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OrbitalDawn said:
This somewhat misses the point of UN agencies and the UN in general.

The founding principle is that it's better to have a forum that actually brings these actors to the table than isolate them.
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Yup that was my point :p.
 
You just wait, Pitbull and co are going to come in here with proof that you're wrong, backed with facts and sources and everything.

Haha, just kidding.
 
Jeff Sessions:

It hasn’t been good and the American people don’t like the idea that we are separating families. We never really intended to do that. What we intended was to make sure that adults who bring children into the country are charged with the crime that they have committed.

Vs Jeff Sessions:

Well, we can, we’d be glad to work at that, and actually, to keep them as close as possible, and then they’re deported. But the law requires us to keep children in a different facility than we do for adults. And every time somebody, Hugh, gets prosecuted in America for a crime, American citizens, and they go to jail, they’re separated from their children. We don’t want to do this at all. If people don’t want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them. We’ve got to get this message out. You’re not given immunity. You have to, you will be prosecuted if you bring, if you come illegally. And if you bring children, you’ll still be prosecuted.
 
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daveza said:
Great jacket to wear after visiting the detained kids.

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Edit: On her way to visit the detained kids.
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Wow so the first lady is a callous sociopath as well, who knew? It's just words folks, it's just words.

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“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!
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Somewhere in the west wing, a senior advisor pours a stiff drink. The television is on Fox News; it's showing Donald telling his "snake" story at the rally. He smiles as he flips his phone and scrolls through Twitter where a tweet catches his eye. As he reads, a thought begins to formulate... "If Russia used Wikileaks to help throw the last election to us, who's to say that next time they won't throw it to..."

He finishes his drink. All of it.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1009963987868504065
 
greg0205 said:
Somewhere in the west wing, a senior advisor pours a stiff drink. The television is on Fox News; it's showing Donald telling his "snake" story at the rally. He smiles as he flips his phone and scrolls through Twitter where a tweet catches his eye. As he reads, a thought begins to formulate... "If Russia used Wikileaks to help throw the last election to us, who's to say that next time they won't throw it to..."

He finishes his drink. All of it.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1009963987868504065
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I kind of wish he did drink (I don't think he does) as that would go part-way to explaining his demented rants.

As it is, it's all Trump, all diseased snake-oil salesman with a cohort of adoring fans who don't understand a word he says but love the way he says it.

As daimons go, this one is reflecting a very darkly moronic collective US soul.
 
Revealing anecdote about Don Jr.

https://www.gq.com/story/real-story-of-donald-trump-jr

When divorce proceedings began and the paparazzi set up camp outside Trump Tower and Don's school, Ivana decided to explain the situation to her children. Ivanka, 8, and Eric, 6, got the sanitized version. Twelve-year-old Don, Ivana concluded, “could handle hearing the truth.” After being told about his father's mistress and the fact that his parents would never live together again, Don stopped speaking to his father.

Soon after that, as Trump engaged Ivana in an epic public feud, he dispatched a bodyguard to his triplex apartment with instructions to bring his elder boy down to his office. Don, still not talking to his father, descended with the bodyguard to the 28th floor, and a few minutes later, Ivana, who described all this in her book, got a phone call. It was Trump, looking for some leverage by announcing that he was going to keep Don and raise him alone.

“Okay, keep him,” Ivana said she told him. “I have two other kids to raise.”

A few minutes later—his bluff out-bluffed—Trump ordered his boy to be taken back upstairs. “Donald never had any intention of keeping his son,” Ivana wrote.
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crackersa said:
Source that Obama’s separates kids from families?

It’s already been posted in this thread from snopes that your statement is false.
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I recall photos doing the rounds of Children being held in cages separated from their parents, which the Obama administration sent out thinking it was Trump. Turned out to be under Obama's reign... Oooo the irony :crylaugh:
 
Pitbull said:
I recall photos doing the rounds of Children being held in cages separated from their parents, which the Obama administration sent out thinking it was Trump. Turned out to be under Obama's reign... Oooo the irony :crylaugh:
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What time stratum are you currently in?
 
Aquila ka Hecate said:
No. That is not what the article says at all. Former Obama administration officials. There is no Obama administration.
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LOL, is Obama in office currently? It was someone from his administration.

But then again, semantics instead of facing the facts :crylaugh:

Get some coffee, seems like you need it ...
 
Pitbull said:
I recall photos doing the rounds of Children being held in cages separated from their parents, which the Obama administration sent out thinking it was Trump. Turned out to be under Obama's reign... Oooo the irony :crylaugh:
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Yeah Jon Favreau sent the pics out erroneously. Quite the gaffe. However the circumstances were very different - the kids in those photos were unaccompanied minors.

http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5?IR=T

Favreau said in a series of tweets that he made a "mistake" by not checking the date of the photos before sharing them on Twitter. He explained that the photos were taken in 2014, when the Obama administration faced "an influx of unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border, fleeing violence from Central America."

He added that the pictures had been taken while the government was trying to "move those children out of those shelters as fast as humanly possible and connect them with their parents, most of whom were already in the United States."
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Pitbull said:
LOL, is Obama in office currently? It was someone from his administration.

But then again, semantics instead of facing the facts :crylaugh:

Get some coffee, seems like you need it ...
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O gods.. that was exactly what I was saying. Former administration, which does not exist.

But you said
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which the Obama administration sent out
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there is no Obama administration to send out photos. There is only a former administration.

Geez, I'm done with the lack of basic intelligence here.
 
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