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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:11 PM Jun 2018

Trump Doubles Down in Wild Speech: Current Border Policy Says 'You Have to Take the Children Away'

Source: Mediate


by Ken Meyer | 1:32 pm, June 19th, 2018

As President Donald Trump spoke before the National Federation of Independent Businesses on Tuesday, he continued on his path of blaming Congressional Democrats for his administration’s family-dividing policies on America’s southern border.

As Trump accused Democrats of supporting immigration loopholes, he also stuck with his false claims that he can’t do anything about his child separation policies, and only new legislation can fix it. “All we need is good legislation and we can have it taken care of,” Trump said. “These are crippling loopholes that cause family separation, which we don’t want.”

After criticizing America’s immigration laws as a “monstrosity” for a little while longer, Trump eventually turned his ire towards Mexico, grumbling that “they do nothing for us” to resolve the Latin American migration issue.

“Mexico does nothing for us,” said the president. “Try staying in Mexico for a couple of days and see how long that lasts”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-doubles-down-in-wild-speech-current-border-policy-says-you-have-to-take-the-children-away/



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Trump Doubles Down in Wild Speech: Current Border Policy Says 'You Have to Take the Children Away' (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Sooooooo we have to take the children away MontanaMama Jun 2018 #1
I've been to Mexico many times. lark Jun 2018 #2
NFIB? Say no more. jmowreader Jun 2018 #3
i love Mexico!! samnsara Jun 2018 #4
Frightening demagogy from a master of it. COLGATE4 Jun 2018 #5
Dear lord... hurple Jun 2018 #7
wtf does that last line even mean? jcgoldie Jun 2018 #6
Lives in Mexico snowybirdie Jun 2018 #8

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
1. Sooooooo we have to take the children away
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:14 PM
Jun 2018

but it’s not tRump policy to do so? Fucking liar. What a POS.

lark

(23,105 posts)
2. I've been to Mexico many times.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:18 PM
Jun 2018

I was always treated well with zero hassles, even when I spent 8 days there.

He's just lying again, that and criminality are his 2 major modes of operation

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
3. NFIB? Say no more.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:28 PM
Jun 2018

These people make the NRA look like a leftist organization. I refuse to trade with any business that is a member.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
5. Frightening demagogy from a master of it.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:43 PM
Jun 2018

I had the misfortune to be trying to eat lunch in a fast food place, seated directly below the TV which of course was blaring Fux News. He spewed one lie after another, so fast that I couldn't even keep count. He was disjointed in his lies, but always tied each one back to "Be afraid! Be very afraid! Only I can save you". It seemed to hit a responsive note with the crowd. Among a constant steam of lies almost too rapid to separate one from the other,perhaps the best one was how he is saving the children because there is 'massive child smuggling going on', by 'organized rings of smugglers who know how to exploit all the loopholes in the law'. This is the newest justification for the child separation policy. Never mind that, in most cases the adults who are bringing these children are their parent(s). It's all part of a massive crime ring that Trump is defending the country against. Also, in case you didn't know, many of these 4 and 5 year olds are really members of M-13, which is destined to be the new Willie Horton of the mid-term campaigns. He then launched into his diatribe about how he wants a new, "merit-based" immigration system which, translated into English means only white, Anglo-Saxons need apply. He then moved flawlessly into why Canada is really a horrible enemy and why Mexico has to have a wall to keep all the bad stuff our of our Paradise. At that point I was no longer hungry so thew down half of my burger and left, the afternoon pretty well ruined for me.

It's no mystery why the low information voters lap this shit up - he's a master at hitting all the ingrained prejudices, taunting the audience with how they're all a bunch of suckers for letting all these little brown people fuck up their chance to be multimillionaires just like Donald, but letting them know that HE's on their side, HE is the only one who sees the real problems and HE is going to save them.

hurple

(1,306 posts)
7. Dear lord...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:04 PM
Jun 2018

"Among a constant steam of lies almost too rapid to separate one from the other,perhaps the best one was how he is saving the children because there is 'massive child smuggling going on', by 'organized rings of smugglers who know how to exploit all the loopholes in the law'. "

He's talking about that damn new QAnon conspiracy theory. This is where he's going blaming Dems, since the foundation of QAnon is that the Dems are running a massive child-sex ring, of which Pizzagate is just a small part.

Lord help us all. He is beyond insane.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
6. wtf does that last line even mean?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:56 PM
Jun 2018

Tens of thousands of Americans vacation in Mexico every year for more than "a couple of days". My wife and I spend 2 weeks there. He talks complete nonsense.

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