Juliajms

The weird thing is that Trump blew the drone incident off as an accident. If he wanted to escalate that was a strange thing to say. At the same time, I won't surprised to wake up to find we have attacked Iraq for no other reason than Trump felt like it.

Yes they are. Anyone who feels uncomfortable with that term should be uncomfortable.

Yes, I found it. Plus this thread. My God.

That's him alright.

^ There's some good news.

Has anyone seen an article reporting that the government has stopped updating the list of people dying in US custody on the border? I swear I saw it yesterday, but I searched and can't find it now. Just want to make sure it's true. It's honestly surreal to see all the people on twitter arguing about whether we have concentration camps down there. I suppose we could just call them internment camps.

I don't really thing Trump can deport millions like he wants to, but he can have enough people arrested to spread misery and fear. The fact that we are even talking about mass internment as a possibility is stunning. We've had some bad leaders, but Trump doesn't have a merciful bone in his body. Now that our norms have been violated so easily we will be vulnerable to bad actors for a long time. That's if we are even lucky enough to change course before things get even worse.

It's horrific. I can't even imagine the trauma these children are suffering. Every time someone says they won't even remember it I want to throw a developmental psychology book at them. It doesn't matter if they remember it, they will still be vulnerable to any number of attachment disorders. Seems like common sense, but most of these people just don't care.

What a low standard, but yes, I would vote for any Democrat. We'll be lucky if these fools don't bankrupt the country with perpetual war.

The front page of CNN is just terrifying right now. The warmongers out there have learned nothing from Iraq.

Well, ok. I tried not to say it because women are so often accused instability when they confront powerful predators, but I admit I think something is off with her. Her social media posts on the topic are erratic. At the same time I won't be surprised if something did happen at some point in her life, but I don't believe Mark Harmon hurt her.

^ I've seen the first few seasons. I used to stream it when I was sick or depressed. I found the repetition this type of show offers comforting. All I can say is her story seems to have changed a lot of the last couple of years. She has also accused more than one homeless person of assaulting her. They are, but in this case she has never really said what Mark Harmon did to her. She's made some vague contradictory claims on twitter. Now she says he assaulted her, but what does she mean by that? I almost always believe the woman and I DGAF about MH, but don't know what to believe here. What she's saying doesn't quit add up and if you are gong to mess with someone's reputation then come out and state what happened.

^ Ugh. No thanks. Obviously I will vote for him against Trump, but not in the primary. I wonder if we will ever get a rational abortion policy? It just seems so obvious to me that you have to have generous welfare benefits if you want to reduce abortion among the poor, instead of forcing people deeper into poverty.

Yes. Until that happens we have so many problems that won't be solved in any way that is good for the poor or middle class. I dread seeing what happens to the safety net for the elderly if we don't have more democrats in power soon.

Poor Queen Elizabeth having to entertain the rabble at this stage of her life. I've never really been a big fan of "the firm" but having to deal with this idiot could make me sympathize with just about anyone.

I would sure hope that her own security team does. One problem is that candidates need to be accessible up to a point and press that flesh. How you balance that with security in 2019 sounds like the kind of job I'm happy not to have. The fact that this guy got on the stage is worrying, but at the same time she didn't seem afraid. She was smart (imo) and let him have the mic and moved away.

^ That was my first thought too. It seems like her people surrounded the guy relatively quickly, but they got caught asleep at the switch for sure.

This is so San Francisco.

How crazy is that story about the navy hiding the ship named after McCain because Trump couldn't handle it?

The white women who voted for Trump are getting exactly what they wanted. It's not like the 53% who voted for him didn't know that he was going to nominate and appoint pro-life judges. We may not like it, but there are clearly plenty of white women (although not only white women of course) who are a part of the evangelical movement and don't agree with abortion. Maybe there is some hope that we can get the women who didn't vote in 2016 to vote this time around. That's a lot more likely than shifting the vote of conservative white women who were never on "our" side to start with. Still, both non voters and the 53% knew what he was before these bills started passing, so I'm not sure why they would be energized this time around. As for the memes, well I have to assume that's coming from the 47% of white women who didn't vote for him and are pretty terrified about where things are heading. There are something like 60 million white white women in the country it's not like we are a monolith any more than most groups are. There are still a lot of women around who lived through those back alley days and don't want to see young women go through the same thing.

At first I felt sorry for them, but then I realized we have a perpetual election cycle too. It's hellish, but this our reality.

It seems like for some of these guys it's a true compulsion and they can't stop no matter the consequences or how much they have to lose. Some of these cases are pretty mind blowing, but at the same time some men are still getting away with it (Michael Weatherly), so that doesn't help.

That's for damn sure. Truly, I don't think I've ever known (or known of) a person who lies as much as he does. My mind automatically discards everything he says now, I don't even consciously think about it. I just see him talking and put his statements in the figurative trash basket.

😂

Ugh. How sad. We've fallen so far.