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Peacetrain

(22,836 posts)
1. What the heck is wrong with Hayes.. he cannot interview those toadies for nothing
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:20 PM
Jun 2019

Micheal something was his name... when he said kids could walk out the doors if they wanted to leave.. My 90 year old Mother is yelling at the TV.. 2 year old kids , walking out the door.. and Hayes could not push back on the nutjob??

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
2. I wanted to strangle him. That monster had the gall to make a snarky comment re Four More Years
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:21 PM
Jun 2019

rather than answer questions about children who are SUFFERING. He clearly does not give a good goddamn about those babies.

Pramilla Jayapal is preaching a sermon, though, and I appreciate that.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
3. Widebag? There's a new one on me.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:23 PM
Jun 2019

Is it a regional word? It needs to be defined in urban dictionary, if so...I

I like it as an insult, but don't want to guess at its meaning of derivation.

2naSalit

(86,061 posts)
6. Yeah, I was wondering about that too...
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:41 PM
Jun 2019

I briefly thought it could be a mix "widestance" and "windbag" which seemed plausible, at least.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. Why do they all look like this?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:07 PM
Jun 2019

Seriously, they all look the same. I think that is why they are so bitter and hateful. The only way they can get anyone to have sex with them is by force or to pay for it. They are all just a bunch of miserable, frustrated old men.

ooky

(8,886 posts)
5. Unfortunately that d-bag is a regular on Hayes' show.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:36 PM
Jun 2019

I recall seeing him maybe 3-4 times on Hayes' show before.

Eugene

(61,595 posts)
12. GOP rep says migrant children 'are free to leave' facilities 'at any time'
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 01:02 PM
Jun 2019

Source: CNN

GOP rep says migrant children 'are free to leave' facilities 'at any time'

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 1620 GMT (0020 HKT) June 25, 2019

Washington (CNN) — A Texas Republican congressman suggested Monday night that migrant children are able to leave a children's facility in Texas "at any time" but don't because they're well cared for.

"There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at any time but they don't," Rep. Michael Burgess said in an interview with MSNBC. "And you know why? Because they're well taken care of."

Burgess was referring to the Casa Padre shelter in Brownsville, Texas, that's become one of the largest facilities housing unaccompanied migrant children in the United State. The former Walmart superstore houses migrant boys, ages 10 to 17.

CNN has reached out to Burgess' office for additional comment.

-snip-

The congressman's comments on Monday come after nearly 250 migrant children who were held at a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas, were shifted into the Department of Health and Human Services' shelter system following reports of poor conditions at the facility.

-snip-


Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/25/politics/michael-burgess-migrant-children-trnd/index.html

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emphasis mine
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