If you want proof that the child hostage crisis occurring on our southern border is wholly created and maintained by the Trump administration, look no further that the Tornillo Child Hostage Internment Camp. To the Trumpistas putting their internment camp in Tornillo is an absolutely hilarious joke to Trump, Miller, Sessions, and their cult followers — and a big F*CK YOU to every decent, moral American.
As Rachel Maddow noted last night, it was only last Wednesday that CBP (Customs and Border “Protection”) announced its inadequate facilities were full and it was looking for a place on a military base to house even more children in tents.
Only a day later they announced that not only had a location been found, and by Friday they were offering reporters tours of the “tent city” constructed in Tornillo, complete with many children already there. Reporters seemed puzzled at the choice of Tornillo, since CBP said it was looking at military bases and there are none in the harsh desert around Tornillo, where temperatures are already over 100F and water is in short supply.
So why Tornillo first? They are targeting Spanish speakers (aka brown people), both those seeking asylum and those who are U.S. citizens and legal residents. In Spanish the word “tornillo” means “screw,” so sending the child hostages to Tornillo means that brown people seeking asylum here are screwed.
And you thought the Trump terrorists didn’t have a sense of humor. No doubt they find it doubly hilarious that they have been able to weaponize Spanish without being held accountable because most Americans don’t understand Spanish idiooms.
Using Tornillo for the first Trump Child Hostage Internment Camp (he will probably love to put his name on these, just like the room-sized mural of him on the walls of the other detention centers) perfectly illustrates the Trump Doctrine of Continual Chaos. As two senior White House officials with direct access to Trump said when asked about the Trump foreign policy doctrine:
The Drumpf Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’
This was reported last week by Jeffrey Goldberg in an excellent article in The Atlantic. But we must not allow this cult of chaos actually become what America is.
While acknowledging that “Drumpf possesses no ability to explain anything resembling a foreign-policy philosophy. But this does not mean that he is without ideas.” Unfortunately, they are all horrible.
Goldberg goes on to report on his attempts to define a foreign policy for this administration by interviewing several top administration officials. Unsurprisingly, no one would speak for attribution. Another, somewhat thoughtful, Trump aide explained that Trump “ doesn’t believe that the U.S. should be part of any alliance at all,” adding that he does not believe in loyalty to long-time allies because “the U.S. has only shifting alliances, not permanent friends.” He summarized the Trump Doctrine as “No Friends, No Enemies.”
Well, he’s accomplished the second part with his fealty to what Rick Wilson has dubbed CRANK, as ursulafaw explained. And he’s well on the way to accomplishing the first.
If your outrage meter hasn’t pegged, go get it out of cold storage. I know you keep it there now to keep it from burning up. But the time is past to get up and do something. Nothing less than the soul of this nation is at stake. If we accept this, we have lost our moral center and our nation.
DO SOMETHING!!! Call your Senators and Representatives — even if they hang up on you, like mine did. Call again. And again. They may not want to talk about it, but they know there are lots of people at home they will eventually have to face to stay in power. That’s the only thing most GOP congresscritters actually care about, so hit them where they care. Tell them you know they refused to fix this today, and everyone you can reach will know that too at election time.
TALK TO PEOPLE!! Make sure everyone you talk to is aware of what is happening. In my red, red corner of the country, no one can be in the same room with me and remain unaware of what is happening and why. A surprising number of people have claimed ignorance, and maybe they were, but they will never be able to say that again. At a concert deep in Walmart country last Saturday, I made sure everyone near me knew about the child hostage crisis. Today I went to a Doctor and made sure every person on the staff and everyone in the waiting room knew about it. I may get punched for it some day, but so far everyone has been genuinely infuriated by this indecency.
