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| I know everybody's seen this picture, but I can't get over it: the evil, violent criminals invading our country, as Trump sees them, fleeing from tear gas. Photo by Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters, via NBC. |
One of the more fun D'Souza owns, short and sweet:
Woodward clearly never read more than 10 pages of Illiberal Education. He endorsed it on purely ideological grounds, and as John Hope Franklin said it was reprehensible. When Eugene Genovese turned right he also crossed the line from history to propaganda https://t.co/kccrD38bXR— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
And what George Fredrickson said about you? That he hasn't read your book but probably disagrees with one of the points. https://t.co/1NdLy9ReVp Kindly explain how that constitutes praise. pic.twitter.com/0tDCtNSDgj— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
And below the fold, an exhausting encounter with a troll and with reference to this:Finally, nobody criticizes you for not being an academic historian, but for doing terrible, shoddy, ideologically distorted, historically illiterate work and being completely unaware of the rules academic and gifted amateur historians follow.— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
This is a lie. @realDonaldTrump is the only president to *ever* systematically separate migrant children from their parents as a stated deterrent policy.— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) November 26, 2018
I saw those kids in cages with my own eyes — a direct result of a policy put in place by Trump and executed by @SecNielsen. https://t.co/TupZGD05ox
So I objected to this formulation and a Shapiro troll decided to take the case:Obama did the same thing in 2013 and droned American citizens overseas, too. Where were you? https://t.co/AU12rEUDA1— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 26, 2018
— Jackie lakeman (@LooseyJackie) November 26, 2018
Chris Wallace: “You started jailing entire families. In some cases, not a lot, but in some, you separated children from their parents in these pictures that we are putting up, from 2014, show pictures of unaccompanied minors in effect jail situations.”— Jackie lakeman (@LooseyJackie) November 26, 2018
Does Johnson reply, "Oh my gosh, you're right, we did separate some families"? Reader, he does not:
Well, Chris, without a doubt the images and the reality from 2014 just like 2018 are not pretty. And so, we expanded family detention. We had then 34,000 beds for family detention, only 95 of 34,000 equipped to deal with families....But, again, you can deal with this on the border. You can try different things. We did not want to go so far as to separate families.
So I really don't see what the interview proves, except that Wallace is a propagandist, and we knew that already. Obama admin actually kept children in detention longer than rules allowed in some cases, specifically to avoid separating them from their parents.— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
There were some cases where fathers got separated from mother-children groups, but these were Mexican workers, not Central American asylum seekers. Please excuse me for not stopping to document all this as I normally would but I really have to get to work.— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
Where in the bits you quoted does Johnson say his department separated children from their parents? He absolutely does not say this. Don't be stupid.— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
News reports aren’t primary sources. Jeh Johnson is.— Jackie lakeman (@LooseyJackie) November 26, 2018
Try again.— Jackie lakeman (@LooseyJackie) November 26, 2018
The primary source speaks:, to Jonathan Capehart, June 2018 https://t.co/sH6ISHrHAh pic.twitter.com/tlxfsGMW9z— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) November 26, 2018
Seems he needs to get his conflicting story straight, then.— Jackie lakeman (@LooseyJackie) November 26, 2018
My sweet lord. "All right, Mr. Secretary, there's this discrepancy between what you said and a hallucination I had when reading this other thing you said. You must resolve this!"
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