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Baron, you are a nice dummy.

 

What happens when they have crushed the last independent union, muzzled the last critical news medium, gerrymandered the last competitive district, suppressed the last adverse voting bloc, purged the last non-partisan law enforcement agency, fired the last independent prosecutor, neutered the last non-conforming state court?

Contempt for Court

 

Evangelical Pastor Says The ‘Immodesty’ Of US. Gymnasts Caused Sexual Assault Scandal

His flock are the core republican primary voters

 

Someone needs to start a web site and put a giant chalkboard on it, and we all can post our examples.

 

And you are a stupid good guy.

 

BTW, the envelope sent to Junior's wife was postmarked from ... Boston.

Must have been a Black History Month protest.

 

A week ago, men and women went to work at airports around the United States as they always do. They showered, got dressed, ate breakfast, perhaps dropped off their kids at school. Then they reported to their jobs as federal government employees, where, according to news reports, one of them handcuffed a 5-year-old child,separated him from his mother and detained him alone for several hours at Dulles airport.

At least one other federal employee at Dulles reportedly detained a woman who was traveling with her two children, both U.S. citizens, for 20 hours without food. A relative says the mother was handcuffed (even when she went to the bathroom) and threatened with deportation to Somalia.

At Kennedy Airport, still other federal employees detained and handcuffed a 65-year-old woman traveling from Qatar to visit her son, who is a U.S. citizen and serviceman stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. The woman was held for more than 33 hours, according to the New York Times, and denied use of a wheelchair.
The men and women who work for the federal government completed these and other tasks and then returned to their families, where perhaps they had dinner and read stories to their children before bedtime.

When we worry and wonder about authoritarian regimes that inflict cruelty on civilians, we often imagine tyrannical despots unilaterally advancing their sinister agendas. But no would-be autocrat can act alone. As a practical matter, he needs subordinates willing to carry out orders. Of course, neither Donald Trump nor Steve Bannon personally detained any of the more than 100 people held at airports over the weekend pursuant to the administration's executive order on immigration, visitation and travel to the United States. They relied on assistance.

The men and women who reportedly handcuffed small children and the elderly, separated a child from his mother and held others without food for 20 hours, are undoubtedly "ordinary" people. What I mean by that, is that these are, in normal circumstances, people who likely treat their neighbors and co-workers with kindness and do not intentionally seek to harm others. That is chilling, as it is a reminder that authoritarians have no trouble finding the people they need to carry out their acts of cruelty. They do not need special monsters; they can issue orders to otherwise unexceptional people who will carry them out dutifully.

Ordinary Americans carried out inhumane acts for Trump

 

Don't worry. I'm sure he's not that influential.

 

Liberals: Kaepernick is so brave for kneeling for the flag for alleged injustices.

Same Liberals: How dare Vice-President Pence not stand for the country of a murderous dictator.

You really cannot make this shit up.

 

Nazis: How dare a man protest while working
Nazis: Pence is a man for protesting while working

 

Come clean now. Whose sock puppet is Rainman? I will give you credit for a good bit but it might be more realistic if you didn't go total dim bulb with every single post.

 

Given your disdain for certain folk, I anoint you Board Nazi.