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Children Reportedly Asked To Help Build The Wall At White House Halloween Event

As many of you know, I love Halloween and we put on an embarrassingly excessive display each year at our house. It may be for that reason that I found a story in  Yahoo News so disturbing. Children who came to the White House for the annual Halloween party were reportedly asked
to help “build the wall” by placing their own paper bricks onto a mural. If true, it was a remarkably low-grade move. Children should not be pulled into our politics or used for a prop.

Regardless of how one feels about the wall on the Southern Border, it is a divisive political issue that should never have been interjected into a kid’s event on a holiday. If true, it would seem that adults cannot simply leave our kids out of our political fights and let them enjoy a holiday for its own (rather than our own) sake.

Staffers were told to come up with kid-friendly activities, so it is not clear who approved or came up with this ill-conceived idea. One parent expressed shock over the tacky use of the event and supplied pictures.

The White House did not respond to calls for a comment.

172 thoughts on “Children Reportedly Asked To Help Build The Wall At White House Halloween Event”

  1. Progressive-sponsored illegal immigration is an inter-generational threat to the children of this country. Unless you’re the presumptive Democratic Presidential Elizabeth Warren speaking to the family of Mollie Tibbets, in which case it was just a small sacrifice in the service of the collective good:

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/22/sen_warren_to_tibbets_family_this_is_hard_but_we_need_to_focus_on_real_problems_like_family_separation.html

  2. Just because children of the left are trained to have to be programmed doesn’t mean children from objectivist parentage can not be creative on their own right.

    1. “ are trained to have to be programmed” is stupid your first language? BTW, most artists (the good ones)would fall in the lofty camp.

  3. Mark your calendars….Thanksgiving 2019

    The white house will not pardon any turkeys & there will be a turkey shoot.

    Ages 5 through 12 only. Rifle with sniper scope provided, $5.00 per shot.

  4. “One parent expressed shock over the tacky use of the event and supplied pictures.”

    Meh. They probably would have preferred hooded masks and batons to crack heads, preserve democracy and all that

    Meanwhile the MSM makes apologies for the real threat to to our nation

    1. Jet, is this video from some Public Access show???

      Only deep inside the rightwing bubble is ANTIFA the nation’s ‘biggest threat’.

  5. An aging adult at the event was recorded singing this song:

    It’s Howdy Doody Time!
    The show ain’t worth a dime…
    So turn on Channel 9…
    And you’ll see Frankenstein!
    —-

    Actually I recall that song from St. Louis television back in the 50’s.

    1. arb – the AFT and AEA brainwash children, why shouldn’t the rest of us have a crack at their malleable minds? 😉

      1. Paul C. …. this may be a dumb question, but if popularizing and selling War Bonds before WW2, ( when many Americans opposed war) what is wrong with popularizing and “selling” the idea of the wall? Weren’t/aren’t both done in the name of patriotism?

        1. Cindy Bragg – I want to know who let liberal children into the WH for a party. 😉

          1. Paul…..lol exactly! It’s shocking that they would be exposed to “politics” at the White House!
            Why, that would be like taking children to the Vatican to see the Pope and find out that they were exposed to
            religion!
            😊

    2. Arb, why stop with brainwashing? The AMA and APA are leading the fight for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the name of gender equality. With a giant shout out to Dr. Antonio Moniz, who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work to develop the frontal lobotomy!

    1. Warren…..the White House is the political home of our political leader. Why do you think he lives there…..to be close to the ballpark and the Museum of Art?

  8. Says a cult follower of America’s first sociopath president about somebody laughing at a joke.

  9. The staffer that put up the paper brick wall is most likely trump’s next “acting” director of intelligence.

  11. So children should not be used as political pawns… Someone let the Democrats know about this please.

    1. Canuck Sailor – here is Obama signing gun control.

      https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fsites%2Fmsnbc%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F01%2F516534377_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fhardball%2Fgun-control-debate-how-both-sides-use-childr&docid=IJR-oSWwbboXPM&tbnid=mPQNvT43qtMArM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiJ0unLpc7lAhVOnJ4KHd_VAkEQMwi5AShSMFI..i&w=4173&h=3130&hl=en&safe=active&bih=650&biw=1152&q=obama%20and%20children&ved=0ahUKEwiJ0unLpc7lAhVOnJ4KHd_VAkEQMwi5AShSMFI&iact=mrc&uact=8

      1. Paul, in Chicago, on Halloween, a 7 year old girl was shot while Trick Or Treating. The shooter was a 15 year old aiming for someone else.

        But you’re telling us that gun regulations are too political for children..??

        1. Peter – what the heck does that have do with building a paper wall at the WH? The whole topic was how bad it was to keep kids out of politics. I picked this out of thousands by Googling Obama+children.

          1. Paul, kids have a stake in the gun debate! That boy at Obama’s signing was probably there because his brother, friend or whoever was struck by a stray bullet.

            2. Peter – I have a stake in the fires and poor management of California. Some of the people who will leave there will end up here. We should get to vote in California’s elections.

              1. Paul, as Climate Change plays out, Phoenix will become the most unsustainable metro region in the country.

                  1. Paul, where’s the water coming from?? And can it keep coming amid warmer temperatures?

                    1. STATS ON PHOENIX AND SUSTAINABILITY

                      Over the past century, the hot season in Phoenix has extended almost three weeks in each direction, while overnight temperatures, which used to provide a respite from the daytime heat, have increased by as much as 12°. Researchers expect these trends to continue as Phoenix grows, because adding more heat-retaining pavement and structures—­­plus more heat-producing people and machines—contributes to the “urban heat island effect,” which makes the city hotter than the surrounding desert.

                      The desert metropolis has been called “the world’s least sustainable city,” and articles predicting Phoenix’s impending doom appear regularly. The Cassandras often focus on water—the city gets only 7.5 inches of rain a year, and its water supply depends on flows from the Colorado, Salt, and Verde Rivers. But a 19-year drought has reduced the Colorado to a trickle and hollowed out both Lake Mead and the Salt and Verde Rivers’ reservoirs.

                      Edited from: “Can Phoenix Remain Habitable?”

                      Sierra, 1/2/19

                    4. Paul, google “Phoenix: longterm sustainability”. Several pages of entries come up. Apparently serious debate exits regarding longterm sustainability. It’s not just something I made up. But in all fairness, California faces the same issues. As Climate Change plays out, the American west will more than likely become a less hospitable environment.

                    5. Peter – we have taken measures to conserve water and have never had to stop watering our lawns. Now, as a sidenote, a lot of us, myself included have gone to desert landscaping which is very water efficient. Still, we used to be a sea, now we are a desert. All of that happened without people.

                3. John Burgoyne,
                  History shows us, like it or not, that the earth’s climate is cyclical.
                  NASA has documented (2013) the fact that the antarctic ice sheet is thickening and expanding.
                  Thoughts?

        2. Peter, it is not bad for youngsters to involve themselves in politics, but to use children as pawns in a political debate is going a bit too far. Under the laws in Chicago that gun in the hands of that teenager was invariably illegal. Propose a workable law to prevent teenagers of that nature from getting an illegal gun. Then we can talk about it. Until then you are just blabbering nonesense.

          1. Alan, the only way to keep guns out of the hands of teenagers is too limit the overall supply of guns. For that reason Chicago bans guns sales in the city. Yet conservatives regularly claim that ‘more’ guns would help ‘solve’ the gun violence problem; a viewpoint akin to defying the laws of gravity.

            1. Guns will still be readily available. You didn’t tell us how you would accomplish your goal and how many guns are permissible.

              Considering Chicago has one of the most restictive gun laws in the nation one has to consider why the number of youth killed by guns is so high. You also have to also consider that guns will always be able to be bought illegally or even made. Think of 3-D printing of guns.

              Check the following out . Do you wish to make stapler’s illegal as well?

              https://ourpastimes.com/make-zip-gun-stapler-5709153.html

              Let’s hear more about your program, how it works and how it will be enforced.

            2. Alan, the only way to keep guns out of the hands of teenagers is too limit the overall supply of guns.

              It doesn’t seem to occur to Peter Shill that rural teenagers who fancy hunting and target shooting are not the cause of our elevated homicide rates in this country.

              You want to reduce crime rates, Peter, you need to hire cops, deploy them optimally, and encourage them to do their jobs. Liberals have no interest in any of this.

              1. “keep guns out of the hands of teenagers”

                DSS, the Democrats have workable though not desireable answers to that; don’t have children and abortion.

              2. Tabby, the children of farmers aren’t as likely to form gangs and commit drive-by shootings on their tractors. The comparison is so stupid that I don’t know why you bothered.

                1. Peter Shill, farmers are a single-digit minority among exurban, small-town, and rural residents.

            3. “The only way to keep guns out of the hands of teenagers is too limit the overall supply of guns.”

              What about their parents?

                1. If the goal is to keep illegal weapons out of the hands of teenagers (let alone raise successful, well adjusted adults), we should start by increasing the supply of intact two parent families.

            4. John, Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Yet, it’s a gangland war zone, with mass shootings all the time.

              There are already laws that prohibit felons from having guns, and against murder.

              Surprisingly, criminals do not follow gun laws.

              There are millions of guns in the country. How would you prevent a criminal from having a hand gun, which is what most gang members use? We have an open border with Mexico, thanks to the Democrats, and a thriving gun running and meth smuggling industry.

              Thought Exercise:
              Through a series of unfortunate events, you find yourself living in a crime-infested neighborhood. You are being threatened and feel it is likely that your home will be broken into by someone who means to kill you. Do you A) plant a sign out front that your house is a gun-free zone or B) take responsible steps for self protection?

              It is irresponsible for your only line of home defense to be 911. You have to find a phone, call 911, explain the situation, give your address, wait for cops to arrive, assess the situation, and gain entry. By that time, if you have a psycho stalker, he’s already done what he came there to do. At that point, the cops are there to solve the crime, not prevent it.

              It is irresponsible for those who are not in a life threatening situation to dictate to others that they do not have the right to self defense. Those who suffer the most for this is women.

  12. OMGosh – PLEASE tell Democrats/Liberals that “Children should not be pulled into our politics or used for a prop.” Liberals have done this for decades: Greta Thornberg, the hero of the left ; school children crying that they have no future due to 12 year climate disasters; transsexual story hours; hundreds of LGBT marches with children; actual pro-abortion marches with children; teaching LGBT sex in grade school. The Democrats have done this for years – where were you Dr. Turley on this previous abuse of children. No hypocrisy please!

    1. Trivialities of this kind occupy the professor’s mind while he leaves out the more important and more frequent incidences where children are forcefully pulled into The political arena by Democrats. Thank you SGB for your comment and pointing out the hypocricy.

    3. SBG, the Climate Denial Movement has been largely directed by the Koch Bros, one of whom died of old age this year. Through various proxy groups, the Koch Bros, more than anyone, have made Climate Denial standard policy for the Republican Party.

      One might ask why the Koch Bros and their billionaire donor associates are sabotaging our response to the most urgent of challenges. These billionaires will be mostly dead when the full effects of Climate Change create a series of rolling disasters. Doubters need to look no further than California for a preview of what the near future holds.

      This week property insurers announced major rate hikes that will effect thousands of homeowners in California. Those insurers are reeling from claims related to recent wildfires. And now the bill comes due! More rate hikes are sure to follow; especially for homes in hurricane zones. But even farmers on flood plains could be looking at higher insurance rates.

      Therefore young people, more than anyone, have a crucial stake in the Climate Change debate. They will bear the brunt of all the havoc Climate Change will bring. So this idea that you have that youths shouldn’t be subjected to Climate discussions, is a symptom of denial. Youths, more than anyone, need to understand the challenges ahead.

      1. Peter – CA is mismanaged by Democrats. Don’t blame the problems on climate change.

        1. Paul, it’s nonsense to blame it on Democrats. Like Democrats have made Fire Season longer..??

          The truth is California’s population is about twice what it should be. And the same is true throughout the west. Phoenix is probably 4 times bigger than it should be. Las Vegas as well. Colorado has gotten too big.

          As Climate Change plays out, major cities in the west are going to be increasingly challenged in supplying water and preventing massive fires.

          1. Peter – we have very strict rules for how close you can have brush to your home in wildfire area. The fines are very heavy.

            1. Paul, you’re saying Democrats don’t want rules like that?? It’s nonsense!. What’s more, Republicans are still a major presence in large parts of California. It’s not like the party disappeared completely.

          2. “The truth is California’s population is about twice what it should be. ”

            Yet that state supports those that wish to permit more and more illegals to enter. Illegals are also a cause of fires.

              1. PG&E is involved but they are a utility strictly regulated by the state and county governments that are loaded with lefties who have difficulty thinking about the unintended consequences of their actions.

                1. By all means, let’s blame the “lefties.”

                  It’s this guy “Allan” who has “difficulty thinking…”

                    2. If Anonymous the Stupid looks back he will see many references to the Stupid one along with Fido the Brainless Wonder. Worst part about Anonymous the Stupid is the lack of imagination making him boring. He can’t even come up with something original.

                    4. Brainless Wonder, your other half, Anonymous the Stupid, seems to seldom go anywhere without you tagging along. Stupid and Brainless seem to naturally go together. Stupid is really boring how do you manage that?

          3. You don’t have a problem with the dimensions of your population. You have a problem with dry tinder, with land use regulation, with the pricing and allocation of water and electricity, with the allocation of tax burdens, with public employee compensation, with local government boundaries, with financing medical and long term care, with financing higher education, with containment of externalities, with the structure of common provision, &c. You do nothing sensible about ANY of these problems. Because stupid.

            1. population growth exacerbates all those problems, both in practical ways, by stressing existing arrangements, and indirect ways, such as by further poisoning the political process with alien influence.

              so the dimensions of the population do matter, although it’s indirect. the direct causes are as you say, stuff like dry tinder and dated and weak electrical wire infrastructure.

          4. John:

            CA has been a deep blue state for many years. Democrats have a super majority. They don’t even need to negotiate with Republicans. They have had complete control of the state, and have gotten everything they wanted.

            They promised to solve all voters’ problems if they just keep voting blue.

            Here’s what we Californians got:
            1. Homeless are encouraged to camp in the sidewalks. The overwhelming majority are drug addicted and/or mentally ill. They poop in the street, and leave dirty needles, vomit, and pee. There is medieval hygiene in CA, and we now have antibiotic resistant TB, typhus, typhoid, Hepatitis, and many other diseases caused by poor hygiene.
            2. Homeless camp out in ephemeral dry riverbed. CA has banned shops from giving free plastic bags to shoppers. Meanwhile, when you drive past dry riverbeds, they are filled with plastic trash and human feces, which wash out to the beach with the winter storms.
            3. Homeless are allowed to camp in the dry brush, where they set fires.
            4. CA is the most hostile towards business in the entire union.
            5. CA is hemorrhaging taxpayers as businesses flee the state.
            6. CARB decreed, without a vote, that heavy vehicles prior to 2010 cannot be registered as of January 2020. This has driven many people out of business. It has increased the cost of goods and services throughout the state. It costs $200,000 to buy some of these vehicles, and that cost either drives the business under, or is passed on to customers.
            7. Prop 47 decriminalized theft under $900, which led to an explosion of theft and the black market. Some businesses have gone under. It has increased the price of goods for customers. Plus, a lot of people keep getting robbed.
            8. Illegal aliens are allowed to have cheaper auto insurance than citizens and legal residents, which means the law abiding are screwed if they get into an accident with an illegal alien.
            9. CA emptied the jails, which also led to an increase in crime.
            10. Unreliable power – we have had outages all across the state. Those of us on a well don’t have running water when the power goes out…in fire season.
            11. Poor forest practices have allowed flammable deadwood to build up, which burns more readily.
            12. Invasive alien grasses choke the hillsides with tinder. Chaparral is hard to fire, but very difficult to put out once it gets going. That invasive grass gets those fires burning.
            13. CA has always been a drought state and a fire state. We never get summer rain. The only time we get rain is usually a little bit in winter. Therefore, CA has always been bone dry by autumn.
            14. Chaparral plants water. Roots hold on to rainfall like a miser. Non native invasives are not adapted to our dry summers. They infest the hillsides and allow runoff. This dries out the landscape.

            If you think that the American Southwest is over populated, perhaps we should do something about the population. Most illegal aliens reside in CA. If illegal immigration shut down, perhaps that would ease the burden on our drought state. There is only one way that a government that protects individual freedom can protect against over population, and that’s controlling immigration to manageable levels.

            1. I forgot to mention that Demcorats keep pushing for a $100 billion vacation train to San Francisco, but we don’t even own a Super Scooper. We rent one from Canada…when they don’t need it for their own fires.

              One would think that CA would buy a fleet of Super Scoopers.

              We have a big problem with arson in CA, as well as other man-made ignition sources. Democrat politicians have refused to build more aquifers (to help with that water problem you mentioned), or to invest in fire suppression and prevention. They will spend billions on global warming initiatives, but we pump out orders of magnitude for pollution and carbon than any of those expensive measures saves, due to our ubiquitous fires. The air quality of CA sucks every year with all the smoke.

              And we all know what season follows fire season – landslide season. We get massive erosion as scortched and denuded hillsides slip. That destroys our meagre topsoil, which means less rainfall penetrates to recharge aquifers, which means the landscape dries out more…

              We’re all living the Democratic Nirvannah dream here.

      2. “One might ask why the Koch Bros and their billionaire donor associates are sabotaging our response to the most urgent of challenges.”

        Peter, after reading what you write one clearly knows why. Just look at what you wrote above. I’ll take one one application of environmental policy that is mostly responsible for the fires. The non-thinking environmentalist doesn’t consider the unintended consequences of his actions and never has to pay for it. Cutting down old trees and clearing the underbrush is necessary when you add population to the area. That is prevented by those that are too crazy to think about unintended consequences like fire. An additional problem to this issue is the solar farms placed far away from site where huge numbers of trees are killed. Then the electric has to travel long distances through areas loaded with dead trees and underbrush. That increases the likelihood of powerlines causing fires which is complicated by California’s way of managing its utilities.

      3. I hate the Koch brothers but blaming them for the forest fires in California is totally fiction. There are causes to the fire which have very little to do with any big sort of public policies.

        I will say however, i think the Koch brothers are pro-immigration, you can look that up and easily verify that, and they probably have no regard for notions like the ecological carrying capacity of a given territory, so they’re in favor of flooding the US with a lot more workers in general, which of course is hard on a state like California which habitually panders to them.

        it was Allan who said California is overpopulated, and yeah, Allan was right. carrying capacity. this doesnt just apply to how many rabbits can survive in a given acreage, it applies to humans too.

        1. “it was Allan who said California is overpopulated, and yeah, Allan was right.”

          Kurtz, I hate to correct you but I don’t think I said anything about California being overpopulated or underpopulated. I think I was responding to another (?Peter) who may have been the one to say that. I remember saying that if you believe the that California is overpopulated then why not stop illegal immigration.

          By what criteria does one consider a state overpopulated or underpopulated? That is a value judgement so different people will have different answers to the same question.

          While I write this I am listening to the Trump rally in Kentucky. Trump is phenomenal. The lefties should be listening to see who he is and learn a bit.

          1. “Allan says:November 3, 2019 at 1:02 PM
            “The truth is California’s population is about twice what it should be. ”

            Yet that state supports those that wish to permit more and more illegals to enter. Illegals are also a cause of fires.”

            well, i guess somebody else said it then. but i think so, and, yes, illegals add to the issue.

            overpopulation is a relative notion, based on cultural norms, as you say. opinions differ. perhaps not you, but i do, i think it’s overpopulated. but I’m a misanthropist anyways.

            1. Truthfully, Kurtz, if we use the metric of sustainability the US could drastically increase its population. US density isn’t very high and a lot of our friends have a much greater population density.

    4. Well said, SBG. In the service of the progressive political agenda, its called love and inclusion. Otherwise, its divisive and hate filled.

    5. SBG……….Greta Thornberg! I thought she was downright scary. If she lived in my zip code, I’d sleep with all the lights on. Talk about needing a wall!
      She was like Patty McCormick in “The Demon Seed”.

          1. Cindy Bragg – Invasion of the Body Snatchers. She is a pod person. 😉

                1. loup……….The trailer terrified me, so never saw Shining.
                  And I never saw Psycho when it was released…for the same reason. But I still will not take a shower if I’m alone in the house! That’s what growing up with a big brother who loved to play tricks on little sister does to ya!……. after 70 plus years, too. 😲

      2. Greta Thurnberg suffers from multiple mental disorders. She has selective mutism, where she loses the ability to speak. She has intense anxiety and panic attacks, as well as OCD. She also has Aspergers, one of the symptoms of which means she takes information quite literally.

        When her school informed the students that they were all going to die within 12 years because the evil capitalists refused to stop guzzling oil, she stopped eating for a month and refused to go to school. By latching onto climate activism, she gained a purpose, and started eating again. However, when she scolds adults at the UN that she wants them to panic, she is being literal. She is literally panicking on a daily basis, unable to sleep, and in the grip of an anxiety that few can comprehend. Her childhood has been ruined.

        She has a delicate mental state. The objective should have been to increase her tolerance and resilience, not tell a vulnerable child that unless she can change the world, everyone she’s ever loved will die along with her.

        Her sister also has mental health challenges. She walks with her left foot leading, in a kind of shuffle. She requires that their mother also walk with this gate. When her mother drops her off at dance class, she requires that her mother not move from that spot, for the entire time. You can read about the sisters’ challenges in their mothers autobiography.

        Both of these children are becoming less tolerant to stressors, not more so. I imagine her parents must be overwhelmed. They just want their children to survive. The risk for self harm cannot be discounted. It’s the rest of the world I take issue with, capitalizing on a vulnerable girl and making her their Joan of Arc. They will likewise martyr her.

        1. Karen S- evidently Greta’s father is going to drive her though Mexico to South America. How many ways do you think this can go wrong?

        2. Greta Thunberg on Whether She’d Meet with the President

          3,391,600 views•Nov 2, 2019

          1. She’s written a couple of books, as well.

            “Climate activist Greta Thunberg has two books coming out with Penguin Press next year.”

            https://lithub.com/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-has-two-books-coming-out-with-penguin-press-next-year/

            “Surprising no one, climate hero Greta Thunberg, whose forthright, outspoken approach to environmental activism, will publish two books in 2020 with Penguin Press, a memoir Our House is on Fire (written with her family), and a collection of her speeches, No One is Too Small to Make a Difference.

            In the meantime, today, you should walk out and join the climate strike, along with millions around the world.

            H/T Washington Post.”

        3. Aside from the politics around this girl’s cause, she is being used by various actors for their own personal benefit. I’ll give her due credit for being able to withstand the stressors of her celebrity as well as she has. Yet, I agree with you that she is being exploited for others’ gain.

          In drawing my thinking of what to identify her as I’m sad to stay the best I could summon was the label “Child Victim”, which is the default name I would substitute in the case of child assault victims in crime reports–a label necessary to protect their identity during the criminal proceedings. The advantage of which she is taken in my view could be almost criminal in a moral sense.

        4. “Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable”

          https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/why-greta-wins/598612/

          Excerpt:

          Other arguments against Thunberg’s rhetoric can and should be made; if she wants to participate as an adult citizen, she should be criticized like one. But in The New York Times, the journalist Christopher Caldwell takes maybe the oddest line of all, claiming that Thunberg’s message is antidemocratic. “Democracy often calls for waiting and seeing. Patience may be democracy’s cardinal virtue,” he wrote. “Climate change is a serious issue. But to say, ‘We can’t wait,’ is to invite a problem just as grave.”

          I want to thank Caldwell, because he reminded me of my own childhood. About 20 years ago, I was at a restaurant with my parents, reading a kid’s science magazine below the table. In a small box at the bottom of the page, it mentioned something called the greenhouse effect, caused by cars and factories. The effect could eventually screw up the entire planet’s environment.

          My head jolted up. I interrupted my parents’ conversation, which was about something boring, like real-estate prices or which highway to take home.

          “Is this real?” I asked, pointing at the magazine.

          Oh yeah, definitely, one of them said.

          “Is it getting fixed?” I said.

          No, no, people don’t really know how to fix it.

          And then I remember feeling something constrict in my chest. It was like the adult feeling of learning that a loved one is in danger, of seeing the comfortable world teeter on its axis. There was a problem with the entire planet, and everyone was just allowing it to go on?

          In 1999, Caldwell was older than I am now, and the United States had virtually no national climate policy. Since then, I have gone to middle school and high school, graduated from college, moved across the country twice, spent years as a technology reporter, and covered climate change for four years. Since then, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has soared from 364 to 415 parts per million. But since then, the United States still has passed virtually no new national climate policy.

          Caldwell is right that patience is a democratic virtue. But sloth is a cardinal sin. Perhaps only the young can tell the difference.

          ROBINSON MEYER is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers climate change and technology.

        5. Karen has told us that Obamacare upended her life. Karen has told us that there are so many things that she’d like to do with her life were it not for Obamacare. And yet, here she is, day after day. Maybe she’s going to take all of her comments and put them in a book. Maybe she could get some advice from Greta T.

        7. Another lengthy, hyperbolic posting by Karen S.

          The following is written by a psychiatrist — a credential that Karen S doesn’t hold, AFAIK: Karen S doesn’t source her claims, either.

          “Stop Infantilizing Greta Thunberg With Claims of ‘Abuse'”

          “These unfounded claims are little more than paternalism masquerading as concern.”

          https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-intelligent-divorce/201909/stop-infantilizing-greta-thunberg-claims-abuse

          1. Anonymous:

            “The following is written by a psychiatrist — a credential that Karen S doesn’t hold, AFAIK: Karen S doesn’t source her claims, either.”

            *********************

            Well Anonymous the article byline and author’s description disagrees with your careful reading when it says it was written by: “Andrew Solender is a senior at Vassar College and a political reporter for Chronogram Magazine. ”

            Granted it is hard to argue with a mind so enlightened that it has almost reached the level of an undergraduate degree. Perhaps to you, Anonymous, that seems the zenith of learning, discernment and trust. To the rest of us though who passed that milestone eons ago, it’s more a kid trying to impress about topics well above his pay grade. But to each his own. By the way, stumbling condescension really makes you look … well … let’s just say silly.

            1. Well said Mespo. The Internet has made people think they know more than they do so after a quick search without a bother to understand what is being read they draw conclusions, some correct and some erroneous. However, even when they are correct that doesn’t mean they understand the subject matter. All we have to do is look at the multitude of comments on the law by those that haven’t bothered to study it. Even when their answers are correct some are like a broken clock that is correct twice a day.

          2. I stand corrected on the issue of authorship, but the question is this:

            Does Dr. Banschick (a psychiatrist) agree with the content of his “recent posting” — the one by Andrew Solender?

            https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/mark-banschick-md

            Did Dr. Banshcick post the article because he feels it has merit? One might guess that the answer is “yes.” But one can’t know for certain.

            These are Solender’s words, leading in to his provocative article:

            “Stop Infantilizing Greta Thunberg With Claims of ‘Abuse’”

            “These unfounded claims are little more than paternalism masquerading as concern.”

            Maybe “maternalism” would apply, as well.

  13. With all due respect. what a minute!
    Pres. Trump is obliged to put a barrier at the border.
    The Secure Fence Act of 2006, passed by majority of Democrats, is the law, not politics.

  14. …were “reportedly” asked… So you don’t know if it’s true or not, you have read that it was done and so you are going to write condemnatory remarks about it because if it was done it was wrong. You’re not going to investigate to find out whether or not it is factual before condemning it, because it is so much more fun to bash Trump without knowing if the reason you are bashing him is even true or not.

    1. “Horrified. We were horrified,” said a person who was there and requested anonymity to avoid professional retaliation.”

      Yahoo link provided by Jonathan

      The horror, oh the horror

      But Bill Clinton’s pedophile ring via Lolita Express: not a problem.
      We should all have sex slaves like Bill Clinton!

  15. Surprised they didn’t have them put Hunter Biden cutouts in a pretend jail

    1. I am sure you were referring to ‘this’ meaning the previous administration or the psuedo administration. Specifically since Pelosi’s lead paragraph on the phony impeachment bill was an exact mirror image duplicate of herself and her own criminal background. lets just start with accountability for all the money she gained by seilling committee seats and committee chairs while holding the Speakership and go on to intentionally every two years violating the opening statement of the Oath of Office and the purposes of evasion clause. .

  19. Fly those trick or treaters to Texas and give em rifles. Show them how to shoot intruders who are sawing through our Wall.

      1. Her laughing is another indication of her essential sociopathy, a characteristic Democrats admire.

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