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malaise

(269,045 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:56 AM Jun 2018

Cruella de Vil -the face of Don the Con's administration scrambles as outrage grows

over border separations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/us-immigration-border-families-separated-children-kirstjen-nielsen
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The Trump administration struggled on Monday to defend its policy of separating parents from their sons and daughters at the southern US border amid growing national outrage and the release of a shocking recording of sobbing children.

As the White House scrambled to respond to the deepening political crisis, the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, flew from New Orleans to Washington to face a barrage of questions from reporters, even as Democrats demanded her resignation and the outcry reached a critical mass.

Nielsen claimed that America was a country of “compassion” and “heart” but was unable to square the circle regarding whether the separations were a vindication of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards illegal immigration or an unintended consequence of a law made by the US Congress.

During the West Wing briefing, she did not hear – or ignored – a reporter at the back of the room who played secretly recorded audio, first obtained by ProPublica, in which several Central American children, separated from their parents last week, can be heard crying for their “Mami!” and “Papa!”

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Cruella de Vil -the face of Don the Con's administration scrambles as outrage grows (Original Post) malaise Jun 2018 OP
That horrible woman get the red out Jun 2018 #1
Horrible doesn't quite describe her malaise Jun 2018 #2
To answer your rhetorical question: they are republicans. joshdawg Jun 2018 #5
Just to satisfy my curiosity... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #6
... Lucinda Jun 2018 #3
Another Trumpinista degenerate The Wizard Jun 2018 #4
I've only been up for a half-hour this morning... llmart Jun 2018 #7
Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil. bronxiteforever Jun 2018 #8
Perfect malaise Jun 2018 #10
Thanks. Couldn't sleep so this rattled in my brain. bronxiteforever Jun 2018 #11
I was listening to this press conference with Nielsen on the radio yesterday, Ohioboy Jun 2018 #9

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
6. Just to satisfy my curiosity...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:11 AM
Jun 2018

I looked into the incidence of psychopathy in the human species. According to Wikipedia, psychiatrists estimate around 1% of typical populations, or over 3 million psychopaths in the U.S.A.

That incidence is much higher in the business world, estimated at around 3-4% for executives. Further, a study by Nathan Brooks from Bond University found that around one in five corporate bosses display clinically significant psychopathic traits - a proportion similar to that among prisoners. (my guess is that GOP politicians score even higher)

I think every damn person that works for tRump is a member of that club....

Their behavior fits the description quite well.
Ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

llmart

(15,540 posts)
7. I've only been up for a half-hour this morning...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:37 AM
Jun 2018

and already I've said "fuck you" three times to the TV screen. I live alone and rarely do I say those words out loud, but these days they come flying out of my mouth so easily.

I want that orange asshole GONE and take his weasley ass-kissing VP with him. Oh, and the rest of them that continue to work for an evil creature like this.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
8. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:52 AM
Jun 2018

The Evil Seekers - Poem by Anne Sexton

but one must learn about evil,
learn what is subhuman,
learn how the blood pops out like a scream,
one must see the night
before one can realize the day,
One must be a prisoner just once to hear
the lock twist into his gut.
After all that
one is free to grasp at the trees, the stones,
the sky, the birds that make sense out of air.
But even in a telephone booth
evil can seep out of the receiver
and we must cover it with a mattress,
and then tear it from its roots
and bury it,
bury it.

Ohioboy

(3,243 posts)
9. I was listening to this press conference with Nielsen on the radio yesterday,
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:56 AM
Jun 2018

and she suddenly had to leave when asked if this policy was being used as a deterrent. How convenient she had to go without answering that question. The administration has claimed it to be a deterrent. Disgusting!

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