I have really been trying not to post anything political on this site over the past several months. As much as I sometimes need to vent and I feel that a topic may interest those who read here, I also understand that many may not feel it is appropriate. But today I can’t help but so so.
I was reading an article in my local newspaper - yes, I still get a daily paper (real paper even, lol) which I read in it’s entirety every day. I find it a wonderful source for local and state news, and I also find the editorials and letter to the editor give me a feel for the temperature of the people that the internet, radio, and television simply cannot. Not to mention the joy I once took from simply sitting and reading the news; a joy I seldom find from the act anymore.
Anyway, the article in question detailed how Laura Loomer (the right wing lunatic) posted pictures on X of multiple Palestinian children arriving in both San Francisco, CA, and in Houston, TX, for medical treatment with the assistance of an organization called HEAL Palestine. These children were afforded temporary medical-humaitarian visas to enter the U.S. so that they could receive emergency medical treatment.
Loomer posted, “Despite the US saying that we are not accepting Palestinian ‘refugees’ into the United States under the Trump administration, these people from Gaza were able to travel to the US.” She called it, “a national security threat” and asked who signed off on the visas, calling for that person to be fired.
A day after she posted her rant, the US State Department stopped issuing these visas, stating they would be stopped while it looks into how “a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas” were issued in recent days. Donald Trump has downplayed Loomer’s influence on his administration, but it sure seems to me that someone in Washington D.C. is listening to this lunatic!
Seriously? Children being brought into the US to receive medical care they cannot receive in Gaza - medical care most likely due to Israeli military actions on civilians, are a “national security threat”? And just how do they threaten our national security? By requiring medical attention? By being Arabic? By not being white?
Just how have we fallen so far that this ignorant, prejudiced, insane bitch can dictate policy to the US Government simply by posting her ridiculous rant online? How is it that a country created by a people subjected to pogroms for centuries, and nearly wiped out by the Nazis in WWII, can allow their government to perpetrate genocide as they are doing? And how is it that those of us in this country can sit idly by and pretend it isn’t happening?
I am embarrassed not just to be an American at this time, but moreso to acknowledge that I am even the same species as these people.
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No Limit To Humanity's Depravity
It doesn't help to see and experience in first person the evil, the insanity, the illogical thinking, others justify in their own mind. Could others use young kids needing medical support as a way to get into the U.S.? Is the idea a valid excuse to not allow them in? No, certainly there are ways of screening out possible terrorists while allowing the young in for their medical needs.
The ability of humans to be unbelievable insane isn't new. They chose to free a common criminal instead of Jesus. I'm fascinated watching intelligence, common sense, morals, ethics, honesty, circle the drain and wondering where humanity will be left?
Hugs D. Eden
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Nothing new
"During World War II, many European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution were denied asylum in various countries, including the United States, which had a restrictive immigration policy.
The infamous St. Louis incident, where a ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees was turned away from Cuba and the United States, exemplifies this tragic situation, with many eventually perishing in the Holocaust, according to the Smithsonian Magazine and History.com." This was addressed in Katherina Anne Porter' novel, Ship of Fools. It was adapted and produced as a movie of the same name.
"Allegiance a musical, is inspired by stories from actor George Takei’s life, specifically during World War II when Takei and his family, along with 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-American citizens, were incarcerated in camps within the United States."
Love, Andrea Lena
I think back on the fact that I proudly served this country…….
That I bled for this country, that I lost people I loved - people that trusted me, that I lost my soul for this country, and I can’t help but wonder why. I once knew why. I knew what this country stood for, and I believed that although we weren’t perfect, that we were at least headed in the right direction. I believed that all we had to do was to keep trying, to keep working, to keep fighting, and that we could make the world a better place.
Now……… well, to borrow a line from a song that means so much to me,
Then I wake up each morning and turn on the news
To find we've so far to go
And I keep on hoping for a sign*
I keep hoping for that sign, but it seems like too many of those signs are pointing in the wrong direction. I can only hope that we, the people, can right our ship before it is too late.
*Show Me The Way By Styx
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
What's the point of keeping sick kids from getting medical care?
With this current administration the cruelty is the point.
"Because we can, and don't forget who has all the power now..."
Some people leave a mark on this world while others leave a stain
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Normalizing some things
It is required by what these people plan to continue with.
Nyeah-Nyeah
Look at what we can do, and you can't do a damn thing about it.
Former VP and Presidential Candidate Harris was given an opportunity to say, "I told you so," but nicely minimized that in favor of telling us what she didn't anticipate: the capitulation, the rolling over. https://youtu.be/y9T60E0b3Bs.
Someone should remind the world of "Never again!"
-- Daphne Xu
There are so many reason how
There are so many reason how we as a nation ended up on the trajectory we are on right now. Everyone is to blame. One of the biggest one is people do not want to take the blame for putting us on it. People are looking for a scapegoat instead of looking at the part they played in getting us here. People trying to say that what the going on is not what the Conservative Movement in America wants. The Conservative Movement in America has become a regressive movement. I am going to be clear I am saying the movement not an individual who is conservative.
The Republican Party and their voters. To be clear when I say the Republican Party I am talking about the leadership and politicians in it and voters are the people who voted Republican during the last 10 years. It does not matter if someone who voted for Republican said they did not vote for Trump if they voted to be represented by Republicans in the House or Senate. They voted ofr Trump’s lackeys who let him put in the agenda of the party. What Trump is doing is the agenda of the party. If not there would be a huge backlash against him doing his policies.
The Democratic Party and their voters. To be clear when I say the Democratic Party I am talking about the leadership and politicians in it and voters are the people who voted Democratic during the last 10 years. The party is not acting like an opposition party. They did not push the narrative about how bad Jan 7th was. They did not go hard after those insurrectionis. The voters are not acting like this is the new normal for Republican Party. They think that somehow the Republican Party is going to go more towards the left, the center once Trump is gone. They also are do not understand the divide between the party is more than political difference, it is about human rights.
The media is to blame also. Their goal is not to inform the public but to make profit. They are more worried about rating than making sure to get the facts out. They worried about being seen am impartial so they let blatant lies just to be told. The eating of dogs and cats in Ohio that Washington DC is so much more dangerous than ever before.
Low information voters. These people do not know basic civics. They do not know being in the U.S. undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. They do not understand how the appeal process works in our courts. Trump supporters saying they did not vote on for what he ran on just amazes me.
The reason goes on and on, but the US needs to look itself in the mirror and see the truth before it can be fixed. That what is happening is not a fringe element of a few radical people in the Republican Party and Conserative Movement.
Two Major Causes
While there are many reasons we find ourselves in this situation there are two major causes.
The Citizens United court decision means that your ability to influence elections and government policies are directly proportional to you net worth.
Secondly, the failure to take white collar crimes seriously means that a certain ethically, morally and legally challenged politician is serving a term in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue instead of another government run gated community.
Michelle B
I agree with both of your points…….
But there is more to it than simply that.
However, as long as there are people who can say that they would vote for Donald Trump no matter what he does, no matter what he is convicted of, then even if he was punished according to his crimes it wouldn’t matter.
Also, as long as we allow the rich to buy our politicians, our government, our country, then we might as well roll over and give up. Elon Musk was just the most blatant example of this - there are plenty of other instances of it that people simply overlook.
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus