smixan

The warfighter Miller is describing exists. His name is Matthew Blank. Five years in. Previously deployed. Training to deploy again this month. Three days ago ICE came to his base and took his wife. She was brought here as a toddler. No record. Teaching Sunday school and finishing her biochemistry degree. The deportation order on her is from 2005. She was 22 months old. The agents apologized. Said the higher-ups made them do it. “Frontier history never ended” and “Western excellence” are doing work in this post that has nothing to do with Matthew Blank’s courage, character, or sacrifice. The gap between the rhetoric and the policy is Staff Sergeant Blank standing in a detention facility parking lot with a form his wife can’t sign.

I really wish "legal experts" hadn't screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he's actually committing war crimes.

Trump: I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly and he’s still recovering from the right to the jaw. And I say, “Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf”