Last night we had a great board meeting at the shul. We are so excited about our new Religious School program so we spent a great deal of time talking about the kids and families we have in our congregation. I am happy our board is so supportive of the program and I left feeling pretty good about the what we are doing. Then I got home.
In the course of 1/2 hour I learned the President of the United States referred to people coming to the US to seek asylum are considered an infestation. That sounded bad. Then I watched as Rachel Maddow broke down on air upon reading the story of the opening of detention centers for babies and toddlers. Then I saw that Corey Lewendowski was on Fox News and debating about the inhuman policies at the border. To illustrate the pain being caused a panelist started talking of a young girl with Downs Syndrome taken from her mother. Lewendowski interrupted him saying "Wah Wah Wah". To be clear a former campaign manager to the President and an adviser to the President and apparently who may be in the pay of the Vice-President's PAC has made fun of the horrific story of a child with a disability being taken from her parent. This is where we are, as a country we are setting up facilities to put babies in jail without their parents, calling human beings an infestation and making fun of disabled children. All because a President, with the mental capacity of Simon Says Toy thinks that it would be good for the country.
Now the question is why are there so many asylum seekers? Well the reason is simple, in the late 80s and early 90s the insatiable desire for recreational drugs like cocaine in the United States made it a no-brainer for many in these countries to produce and smuggle loads of these drugs. This wasn't simply street dealers in bad neighborhoods but the joke was that on Wall Street everyone had an 8-ball close to them. So much so that the statue of a trader in lower Manhattan with his open briefcase often was adorned with an added plastic bag of white powder, simply to make it more authentic. Among those whose cocaine habit drove the rise of lawlessness and violence in those areas was Larry Kudlow. Now the President's top economic adviser, Kudlow was fired from Bear Stearns and struggled with a habit until simply going to rehab. As thousands service prison sentences for using pot and smaller amounts of drugs, he never served a day in prison. Now he supports the idea of destroying the lives of people fleeing the cartels he helped create.
I don't understand how anyone can support what is going on at the border. I can't understand how anyone can be comfortable with calling human beings an infestation. I can't understand how making fun of a scared young girl with Downs Syndrome can be ignored by people with good hearts. I call on everyone, conservatives and liberals, republicans, libertarians and democrats. Let's stop simply being outraged and do something productive. Challenge the lies of this administration and their elected supporters. Hold news organization accountable for the hate they allow to be spewed on their air every single day (looking at you CNN) and educate yourself and everyone you know about what is true and what is nonsense. Start by reading PL 104-208 about immigration that is being used as an excuse. Look at what actually occurred under the Obama Administration when unaccompanied minors came in large numbers and note that there were some of us who challenged their handling of it. Be a good consumer of news and information and avoid thinking that news comes from the guests on the evening cable news stations. And when Rachel Maddow breaks down crying, it is time to take notice.
In the course of 1/2 hour I learned the President of the United States referred to people coming to the US to seek asylum are considered an infestation. That sounded bad. Then I watched as Rachel Maddow broke down on air upon reading the story of the opening of detention centers for babies and toddlers. Then I saw that Corey Lewendowski was on Fox News and debating about the inhuman policies at the border. To illustrate the pain being caused a panelist started talking of a young girl with Downs Syndrome taken from her mother. Lewendowski interrupted him saying "Wah Wah Wah". To be clear a former campaign manager to the President and an adviser to the President and apparently who may be in the pay of the Vice-President's PAC has made fun of the horrific story of a child with a disability being taken from her parent. This is where we are, as a country we are setting up facilities to put babies in jail without their parents, calling human beings an infestation and making fun of disabled children. All because a President, with the mental capacity of Simon Says Toy thinks that it would be good for the country.
Now the question is why are there so many asylum seekers? Well the reason is simple, in the late 80s and early 90s the insatiable desire for recreational drugs like cocaine in the United States made it a no-brainer for many in these countries to produce and smuggle loads of these drugs. This wasn't simply street dealers in bad neighborhoods but the joke was that on Wall Street everyone had an 8-ball close to them. So much so that the statue of a trader in lower Manhattan with his open briefcase often was adorned with an added plastic bag of white powder, simply to make it more authentic. Among those whose cocaine habit drove the rise of lawlessness and violence in those areas was Larry Kudlow. Now the President's top economic adviser, Kudlow was fired from Bear Stearns and struggled with a habit until simply going to rehab. As thousands service prison sentences for using pot and smaller amounts of drugs, he never served a day in prison. Now he supports the idea of destroying the lives of people fleeing the cartels he helped create.
I don't understand how anyone can support what is going on at the border. I can't understand how anyone can be comfortable with calling human beings an infestation. I can't understand how making fun of a scared young girl with Downs Syndrome can be ignored by people with good hearts. I call on everyone, conservatives and liberals, republicans, libertarians and democrats. Let's stop simply being outraged and do something productive. Challenge the lies of this administration and their elected supporters. Hold news organization accountable for the hate they allow to be spewed on their air every single day (looking at you CNN) and educate yourself and everyone you know about what is true and what is nonsense. Start by reading PL 104-208 about immigration that is being used as an excuse. Look at what actually occurred under the Obama Administration when unaccompanied minors came in large numbers and note that there were some of us who challenged their handling of it. Be a good consumer of news and information and avoid thinking that news comes from the guests on the evening cable news stations. And when Rachel Maddow breaks down crying, it is time to take notice.
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