My Country Is Officially Nuts And Gone

[Whirlwind]

OK, my President sets up a meeting with a murderous dictator to be a Prime Time TV show. 9 0'clock and everybody in my nation is glued to the TV to watch our President glad-hand with a butcher from North Korea.

If that's not disturbing enough, word is breaking that our President turned to this man for advice, support, info:



You foreigners might not be aware of who that it, but that is Dennis Rodman -- a former basketball player and contestant on Trump's TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" who is known for being severely unhinged. Druggie, alcoholic, nuts. And he is who our President turns to for foreign policy.

We used to have Henry Kissinger, now we have this as part of our talks concerning nuclear disarmament.


My country has gone insane. We are gone. It is a loony bin over here.
I'm not joking. IT IS INSANE HERE!

(And I actually like Mr. Rodman. Top athlete, interesting fellow, I root for him to improve his mental state. But my God, he is advising our President on our nation's foreign affairs!)

[Amandistan]

and the US government is not murderous ?   After all, It is America who is currently putting kids in cages and separating them from their parents.  Let's not forget Guantanamo Bay torture Camp and the Iraq War.   Of course Kim Jong Un is a totalitarian POS but America hardly has room to talk   

It is not like the people of US are treated well either. Our health care, education system, workers rights  and overall quality of life  are way below most of the developed world.

[Whirlwind]

and the US government is not murderous ?   After all, It is America who is currently putting kids in cages and separating them from their parents.

Hmmm, where to begin?

First off, they are not cages. They are temporary living facilities.
My pet parakeet lives in a cage. These immigrant children are given temporary living facilities...free of charge, I might add.
Secondly, separation from parents encourages independence in young children. All child psychologists agree on that.

Murderous government? Uhh, name one that isn't? If you have a standing army, that instantly puts you into the category of murderous government.

[cthulhu]

@whirlwind

first off: what you write is right. you can say that "..they are not cages. They are temporary living facilities." that could be seen as a plain fact as the sentence states it.
but it exposes your whole viewpoint and mindset when you write that. it's the same mindset that proclaims that waterboarding is not torture but intense interrogation.
you cannot argue with that. if you're seeing it that way, than you show yourself how you really think and how warped your mind has become by the orwellian newsspeek. war is freedom!

anyway, i think you will just now argue about the meaning of the words, but that would be not good enough for me.

what you wrote is cynical, cruel, without empathy, technocratic bullkacke! and a shame to have such a viewpoint expressed here. but you know that.

[Pol]

Looked like cages to me .
I'm sure those young children are loving all that independence.
Switzerland  ?

[Whirlwind]

Switzerland  ?

Hmm, what's that famous monologue about Switzerland?
           
Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Think about it.

[Whirlwind]

...you show yourself how you really think and how warped your mind has become by the orwellian newsspeek. war is freedom!

.
You truly have no idea how bad it is over here in The United States Of Trump. Orwellian? That would be a joy. No. We are living in a Trumpian world, a world of "alternative facts." That's an actual phrase that they created. Trump and his administration deal with alternative facts so often that the rest of us now do it unconsciously. If I call cages "temporary living facilities," don't hate on me. I have been conditioned to express alternative facts.

[Pol]

As for Switzerland they produced the world's greatest artist ever a certain Hans Rudi Giger.  Think about that 1 . You mentioned cuckoo clocks maybe that's why they also make the  best watches and clocks as well as other scientific instruments. 

[Whirlwind]

As for Switzerland they produced the world's greatest artist ever a certain Hans Rudi Giger.

Switzerland are also responsible for:
a) one of the greatest tennis players to ever play, a certain Roger Federer,
b) the setting for the best James Bond film of them all, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

(And I actually had to look up this Hans Rudi Giger you speak of. Hans Rudi Giger? The world's greatest artist? What the heck is this guy Pol yapping about? Uhh, my friend, had you written H.R. Giger I would have known instantly whom you are talking about. That's the name he goes by and that's the name by which he is known, no?)

[Pol]

Well you may have worked out by now H.R. stands for Hans Rudi, I'm pretty sure that his friends, family and acquaintances would have called him this .

[Viv Savage]

"First off, they are not cages. They are temporary living facilities.
My pet parakeet lives in a cage. These immigrant children are given temporary living facilities...free of charge, I might add.
Secondly, separation from parents encourages independence in young children. All child psychologists agree on that."

Seriously?!!!
Your first thought is for your Parakeet, your second thought is that the children are not paying to stay in a cage, your third is that children being seperated from their parents by an increasingly fascistic government is a good thing.

Wow! Space, even by your standards that's a new low.

[Whirlwind]

Wow! Space, even by your standards that's a new low.

Oddly enough, talk like that actually labels me a bleeding heart, left-wing liberal over here nowadays. In a matter of a year or two, I will be thrown in one of those "temporary living facilities" for my weak, compassionate talk.

Folks, we need Justin Sullivan more than ever! "Christian Militia"? Those guys were the boy scouts compared to what's going on here now. Justin write us a song! I will even give you the title:
"Temporary Living Facilities"