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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#332126: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:12:43 PM

Stephen Miller is the guy whose head looks like a snake, or a dick. He's also both a snake and a dickhead in a figurative sense: he's the mind behind many of the administration's most brutal anti-immigrant policies.

If I were a religious person, I might call him the Antichrist.

Edited by Fighteer on Oct 6th 2020 at 7:13:54 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332127: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:16:25 PM

He's also a major hypocrite, as his own family fled persecution in Tsarist Russia.

Said family has also denounced him, if I recall correctly.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Oct 6th 2020 at 1:17:02 PM

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#332128: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:17:14 PM

He's an open White Nationalist despite being Jewish to.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#332129: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:18:43 PM

[up][up][up]I try to avoid thinking about Trump and Revelation at the same time because it leads me in directions that are not theologically sound.

He’s got the bulk of American self-identified evangelical Christians devoted to a person whose life, actions, and policies are contrary to everything Christianity stands for, and it disturbs me deeply.

Edited by Galadriel on Oct 6th 2020 at 7:21:54 AM

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332130: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:21:16 PM

[up] Ironically enough, those are the same people who claimed Obama was the Antichrist.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#332131: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:26:05 PM

The Antichrist is described as something of a populist though.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#332132: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:30:00 PM

Miller also holds a striking resemblance to Nosferatu. Fitting for a man whose outsides have melted to resemble his insides.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332133: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:43:26 PM

Eh, I'm a post-dispensationalist. I.e. Revelations was about the Roman persecution and Jesus rose to Heaven already.

But Trump is [A] Antichrist.

Just like the multitudes of enemies described in my reading of the book.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332135: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:51:19 PM

[up] Can we have a second opinion on that?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
astrokitty Happiness is a cup of tea from Somewhere Out There Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Happiness is a cup of tea
#332136: Oct 6th 2020 at 4:53:44 PM

Are they hoping Pence is actually sick and infects others during the debate?

Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332137: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:04:41 PM

At this point, God knows what will happen to the entire Republican party in Washington.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#332138: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:18:23 PM

he's the mind behind many of the administration's most brutal anti-immigrant policies.

Not just Stephen Miller, as is turns out. From The New York Times: 'We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said

The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all illegal immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were "deeply concerned" about the children's welfare.

But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department's inspector general into Mr. Trump's "zero tolerance" family separation policy.

"We need to take away children," Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants' notes. One added in shorthand: "If care about kids, don't bring them in. Won't give amnesty to people with kids."

Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.

Just the willful cruelty of these people...


[down] Sorry about that, I meant to add one in and missed it. Fixed it now.

Edited by nova92 on Oct 6th 2020 at 5:21:08 AM

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#332139: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:20:12 PM

A link to the story helps, you know.

Summary is [up]

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#332140: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:23:08 PM

Some more info:

The draft report also documented other revelations that had not previously been known:

Government prosecutors reacted with alarm at the separation of children from their parents during a secret 2017 pilot program along the Mexican border in Texas. “We have now heard of us taking breastfeeding defendant moms away from their infants,” one government prosecutor wrote to his superiors. “I did not believe this until I looked at the duty log.”

Border Patrol officers missed serious felony cases because they were stretched too thin by the zero-tolerance policy requiring them to detain and prosecute all of the misdemeanor illegal entry cases. One Texas prosecutor warned top Justice Department officials in 2018 that “sex offenders were released” as a result.

Senior Justice Department officials viewed the welfare of the children as the responsibility of other agencies and their duty as tracking the parents. “I just don’t see that as a D.O.J. equity,” Mr. Rosenstein told the inspector general.

The failure to inform the U.S. Marshals Service before announcing the zero-tolerance policy led to serious overcrowding and budget overruns. The marshals were forced to cut back on serving warrants in other cases, saying that “when you take away manpower, you can’t make a safe arrest.”

To the shock of nobody, overzealous and inhuman zero tolerance policies compromise safety.

Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#332141: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:53:41 PM

If Biden wins, everyone who supported or voted for him - centrist, liberal, leftist - needs to be keeping constant pressure on him to close the concentration camps. I want them releasing every single person in those camps the day Biden takes office.

No “we have to check”. No “some might be criminals”. Let them go. When you’re no longer imprisoning masses of innocent people, then you can worry about other things.

No delays, no excuses, none of the Gitmo crap - make it happen, immediately, no matter what.

After that, you can start considering compensation. And find a way to grant them citizenship if they still want to stay in the kind of country that would do that to them.

And end deportations. Also immediately. No more of the Obama-era deportation policies.

The fight doesn’t end the day Trump leaves office. That’s when the real fight starts. Or else it was never about morality, just Red vs Blue.

Edited by Galadriel on Oct 6th 2020 at 8:57:56 AM

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#332142: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:57:11 PM

Trump says he's going to declassify all of the documents pertaining to the Russian investigation and the Hillary Email Scandal.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#332143: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:57:35 PM

...I feel like dumping thousands of people onto the streets with no organization or resources is a recipe for disaster, even without the high likelihood that many of them are carrying covid.

[down] Drinking his own kool-aid and not realizing this is going to shoot himself in the ass, I guess?

Edited by Wryte on Oct 6th 2020 at 5:59:22 AM

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332144: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:58:43 PM

[up][up] Why?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#332145: Oct 6th 2020 at 5:59:28 PM

[up][up]You can book them hotels for a few months while they look for a place to stay. Most of the hotels are empty anyway.

The concentration camps being breeding grounds for COVID is not a reason to keep them running one second longer.

Edited by Galadriel on Oct 6th 2020 at 9:00:14 AM

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#332146: Oct 6th 2020 at 6:00:35 PM

Wow, Trump is really getting desperate, isn't he?

Do not obey in advance.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#332147: Oct 6th 2020 at 6:01:32 PM

Why do they keep going back to Hillary Clinton? Who considers her relevant to anything currently going on?

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#332148: Oct 6th 2020 at 6:02:26 PM

I get they all hate Hillary Clinton but I can't see how this really affects anything when she's not on the ballot.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#332149: Oct 6th 2020 at 6:03:23 PM

[up]

They're already in full I Reject Your Reality mode.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#332150: Oct 6th 2020 at 6:03:39 PM

You need some sort of plan for those camps, though. And Biden will need at least some time to get that properly organized.

So let's give him a month to get things in order before we start biting his head off. It's plenty enough of a head start.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times

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