After a court order prohibited Team Trump from expelling children, they decided they were just going to do it anyhow.
As @Edge- would say, the cruelty is the point.U.S. border officials have expelled at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children without a court hearing or asylum interview since a federal judge ordered them to stop the practice, the Trump administration conceded on Saturday.
In a filing in federal court in Washington, Justice Department lawyers acknowledged the expulsions represented a "contravention" of a ruling issued by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in November that prohibits the Trump administration from using a pandemic-era emergency border policy to expel minors who are apprehended without their parents or legal guardians.
"Defendants regret that class members were expelled contrary to the Court's injunction and are committed to full compliance with the Court's injunction going forward," Justice Department attorneys wrote.
Someone needs naptime...
I mean, what? Does he have his sentences backwards? Wouldn't vetoing the Defense bill be the only way China wins?
Not that his veto will be meaningful, but still.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Two sources tell the NYTimes that the WH is expected to get the vaccine first.
You know, the thing they all said was a hoax and blow over by Easter. They get the vaccine first.
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@ImpOTUS is taken. I just checked.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/u...gtype=Homepage
US government systems hacked by a foreign company under Trump. Not great, they got into treasury/commerce : |
I bet Putin called trump and told him it was the Chinese, trying to get another virus into the United States.
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I have to say one of the minor things I'm excited about with Trump being evicted, is how long Melania stays with him post-1/21. I would give good money to see the pre-nup they renegotiated after Donnie Dip-Shit stole the Presidency.
That's not what Trump said. Trump said that Covid was a hoax invented to make him look bad. And even when the evidence was piled so high in front of him that he had to accept it was real, he still blamed everyone but himself for the US's abysmal response that has resulted in a ludicrous number of preventable deaths.
Also, when conservatives talk about "open borders" they have always meant immigration. You know what brought Covid here? It wasn't immigration, it was people simply traveling. And it wasn't people from any one particular place. In fact, numerous US citizens who were visiting or living abroad are likely to have brought it within the country. Do you really want the US to be North Korea and completely close our borders to travelers at all? Cause that goes beyond even the normal insanity of wanting to end travel between countries.
For near the entirety of human history, people who wanted to move from one place to another did so freely. Aside from all out wars creating borders, there were no hard borders that restricted the movement of people from one place to another. This idea of restricting where people could and could not move and live is something that was brought about within the last 100 years or so, barring few exceptions.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Find it funny how chummy biden is supposedly with China, yet I don't think Biden would give china such a big win by veto the defense bill. Such projection.
As for Melania, they are renovating where he stays down in mar-a-lago and she is looking for a place for Barron to go to school down there. So looks like she's planning on staying with him for at least a little while.... or at least until they are kicked out of mar-a-lago because currently, since trump signed an agreement with palm beach that trump can't live there. and once he's not president anymore, palm beach ain't gonna give him any leeway with that agreement anymore. Maybe when they get kicked out of 2 residences in less than 30 days, she'll leave him.
edit - actually just looked it up, the agreement is 21 days in one year period trump can stay there. so if the the belief he leaves for mar-a-lago for xmas and doesn't return, trump will be evicted by the white house on jan 20th, and then evicted from mar-a-lago the very next day.
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Smaller report today. It's Sunday, so there's not much to go on and I have an early day of physical therapy tomorrow.
187,901 new cases; about 4k more than last Sunday but that will go up once Michigan's numbers come in. They're late.
Tennessee had the only notable record I've seen today, reporting over 11k new cases.
1,379 deaths--which will probably get bumped up to over 1.4k once Michigan reports--is about 300 more than last Sunday, bringing the total to 306,459. That's a pretty big bump for a Sunday.
Related news:
Trump claimed that COVID-19 vaccine would have taken 'five years' to develop if he weren't president--This is rich coming from the fucktard who denied COVID-19 was even a problem the entirety of the pandemic. Publicly, at least.
Kizzmekia Corbett praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine--Nothing snarky to say here. Kudos to her.
Stay safe, folks.
It's fairly impressive they will say that about Individual-One though. I mean, Trump's threatening to veto a defense bill because they're flagging him.
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The head of the FDA says that Americans hesitant to get the vaccine could be a significant hazard.
It might have something to do with Trump being an anti-vaxxer and backing conspiracy theories.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...urday/2506267/
That's pretty sad.