24 October 2020

What the F***, Did I hear that right?!

 In the latter half of the semi-less-disastrous Presidential Debate on October 22nd, Former VP Joe Biden made a statement about 545 migrant children left at the border and no one having any idea where their parents are. Are they in the US? Have they been deported? Where are the parents of these 545 children?

I am not sure I heard 'president' Trump correctly. But I heard his reply as: "Good".


GOOD?! He thinks it's GOOD that 545 children are now lingering in detention centres because the government separated them from their parents and NOW NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THE PARENTS ARE?!  How is that GOOD?!

I know what Trump's supporters are going to say:

He didn't say that. And if he did, he didn't mean that. And if he did, you didn't understand it. And if you did, it's not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse!

I mean for a President (or rather 'president') who is so against immigration, he seems totally fine that 545 children who HAVE parents (that no one can find) now linger in government-run detention centres, and will likely wind up in American foster homes where the State pays the foster carers a measly amount of money to attend to the needs of children. 

These children, who technically are now here illegally, will wind up in a system having arrived here illegally, therefore having no standing in the US, and will wind up with families who aren't their own, because THE GODDAMNED GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW WHERE THE FUCK THEIR PARENTS ARE!

And Trump's response was... 

"Good"

I've listened to the audio again and again. People have said he said "go ahead" to the moderator, Kristen Welker, who had indicated she was ready to move on to another topic. And maybe he said "good" to that as opposed to "go ahead".

Or maybe it's a type of auditory pareidolia and I'm hearing "good" instead of "go ahead". I mean, it wouldn't be the first time. After all, there's a line in the chorus of "The Way I Are" by Timbaland that I swear said, "I don't need the cheese on the car keys" (It's Gs or the car keys). And I could have sworn "Heathens" by TwentyOne Pilots said "All my friends are here so take it slow" (It's all my friends are heathens, take it slow - which should have been a clue considering the name of the damned song is HEATHENS

Or, maybe he did say "good" to 545 kids being parentless at the border.  Nothing about this president surprises me anymore.   

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