Welcome to Buster's Blog

Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Monday, June 18, 2018

Zero Tolerance -- I'm All For It


Zero tolerance for Trump's hateful, immoral, racist, anti-immigrant policy, that is.  In case you forgot, the Great Trumpolini has told us:

  • "Mexico will pay for the wall."
  • "OK, I guess taxpayers will pay for the wall."
  • "If taxpayers don't pay for the wall, I'm going to put immigrant children in concentration camps."

Among those with zero tolerance for the Clown Prince's intolerable acts are:  all people of good conscience; all Democrats; very few Republicans; three former First Ladies; pediatricians; labor; clergy, including a couple normally hypocritical Evangelicals; and Anthony Scaramucci.  (Donnie, when you've lost the Mooch, you've lost it all.)  Even the Bride of Trumpenstein issued a half-hearted "hate to see it" statement.

There is no tidal wave of immigration.  Net immigration to the U.S. remains at its lowest point in a long time.  So ask yourself, what if today's asylum seekers and border crossers were Canadians, not Mexicans and Central Americans?  Would we be pulling children from their mother's arms and building tent cities in International Falls, Minnesota?  Hell, you know we wouldn't.  This policy is racist through and through, and everyone knows it.  And using little kids as bargaining chips is disgusting.  Yam-Face is buying what Stephen Miller is selling, and pandering bigotry super-hard to his racist base.  Where are the Republicans?  Mute with midterm fear.

So it's up to us.  We must stand up, speak out and refuse to tolerate it!  Call or write Congress and tell them to have zero tolerance for this awful policy and put the pressure on the fake prez.  It is not law.  Trump created this policy at the drop of hat.  He could end it just as quickly.






1 comment:

  1. The US has an ugly history of separating children from parents. Here are sone examples, slave trade & sales, Native American immersion schools, and Japanese internment camps. Now this!

    ReplyDelete