BREAKING: Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, and Tlaib to hold Press Conference at 5 PM

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

1. This should be interesting.

[Celerity]

3. +1

[Celerity]

2. a must watch I would say

[Voltaire2]

4. I need help on this.

Are they under the bus or on the bus today?

[melman]

9. It's interesing

A few are working hard at keeping them under...and looking really sad and desperate in the process.

The interesting part is how they don't realize what an incredibly bad look it is to be doing that.

How is it possible? After yesterday and this morning...how do they not realize. I don't know.

[Jake Stern]

32. Don't get it

Always thought that Dems believed that women should feel free to speak their own minds with their own voice and yet there are some right here that feel these four should just sit down, shut up and let others do the talking for them.

[True Dough]

5. What if they burned a picture of Trump

the way Sinead O'Connor did with the pope's photo? It would be quite a statement, but it would very likely endanger their well being (not like they're aren't already ReThug targets, which is scary as it is).

[maxsolomon]

22. She tore it up and threw it at the camera. She didn't burn it.

She had a point long before the RCC's Abuse scandals broke - time has vindicated her.

[True Dough]

23. You're right

I was relying on my faulty memory. And, yes, I'd certainly agree on your second point.

[maxsolomon]

24. Fires in a TV Studio in a high-rise are a no-no!

The sprinklers would have gone off!

[True Dough]

25. Remember when Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire filming a Pepsi commercial?

I am recalling that incident correctly, I hope?!?

[maxsolomon]

36. Yep. Too much product!

Or too much pyrotechnics...

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. TAKE CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE, KIDS! n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

11. That's one thing they're good at, especially AOC.

[mitch96]

52. Yup, they should ask if going back to your "country" was so important to him....

Why didn't daddy Fred go back to Germany to fix the wrongs done there.. He was born here and that would be the same standard, yes?
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[customerserviceguy]

60. They're playing right into Trump's tiny hands

He wants the airwaves to be full of "Trump vs. The Squad" instead of what Liz Warren or Pete Buttigieg have to say.

[LuvLoogie]

7. The media is going to bombard them with "what about" questions.

I hope they don't take the bait. But they have every right to make statements. We'll see how "neutral" the press corp is.

[George II]

8. Will Saikat Chakrabarti be there to explain his comments about Sharice Davids? I'm guessing no.

[Voltaire2]

13. You should consider which side you are on in this dispute.

Given the racist-in-chief's stunning outburst against these women, don't you think we ought to put our petty disputes on the back burner, lock ranks, and stand in solidarity with them?

[melman]

14. +1 bazillion

[still_one]

17. No thanks, I refuse to differentiate racist comments from justice democrat Chakrabarti, and racist

trump’s comments

[crazytown]

19. Exactly

The fruit of the poisonous trees. It matters not where they have taken root.

[George II]

21. Racism is racism, no matter the racist who espouses it. I didn't watch the press conference....

....was there any mention of Chakrabarti's racist comments (or him embracing a Nazi collaborator who headed an army that went into battle against Americans in WWII)?

[Mariana]

18. Everyone has priorities. nt.

[George II]

20. You should be lecturing Chakrabarti, who attacked Sharice Davids a few days ago....

Tell HIM to "put our petty disputes on the back burner, lock ranks, and stand in solidarity with them", ALL of them.

[Autumn]

28. He didn't attack her, he said that her voted enabled a racist system. I don't know about you

but I consider camps where people are held, not given the basic necessities where children and infants are separated from their parent to be a fucking racist system. Anyone who voted to fund it voted to enable it.

[George II]

29. Oh geez....of course he attacked her. If he didn't why did he delete the tweet....

....after he got called out for it?

I wonder if he was wearing his Subhas Chandra Bose t-shirt when he tweeted that?



Anybody who voted against it voted to deprive the children of necessities.

[Autumn]

35. Cheap deflection. Those children need their parents and to not be in fucking camps

being sexually assaulted, being forced to sleep on hard concrete and dying. That's their necessity. That's the racist system that voting for that bill enabled.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212280631

[George II]

39. So voting against giving them soap, toothpaste, blankets got them reunited with their parents?

I'M "deflecting"? C'mon.

A majority of Democrats in both the House and Senate agree with me.

[Autumn]

42. There should be no funding for those camps. Yes. You deflected.

You left out that Trump agrees with you too.

[George II]

43. Let them starve? No. I didn't deflect.

[Autumn]

47. Yummy food to go along with the delightful toilet water they are told to drink

and sexual assaults.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212280631

[George II]

49. So you want them to starve. Good evening Autumn.

[redstateblues]

51. You are digging a deeper hole

[Autumn]

53. Digging a hole? No, it's more like going down the rabbit hole.

A hole where people are defending the funding of a racist policy of camps where people are held in squalid conditions, told to drink toilet water, made to sleep on concrete floors, kids are sexually assaulted, parents are separated from their children and infants and more. But hey, they are being fed so it's all good.

Earlier reports from investigators for the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General from the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley sectors in Texas detailed horrific conditions for children and other migrants held in overcrowded border stations where they were not given showers, a clean change of clothes or the space to sleep. The reports from the Yuma CBP sector describe similar unsanitary and crowded conditions but go further by alleging abuse and other misconduct by CBP officers.

But in almost 30 accounts obtained from "significant incident reports" prepared between April 10 and June 12 by case managers for the Department of Health and Human Services, the department responsible for migrant children after they leave CBP custody, kids who spent time in the Yuma border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure byproducts of overcrowding. They reported being denied a phone call, not being offered a shower, sleeping on concrete or outside with only a Mylar blanket, and feeling hungry before their 9 p.m. dinnertime.

One child reported "sometimes going to bed hungry because dinner was usually served sometime after 9 p.m. and by that time she was already asleep," according to the documents.

"Our clients tell us that they have seen CBP agents kick other children awake, that children do not know whether it’s day or night because lights are left on all the time, and that they have had food thrown at them like they were wild animals."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-kids-overcrowded-arizona-border-station-allege-sex-assault-retaliation-n1027886

[Hortensis]

38. Autumn, misguided partisanship is causing many people to

support what should never be supported. ONE standard for all is a guideline we can use to keep political loyalties from corrupting our morals and intellect -- as has happened to many millions of Trump followers. Maybe pretend Hillary sent out Chakrabarti's tweets and see what you think of them?

[Autumn]

45. I don't know him, I don't look at the posts about him. I don't care if God himself tweeted

that tweet, I think that the tweet has truth in it. She's a friend of his and his opinion is that her vote for that bill, among many other votes enables a racist system. I consider those camps to be a racist system put in place by a racist piece of shit in the White House. Funding them enables his system. YMMV. I'm not going to get distracted by the actions of someone I don't know and ignore what those assholes are doing at those camps.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212280631

[TexasTowelie]

57. His tweet used the literary device known as an allusion.

It is as clear as day that it was meant as an attack.

By the way, calling someone an enabler is also considered an attack. I doubt that Sharice Davids considered the tweet as anything but an attack no matter what spin others may try to put on it.

[Voltaire2]

30. So you've in fact chosen which side you are on.

Not surprised.

[George II]

33. Whatever do you mean? Why does everything have to be "taking sides"?

But the bottom line is that Chakrabarti, presumably a Democrat, attacked Sharice Davids, TWICE.

[Voltaire2]

34. My meaning was quite clear.

[George II]

40. No it wasn't.

[Voltaire2]

58. Yes it was and is.

[melman]

37. Clearly

And I'm not a bit surprised either.

[George II]

44. I'm on the side of cleansing and feeding captured children. Aren't you?

[Autumn]

48. Cleansing and feeding?

Earlier reports from investigators for the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General from the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley sectors in Texas detailed horrific conditions for children and other migrants held in overcrowded border stations where they were not given showers, a clean change of clothes or the space to sleep. The reports from the Yuma CBP sector describe similar unsanitary and crowded conditions but go further by alleging abuse and other misconduct by CBP officers.

But in almost 30 accounts obtained from "significant incident reports" prepared between April 10 and June 12 by case managers for the Department of Health and Human Services, the department responsible for migrant children after they leave CBP custody, kids who spent time in the Yuma border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure byproducts of overcrowding. They reported being denied a phone call, not being offered a shower, sleeping on concrete or outside with only a Mylar blanket, and feeling hungry before their 9 p.m. dinnertime.

One child reported "sometimes going to bed hungry because dinner was usually served sometime after 9 p.m. and by that time she was already asleep," according to the documents.

"Our clients tell us that they have seen CBP agents kick other children awake, that children do not know whether it’s day or night because lights are left on all the time, and that they have had food thrown at them like they were wild animals."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-kids-overcrowded-arizona-border-station-allege-sex-assault-retaliation-n1027886

[Bettie]

54. We all are on the side of cleansing and feeding captured children

however, the Senate bill that you are so excited about has zero oversight included in it.

So, they get more money (and remember, they were already getting over 700 dollars per human) and weren't able to provide more than toilet water and a few scraps at that rate. Do you honestly, deep down, believe that giving the same people/organizations more money is going to magically turn them into decent human beings who won't pocket their windfall?

The disagreement is about the level of trust that some of us have and some of us don't have in the money actually going to help anyone other than the already rich people who are getting it.

If you believe that it will help anyone, more power to you.

I don't. I believe that it will line some douchbag's pockets and conditions will either remain the same or get worse, since, as I said, there is no oversight provision.

[Voltaire2]

59. Ethnic cleansing?

You might want to choose a different word.

[Meowmee]

56. No because that is ok as are other bigoted and anti semitic statements

[NightWatcher]

10. Please challenge him to a fistfight. Please challenge him to a fistfight

[nocoincidences]

12. Make a few statements

and then say something to the effect of "playing the fool again", and then the big finale:

LAUGH at him.

He hates that more than anything.

And every time he plays the fool again---

say: there he goes playing the fool again.

And then laugh at him. EVERY time.

He will completely lose his mind a whole lot faster.

[Takket]

15. Hold up a hand. Make the "tiny" symbol with your fingers

Then burst out laughing lol

These women are far too intelligent for that sophomoric stuff, but it would be amusing lol.

[Takket]

16. Pelosi should be with them as a sign of unity.

[GuyNamedNathan]

26. Pelosi is not with them in any sense.

[Hortensis]

41. I doubt that's true. She wants them to learn to

function responsibly and effectively. But they have set themselves apart deliberately, including becoming associated with some real troublemakers in JD/Brand New Congress, and it's their job to deal with the consequences. They're grownups and U.S. congressmen.

[obamanut2012]

55. yawn

[beachbum bob]

27. Ooooo, some strongly worded tweets coming...

[duforsure]

31. They're helping him change to news cycle for him

Away from Epstein and Putin.

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. Actually, their message was "don't let this distract from Trump's many awful actions"

Oddly, there hasn't been any mention of what was said in the press conference in this thread, so:

Trump tweet row: Don't take the bait, congresswomen say

"This is simply a disruption and a distraction from the callous chaos and corrupt culture of this administration, all the way down," Ms Pressley said.

Both Ms Omar and Ms Tlaib also called for Mr Trump to be impeached.
...
All four women insisted that health care, gun violence, and in particular detentions of migrants on the US border with Mexico should be in focus.

"The eyes of history are watching us," said Ms Omar said, decrying the "mass deportation raids" and "human rights abuses at the border".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48998696

[leftstreet]

50. Thanks

Thanks for posting the excerpts and the link

(Haven't been able to keep up, and as usual everyone's talking about the messengers instead of the message)

[nini]

61. Exactly

Makes me crazy so many can't see through his games.