Now Donald Trump wants to wait for the ‘Red Wave’ midterms to do immigration

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Maybe I’m completely wrong about this, but I don’t really believe that Melania Trump’s awful jacket was some kind of next-level media game to distract from “the real story.” This is ALL the real story: the Trumps are heartless psychopaths and everyone who has a role in this administration belongs in jail for child abuse, human rights violations and treason. That being said, I am aware that every moment we spend talking about Melania’s psycho wardrobe choices is a moment we aren’t asking where the federal government has put the migrant girls they stole.

Throughout this awful week, no one in the White House has been on the same message. The right hand doesn’t know what the fascist hand is doing, and considering they can’t even get their LIES straight, why does anyone think that there’s some Nazi at the top, pulling all the strings? Anyway, here are some stories I just wanted to put in front of everyone’s eyes. First off, Trump thinks a “Red Wave” is coming in the mid-terms:

There is no cohesive plan for reunification – no one knows if the parents and children already separated will ever be reunited.

Meanwhile, there is still a sizeable segment of the population who really and truly believe that the media hired “crisis actors” and that what is happening with the caged children is not some kind of rise of a fascist regime which puts children in cages. Those people get their news from Sinclair Broadcasting and Fox News. Sinclair made their local news affiliates run pieces about how the caged-children story was totally overblown:

And finally, Stephen Miller – the dead-eyed Nazi who formed the caged-children policy – also enjoys eating Mexican food. He got heckled too. Now THIS is a stunt.

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  1. Christin says:

    Heard on a news show that the assigned case numbers are the same for an adult and child kept at the same facility, but are allegedly different numbers if the adult and child are separated. Think about that. Why would you not keep the case number the same and maybe add a suffix for the facility?

    No surprise that he/they want to change the subject now that a spotlight is on how chaotic and awful this is.

    Wonder if they’ll hang this TIME cover at his properties?

    • Lila says:

      The big problem is that ICE has separate or different identification number system from HHS. So when ICE transfers the children to HHS they are assigned New ID number. You would think you can easily track your UPS package, but we can’t track a human being.

      • Angela82 says:

        A lot of people care about material goods and not other human beings in this country. I.e. see our crazy gun laws and those who rather own an AR 15 than try and save a student. Its truly depressing. 🙁

      • Capt Mo says:

        Yes, I have an idea! Lets grab thousands of those green certified mail stickers at the post office and stick the on the children /s These people are really don’t give a F*** do they?

    • Dita von Katzhausen says:

      Christin, you are trying it with logic here.

    • Addie says:

      Michael Avenatti has suggested a single staging area to unite families:
      https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti

      • Christin says:

        Addie, I saw that earlier. He’s also mentioned how time is of the essence. The lack of proper recordkeeping and accountability is astonishing.

      • Addie says:

        Christin, I have written to the NY Times asking them to look into Avenatti’s suggestion and also follow up on their article about $1 billion contracts to provide shelters re. any trump appointee, donor etc having a stake in them.

        It is sheer incompetence not to have proper records. That goes without saying with anything connected to Trump but is also indicates that there was no intention to ever reunite kids with parents.

  2. Maria says:

    I am hoping to hell the Dems will take over the house in November. And Melania’s jacket? WTF? First of all it was hot so she didn’t need a jacket, secondly, who is she kidding? Of course there is a message.

    • Saras says:

      They are all evil! Follow the money making off of migrant misery. Betsy Devos owns a “shelter / adoption agency”. Corey Lewendowski has stock in companies like hers. When the profiteering trail off of babies / families misery is revealed we need to take to the streets and admonish the billion dollar torture machine! Register to vote! Bring friends!

      • Christin says:

        Those monetary connections were floating around and would likely hit the news cycle had it not been for mannequin’s jacket.

        I would like to envision that the jacket distraction led to the mannequin being invited to spend some lovey time with the blob last night.

    • flan says:

      Waves are blue.

    • Addie says:

      I hope the Dems have the gumption to make this issue one they will campaign on.

  3. Juls says:

    Well he may not be wrong about the red wave, sadly. Did anybody watch the CNN special a few nights ago on gerrymandering? The guy that was behind the plan admitted what the GOP did. In 2010 the GOP and their donors dumped millions of dollars into state/local elections so they could fill up state legislatures with right-wingers that re-drew district lines in their favor after the census, so the GOP now wins elections that they should lose. It’s legal cheating, because they can’t win fair elections so they had to rig them. Watch it if you haven’t, but prepare to be enraged. We will have to have a 2-1 turnout of Dem voters over GOP voters in November to even have a chance at a blue wave. I’m gonna go cry now.

    • Christin says:

      The census tract numbering is crazy. Those boundaries/numbers are in play for several years. They post annual updates for at least four years, and I was told by someone at a gov’t agency that it’s solely political.

    • Surely Wolfbeak says:

      Yes, but in most cases of gerrymandering, what Republicans have done is created a large number of districts where they have a slight advantage over Democrats, which they are guaranteed to win in a normal year, when Republican turnout is usually higher. In a wave year, when Democrats turn out at a higher rate, Republicans are at risk of losing these seats, because they’ve spread themselves thin.

      • flan says:

        That’s why the most important thing is to vote.
        And convince others to vote.

        No more ‘my vote doesn’t matter anyway’. We’ve clearly seen that it does.

    • Megan says:

      If every Democrat runs their campaign they way Stacey Abrams ran hers, there will be a blue wave.

    • Veronica S. says:

      Gerrymandering is a big problem in Pennsylvania. This past election is where we really saw the ugliness unfold as the state went red for Trump for the first time in thirty years. Fortunately, enough local elections went blue that the state supreme court was able to strike down the current map and order them to rewrite it – and the Supreme Court refused the Republican appeal. Like any rational, non-corrupt party, they did the logical thing and tried to impeach the Democratic court justices – y’know, as one is wont.

      • ol cranky says:

        my district was finally fixed so, of course, Ryan Costello decided not to run because he had no chance of winning re-election in the next elections. Pity PA doesn’t allow recall elections to allow us to get rid of Toomey – even the many of the republicans here are disgusted with him and Trumpism

    • minx says:

      There are still more of us than there are of them. We must vote.

  4. Chaine says:

    I guess I’m an old fuddy duddy, but I thought “red wave” was slang for having your period… his tweet is giving me some bizarre imagery…

    • lightpurple says:

      Yes. People on Twitter keep telling Republicans that they might want to check the imagery on that and none of them get it. The other one they keep using is Red Tide, because, sure, let’s sweep the entire nation with algae that poisons shellfish and renders beach water unfit for swimming. They can’t use Crimson Tide because it is copyrighted.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      And I keep thinking, Red as in Soviet Russia Red? Is this another ‘tell?’

      • Juls says:

        It’s surreal that I would not be shocked if the red army came in waves, Red Dawn style, to overtake our elections. Squash all opposition a la Putin style. That’s what the military detention centers are for, to lock up dissidents and scare everyone else into voting how King Nothing wants us to. Scary times, scary that my conspiracy rantings are not that far fetched.

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        They have come in waves, via hacking and other cyber-interventions in the electoral process. It’s already on.

    • bleu_moon says:

      Yeah, I thought either “period,” “shark week” or ruthless Russian pogrom.

  5. C. Remm says:

    Well today the EU put their Tariffs on Jeans, Bourbon, Peanutbutter and more into force, that will hit some of the Trump voters. And the tradewar between the US and China is escalating. Trump intends to meet Putin at the beginning of July.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      Trump can go to Moscow and stay there.

    • spargel says:

      The EU is still way more Nutella than peanut butter (much to my chagrin, as a peanut butter-lover living here–it’s more common now but selection and quality are iffy, and it’s already pricier than home), so that’s one tariff that won’t break the US growers. 🙂

  6. Mabs A'Mabbin says:

    I haven’t been able to shake this constant nausea over this whole thing. I mean I’m having real symptoms. What f@cking year is this? It’s insane what’s happening in Washington, yes, but I have no clue how American leaders can carry on while this evil shit is happening on our borders. And they’re okay with it! In fact they’re eating out at Mexican restaurants! W.T.F.

    • Cacec04 says:

      Me too. I’ve had an upset stomach all week which is what happens when my anxiety gets too high. It only started happening after I started reading more about the children.

      • Penguen says:

        I’ve been crying.

      • lucy2 says:

        Same here. For the past week or two I’ve been feeling like I’m having a constant, low level anxiety attack. It’s been building since Nov 2016, I think, but I’m having a harder time with it now.

    • MissG says:

      Me too. I’ve been living in a constant state of anxiety since the election, but this week has really ramped it up a notch. My stomach hurts all the time now. I deactivated my Facebook account after an argument with some church-going ladies in my social circle who were defending the kids in cages policy…when I objected and corrected some of their misinformation, they all piled on, telling me what a horrible person I was for “picking fights” and that if I were an adult, I would just “scroll on” instead of commenting. The whole interaction made me feel even more hopeless.

  7. LP says:

    Y’all, I might be preaching to the choir here, but PLEASE VOTE. Every damn election at all levels, every time. Donate a few bucks a month if you can to Act Blue or Swing Left or both, or one of the ma y other organizations. Donate if you can to democrat senators- yes, getting the house is important, but without the senate I’m not sure what we’d even be able to accomplish! Spread the word, talk to any lazy voters you know, donate, and VOTE. Gerrymandering is a huge problem but if mpre of us VOTE we have a chance. It’s our only chance, as a country. If a tiny percentage of the voters who stayed home in 2016 had voted blue we’d literally have Hillary Clinton as president right now. Vote!!!!!!!!!

    • Christin says:

      People will stand in line for hours to purchase tickets or get a Black Friday “deal”, yet may not vote.

      This November, every eligible voter needs to vote as if their personal future completely depends on it.

      • Geekychick says:

        Even if wngaging pople whose minds refuse to changeI think it really does. if not theirs, their children definetely. how people of US will deal with Trump (if they show that they won’t stand for all of this or will they just watch siletntly) will send a message and I think set the direction this country(and the world) will take in the next 20-50 years, at least. I’m convinced of this. this really is a defining moment.

  8. Rapunzel says:

    Trump supporters don’t know the difference between general immigration and seeking asylum to be a refugee. They also don’t understand that these folks being detained by the Trump administration aren’t “illegals” because they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do for the asylum seeking process. They have come here to seek the legal channels. They are doing what you’re supposed to do.

    This really isn’t about changing immigration laws to make it so people follow them. It’s really about preventing any immigration whatsoever by brown people.

    It’s all about making America white again. When it was never white to begin with because we whites stole this land from the Native Americans.

    And I am sick and tired of people saying “my ancestors came here legally.” Sure they did because years ago laws were different and it was easier to come here legally.

    But, on the plus side I have unfriended three people on Facebook in the last two days. My newsfeed is looking so much prettier.

    • Digital Unicorn says:

      Many people don’t know the difference, I saw that here In the UK during Brexit.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      And there weren’t real immigration laws 100 years ago, either. People just came over, got off the boat, got a health screening and, if they passed, walked off into America to start their new lives as productive taxpayers and eventual citizens.

      My grandparents did just that.

      • Lightpurple says:

        Actually, there were. Early US immigration laws focused on keeping Asians, particularly Asian women, out. The men were brought over to build our railroads but the women weren’t allowed. Another targeted group was the Irish.

      • Kelly says:

        @Lightpurple The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted in 1882 and wasn’t repealed until 1943. The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 restricted Japanese immigration to the mainland US, but not to Hawaii. The Immigration Act of 1924 put quotas on the number of immigrants from certain areas and demographics, mostly Southern and Eastern Europe, Jews, and reaffirmed the Chinese Exclusion Act and Gentlemen’s Agreement.

        The quotas from that proved to be deadly for many Jews seeking US visas to flee Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Anne Frank’s family was denied visas at least twice, despite having family in the US and financial support from family friends.

        I’m of Irish and German descent and both groups were used as scapegoats by Nativist politicians at various points in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Irish were not welcome when the first arrived in the 1840s but within 50 years were starting their control of big city political machines that lasted until fairly recently. My German-American grandmother remembers both her mother and grandmother using German primarily but she wasn’t as fluent in it as they were because of anti-German sentiment during WW1. Prior to WW1, German was taught in schools in the Midwest where there was a German-American majority, including Iowa and Nebraska. She still has some Lutheran church cookbooks owned by her grandmother that are in German. My late mother recalled the older women switching to German when they didn’t want the kids to know what they were talking about.

    • Lightpurple says:

      They choose not to know. They will tell you that he is only try to save us from illegals and won’t affect legal immigrants at all but when you press them on his views on chain migration, “merit” immigration and citizenship for being born here, they’re flummoxed.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      So true. To them, if immigrants aren’t white, they must be illegals.

      And thank you for mentioning the massive changes in immigration policy that many of our ancestors were not put through when they arrived in America. They may have had some money in their pocket and as long as they weren’t hacking up a lung upon arrival, they were in. Many, many immigrants did not “assimilate” as the Deplorables insist they did. COS John Kelly’s Italian ancestors died in America never speaking English (which is fine, I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy).

      Now, to placate the racist base, immigration becomes evermore labyrinthine. The hoops become smaller and further apart, which does nothing but drive up illegal immigration from desperate people.

      It always amuses me when people who have never been through any type of immigration process act like they know the system inside and out, and it’s all just an open gate for brown people.

  9. Incredulous says:

    In slightly better news, it looks like the US pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council leaves Israel open to sanctions the next time they decide to mass murder people, owing to no Big Daddy fascist there to protect them.

    Edit: HOLY _______!

    Er, look at this tweet from the King of the Netherlands

    https://twitter.com/WiIIemAlexander/status/1009150370868850688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

  10. Digital Unicorn says:

    Miller looks like the kind of guy that never got laid in his school and still struggles to get some even now. At least General Hux is bangable ( well Domnhall in that uniform is, i’ll see myself out).

    As for then putin meeting it will go the same way the Kim one did, he will give away far more than the world gets In return. He’s going to remove US sanctions on Russia, I’m betting good money on that.

  11. ValiantlyVarnished says:

    Stephen Miller was trolling. He was looking for attention and he got it. It would have been better to ignore him. This is what he wanted.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      Saying he was trolling is like saying Goebbels was trolling. Trolling is bad enough, but these people have embarked on ‘ethnic cleansing’ and potentially genocidal campaigns. And with the imprisonment (or as the lame NY Times says, “sheltering”) of many thousands of children, and the potential merger of Education and Labor departments, and/or imprisoning these children by the Defense department, we’re looking at the creation of another slave labor force and child soldiers.

      • jwoolman says:

        The merger of Labor and Education departments sounds insane. Is this his only way to get rid of DeVos without making Trump’s mercenary bestie Eric Prince (her brother) mad enough to talk with Mueller?

        I’m waiting for the State Department to be merged with the White House Sanitation Department next. It would at least increase their depleted staff.

      • jetlagged says:

        Holy crap, I never made that connection. Betsy DeVos and the founder of Blackwater are sister and brother?

      • Christin says:

        @jetlagged – Yep. And that’s not all of her interesting connections and/or investments, Follow the money.

  12. Tania says:

    I have no pity for the people at Sinclair Broadcasting. It’s their choice to constantly report false news and push that message. They’re complicit and trying to make themselves out as victims – much like the drumpfs. Same with all of those employees working in these concentration camps. There is no honor in what any of them do. They’re no different than the nazis who were, “just doing their job.” IT’S A CHOICE YOU MAKE EVERY MORNING. I hope the money they make is something they’ll be able to spend in hell.

    • Wood Dragon says:

      Sinclair is going to keep this foolishness up and someone will lose their mind and firebomb their corporate offices one day.

      I would rather see this system of corporate acquisitions, forming these monolithic structures, get legislated out of existence. It may not be a monopoly but they are forming fiefdoms that strangle out everything but their message.

    • Betsy says:

      Do the anchors in smaller markets with contracts have a choice? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the contracts that come when Sinclair people buy out stations are very expensive.

  13. grabbyhands says:

    All kidding aside, no one should be feeling complacent about the mid-terms.

    The downside to all this fuckery is that I fear once again, the left is going to fall back on the idea that they don’t have to work for anyone’s vote because who in their right mind would vote red right now? But plenty of people will and if they’re going to use “at least we’re not Trump” as a campaign tactic again and people don’t vote we’re all fucked.

    • Indiana Joanna says:

      Agree, Grabbyhands. Complacency is a huge issue as it was in 2016.

      Did you see that Grifter Barbie called for a “lasting solution” in her first tweet praising Fat Nazi? Someone corrected her and said you might not want to use a term so similar to “final solution.”

      The only explanation for Grifter’s poorly chosen expression is that she is evil.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      Agreed. I can’t remember where I read it recently, but someone said “when you don’t vote, you double the power of the vote cast by someone on the other side.”

      I think Trump fans will turn out to vote in big numbers. They have a taste of a white supremacist administration and as long as Trump keeps stoking the culture wars fire, they’re going to fight to keep it.

      VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

  14. Lizzie says:

    imagine the fact that these people actually sit in a room and think up these trolling stunts. the whole mexican restaurants, the jackets, ivanka’s picture with her son are ON PURPOSE. they aren’t gaffes. they aren’t coincidences. they are purposeful stunts telegraphing to trump’s racist base that they mean all of it and rubbing it in to the rest of the country that they do not care if these children or alive or dead as long as they’re not here.

    • Natalie S says:

      They’re hoping this will energize their base to get out and vote in November. Going full racist is their campaign strategy. And f children are permanently separated from their parents, abused or killed, then so be it. And it overshadows their efforts to gut Medicare and Medicaid and their collusion with Russia.

  15. Wood Dragon says:

    Let us give him a rude wake up call in November: Blue tsunami.
    Get out and vote.

  16. Megan2 says:

    This is my favourite standard Trumpism. “Democrats and decent human beings everywhere are REALLY the ones spreading hate and divide, by no longer tolerating or entertaining our fascist bs.” Or, “if you’re calling me racist based on my racist actions, that really makes you the racist because you’re creating a divide by calling me out for my actions.”

    You know what Beth? I’m ok with “creating a divide” between myself and anyone who supports Nazis and lacks any basic human empathy or decency. You can’t support the people who are working day and night to destroy our society and our values and then complain when that society rightly shuns you for your deplorable beliefs. If you’re lonely about it, go hang out with your Nazi friends and perform your victimhood for those who care… the rest of us are worried and sad and angry and using most of our give-a-f@cks for the actual victims of this regime, and we don’t have time for your faux-hurt feelings.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      “But librulz are the REAL nazis by not letting us act like Nazis!!”

      • Megan2 says:

        HTG,

        Exactly! And we’re the snowflakes, despite these Nazis and their sympathizers constantly crying about how nobody decent wants to be their friends anymore. It makes my head spin to think that they probably actually believe their own steaming piles of lies.

        Also; I was responding to a commenter who has since deleted her “won’t somebody think of the Nazis?” statement. It’s almost like they know they have nothing with which to back up their sense of perceived injustice when they get called out on these threads.

  17. Onemoretime says:

    It’s so important that independents and demo rates get out in the midterms. Considering how they hacked the 2016 election who knows how the midterms are going to turn out. doesn’t mean that’s going to stop me from getting out there and doing my duty to my country. To get Adolf and his cronies out of the WH.

    • jwoolman says:

      We’ve had signs of hacking the vote counts since the machines became so widespread, at least since 2004. Without paper backup and mandatory hand recounts, nothing is certain. The stakes are so high this time that the hackers will be out in full force, and of course so will the Russian disinformation campaigns. They never really left.

      As many people as possible have to vote in the midterms just to get past the hackers. That was also true in 2016, and look what happened when nobody listened to me….

  18. rabbitgirl says:

    This red wave really scares me because I think Russia will again deliver it. I really believe it.

    • B n A fn says:

      There is no red wave, the Dotard is lying as usual. I bet he is shaking in his booths. Ever notice that he has a bump leg that spins when he walks, and he has the nerve to mock people with disability. He better prey Michel Cohen does not flip and sells him down the river.

  19. ItsTooEarly says:

    I really want to thank all of the writers here. You guys could have taken the option to avoid all the political stuff. It’s a celebrity news and gossip site after all. Instead, you have chosen to add your voices to those who are speaking out. Thank you. It’s so important.

  20. Lyla says:

    Red wave? The GOP already controls all three branches.

    I don’t understand the GOP cognitive dissonance on immigration. They say it’s rbe Dems who are separating and deporting immigrants, but also at the same time it’s the Dems that wants open borders. It’s like they lack critical thinking skills…oh wait….🙄