Spineless Toadies

Photo credit: Reuters/New York Times

What could be a crime so heinous as to order U.S. ICE Agents to rip children from the arms of their mothers; send them to separate prisons, hundreds of miles apart; and, jail them for months out of contact?

Why, trying to become an American, that is the crime.

So far, we have allowed nearly 2,000 children to be treated in this manner.

Have you no shame, Mr. Trump?

Have you no shame, Republican leadership?

How has it come to this? Has fear of Mr. Trump’s Tweets gutted your humanity and metastasized you into spineless toadies?

Rob Rogers’s cartoon on the Trump administration immigration policy.
Photograph: Rob Rogers*

*Pittsburgh cartoonist says he was fired after 25 years for making fun of Trump, Joanna Walters, The Guardian, 17 June 2018.

The Toadies Are Coming
Are you as worried as I that we have passed out of the USA we thought we knew when we were children… a constitutional government… if it ever existed… into a neo-Nazi USA?

Every day now I see similarities with Nazi Germany. Perhaps the most alarming is how easily people accept Trump’s falsehoods and how the Republicans have become his enablers.

We have lost whatever flimsy connection we had with “truth”.

Editorial cartoonist Rob Roger’s firing by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is also a sign.

It appears to me that the corporate people at the paper are following the same script as their Nazi-journalists ancestors… they know they must maintain favor with the neo-Nazi USA or lose their jobs.

So, now they believe they must please the emerging Party. And, of course, President Trump!

The toadies can’t wait! They must be hopping with joy, thinking, "Soon the concentration camps will be overflowing with many, many more people than just immigrant children. They will be flooded with troublemakers of all kinds… all those less-than-humans who refuse to sign the loyalty pledge to Mr. Trump."