BORDER CRISIS: On “Morning Joe, Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said, “On Tuesday, there were 4,000 apprehensions. I know that a thousand overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like. So, we are truly in a crisis.”
The State Department has announced that Trump plans to end foreign assistance payments to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The dollar amount is comparatively small — about $1.3 billion — but the signal being sent is unmistakable. Those countries must do more to control the mass of humanity that is now flooding the U.S. border in nearly unprecedented numbers.
CBS NEWS: Where the motto is “Orange Man Bad” – “They are ‘helping’, you see. Not profiting off of desperation, not aiding in the illegal entry into the US, and not escorting them through brutal life-threatening conditions — nope, this is humanitarian stuff taking place!” – Twitchy Team
Best tweets:
- That moment CBS praised human traffickers for keeping their product alive long enough to make money.
- “The ship captains helping Africans survive the voyage to America.” – CBSNews in 1715
- Next on CBS, a story about the brave train conductors who helped the Jews arrive in Auschwitz safely and on time.
- Lionizing human traffickers in defense of illegal immigration is a totally legit journalistic take.
- Maybe give them their own reality show.
JUDGE JEANINE IS BACK: And she fires at the entire Mueller mess with both barrels.
AOC LOVERS: We don’t call her out on her errors because she’s a woman. We do it because so much of what she says is, like, WRONG.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Twitter suspended the account for the pro-life movie ‘Unplanned’ on the weekend of its theatrical release, but promptly reinstated it when their move provoked a fierce backlash. One doubts the “Twitter Rules” the account allegedly violated anything in their OFFICIAL policies.
SJW IDIOCY: Katherine Timpf writes – “Straws make up only 0.02 percent of the plastic waste that is estimated to go into the ocean each year — and the United States is responsible for only about 1 percent of the total amount of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean overall.
“What’s more, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the number of emoji plastic straws that wind up in the ocean is precisely zero.”
But, but, but … maybe straw emojis pollute ocean emojis and kill turtle emojis! Didja think of that?!
