{"id":2562,"date":"2018-07-07T09:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2018-07-07T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T13:08:46","slug":"meltice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"#MeltICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/melticedonkey\/melticedonkey.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/melticedonkey\/melticedonkey650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"965\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Schumer never once publicly criticized the Democrats who voted with the GOP to deregulate banks, give Trump more surveillance powers, or confirm a torturer as head of CIA. But this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LUilExPUWM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/LUilExPUWM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trevortimm\/status\/1011446720654217217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, while the ICE has gone full Gestapo<\/strong> &#8212; separating immigrant families, caging their children &#8212; and people are in the streets taking direct action, occupying ICE offices, blocking detainee transfer buses and confronting officials in public, what are the Democrats doing? Well, along with hopping aboard the bandwagon for votes, they&#8217;re lecturing us about &#8220;civility&#8221;, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/06\/26\/schumer-and-pelosi-have-go-democratic-leaders-under-fire-urging-civility-face-trumps\" target=\"_blank\">Chump Schumer and Nancy Pelosi<\/a> being the worst of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>And, as usual, Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/Gavin-Newsom-calls-for-fundamental-reforms-13047680.php\" target=\"_blank\">waffling and mealy-mouthing,<\/a> calling for &#8220;reforming&#8221;, &#8220;restructuring&#8221; and re-imagining the American Gestapo; the most irksome of all has to be Kamala Harris who, after knocking herself out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/banditelli\/status\/972123325659889664\" target=\"_blank\">defending ICE,<\/a> has suddenly started talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/kamala-harris-joins-fellow-democrats-in-calling-for-reexamining-ice?source=twitter&amp;via=mobile\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;re-examining&#8221; ICE. <\/a>Sorry, Ms. H., but &#8220;re-examining&#8221; and &#8220;reforming&#8221; are not abolishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;16 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/melticedonkey\/melticedonkey.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.5mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer never once publicly criticized the Democrats who voted with the GOP to deregulate banks, give Trump more surveillance powers, or confirm a torturer as head of CIA. But this&#8230; https:\/\/t.co\/LUilExPUWM \u2014 Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) June 26, 2018 So, while the ICE has gone full Gestapo &#8212; separating immigrant families, caging their children &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,132],"tags":[267,905,912,911,910,142,891],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-party-animals","tag-civility","tag-duckworth","tag-gestapo","tag-ice","tag-kamala","tag-pelosi","tag-schumer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}