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riversedge

(70,218 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 09:45 AM Apr 2019

Nancy Pelosi slam dunks Donald Trump over Kirstjen Nielsen debacle





Nancy Pelosi slam dunks Donald Trump over Kirstjen Nielsen debacle


https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/nancy-pelosi-kirstjen-nielsen-trump-extremist/17244/
Bill Palmer | 10:05 pm EDT April 7, 2019



Just how deranged of an anti-immigrant extremist do you have to be for someone like Kirstjen Nielsen, who has been kidnapping immigrant children and locking them in cages, to decide that you’re too much of an extremist? ..........................



Kirstjen Nielsen felt that Donald Trump has become “increasingly unhinged” about immigration, according to a CNN report.................................

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi quickly released a statement after news surfaced about the details of Nielsen’s exit. Pelosi said precisely what most Americans are thinking right now: “It is deeply alarming that the Trump Administration official who put children in cages is reportedly resigning because she is not extreme enough for the White House’s liking. The President’s dangerous and cruel anti-immigrant policies have only worsened the humanitarian suffering at the border and inflicted vast suffering on the families who have been torn apart.”

Nancy Pelosi continued: “The Trump Administration’s increasingly toxic anti-immigrant policies were resoundingly rejected by the American people in the midterm election. America needs a Homeland Security Secretary who will respect the sanctity of families, honor our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants, and restore sanity to this Administration’s policies.”


← Kirstjen Nielsen resigns, thinks Donald Trump has become “increasingly unhinged”

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/nancy-pelosi-kirstjen-nielsen-trump-extremist/17244/

← Kirstjen Nielsen resigns, thinks Donald Trump has become “increasingly unhinged”

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/nancy-pelosi-kirstjen-nielsen-trump-extremist/17244/
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Nancy Pelosi slam dunks Donald Trump over Kirstjen Nielsen debacle (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2019 OP
The vile MAGAcretin believes he can declare edicts and ignore the law malaise Apr 2019 #1
Well... so far, he has been able to ignore laws and declare edicts with impunity. Texin Apr 2019 #4
Thankfully Dems won the House malaise Apr 2019 #6
Or worse greymattermom Apr 2019 #10
Its like Hilter's fascist Germany. They are purging those who were not being evil enough. olegramps Apr 2019 #14
It's frightening to watch and the evangelicals are malaise Apr 2019 #15
I wish I could rec this lunatica Apr 2019 #16
The cruelty & hypocrisy of the republican party CrispyQ Apr 2019 #19
Restoration of sanity is not going to happen soon. gordianot Apr 2019 #2
Grateful that Nancy is Speaker at this time in history. (nt) ehrnst Apr 2019 #3
And to Correct the Record, DJT's Grandfather Was a Draft Dogging Immigrant MartyTheGreek Apr 2019 #5
His grandfather was here before WWI Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 #9
I stand Corrected... MartyTheGreek Apr 2019 #11
Grandpa bone-spurs ran a brothel. lagomorph777 Apr 2019 #13
Just what kind of an amoral crap does Trump have planned? The Genealogist Apr 2019 #7
Trump-Republicon Party family values: Hurt brown children to pump up rich white male privilege. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2019 #8
Trump was probably demanding she start building the gas chambers and ovens. lagomorph777 Apr 2019 #12
Nancy put into words the Democratic stance on immigration so well - this administration's actions onetexan Apr 2019 #17
Maybe she sees the handwriting on the wall. The end of Trump and his thugs is visible. usaf-vet Apr 2019 #18
"...she is not extreme enough for the White House's liking" DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #20
KR for Nancy! Cha Apr 2019 #21
Setting ap an Aristrocacy SMoss Apr 2019 #22

malaise

(268,998 posts)
1. The vile MAGAcretin believes he can declare edicts and ignore the law
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 09:54 AM
Apr 2019

It is time for Congress to send Marshals for these people - Congress passes laws

Texin

(2,596 posts)
4. Well... so far, he has been able to ignore laws and declare edicts with impunity.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:02 AM
Apr 2019

The legal system hasn't been enforced insofar as he and his crime family are concerned, and his K-GOP cronies have been letting him do just about anything he wants. We have an unhinged toddler in the WH and his "parents" are either absent altogether or okay with his behavior.

greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
10. Or worse
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:32 AM
Apr 2019

the parents encourage the behavior because they profit from it. Sort of like Honey Boo Boo.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
14. Its like Hilter's fascist Germany. They are purging those who were not being evil enough.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 11:36 AM
Apr 2019

Trump is culling herd and replacing those who show any restraint with blood thirsty thugs who aren't in least squeamish. While Hitler took out his evilness on the Jews and sent them to concentration camps for eventual extermination, Trump and his gang of fascists are taking out their lust for cruelty on desperate Hispanic men, women and even children.

There is a deeply sadistic urge in far too many to today's Republicans and their cruel Fuhrer that yearns for blood to satisfy their own abject failure. Just like the Nazis, they have demonized these unfortunate desperate people robbing them of any humanity to justify their atrocious behavior in which they have shed any compassion for those they consider as vermin. Just as years of degradation of Jews allowed for their deposal, over forty years of propaganda over 1,300 broadcast stations has yielded the same results in regard to Hispanics who they are convinced are robbing good Americans of a livelihood. Just like the faithfully Christian Germans who turned a blind eye to the atrocities, they are also unable to comprehend their hypocrisy. Singing with gusto "Amazing Grace" they fail to grasp that rather than being saved by God's grace they are sowing the seeds of their own condemnation. Rather than grasping the basic concept that we must struggle daily against our own greed and prejudices they have been convinced to embrace them as a virtue.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
16. I wish I could rec this
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 11:49 AM
Apr 2019

You get it. This is what happens, has happened more than once in history and is being repeated right here again.

We can still stop it though.

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
19. The cruelty & hypocrisy of the republican party
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 02:04 PM
Apr 2019

has made it almost impossible for me to associate with anyone I know who still identifies as republican. I'm sad to avoid those people in my life, some are family, but the depravity of what the republican party supports, well, it's gonna leave a mark, people. I will never forget those who supported this.

MartyTheGreek

(565 posts)
5. And to Correct the Record, DJT's Grandfather Was a Draft Dogging Immigrant
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:02 AM
Apr 2019

...during WW I running from the draft in Germany. He tried to go back and they said nine!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
9. His grandfather was here before WWI
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:28 AM
Apr 2019

He ran a brothel while the Klondike gold rush was going on. That preceded WWI by a couple of decades.

MartyTheGreek

(565 posts)
11. I stand Corrected...
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:37 AM
Apr 2019

From Wiki... Trumps Grandfather: Trump worked seven days a week for two and a half years under barber Friedrich Lang. After completing his apprenticeship, he returned to Kallstadt, a village with about 1,000 inhabitants. He quickly discovered there was not enough business to earn a living. He was also approaching the age of eligibility for conscription to military service in the Imperial German Army. He quickly decided to emigrate to the United States, later saying, "I agreed with my mother that I should go to America."[3]:30 Years later, his family members said that he departed secretly at night, leaving his mother a note.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
7. Just what kind of an amoral crap does Trump have planned?
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 10:11 AM
Apr 2019

That a woman who cooly oversaw the ripping of children from their parents to be locked in cages like animals is calling policies unhinged should send a shiver down the back of anyone with even a shred of decsncy.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
12. Trump was probably demanding she start building the gas chambers and ovens.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 11:15 AM
Apr 2019

And she thought that might look bad on her resume.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
17. Nancy put into words the Democratic stance on immigration so well - this administration's actions
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 12:18 PM
Apr 2019

towards immigrants the past couple of years are dangerous and horrific. They are flagrant human rights violations. We need to do everything we can to get those families back together and get this horrible heartless party out of office.

usaf-vet

(6,186 posts)
18. Maybe she sees the handwriting on the wall. The end of Trump and his thugs is visible.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 12:20 PM
Apr 2019

Maybe she is trying to save some of her dignity and give herself plausible deniably of what she see is coming.

I personally think she is in to deep to save herself from guilt when the hammer falls.

 

DirtEdonE

(1,220 posts)
20. "...she is not extreme enough for the White House's liking"
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 03:07 PM
Apr 2019

Reminds me of a similar situation involving similar people.

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany

"As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh.

Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world."

Not too enlightened, but too harsh - donald trump by definition.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10925.html

SMoss

(112 posts)
22. Setting ap an Aristrocacy
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 09:34 PM
Apr 2019

Rachel listed all the actings at the top of the agencies. He is staffing the gov with Tories not approved. They can be fired any day if they don't carry out his orders legal or illegal.
The Kockoctopus wants no gov. and this is how he gets it. Most appointed jobs are empty.

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