Trump USA : 2020
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The Brown Shirts are here...
Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol
The Border Patrol Explorers program offers training and mentorship—with a side of Trumpian ideology.
The US Border Patrol’s community outreach efforts can verge on the macabre. For instance, agents at the Ajo station in Arizona, who patrol the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants, ran a Teddy Bear Patrol in 2004, passing out stuffed animals to small children. They did this while arresting immigrants trying to join their children after crossing the border.
Border Patrol Explorers, the agency’s program for 14-to-20-year-olds, offers an equally stark double standard: Young people, many of them first-generation Mexican Americans or the US-born children of undocumented immigrants, learn survival skills, first aid, and participate in training exercises in which they play Border Patrol agents or the people they target. Some will inadvertently retrace the path their undocumented parents took across the Sonoran Desert, pretending to get arrested or make arrests.
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Pledging allegiance: A group of US Border Patrol and Customs and Border Patrol Explorers in uniform at a 2018 ceremony.
If there’s something overtly theatrical, even campy, about these recruitment efforts, that isn’t a coincidence. The age-old children’s games of cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers have simply been harnessed for a modern, state-run, militarized equivalent: border guards and immigrants.
The city of Douglas, Arizona, even saw a collaboration between the local Explorers troop and the Douglas High School Drama Club in 2015 after high school actors agreed to play criminals to help raise the emotional stakes of their training.
The theater kids recalled enjoying playing school shooters, armed robbers, and domestic abusers. They were so affecting in their performances, according to former theater club member Nelva Valenzuela, that one of the Explorers told her that the participant “almost cried” during a training exercise. In some exercises, her fellow actors got so caught up in their roles that they began to defeat the mock agents. They eluded arrest with elaborate dialogue and tricks, leading the Border Patrol agent to remind them to “let Border Patrol win.”
More: https://www.thenation.com/article/scouts-border-immigration-trump/
Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol
The Border Patrol Explorers program offers training and mentorship—with a side of Trumpian ideology.
The US Border Patrol’s community outreach efforts can verge on the macabre. For instance, agents at the Ajo station in Arizona, who patrol the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants, ran a Teddy Bear Patrol in 2004, passing out stuffed animals to small children. They did this while arresting immigrants trying to join their children after crossing the border.
Border Patrol Explorers, the agency’s program for 14-to-20-year-olds, offers an equally stark double standard: Young people, many of them first-generation Mexican Americans or the US-born children of undocumented immigrants, learn survival skills, first aid, and participate in training exercises in which they play Border Patrol agents or the people they target. Some will inadvertently retrace the path their undocumented parents took across the Sonoran Desert, pretending to get arrested or make arrests.
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Pledging allegiance: A group of US Border Patrol and Customs and Border Patrol Explorers in uniform at a 2018 ceremony.
If there’s something overtly theatrical, even campy, about these recruitment efforts, that isn’t a coincidence. The age-old children’s games of cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers have simply been harnessed for a modern, state-run, militarized equivalent: border guards and immigrants.
The city of Douglas, Arizona, even saw a collaboration between the local Explorers troop and the Douglas High School Drama Club in 2015 after high school actors agreed to play criminals to help raise the emotional stakes of their training.
The theater kids recalled enjoying playing school shooters, armed robbers, and domestic abusers. They were so affecting in their performances, according to former theater club member Nelva Valenzuela, that one of the Explorers told her that the participant “almost cried” during a training exercise. In some exercises, her fellow actors got so caught up in their roles that they began to defeat the mock agents. They eluded arrest with elaborate dialogue and tricks, leading the Border Patrol agent to remind them to “let Border Patrol win.”
More: https://www.thenation.com/article/scouts-border-immigration-trump/
Completely fake news.The Brown Shirts are here...
Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol
The Border Patrol Explorers program offers training and mentorship—with a side of Trumpian ideology.
The US Border Patrol’s community outreach efforts can verge on the macabre. For instance, agents at the Ajo station in Arizona, who patrol the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants, ran a Teddy Bear Patrol in 2004, passing out stuffed animals to small children. They did this while arresting immigrants trying to join their children after crossing the border.
Border Patrol Explorers, the agency’s program for 14-to-20-year-olds, offers an equally stark double standard: Young people, many of them first-generation Mexican Americans or the US-born children of undocumented immigrants, learn survival skills, first aid, and participate in training exercises in which they play Border Patrol agents or the people they target. Some will inadvertently retrace the path their undocumented parents took across the Sonoran Desert, pretending to get arrested or make arrests.
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Pledging allegiance: A group of US Border Patrol and Customs and Border Patrol Explorers in uniform at a 2018 ceremony.
If there’s something overtly theatrical, even campy, about these recruitment efforts, that isn’t a coincidence. The age-old children’s games of cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers have simply been harnessed for a modern, state-run, militarized equivalent: border guards and immigrants.
The city of Douglas, Arizona, even saw a collaboration between the local Explorers troop and the Douglas High School Drama Club in 2015 after high school actors agreed to play criminals to help raise the emotional stakes of their training.
The theater kids recalled enjoying playing school shooters, armed robbers, and domestic abusers. They were so affecting in their performances, according to former theater club member Nelva Valenzuela, that one of the Explorers told her that the participant “almost cried” during a training exercise. In some exercises, her fellow actors got so caught up in their roles that they began to defeat the mock agents. They eluded arrest with elaborate dialogue and tricks, leading the Border Patrol agent to remind them to “let Border Patrol win.”
More: https://www.thenation.com/article/scouts-border-immigration-trump/
2020 deficit is at $1.1 trillion, up from last year. It's mostly a result of "war on terror", tax cuts, medicare, and medicaid (in order from the largest to the smallest).
Obama needed to deficit spend to kick start the economy after the recession in 2008. Now the economy is strong there's no reason to deficit spend, especially as much as $1.1T unless people aren't spending much. And why aren't people spending so much? Because purchasing power sucks and wages are still waaaaaaay behind production.
So babble away about the great economy all you can, you cultists, it's being held up artificially by the gov't deficit.
In the meantime, America continues to fall apart.
Obama needed to deficit spend to kick start the economy after the recession in 2008. Now the economy is strong there's no reason to deficit spend, especially as much as $1.1T unless people aren't spending much. And why aren't people spending so much? Because purchasing power sucks and wages are still waaaaaaay behind production.
So babble away about the great economy all you can, you cultists, it's being held up artificially by the gov't deficit.
In the meantime, America continues to fall apart.
D.C. attorney general sues Trump inaugural committee over $1 million ballroom booking at president's hotel
Attorney General Karl A. Racine alleges in a civil lawsuit that the inaugural committee abused its nonprofit status by spending $175,000 a day to rent the ballroom of the president��s D.C. hotel �� over the objections of its own event planner. The cost totaled more than $1 million, including food and beverages, far more than other hotels charged. Subpoenaed documents show committee officials were alerted to the problem but ignored warnings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...--alert-politics--alert-local-politics&wpmk=1
This will take a long time.........just alike all litigations re: Trump do. It's his way of "controlling" and delaying any legal situation...... What a shyster.
So how many unpaid 'bills' is that tied up into his Presidency?
I mean, Impeachment stuff aside okay... you can't just skip on your bills. Doesn't he have some sort of money person to write the checks needed for that stuff?
Unless he doesn't ca...
ooh...
You got it.
He does not care. except that he HAS to win.........and that includes all the legal cases he is involved in.
Look at his history. It is covered with litigations of one kind or another..........and of course bankruptcies. If he can break the rules and laws ad get away with it..........he will take that route. Very psychopathic. That is what makes him
dangerous. People are dispensable..........as soon as they have served their purpose.
