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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:35am
This is literally all they have left. This utter moral bankruptcy is it. Please note that after months and months running for president that it is THIS issue that has energized them. Not finding solution to any domestic policies, but figuring out ways to be the most xenophobic and war hungry of any group in the nation. THIS is of all issues is the one that animates them most.

These are not serious people. And if the Democratic nominee fails illuminate this easily apparent fact, well, they will have deserved to lose the presidency.
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  NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  11/17/15 11:58am
  Being on the losing side of historical issues and failing in the last two elections, I think the Republicans in government have realized there’s no real way to confront and address the anti-gay, xenophobic, racist, and anti-women issues in their party, so they’ve just doubled down and made these things the intrinsic values of their party. They’re playing to literally the worst of us, and encouraging their base to embrace everything deplorable about themselves.
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  benjaminalloverGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  11/17/15 12:02pm
  This is why they’re running with it;
  
  A near-majority of Americans want the undocumented immigrant children currently being held at the border deported as soon as possible, even though only about one-third of adults think these children have someplace safe to return to, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.
  
  That’s a giant portion of people who know these kids are fleeing for their lives and don’t care at all. It’s not a moral issue for them because they don’t view these kids as people, and no significant portion of current republican voters are going to walk across the aisle over it now; anyone with more empathy than hatred left a long time ago. Now, they can latch on to the narrative that this hatred is patriotic.
  
  http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/17/rep…
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OMG!PONIES!Jay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:36am
I laud Governor Christie for his brave stance against small children. It takes a bold leader to stand up to terrified children fleeing for their lives. That's the kind of strong leadership this country needs.
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  ideasleepfuriouslyOMG!PONIES!
  11/17/15 11:45am
  It’s true: in this crisis it takes a bold voice to say ‘Won’t someone think of the children, and their capacity for indiscriminate murder?’
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  flamingolingoOMG!PONIES!
  11/17/15 11:49am
  Chris Christie: Against bridges and orphans since 2013.
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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:28am
These assholes are going to find out in the worst way next year that’s it’s not 2004, anymore. They are mistaking the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the media as some kind of wide-scale support for their batshit craziness. Well...

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  The ever-present football-player rapistGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  11/17/15 11:31am
  But it will be one day, in 2032!
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  Darmok eats Challah at 12NagraGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  11/17/15 11:33am
  I think people still think that, considering the last two elections... Even if Hillary wins, we’ll still have to deal with a ton of asshats obstructionists because it was a PITA to vote two weeks ago or last year. Plus our voting machines think it’s 1985: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/25…
  
  However, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give up.
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Venus_in_fursJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:29am
Hey Republicans: Your party is a fucking embarrassment.
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  dengeatseggdropVenus_in_furs
  11/17/15 11:47am
  But, Ronald Reagan!
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  flamingolingoVenus_in_furs
  11/17/15 11:50am
  Unfortunately, many Republicans are proud of their party and just think everyone else is wrong. George W. is still considered by many Republicans to be a fine president—they’re just hesitant to say it out loud because the rest of us wouldn’t understand.
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RockmediaJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:31am
Apparently, we should return to 1939, when America turned back Jewish refugees trying to escape Hitler, who arrived by boat, in Florida.

http://www.floridahistorynetwork.com/june-4-1939—-…

The boat returned to Europe and passengers went to France, and Belgium. Remember what happened, next?
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  OMG!PONIES!Rockmedia
  11/17/15 11:38am
  And that is why Anne Frank and her cabal of Terror Tots were not able to destroy America.
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  Sobchak SecurityRockmedia
  11/17/15 11:45am
  Might not have been the worst thing. Just ask Japanese Americans. We might have taken in more Jewish refugees from WWII just to put them in internment camps if they happened to be German/Austria/Italian Jews.
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ManchuCandidateJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:30am
Beating up on orphans is the toughest he can be.
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  hotoynoodleManchuCandidate
  11/17/15 11:34am
  he can just sit on them.
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  emoohotoynoodle
  11/17/15 12:07pm
  This is true. He could take out 6-10 orphans at a time. It's a weapon of ass destruction.
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kamla deviJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:44am
The contradictions are amazing.

First, our national mythology, being the promised land to so many who fought tooth and nail to be here, against all odds across the Atlantic! A nation of immigrants, the melting pot, that’s what makes us so great!

Except, not. So much for all that “give us your tired and poor huddled masses” stuff, we don’t want THOSE PEOPLE here, they could be dangerous mooches and they aren’t like us anyway! (“us” being loosely defined as freedoming white Christian males, their subservient females, who enjoy football, hunting, and WalMart).

Second, the whole concept of Christianity. The same party that wants the United States to self-identify as a “Christian Nation” is the same party that would have children suffer, homeless, hungry, without education, medical care, or proper shelter. All of those warm and fuzzy things in the Bible about taking people in, showing unbiased tolerance towards other, caring for the poor, healing the sick, fuck that, they might be terrorists! We are at war!

I have a hard time understanding why the supporters of these extreme, hit-you-in-the-face contradictions of the GOP party line buy into it. I can understand if it’s just pure greed and fear, but I can’t understand if you actually buy into our national narrative and any form of Christianity whatsoever. How can you honestly think you are a decent human being who believes in democracy and free society and support the GOP?
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  flamingolingokamla devi
  11/17/15 11:58am
  It all makes sense when you understand that conservatives want all that good stuff for white Americans only.
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  FrederickDouglassflamingolingo
  11/17/15 1:12pm
  Exactly. That’s why they keep talking about taking things back (to when only white people got them).
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PopChipsJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:42am
Let’s be clear that America stood alone in its shameful treatment of Jewish children trying to flee. Britain and France both took in large numbers of children.
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesPopChips
  11/17/15 11:58am
  America most certainly didn’t stand alone. These boats were turned away at multiple ports. And, even the countries that did take in the refugees didn’t take in nearly enough, which is why some of the boats continued on to the New World.
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  DonnaLPopChips
  11/17/15 4:07pm
  Britain took 10,000 Jewish children, including my mother. Many Jewish families sought refuge in France before the war, but that country didn’t take unaccompanied children so far as I know. And most of those families (including many relatives of my mother) ended up being rounded up by French police, held in Frence concentration camps in the Pyrenees or in detention centers, and then deported on French trains to places like Auschwitz.
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IskaralPustJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:37am
“They have no family here, how are we gonna care for these folks?”

If only modern science had developed the capability to take a child without a family, and put it in a different family. Wait, I’ve got it... I’ll call it adoptation, because families will be adoptating the kids. I’m going to patent it, I think this could be big.
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  Fleet Admiral JoshIskaralPust
  11/17/15 11:40am
  How will our hundreds of billionaires and thousands of millionaires possibly afford caring for these orphans which probably have explosives surgically inserted inside them so that they blow up the daycare center one day!
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gilbertkittensJay Hathaway
11/17/15 11:44am
Maybe we should just take out the problem at the root and start directly bombing any refugee camps we can find. Really it’s mercy, since we are just going to send them to slow, grueling deaths anyway. At least this way the kids and parents get to die together (somewhat quickly) in giant explosions. Beat that, wimps!
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  Maj. Malfunctiongilbertkittens
  11/17/15 12:39pm
  I have coworkers who’d actually be fine with this idea. Yesterday they were eagerly agreeing with each other that we should use nukes to destroy ISIS.
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  BIMming ItMaj. Malfunction
  11/17/15 12:43pm
  Nothing says “Dear God, I need to find a new place to work” like hearing your coworkers sincerely talking about mass genocide in the name of safety.
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