Thursday, March 28, 2019

Trump's Cruelty to Dead Americans

Sarah Kendzior:
"Trump has made so many horrific statements about Americans who died -- 
the Gold Star Khan family, LaDavid Johnson and his widow Myesha, and now Otto Warmbier and his family. Trump took the side of Kim Jong Un against a slain American."  
"You expect your president to be on your side, to grieve for you, to stand up for you against a foreign country. One of the biggest shifts in consciousness for Americans is knowing that Trump is not on our side." 
"Even if you're a supporter of Trump, even if you go to rallies and wear a MAGA hat, all he sees you as is a prop. He doesn't care if you live or die. He doesn't care if anyone besides himself lives or dies. He doesn't have those emotions"
"Trump has antipathy toward America. This is not a red state/blue state thing. This is not a Democrat/Republican thing. This is to some extent an American/anti-American thing. But above all it's a human thing, an existential threat." 

It's more than assholery, it's psychopathy.

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Anti-Abortion Freak Tracks Immigrant Girls' Menstrual Cycles

Rachel Maddow exposed a real Trump handmaids tale with a document showing that Trump’s head of refugee resettlement, Scott Lloyd, was tracking the pregnancies of teenage refugees, who had been raped, to deny them access to requested abortions.
This is the federal government with your tax dollars keeping an individualized record of pregnant teenage girls menstrual cycles, whether they’ve had a positive pregnancy test, what the government knows about how they believe the girls got pregnant, how they believe this individual girl got pregnant and whether this girl has requested an abortion and then the last column, the last column is of course what the federal government is doing about it. And this record was being kept for the express purpose of subverting any of these girls’ ability to get an abortion. This was a spreadsheet designed to facilitate action to block these girls for getting an abortion they might want, given the circumstances described in these cold, hard spreadsheet cells. When you look through this 28-page document, it’s full of teenagers and some cases girls who aren’t teenagers who report being raped and being pregnant as a result. And here’s Scott Lloyd, compiling this information about these girls and using it so he can intervene as a government official to block each of these girls from getting the abortion they asked for. All along he was tracking how far along each girl he was, how long he could delay it, how much longer he had to keep blocking her from leaving the shelter until she would be forced to give birth, thanks to the U.S. Federal government. So this document has never been seen before. This is not the sort of thing we’re used to seeing, this the not the sort of thing we expect our government to be keeping tabs on in the modern era.

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Trump Says That Doctors “Execute Babies After Birth.”


Not only is it a total lie, it's a disgusting, cruel, outrageous, demagogic lie because Donald Trump is a flaming bag of shit asshole.

Scott Walker Compares Abortion To Taking A Baby Home And Killing It, Gets Applause

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference began Thursday with the former governor of Wisconsin doing what he does best: telling lies to an audience. As conservatives continue to pout about a failed bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and could have put doctors performing it in jail for five years, Scott Walker appeared to compare having an abortion to taking a baby home from the hospital and killing it later.