Trump's America

[Dave_LF]

Seriously, does anyone in the US benefit from Trump's unilateral trade wars? Why isn't big business using its purchased Congressmen to push back?

[River]

They will when they're done making money on short sales.

[Alatar]

You have got to be kidding me. WTF is happening and why is nobody stopping it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/44537372

[Dave_LF]

I literally had three different ideas what that link might go to, and none was right.

[Túrin Turambar]

Seriously, does anyone in the US benefit from Trump's unilateral trade wars? Why isn't big business using its purchased Congressmen to push back?

I've always argued that big business has less influence over American politics than is often thought. If it did, the country would be more like Hong Kong or Singapore.

[Sunsilver]

Why is Trump doing this? (Withdrawing from the U. N. Human Rights Council.) Well, here's a pretty good reason:

https://www.facebook.com/TheOther98/pho ... 45/?type=3

[Voronwë the Faithful]

The two things have nothing to do with each other, even if the timing seems coincidental. The withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council has been in the works for some time, and is all about perceived bias against Israel. It has nothing to do with the new "non-policy" of separating families at the border.

[Frelga]

I am suspicious of coincidences although I acknowledge that they do happen. The child internment did not happen overnight, either. A lot of logistical preparation had to happen before those tent cities sprung up.

At the very least, the announcement coming at the same time as the implementation of a child internment policy LOOKS like an intentional flaunting, and no one in the administration appears to care.

Mind, the are valid reasons to criticize the UN.

Meanwhile in the UK, Nigel Farage.

Americans want strong borders. @realDonaldTrump has got to stay tough on this and ignore the screams coming from the liberal media. https://t.co/Q7hOZjMCb9

[Jude]

Americans want strong borders. @realDonaldTrump has got to stay tough on this and ignore the screams coming from the children. https://t.co/Q7hOZjMCb9

Fixed it for them.

[Inanna]

Trump just signed an executive order ending the separation of families. I took the biggest sigh I’ve taken since ages.

I just hope they manage to join the separated families without losing any kids.

[Primula Baggins]

They probably already have lost some.

The order means that children and their parents can both be incarcerated indefinitely. Previously children had to be released after 20 days.

[Frelga]

Here's an immigration lawyer explaining the executive order. It's... problematic.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1009 ... 58304.html

[Voronwë the Faithful]

That's one word. Another that comes to mind is "insane".

[Inanna]

They are not a planning to get separated families together. WTF

[Frelga]

Is it insane when it's deliberate?

Meanwhile in Oregon

https://twitter.com/karinapdx/status/10 ... 9835745280

Oregon’s top federal defender had to cancel her trip to Sheridan today to speak with asylum seekers imprisoned there. A scabies outbreak demonstrates the very thing she is investigating: if conditions - 3 to a cell, 23 hours/day for 3weeks now - are unconstitutional. Story coming

[Cenedril_Gildinaur]

Some people do benefit from trade wars, even if the majority suffer. If nobody benefited, then it wouldn't happen.

It's like the gasoline ethanol mandates. They benefit a very small number of corn farmers, but hurt everyone else. The hurt is small and spread out, the benefit is very concentrated, so people suffer from it and the program is "successful."

[Griffon64]

Gasoline ethanol mandates are beyond dumb.

[Frelga]

Welp, we now have the President of the United States calling for suspension of the rule of law. As per usual procedure, this is initially aimed at the most vulnerable group, which at the same time is being dehumanized as, quote, "animals" that "infest" the country. It won't stop there. It never does.

We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents...

[Cenedril_Gildinaur]

Welp, we now have the President of the United States calling for suspension of the rule of law.

Not much different from the last 50 years then.

[Primula Baggins]

Suspension of the Constitution, not just the rule of law.