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sunonmars

(8,656 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:34 AM Jun 2018

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Can you fucking believe this...Watch this from Border patrol... CBS News

Link to tweet

This just in from @davidbegnaud: Border Patrol has reached out to @cbsthismorning and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals.

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Unfuckingbelievable.

Yes, they are cages, yes they are being treated like animals.
##if you have to say it..........

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Can you fucking believe this...Watch this from Border patrol... CBS News (Original Post) sunonmars Jun 2018 OP

These are not concentration camps you see before your eyes. C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #1

incredible, jesus wept, where the fuck are we as a country..... sunonmars Jun 2018 #2

They're uncomfortable? They are? Solly Mack Jun 2018 #3

So they now want fake definitions malaise Jun 2018 #4

They're finally getting their FEMA camps... Wounded Bear Jun 2018 #5

Well Cages they are then, lets scream it from the rooftops, this is going to bury Trump. sunonmars Jun 2018 #6

I'm just surprised they didnt use barbed or razor wire.... sunonmars Jun 2018 #7

It's on back order gratuitous Jun 2018 #21

Too damn bad they are uncomfortable. If they do the deed, they earn the name. shraby Jun 2018 #8

So the Border Patrol is "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages? PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2018 #9

Better yet, do away with this stinking "Border Patrol" !! CountAllVotes Jun 2018 #14

In the vein of "freedom fries", they should rename cages to "freedom boxes". DetlefK Jun 2018 #10

We don't hear MSM describe this as EVIL, which is what they should be doing. OnDoutside Jun 2018 #11

Trump is using cages Gothmog Jun 2018 #12

Hopefully, he'll be in one soon enough or a box one. sunonmars Jun 2018 #13

What do they want us to say? greatauntoftriplets Jun 2018 #15

Kick. We are one cycle away from it being you and me blake2012 Jun 2018 #16

I think we should stay focused on the urgent issue ... families & kids ... the 'cages' aren't new. mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #17

"Cages" seems to have a visceral effect on people gratuitous Jun 2018 #22

CBS did not have to broadcast border patrol wishes lunasun Jun 2018 #18

its highlighting the hypocrisy actually. sunonmars Jun 2018 #19

Nobody said they were being treated like animals but the fact remains it's a CAGE. nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #20

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)

1. These are not concentration camps you see before your eyes.

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:36 AM

Jun 2018

Oh no. It's just the very definition.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

2. incredible, jesus wept, where the fuck are we as a country.....

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:37 AM

Jun 2018

Solly Mack

(90,789 posts)

3. They're uncomfortable? They are?

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:37 AM

Jun 2018

What about the people inside those cages?

malaise

(269,202 posts)

4. So they now want fake definitions

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:37 AM

Jun 2018

Fuck off fascists

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)

5. They're finally getting their FEMA camps...

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:38 AM

Jun 2018

but, you know, IOKIYAR.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

6. Well Cages they are then, lets scream it from the rooftops, this is going to bury Trump.

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:39 AM

Jun 2018

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

7. I'm just surprised they didnt use barbed or razor wire....

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:41 AM

Jun 2018

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

21. It's on back order

Reply to sunonmars (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:22 AM

Jun 2018

Even some of the beneficiaries of this crime against humanity are a bit surprised by the speed with which things are moving. The first shipments should be on the way soon.

shraby

(21,946 posts)

8. Too damn bad they are uncomfortable. If they do the deed, they earn the name.

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:43 AM

Jun 2018

No amount of sugar-coating can change the facts.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,906 posts)

9. So the Border Patrol is "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages?

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:45 AM

Jun 2018

Isn't that too fucking bad.

Then how about doing away with the cages?

CountAllVotes

(20,878 posts)

14. Better yet, do away with this stinking "Border Patrol" !!

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #9)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:22 AM

Jun 2018

Last edited Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:14 PM - Edit history (1)

What a shameful disgrace!

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

10. In the vein of "freedom fries", they should rename cages to "freedom boxes".

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:55 AM

Jun 2018

OnDoutside

(19,975 posts)

11. We don't hear MSM describe this as EVIL, which is what they should be doing.

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:02 AM

Jun 2018

Gothmog

(145,631 posts)

12. Trump is using cages

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:10 AM

Jun 2018

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

13. Hopefully, he'll be in one soon enough or a box one.

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #12)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:20 AM

Jun 2018

greatauntoftriplets

(175,753 posts)

15. What do they want us to say?

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:59 AM

Jun 2018

"Luxury accommodations"?

blake2012

(1,294 posts)

16. Kick. We are one cycle away from it being you and me

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:06 AM

Jun 2018

In 2006, it was torture of “enemy combatants” in Iraq.

In 2018 it is torture of innocent 6 year olds.

Soon it will be general citizenry if America.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

17. I think we should stay focused on the urgent issue ... families & kids ... the 'cages' aren't new.

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:17 AM

Jun 2018

People in pens is NOT NEARLY as egregious as the NEW Trump policy of separating families, going so far as to even ship off people's children cross-country, in the dead of night, as you can read about in the heart-breaking letter from the flight attendant this AM.

Let's work on the worst/most urgent problem here first then we can work our way back to addressing things like the pens.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

22. "Cages" seems to have a visceral effect on people

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #17)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:24 AM

Jun 2018

The framing is getting people's attention, and not in the way the Trump administration wants attention. If you've got a productive path to bringing this to an end, by all means pursue it. But the folks who are being effective at long last deserve their chance, too.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

18. CBS did not have to broadcast border patrol wishes

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:20 AM

Jun 2018

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

19. its highlighting the hypocrisy actually.

Reply to lunasun (Reply #18)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:21 AM

Jun 2018

Trek4Truth

(515 posts)

20. Nobody said they were being treated like animals but the fact remains it's a CAGE. nt

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:22 AM

Jun 2018

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