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Someone just got updated on more bad news

 

I am beginning to believe that Trump will be far too ill even to start the nitty-gritty campaigning for 2020.
The mental decline just since early spring has been steep.

 

Whatabout Obama

 

Vegas got screwed. There is no other explanation.

 

Trump gets more disgusting with each tweet.

 

I’ll be real curious to see if she gets 2 more years. Ripping off Les Mis is...interesting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...n-story/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8e465df3b05a

“And so, on this morning she decided to share a story of American racism, cruelty and injustice.

Five years earlier, Omar told the students, she was working for a Minneapolis city councilman who asked her to report back on problems with the courts. There, she recalled encountering a “sweet, old . . . African American lady” who had been arrested for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her “starving 5-year-old granddaughter.”

After spending the weekend in jail, the woman was led into the courtroom and fined $80 — a penalty she couldn’t pay. “I couldn’t control my emotions,” Omar continued, “because I couldn’t understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.”

“Bulls---!” she recalled yelling in the courtroom.

Laughter rippled through the auditorium, then silence.

Omar’s story echoed the plot of “Les Miserables.” If true, it is also probably embellished. City officials said that police aren’t allowed to arrest people for shoplifting unless there’s a likelihood of violence or further crime. Typically, shoplifters are sentenced to attend a three-hour class.

In an interview, Omar said she may have flubbed some facts. “She might have had a prior [arrest],” Omar said. “I’m not sure. . . . The details might not have all matched, but that’s what I remember.”

After the speech, the students, who were mostly minorities, swarmed the congresswoman. “It’s great to have a representative who looks like the people she represents,” a white student said.

An African American student asked about mentors: “I have none,” Omar said. “You don’t need people to guide you. You can guide yourself.’”

 

At worst, she embellished a story to make a point. You'll support blatant liars, but this you ramble on and make assumptions to turn it into something awful. You really do keep getting worse.

To be clear, I'm not defending her at all. I don't think much of Omar, to be honest. But the shit you will rail about and the way you make things up to fill in the gaps to sell your own narrative is every bit as dishonest than anything she said, if not more so.

 

It seems reasonable, and maybe it's just me, to imagine that someone could think in 2015 that separating some families crossing the border - because they can not be verified as families and some are suspected human traffickers - was maybe a not-ideal solution to a terrible problem made by a moral President, and that same person could reasonably think, several years later, that separating ALL families - and worsening the conditions in which the children are kept - is a terrible solution to a terrible problem made by a terrible President. That's not an unreasonable progression of thinking, right?

But, and maybe it's just me, it seems unreasonable to imagine that someone could think in 2015 that separating some families crossing the border - because they can not be verified as families and some are suspected human traffickers - was a terrible solution to a terrible problem made by a terrible President, and that same person could, several years later, begin thinking that separating ALL families - and worsening the conditions in which the children are kept - is maybe a not-ideal solution to a terrible problem made by a moral President.

That's a progression of thinking that is meant only to normalize the horrors of what this President is doing because of tribalism.

 

"We're going to be looking at that, and looking at it very closely ..."

Uh-huh. Sure ya are.

 

Sure he is. He's going to have his nose rubbed in it until Acosta decides that it is long past time that he spent more time with his family.

A week? Ten days? When that 2,000 page document dump comes out and what the Feds had on Epstein, and in particular the women who were bird-dogging little girls comes out, he's going to have one helluva time explaining why they were given a get out of jail free card. It won't take long after that point for things to come to a boil. Whoring out little girls isn't nearly as easy to sweep under a rug and ignore as some of what Trump has gotten away with.