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(49,001 posts)?Verified account @JimCarrey
1500 innocent children ripped from their mothers arms at our border. Lost in Trumps system. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free -- and we will torture them for wanting a better life. From Shining City to Evil Empire in under 500 days.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Owl
(3,641 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,785 posts)samir.g
(835 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)???
Nitram
(22,794 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)Surely the DU can do better than to parrot a conspiracy theorist's twitter feed.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Doesn't mean yu have to sign on to everything someone believes in. There is no one in the world who believes 100% as each of us does.
womanofthehills
(8,702 posts)Besides from Jim's twitter feed:
alp227
(32,019 posts)https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/opinions/vox-vaccination/index.html
TexasBushwhacker
(20,184 posts)He may have softened his stance since they split.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Stop with all these purity tests.
The GOP love it when our PC infighting slogs us down.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)There is no "us", here.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)And you just reaffirmed my point that he is only a piece of the resistance. He is an actor, not a politician, as you said. One of the fighters. As we all should be. No one has ever proposed he is regarded as a "leader" other than yourself.
Not sure where you are going. That we should all just sit back and let the 'politicians' handle it?
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Nitram
(22,794 posts)He just created a powerful image of the horror of what ICE is doing. That helps millions of immigrant families. Criticize there bad, welcome the good. Purity tests are for chumps.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)If he ever has to give up acting, he would make a damn good political cartoonist!......
TheBlackAdder
(28,188 posts).
If you watch Reagan's last national address, about 2/3rds into it he misquotes John Winthrop, 'A Model of Christian Charity,' sermon and the Republicans have been fucking that line up ever since. So much so, that most Americans probably now think that it was written as a " shining city on a hill."
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a kennedy
(29,655 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)I like the guy, but thats really over the top.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)a kennedy
(29,655 posts)guss
(239 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Kelly's the one who made that now infamous callous remark about concerns over the kids.
helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)karin_sj
(808 posts)You can tell by the eyes. Jim Carrey is a national treasure and even more so lately with his paintings about our current horrible political environment.
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)tavernier
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(135,829 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)They crossed the border alone or arrived here without a parent.
This tweet is conflating two separate issues.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)As chief of staff John Kelly told NPR in an interview three weeks ago, the plan to forcibly separate mothers from their children was explicitly designed as a tough deterrent to scare immigrants from trying to enter the U.S. The children will be taken care ofput into foster care or whatever, he said flippantly. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long. He also implied that those who wished to come across the border were overwhelmingly rural people who would find assimilating into the U.S. difficult. They dont speak English. They dont integrate well. They dont have skills.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/trump-blames-his-own-child-separation-policy-on-democrats
Here are some other tactics you may wish to pursue:
(1) BUT WHAT ABOUT OBAMA
(2) FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS
(3) THEY CAME HERE ILLEGALLY SO WHO GIVES A DAMN
oberliner
(58,724 posts)These are two separate situations.
No. The children unaccounted for in last years HHS survey all arrived at the Southwest border alone. The government refers to these children as unaccompanied alien children, or UACs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/27/the-u-s-lost-track-of-1500-immigrant-children-last-year-heres-why-people-are-outraged-now/
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)He has every right to be heard.
I never cared for his movies but I really like this man.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or, at best, inadvertently passing along misinformation.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)info that came out. Later it was corrected. But those children are lost in the system. And now they are separating children from their mothers.
It is absolutely appalling and unbelivably cruel. These people are not just awful. They are monsters and we should be screaming from the rooftops about this.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That being said, the fact that families are currently being separated at the behest of the Trump admin is awful.
It's just important not to conflate the two, as he is doing with this tweet.