Oh, you mean The President of the United States, arguably the most powerful man in the world, could have fixed this all along?!?!?! Or, even, ahem, prevented this from happening in the first place? No shit. You don’t say. In those first 100 days he was signing big, showy executive orders like his tiny hands were on fire.
So a few things: first, boy is this guy a slave to his image. Yikes. But I guess we should count our blessings with Trump. He can be swayed by appealing to his baser instincts, namely vanity. So at least that’s something.
But in a rather piquant irony, this certainly leaves those creeps who were justifying or defending the position of separating families at the border, flapping nakedly in the wind. Which if we can find any humor in this repugnant policy, it would most likely be found somewhere in there. When their head honcho of hate changes course to brush the crumbs off his sullied image, I wonder if they will double down on their antipathy or turn tail and dutifully follow their egomaniacal leader to save face. Decisions, decisions.
Sorry folks but Trump cares more about his status than he cares about any of you. Which on a rare day, when all the cylinders align just right on this enigmatic lock, something decent can actually be opened.
Two friends posts on Facebook in response to some of their Facebook friends being for the policy of separating families at the border as a severe deterrent.
Friend 1: All of you trying to justify this evil need to listen to these children crying. If you still feel the same, you are truly horrid. PLEASE DEFRIEND ME. I've never felt so disgusted by you.
Author Response: Right on. There is no justification for this level of cruelty and malice. Those kids and little babies didn’t do anything wrong. No innocent human being deserves that trauma. (And there are many developmental psychological studies on this very issue to prove it does cause severe trauma.) Anyone trying to justify this is a God damned animal.
Just when I think this can’t sink any lower, some ghoul in the Trump administration says hold my beer...
Friend 2: I’ve seen so many people posting "serves them right" comments and ridiculous shit like that. Makes me fucking sick!
Author Response: That is sick, really. I hadn’t seen that, but suspected it. I had posed these questions with a handful of specific people in mind. But to say children deserve that trauma because of their parents’ actions is unconscionable.
At what point are petty differences put aside for the greater good? I mean this is grotesque. How could peoples’ values be so radically different? Is there no common decency that binds the human race? At what juncture do we give in and declare we are a global society? Capitalism already preaches that sermon every minute and dollar spent.
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