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    Melania Sent To Border For Charm Offensive As Trump Promises To Reunite Separated Families

    First Lady Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas social services center on Thursday amid a crisis over migrant children who have been forcibly separated from their parents as part of the DOJ's "zero-tolerance" enforcement of preexisting laws.

    . @FLOTUS gets tour of kids’ rooms, notes how tidy they keep them pic.twitter.com/E5m90zbp1A
    — Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) June 21, 2018
    "I'm glad I'm here and I'm looking forward to seeing the children," said the First Lady at a roundtable with doctors and other employees of the Upbring New Hope Children's Center, which is a subsidiary of Lutheran Social Services of the South.
    "But first of all, let me begin to recognize each of you and thanking you for all that you do, for your heroic work that you do every day and what you do for those children. We all know they're here without their families, and I want to thank you for your hard work."
    Texas border facility employee debunks fake news about minors being unhappy: "It is really a home for the children...as you will see the children and see the smiles on their faces and you'll hear them giggle." pic.twitter.com/9XyUngfpxH
    — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 21, 2018
    Children at a facility caring for detained children made Melania a paper American flag - which she signs

    (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) pic.twitter.com/PgYq59JOco
    — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 21, 2018

    Her visit comes one day after President Trump signed an executive order which would end the controversial practice of separating children from parents who cross the border illegally - a longstanding practice under prior administrations - which was supercharged by the Trump administration's new "zero tolerance" enforcement policies.
    My Administration is acting swiftly to address the illegal immigration crisis on the Southern Border. Loopholes in our immigration laws all supported by extremist open border Democrats...and that's what they are - they're extremist open border Democrats.... pic.twitter.com/F73I5gu0Q5
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2018
    Trump said Melania "is down now at the border because it really bothered her to be looking at this and to seeing it, as it bothered me, as it bothered everybody at this table."
    "@FLOTUS is down now at the border because it really bothered her to be looking at this and to seeing it, as it bothered me, as it bothered everybody at this table."

    WATCH: President @realDonaldTrump speaks discusses immigration at Cabinet meeting - Part 1. pic.twitter.com/bK1oQlVmAw
    — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 21, 2018
    To that end, Trump ordered U.S. agencies to reunite separated migrant families on Thursday.
    “I’m directing HHS, DHS, DOJ to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and reunite these previously separated groups,”’ Trump said.

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...rated-families
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    america is not used to a classy first lady , so the liberal media will respond in a negative way while the time magazine cover gets trump more votes .
    Do something Danke

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    Did Melania Trump Wear This Jacket When Visiting Children Separated from Their Families?

    The First Lady made a surprise visit to detained immigrant children while wearing a jacket bearing the message "I DON'T REALLY CARE DO U?" on the back.

    CLAIM
    First Lady Melania Trump visited immigrant kids wearing a jacket with "I DON'T REALLY CARE DO U?" emblazoned on the back.

    RATING
    TRUE

    ORIGIN
    On 21 June 2018, First Lady Melania Trump paid a surprise visit to immigrant children detained under a Trump administration policy to separate families at the border. Shortly thereafter, the news of her visit was eclipsed by discussion stemming from social media images of a jacket she was purportedly wearing as she boarded her plane:

    The First Lady’s army-green jacket with a painted design on the back reading “I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U?” quickly became the dominant topic of news and social media. CNN’s Jim Acosta quickly confirmed that the photographs were legitimate, and the article of clothing Mrs. Trump wore was real.
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/me...ated-families/

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    A few days ago: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/polit...ion/index.html

    Melania Trump 'hates to see' children separated from their families at borders

    In a rare statement on a policy issue, first lady Melania Trump weighed in through her spokeswoman on the immigration crisis taking place at America's borders.

    "Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform," her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN on Sunday. "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."

    Trump, who has made helping children the crux of her official "Be Best" platform as first lady, had yet to discuss the state of families and immigration, a topic that has been prominent in headlines for days.

    A Trump administration policy now charges every adult caught crossing the border illegally with federal crimes, as opposed to referring those with children mainly to immigration courts, as previous administrations did. Because the government is charging the parents in the criminal justice system, children are separated from them, without a clear procedure for their reunification aside from hotlines the parents can call to try to track their children down.

    The policy to refer all adults for charges was publicly announced May 7, but the Justice Department announced it would prosecute 100% of the cases referred to it at the beginning of April.

    Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and guardians and placed into holding facilities between April 19 and May 31 of this year, Department of Homeland Security spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters Friday on a conference call.

    The public outcry in the wake of images and stories of the children caught in the middle of the controversial immigration policy has sparked fierce debate.

    President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed the Democrats for the situation despite his administration instituting the policy change.
    Perhaps she is why he changed his position on the issue. More at link.

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    Last edited by Swordsmyth; 06-21-2018 at 07:28 PM.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Is that Zippy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Is that Zippy?
    He certainly acts the same.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Just reminding everyone Melania is an immigrant herself. Maybe she needs to tell her story and show how unjust the system really is.
    #NashvilleStrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by euphemia View Post
    Just reminding everyone Melania is an immigrant herself. Maybe she needs to tell her story and show how unjust the system really is.
    His mother was a child immigrant- 17 when she left Scotland- with a bunch of other immigrants and her sister (who had come to America previously) for the US to look for work. Her sister brought her. Chain migration. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-38648877

    His grandfather came to the US as a teenager too- from Germany. He spoke little English and allegedly ran away to avoid compulsory military service. His was "chain migration" as well- he came to join his sister here. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta.../#6fb14139e49a

    The 16-year-old Friedrich Trump, who spoke little English, would not have hopped on a ship and came to America without a family member already in place to help him. In 1885, when Friedrich immigrated, he joined his sister Katherine, who “had immigrated to New York a year earlier,” according to Gwenda Blair.
    Neither mentions travelling with parents so they would have been "unaccompanied minors".

    Trump's first wife was from Czechoslovakia. She married an Austrian ski instructor only to get a visa to the US and divorced shortly after getting here. She did not become a citizen until 11 years after she married Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    His mother was a child immigrant- 17 when she left Scotland- with a bunch of other immigrants and her sister (who had come to America previously) for the US to look for work. Her sister brought her. Chain migration. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-38648877

    His grandfather came to the US as a teenager too- from Germany. He spoke little English and allegedly ran away to avoid compulsory military service. His was "chain migration" as well- he came to join his sister here. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta.../#6fb14139e49a



    Neither mentions travelling with parents so they would have been "unaccompanied minors".

    Trump's first wife was from Czechoslovakia. She married an Austrian ski instructor only to get a visa to the US and divorced shortly after getting here. She did not become a citizen until 11 years after she married Trump.
    Irrelevant.
    Trump is POTUS and has responsibility to pursue the correct policy for Americans no matter what his background or his relatives' backgrounds are.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Irrelevant.
    Trump is POTUS and has responsibility to pursue the correct policy for Americans no matter what his background or his relatives' backgrounds are.
    If Trump got what Trump wanted, Trump would not have allowed any of his ancestors into the country. He would never have the chance to become POTUS.

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    If she narrowcasting aimed the message at Peter Fonda to set him off some more, it backfired...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    If Trump got what Trump wanted, Trump would not have allowed any of his ancestors into the country. He would never have the chance to become POTUS.
    Irrelevant.
    The policies were not in place and Trump is POTUS, doing the wrong thing in the past is not a reason to keep doing it in the present and future.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    President Trump tweeted his own explanation for his wife’s wardrobe choice, claiming that there was, in fact, a message, and it was directed toward “the fake news media.”
    “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2018
    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dona...223103253.html


    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Irrelevant.
    The policies were not in place and Trump is POTUS, doing the wrong thing in the past is not a reason to keep doing it in the present and future.
    He was lucky the President at the time changed the laws.

    On March 9, 1897, Grover Cleveland vetoed a broad immigration bill that would have excluded any immigrant to the U.S. who could not read and write. In his veto message, he called the legislation “a radical departure from our national policy” on immigration.

    “We have encouraged those coming from foreign countries to cast their lot with us and join in the development of our vast domain, securing in return a share in the blessings of American citizenship,” declared Cleveland. “A century's stupendous growth, largely due to the assimilation and thrift of millions of sturdy and patriotic adopted citizens, attests the success of this generous and free-handed policy which, while guarding the people's interests, exacts from our immigrants only physical and moral soundness and a willingness and ability to work.”

    President Cleveland warned the threat to the American people came not from immigrants without education, but from a skillful communicator: “In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a home and opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators . . . who can not only read and write, but delights in arousing by inflammatory speech the illiterate and peacefully inclined to discontent and tumult.”

    During World War I, German immigrants and German-Americans like the Trumps became a focus of hostility. “The fury that broke upon the German-Americans in 1915 represented the most spectacular reversal of judgment in the history of American nativism,” wrote John Higham in Strangers in the Land. In what sounds strikingly similar to Donald Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the attacks of 9/11, Higham writes, “By August there was common talk that German-Americans were rejoicing over the death of American citizens on torpedoed ships.”
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta.../#20dbc48e49a9

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    President Trump tweeted his own explanation for his wife’s wardrobe choice, claiming that there was, in fact, a message, and it was directed toward “the fake news media.”
    “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2018
    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dona...223103253.html


    Melania doesn't speak too much but she can send a message.



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    According to a new Rasmussen poll, a majority of Americans blame illegal immigrant parents for the child crisis on the border over the U.S. government.
    The media has put a hyper focus on the separation of families at the border over the last several weeks, leading President Donald Trump to sign an executive order ending the separation. Current U.S. law does not allow families to be detained together if the parents are referred for prosecution for illegal border crossing.
    However, the Rasmussen poll shows that Americans don’t blame the Trump administration for the approximately 2,000 children who have been separated from their parents.
    54 percent of likely voters polled by Rasmussen said that they think the parents are more to blame for breaking the law.
    Only 35 percent said the government is more to blame for the crisis.
    Further, 54 percent of voting Americans agree with President Trump’s assertion that “The United States will not be a migrant camp. And it will not be a refugee-holding facility — it won’t be.”
    The survey of 1000 likely voters was conducted on June 19-20.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/21/ra...&utm_content=1
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Gone are the days when we used to have FLOTUS who cared.



    Another one:

    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You don't think that's, at the very least, a bizarre choice of clothing and something that would be readily seen and commented on? They have teams of people whose only job is to manage the appearance of POTUS and FLOTUS. I find it very hard to believe that Melania and her team would be so clueless as to think that's an ok outfit for the occasion. I'm much more inclined to think it is the truth in plain sight and so they can watch (and gauge) the Trumpers deny what is staring them right in the face. How effective is our PR show? Yes, ignore what your eyes and ears tell you. Ignore it.
    Last edited by devil21; 06-21-2018 at 11:51 PM.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    You don't think that's, at the very least, a bizarre choice of clothing and something that would be readily seen and commented on? They have teams of people whose only job is to manage the appearance of POTUS and FLOTUS. I find it very hard to believe that Melania and her team would be so clueless as to think that's an ok outfit for the occasion. I'm much more inclined to think it is the truth in plain sight and so they can watch (and gauge) the Trumpers deny what is staring them right in the face. The PR show. Yes, ignore what your eyes and ears tell you. Ignore it.
    They did choose it on purpose, they have every TDS victim in the country chasing the laser dot.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    If you're going to post a gif, at least make it inspiring or with a higher purpose.


    From best of the best surrounded by the best series.. dedicated to esteemed Ben Carson.


    I don't think you understand my point, you are chasing the laser dot that Trump wants you to chase.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment



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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    They did choose it on purpose, they have every TDS victim in the country chasing the laser dot.
    I don't buy it but for the sake of argument, if that is the reason then shame on her for such a tasteless display that is unbecoming of the office. If this is what our governance has truly devolved into, then one must wonder if the goal isn't to purposely degrade the office. That couldn't be it, could it?
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    I don't think you understand my point, you are chasing the laser dot that Trump wants you to chase.
    You might be confusing me with the media.

    During all this media circus, I doubt you have seen this care message pointed out by any of the dot chasers. Quoted post was just used as a segue.


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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    I don't buy it but for the sake of argument, if that is the reason then shame on her for such a tasteless display that is unbecoming of the office. If this is what our governance has truly devolved into, then one must wonder if the goal isn't to purposely degrade the office. That couldn't be it, could it?
    Perhaps ending an undue reverence for government is not such a bad thing?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  32. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    I don't buy it but for the sake of argument, if that is the reason then shame on her for such a tasteless display that is unbecoming of the office. If this is what our governance has truly devolved into, then one must wonder if the goal isn't to purposely degrade the office. That couldn't be it, could it?
    Obama did pretty good job at degrading the office. It is going to be hard to top that.

  33. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    If you're going to post a gif, at least make it inspiring or with a higher purpose.


    From best of the best surrounded by the best series.. dedicated to esteemed Ben Carson.



    This was the moment I decided not to take politics as seriously and looked at it more like entertainment and I've been happier ever since.

    Really though, Trump is pretty funny and willing to do some whacky ass $#@!, one of the reasons people wanted to vote for him.
    THE SQUAD of RPF
    1. enhanced_deficit - Paid Troll / John Bolton book promoter
    2. Devil21 - LARPing Wizard, fake magical script reader
    3. Firestarter - Tax Troll; anti-tax = "criminal behavior"
    4. TheCount - Comet Pizza Pedo Denier <-- sick

    @Ehanced_Deficit's real agenda on RPF =troll:

    Who spends this much time copy/pasting the same recycled links, photos/talking points.

    7 yrs/25k posts later RPF'ers still respond to this troll

  34. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Perhaps ending an undue reverence for government is not such a bad thing?
    There are better ways to do that than wearing clothing that essentially says "Suck it", then making up bs excuses about the clothing choice.

    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Obama did pretty good job at degrading the office. It is going to be hard to top that.
    They're trying. Lordy are they trying.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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