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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlate: "A Former ICE Chief Melts Down" - absolutely incredible, appalling, and expected.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/thomas-homan-ice-meltdown-pramila-jayapal.htmlFormer @ICEgov Dir. Tom Homan shows no respect to @RepJayapal during a House hearing today after going over his time, shouting out,
I'm a taxpayer, you work for me! pic.twitter.com/kVK2VlWinG
Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) September 26, 2019
This was not his first blowup at the prospect of having to answer to criticism. Earlier this month, Homan engaged in a similar performance, attempting to shout down Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after his time expired. Like Jayapal, Ocasio-Cortez had to gavel him down.
Pachamama
(16,884 posts)That will be his rants in the future....
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)As well, you could almost (almost) sympathize with lower lever soldiers obeying orders as they were trained to do, under the pressure of the chain of command, but if we are looking at comparisons to that Nazi administration, he'd be a Himmler, Hess or Goring. Officers that were true believers, who relished their roles in mass torture and murder.
lostnfound
(16,161 posts)Citizen is a higher calling than taxpayer, damn it.
As a matter of fact, plenty of people targeted by ICE are taxpayers, not citizens.
erronis
(15,170 posts)are less than your willingness to uphold the laws of that office.
But even the distinction between taxpayer and someone within our territories is too restrictive. Citizens, Residents, Aliens, Taxpayers - these can be used as divisive terms when needed.
Sometimes as in this current situation, the chain of command needs to be personally examined rather than blindly followed.
Thank you for your response. I certainly hope other office-holders in the US government as well as other jurisdictions will realize their duties.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)Nothing else matters to him, clearly.
The "MAGA" philosophy in a nutshell.
Somebody remind me again, who are the snowflakes?
oasis
(49,321 posts)dalton99a
(81,386 posts)like his idol
AZ8theist
(5,407 posts)A fucking racist Nazi fucking douchebag.
How can we get this fucking traitor behind bars just like at Nuremberg???
SWBTATTReg
(22,059 posts)of fact, I find that lots of repugs act this way...no one else but them and only them deserve any respectful behavior. This is why we need to take the gloves off, dust off the book of insults, arm ourselves with the word of law via the Constitution and its supporting Amendments and go after these law breakers and contempt of Congress idiots. The Senators conducting the House hearings deserve at least a minimum décor of respect (at least for the office they hold). Homan clearly shows that he doesn't give a crap about the rule of law nor follow any normal human dignity.
Steve Miller must be giving out classes.
JHB
(37,152 posts)"I think it's very important that you pay attention to my opinion... but not so important that I need to bother spelling my sign right."
DENVERPOPS
(8,787 posts)It has totally spun out of control.................worse yet, it is getting worse by the hour and day.............
Soon, if it hasn't happened already, it will be irreversible...........
I can't even imagine, if we were able to stop all this shit in it's tracks and begin to undo the huge amount of damage that has been done................it would take decades to get us back to even where we were three years ago..Much more if we tried to undo the past 19 years of fraud, corruption and deceit that has been dumped on the U.S. citizens, our government and even the rest of the world.
I see no signs of it even slowing down. The COUP is either complete, or nearly complete...........
Thank you everyone, who listened to a few candidates commercials in the weeks before the election, voted on the lies and then went back to burying their heads in the sand until the last minute before the next election.
As James Carville said on election night in 2016, the U.S. voters are about to learn big time that their voting has consequences...
WASF,
DENVERPOPS
(8,787 posts)Back in high school we would have an asshole like this, and one of us would take the nasty guy out back of school and beat the shit out him. Too bad we can't do the same thing, (but without violence,) to this group of nasty mean Republicans......
patphil
(6,144 posts)and that means I work for everyone, not just you.
It also means that I work for the people you despise; the people you treat so badly.
It's my job to protect them from people like you.
erronis
(15,170 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,693 posts)erronis
(15,170 posts)5+ years ago I would see their screens up in airports, bars, hospitals(!). Now I don't have to put up with their self-serving blather.
I guess if you happen to be a visitor to the WH or other executive agency then the crap may be in the lobby/waiting room/west wing.
BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)Hes very red.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)...although of course it's been the trend since even before the Teabaggers started their screaming-fit "town halls."
"To hell with any pretense of civility--but of course always demand it from the very liberals you want to see lined up and shot." -- Teabaggerosity 101
erronis
(15,170 posts)and friends, they can go off to live in their own survivalist enclaves deep in the forests of Idowntknow.
SCantiGOP
(13,862 posts)I was hoping he was going to stroke out. Looked like the big red-faced asshole came close.
renate
(13,776 posts)SergeStorms
(19,148 posts)A perfect foil for Trump's reign of terror.
robleb
(162 posts)and bully. Lock Him Up!
Qutzupalotl
(14,285 posts)We paid HIS salary. So he should STFU with the theatrics and answer the questions.