Overheard: “the white supremacists and misogynists who froth at the mouth about replacement theory don’t make a good case for why they shouldn’t be replaced”
Here’s my view when walking the dog past Lake Murray one morning late last month.
I’ve been relatively quiet on political issues lately, but don’t mistake that for apathy. Trump is a vile toad and he and his gang of thieves, pedophiles and morons are the greatest threat to the United States since the Revolution.
But I don’t feel like my ranting about it online does any good. So I don’t do it much anymore.
However, sometimes I feel the need to speak out, even though I know speaking out doesn’t accomplish much.
Now is one of those times.
Donald Trump is a rapist who is now using police authority to bully his 82-year-old victim.
Heather Cox Richardson: “Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jersey.” Inmates at Delaney Hall have complied with US laws, but they have been denied due justice, and are kept in filth; denied medical care, including to the elderly and medically vulnerable; and denied due process.
“Kim posted on social media that the detainees had accurately represented conditions there. He said he found an eighteen-year-old high school student crying and saying she just wanted to graduate; a pregnant woman without full OBGYN care; a woman who had suffered a miscarriage and had no medical care; a mother who was largely separated from her four-month-old baby, the husband of an American citizen wife and child; spoiled food; a court docket showing one judge with 74 cases to handle in one day, allowing the judge about five minutes per case; a man from South America being threatened with deportation to Congo, where there is an active Ebola outbreak; and so on.
“Kim concluded: ‘Spending tens of billions of dollars from American families to perpetrate cruelty against people who aren’t violent criminals or felons is a waste of money and wrong…. Our government should focus on helping Americans afford their lives, not lock people up in for-profit detention centers where corporations like GeoGroup and CoreCivic make billions. No profiting off of human misery.'”