Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Nancy Pelosi declares, well, permanent unconditional surrender on US border conentration camps

Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker and leader of the Democratic Resistance, sent a formal letter to His Majesty Trump yesterday that closed with, "Thanks again for your attention to the safety of children on the border." (Pelosi Sends Letter to President Trump on Treatment of Migrant Children and Families 07/02/2019)

This is after she accepted Mitch McConnell's latest border funding bill without even going through the pretence of negotiating for the protections for kidnapped children in animal cages that the House had passed. And after the ProPublica story about potentially thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents participating in a Facebook group that sounds literally like a death squad organizing forum. (A.C. Thompson, Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes 07/01/2019)

In a context like this, following the polite formalities becomes cynical complicity.

The question is no longer whether Pelosi will allow impeachment proceedings to proceed. It's how soon she endorses Dear Leader for re-election. In other situations, this kind of thing has been called Gleichschaltung.

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur have some thoughts on her letter, too (Nancy Pelosi's Most Pathetic Moment, from the TYT show of 07/02/2019):

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