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This Melania Photo-Op for Don is an Embarrassment. (Original Post) spanone Jun 2018 OP
I'm watching it now and I'm thinking the same thing. skylucy Jun 2018 #1
msnbc just cut away....they're back now.. spanone Jun 2018 #3
Yes, these kidnapped children are really, really jrthin Jun 2018 #2
Cages? What cages? C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #4
Whitewash vlyons Jun 2018 #5
it's insulting to anyone who's followed this travesty spanone Jun 2018 #6
Whitewash is right. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #25
She is as disgusting as chump. gademocrat7 Jun 2018 #7
This is a church run facility....not anything near the NORMAL 'camp' spanone Jun 2018 #9
Pretty Sure They Had An Advance Team Go In To Scope This Place Out.... global1 Jun 2018 #12
Is she wearing her high heels and designer outfit to look compassionate? kimbutgar Jun 2018 #8
launching that propaganda nt EleanorR Jun 2018 #10
Elementary school cafeteria Corgigal Jun 2018 #11
He beat her. You better believe it.. pangaia Jun 2018 #13
Typical bullshit for that crowd. She is a tool. nt Blue_true Jun 2018 #14
These folks talking are taking federal money....of course everything is ALL RIGHT. spanone Jun 2018 #16
Are they the kids who are seperated, or unaccompanied minors, or is this a normal foster facility? haele Jun 2018 #15
Upbring New Hope Children's Shelter, part of Lutheran Social Services. spanone Jun 2018 #19
From what I have gathered, this is a place for unaccompanied minors... demmiblue Jun 2018 #20
Be Best. kskiska Jun 2018 #17
I'll give her credit for one thing. She asked about how old and how they got there. nolabear Jun 2018 #18
Thereisenstadt mcar Jun 2018 #21
JUST REPORTED...6 of the children at this center were separated from their parents...out of 58 spanone Jun 2018 #22
She is supposed to go to another (more severe facility) after. demmiblue Jun 2018 #23
they won't show anything that doesn't put trump in a good light. spanone Jun 2018 #24
Potemkin concentration camps 0rganism Jun 2018 #26
This is for 6 yrs and older, " WHERE ARE THE BABIES DONALD TRUMP !?!? " uponit7771 Jun 2018 #27
Ugh... now we are hearing from the tangeranus. n/t demmiblue Jun 2018 #28

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
4. Cages? What cages?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:28 PM
Jun 2018

Where are they keeping the sick children? How about the dead ones?

Did she talk to the staff about which one's are being involuntarily injected with neurococktails to keep them sedated ???? !!!!

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
5. Whitewash
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:29 PM
Jun 2018

Note the "acts of kindness" poster behind her. So ...... where are the kids? Let's hear some interviews with the kids! Obviously not going to happen.

Just shows how desparate Trump WH is to arm-twist Melania to make an appearance. They hope that a female will soften public opinion.

spanone

(135,884 posts)
6. it's insulting to anyone who's followed this travesty
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:30 PM
Jun 2018

i.e. EVERYONE

THIS IS NOT THE KIDS IN CAGES WITH MYLAR BLANKETS ....such BULLSHIT

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
25. Whitewash is right.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:44 PM
Jun 2018

Pablum for Fn and Friends. Just creating push-back/spin/talking points so the rwnj's can lay their heads down at night, and have something to talk over everyone about on the news cycle.
If European countries banned foxn why can't we start a signature drive to get an act of congress, or a federal injunction? We are suffering damage we can't recover from.
Little kids are so susceptible to trauma. I pray god the guards and people with them are kind. I get a feeling not, but, hey...break the rules. Is the Dept going to fire you for hugging a frightened child? And if they do, is that going to hold up when they have the employment hearing which will soon follow?
Irreparable harm.

global1

(25,272 posts)
12. Pretty Sure They Had An Advance Team Go In To Scope This Place Out....
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:33 PM
Jun 2018

and make sure it told the story they wanted told. Probably brought in props to make the place look livable.

haele

(12,681 posts)
15. Are they the kids who are seperated, or unaccompanied minors, or is this a normal foster facility?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:35 PM
Jun 2018

These foster facilities don't just have the kids that Border Patrol picks up - they have local kids that are either orphaned or whose parent(s) are in some sort of holding and there's no other family member or friend to look after them.

They could just as easily hide away the kids that were separated at the border, and just show the local kids or unaccompanied minors who are waiting for family in the states to pick them up.
Would you know?

Haele

spanone

(135,884 posts)
19. Upbring New Hope Children's Shelter, part of Lutheran Social Services.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:39 PM
Jun 2018

atypical of all shelters we've seen....of course

demmiblue

(36,898 posts)
20. From what I have gathered, this is a place for unaccompanied minors...
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:40 PM
Jun 2018

not the victims of Trump's family separation policy. Such bullshit!

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
18. I'll give her credit for one thing. She asked about how old and how they got there.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:38 PM
Jun 2018

These kids are older and unaccompanied. Not torn from their parents and unable to comprehend anything about what is happening to them.

That said the sanitization of this situation is abhorrent.

spanone

(135,884 posts)
22. JUST REPORTED...6 of the children at this center were separated from their parents...out of 58
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:41 PM
Jun 2018

THIS AIN'T NO FORMER WALMART

demmiblue

(36,898 posts)
23. She is supposed to go to another (more severe facility) after.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:43 PM
Jun 2018

I wonder if that will actually happen.

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