts with Russian officials started and how far up the Trump chain of command did responsibility for those contact rest.

Male no mistake that Flynn is only the top of the rotting "Shit-berg" that occupies the White House. There is also Kellyanne Conway, as I noted,  plus a small group of Trump advisors, led by Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and former head of Breitbart News, which has been a platform for the far right. Throw in Stephen Miller, another rightwing ideologue, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser and you have some of the next set of assholes who need to be removed.

One huge reason is that the preceding lot have set up the Strategic Initiatives Group, a parallel institution to the national security council inside the White House, which produces policies, in the form of quick-fire mock executive orders and memoranda, without consultation with the staff experts on the NSC.  In other words, all bogus. As I said before there is NO constitutional provision for executive orders anyway, e.g.

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2017/01/bill-maher-nails-it-on-trumps-bogus.html

As per  the Wikipedia entry:

"There is no constitutional provision nor statute that explicitly permits executive orders. The term executive power in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution refers to the office of President as the executive. They are instructed therein by the declaration "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 5 or face impeachment. Most executive orders use these Constitutional reasonings as the authorization allowing for their issuance to be justified as part of the President's sworn duties, the intent being to help direct officers of the U.S. Executive carry out their delegated duties as well as the normal operations of the federal government: the consequence of failing to comply possibly being removal from office"

In other words, these more comport with a wish list based on appeals or pleas from a president to the legislative branch to formalize into law what he seeks to do..

We have to hope for all our sakes that the final check on Trump's insanity and overreach - the judiciary - continues to block and check his bid to expand his power to that of a dictator, like Hitler did with the Reich Court. See e.g. the relevant paper here

And what if,  somehow, the courts fail to check Trump's wanton reach for total power? Well, we will see a situation materialize not too different from the Nazi courts as discussed in the preceding link. To wit, English historian Allan Bullock writing that:

"the street gangs had seized control of the resources of a great modern State, the gutter had come to power.'

In this country, the 'gutter' has already come to power and now we must ensure that power is not consolidated through the complacency of the majority of sane citizens. I originally had believed the next Trumpie asshole to get rid of was Steve Bannon, but after seeing Stephen Miller's performance on 'Morning Joe', I believe he needs to go next. Click on.the link below for this asshole's total arrogance and Nazi authoritarian bearing, stare as he issues declarations and proclamations in assorted venues:

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-what-stephen-miller-said-should-worry-everyone-875968067895


 Note his cavalcade of lies, including  that the judges "took power to themselves that belongs to the President of the United States" and  "it is a fact and you will not deny it that,  there are millions of illegal aliens in this country who are not registered to vote"...Etc.    "You will not deny it?" Who do you think you are, you goddamned little imp? Also, as I pointed out to Janice, this little fucker bears an eerie resemblance to Nazi Propaganda Minister  Josef Goebbels. You decide by checking out this youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgypWo0DCps


The Trump base ("guttersnipes") can continue to delude themselves with the ongoing events, but the rest of us who value this country as our ancestors did - don't have that luxury. REAL patriots must now stand together and hold the faux patriots, the "paper" patriots, to account. Above all, we cannot allow this toxic nest of vipers to have the final say on which direction this country goes. Yea, we the real citizens will fight in the courts (and for the courts), fight in the halls of congress and fight in the streets - even in front of our representatives' home - if need be. And woe betide them if they try to write laws preventing this dissent or accuse us of being "paid" protestors!

See also:

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/71194/the-white-house-mess

And:

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/karin-kamp/71133/how-the-indivisible-movement-is-fueling-resistance-to-trump