Trump can only injure and do deliberate, insidious harm

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...it's all he has the capacity for. There isn't as much as a decent, moral instinct in his entire being.

The duplicitousness in an administration working to undermine same-sex unions, nonetheless requiring marriages that they themselves refuse to fully sanction, is an especially cruel bit of harassment and discrimination.



https://t.co/6YezBb6JqV

The Trump administration on Monday began denying visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees, and requiring those already in the United States to get married by the end of the year or leave the country.

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. portrayed the decision—which foreign diplomats fear will increase hardships for same-sex couples in countries that don’t recognize same-sex marriage—as an effort to bring its international visa practices in line with current U.S. policy. In light of the landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the U.S. extends diplomatic visas only to married spouses of U.S. diplomats.

“Same-sex spouses of U.S. diplomats now enjoy the same rights and benefits as opposite-sex spouses,” the U.S. mission wrote in a July 12 note to U.N.-based delegations. “Consistent with [State] Department policy, partners accompanying members of permanent missions or seeking to join the same must generally be married in order to be eligible” for a diplomatic visa.

But critics says the new policy will impose undue hardships on foreign couples from countries that criminalize same-sex marriages.

“State Dept. will no longer let same-sex domestic partners of UN employees get visas unless they are married,” (Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) tweeted, noting that “only 12% of UN member states allow same-sex marriage.”

Link to tweet

read more: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/01/trump-administration-to-deny-visas-to-same-sex-partners-of-diplomats-un-officials-gay-lgbt/

Link to tweet

[bigtree]

1. kick

[BeckyDem]

2. I will add calculated to feed his sicko bigoted base to that list.

I truly believe we need to not only keep working to vote them out in November but also begin to march, like the Parkland kids did but in greater numbers. We must stand in solidarity and remember our collective good for all Americans. This crisis in America at its core is about corruption, look how hard they are working to get Kavanaugh on the court.

[bigtree]

3. a Democratic majority would put his dwindling base in perspective

...we're not so much a nation divided, as we have a government which does not acknowledge their shrinking appeal in their actions, disenfranchising a growing majority of opposition in the nation.

An election should bring all of that into a correct balance.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Should, but won't if people don't vote...

We don't have many chances left, if it isn't already too late.

[bigtree]

5. I think folks are anxious to vote

...still a lot of work to make certain they're able, and that their votes are counted.

[BeckyDem]

6. Very well said. I am very upset at the thought of Kavanaugh or any conservative

getting that seat. Too much at stake, I want to see a collective rise against their political agenda. Most Americans reject their world view yet we're going to have another voice in their favor? My hope is to see public support to wait until after the Nov elections.

[Hortensis]

7. Yes. Supported by people who yammered blindly for "change,"

neither knowing nor caring to learn what really needs to be changed and what was good and only needed tweaking and updating to continue to serve well. We had and have much that is very good.

Trump is a bundle of civic deficiencies, but so are all those who demand "change" without a list of carefully studied goals, all those who accuse a "them" angrily without being able to list specific people and reasons for removal. They're all extremely easy marks and these days almost inevitably turned by bad leadership to help destroy of what must be protected.