When did the US become so cruel

[malaise]

Watching Rachel discuss the expulsion of people with medical deferment visas - this is inhumane. Does the Con get to change the laws passed by Congress.

Please ITTMF!

[JI7]

1. it's always been there but the better side had been winning in recent times

so we are facing a backlash from the cruel ones now.

[sandensea]

2. Anything to give Chumpkins the fist-pump effect

"Trump just stuck it to minorities and immigrants again?..."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It's appalling.

I wonder if there are other countries that can provide advanced medical treatments (e.g., France, Germany) would take these kids? It's just horrifying, and I have no doubt Stephen Miller is behind it. May he fry in Hell.

[ooky]

5. I'm sure some country - Canada, France etc. will step in.

And may Miller, Trump, and everyone that knowingly votes for this shit fry in hell.

[bdamomma]

28. It would nice if they could step in

but this is our mess and we have to clean it up or clear them out of the way.

[DBoon]

26. I'm sure Cuba would love to offer assistance

nt

[Me.]

4. Yes, When?

I always believed, perhaps mistakenly, that we were a kind people and nation.

[Caliman73]

6. I'll just put this here...

[3catwoman3]

7. I'll say it started with Reagan.

Avuncular demeanor that hid a mean-hearted son-of-a-bitch.

[Sewa]

17. Ditto that

A real turning point for our country. The start of the the culture war. Birth of the Neocons. Trickledown bullshit

[lambchopp59]

21. Ding, ding, ding, ding!

"It's been said I favor the rich, I don't deny it"...“people who are sleeping on the grates…the homeless…are homeless, you might say, by choice.”
Ray Gun and his "Moral Majority" were all about greed.

[Cosmocat]

38. YEEEP

He kicked in the MO for about two decades where republicans really found a way to forcefully advocate for all kinds of mean spirited shit with prettied up talking points - Pence cut his teeth on these and is one of the few who can still practice it.

They got lazy after 9-11, just screamed YOU HATE THE TROOPS is you opposed them on anything.

Then, once BHO got elected, they just woke up in the morning and found a way to blame him for the worst thing they saw on cable news. That honestly was the next level digression that we are seeing the mirror reflection now - how they made a good, decent man and fine POTUS into the worst POTUS ever in their deranged minds, set the opposite delusion that the current psychopath is just some poor victim and all criticisms are to ignored because they are just hating him (what they did with BHO).

[UniteFightBack]

8. I pray to all the different Gods in the world to please bring this orange shit stain home. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. "Home" could be a very warm place, if one believes in such a place.

I don't, but I wish it did exist if it meant Trump would go there.

[guillaumeb]

12. Hellishly warm?

Meaning, very warm?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Infernally.

[guillaumeb]

14. Dante-esque infernally?

Now that would be warm.

If only one could ask Charles Koch, or Antonin Scalia.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Pick one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante) Traitors wind up in the ninth circle, which is a frozen lake.

[lambchopp59]

23. Now, now, that's no way to treat the mentally ill.

I'd prescribe many, many sessions for poor Demented Donnie, since he's advocated maltreatment of suspects:

[bdamomma]

30. me too.

may be if we all think hard enough we could put a hex on them all.

I believe you reap what you sow. Karma and all that.

[Skittles]

10. repukes have been cruel for a long, long time

[guillaumeb]

11. When? In 1619, when the first slaves were sold.

This is one example in a long line showing how non-whites were dehumanized and treated as property.

But you knew that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. was looking to see if anyone gave that date

Started to post about Atwater, but as I was scrolling down the comments my mind went to earlier and earlier, through the Freedom Riders and the Night Riders and then landed at 1619, just as you did.

[Wounded Bear]

20. I put 1789...

because those earlier dates could be realistically blamed on the British.

[guillaumeb]

25. The significance of that year is generally unrecognized.

Official US history is mainly the history of rich, white, males, and their supposed accomplishments. Anything that does not relate to that is not taught.

[samplegirl]

18. Reword this to

republicans and the answer is they’ve been cruel for a long time they just keep getting worse!

[Wounded Bear]

19. Around 1789...

[Cryptoad]

22. My Native American Ancestors,,,,

say the Colonizers have a defective gene. They have proven they do anything for $$$ and I mean anything. They called them Wasicu, roughly translated mean " one who wants all the fat"

[Runningdawg]

32. I was about to post - from the moment the words "savages" left their lips

[malaise]

35. Sure looks that way

Damn

[Niagara]

24. Sometime around 1492

The Europeans came here and didn't like the people who were already here. They didn't like their language, their two spirit gender roles, their hair, the way they dressed and eventually stole their land and started a genocide.

[bdamomma]

31. and brainwashed them into religion

too much religion can make a person stupid. We see that now don't we?

[malaise]

36. Good point

Strange that they did like their food

[dawg day]

27. The cruelty is the point-

After all, this is probably only a couple thousand people. Their being here will not affect the US at all. It's just Trump's administration (Stephen Miller?) looking around and saying, "Who can we hurt today?"

There was a boy with cystic fibrosis who was crying, saying he knows he's going to die now that he'll be losing his treatment. It's unimaginable that anyone could think that this kindness advanced nations extend to the world should be punished. But Trump thinks that.

[Downtown Hound]

29. There's always been a cruel streak in the U.S.

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Whether it's slavery segregation, Native American genocide, poverty, My Lai massacre, you name it, it's always been there. Sometimes it just rears its ugly head more than others. Now is one of those times.

[lunamagica]

33. It is horrific

[MicaelS]

34. It has always been there.

Just submerged. It boils down to "Greed is good. As long as I have mine, fuck everyone else."

[struggle4progress]

37. The Republican vision statement in action: "It just sucks to be you! Tough luck!"