Tell Me a Story: Rabid Weasel Utterances

I can’t look at the news today. I’m light years beyond horrified. My joie de vivre is hiding in the back of the closet, refusing to come out. My sense of humor sent me a text saying it's on holiday in Canada and will return as soon as snark levels have been adequately restocked.

I replied, I'm workin' on it but the Rabid Weasel in the White House ain't helpin.'

Prez Obscenity may’ve signed his little executive order, theoretically ending the separation of families BUT he’s:

...directed the government’s lawyers to ask for a modification of an existing 1997 consent decree, known as the Flores settlement, that currently prohibits the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention — even if they are with their parents — for more than 20 days. (source)

Yup, he wants to keep folks jailed indefinitely for the crime of seeking asylum (!!!) or for illegal entry WHICH IS A MISDEMEANOR.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Nota bene: there is NO asterisk leading to an addendum saying “unless you’re brown and less than wealthy.”

If we’re lucky, the courts won’t grant this weasel fucker’s kill-Flores wish. Possibly though, this was the insane Orange Demon’s game all along. The courts say No, you Hitler Wanna-Be, we will not rescind Flores for you and your diabolical crew! He then blames the courts, saying they’re forcing him to continue his torture of children. The courts are the real ones who are ripping kiddles away from their parents.

Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground – Käthe_Kollwitz

Meantime, the girls and boys who’ve already suffered through this horror – what about them? When and how will they be reunited with their parents?

//shrugs//

The Department of Health and Human Services is in charge of reuniting the 2,300 caged, traumatized children with their parents. Will they? Originally a spokesman, astoundingly but unsurprisingly, said no. Later, another spokesman said the first one had “misspoken” which, in Trump-speak translates as “Oopsie, we accidentally told the truth!” There are no immediate plans to get these innocents back to their parents. All the folks at HHS have are weasel words.

AND, while we were all steaming, raging and crying over this horror, Republicans, in their ongoing fight to insure early, painful, sad, poverty riddled deaths for all but the Money Class, introduced a bill to gut Medicare and repeal the Affordable Care Act. Yes. AGAIN.

In Kansas, if you want to vote and just happen to rock a warm flesh-tone, do yourself a favor and find your birth certificate or a proof of citizenship NOW. Kris Kobach, the racist piece of cockroach excrement who is their Secretary of State, will not be complying with the court order which blocked his voter suppression edict anytime soon.

So then, I'm wired and freaked enough for the next ten years. If the apocalypse comes text me. I'll be down at the seawall eating cupcakes.